England is Blown Away by the Hardik Storm

 England is Blown Away by the Hardik Storm

 By P.B.Sharma 

Hardik Pandya brought a devastating Storm of his own Calibre in the first T20 International Cricket match between England and Inda. England is blown away in this storm and got beaten by 50 runs, by India.

Earlier India won the toss and elected to bat first, though cricket experts were expecting that India will choose to ball first. 

Batting first India scored 198 runs in their quota of 20 overs. Main scorers from India were Hardik Pandya, Surykant Yadav, Dipak Hudda and captain Rohit Sharma.

Pandya scored 51 runs from 33 balls, when he was batting. And when he went to balling in the second innings, he took 4 wickets for 33 runs in quota of 4 overs.

Scorecard:

IND - 198/8

Player

R(B)

4s

6s

SR

Rohit	24(14)	5	0	171.43
c Jos Buttler b Moeen

Ishan Kishan	8(10)	0	0	80
c Matthew Parkinson b Moeen

Deepak Hooda	33(17)	3	2	194.12
c Tymal Mills b Chris Jordan

Suryakumar Yadav	39(19)	4	2	205.26
c Jos Buttler b Chris Jordan

Hardik Pandya	51(33)	6	1	154.55
c Harry Brook b R Topley

Axar	17(12)	3	0	141.67
c Roy b Matthew Parkinson

Karthik	11(7)	2	0	157.14
c Sam Curran b Tymal Mills

Harshal Patel	3(6)	0	0	50
run out (Jos Buttler)

Bhuvneshwar	1(1)	0	0	100
not out

Arshdeep Singh	2(1)	0	0	200
not out

Extras 9

(nb 0, b 1, penalty 0, w 6, lb 2)

Total 198

(20 ovrs, 8 Wkts)  RR 9.9

Bowling

Bowler	O	M	R	W
Sam Curran	2	0	18	0
R Topley	4	0	34	1
Moeen	2	0	26	2
Tymal Mills	3	0	35	1
Matthew Parkinson	4	0	44	1
Chris Jordan	4	0	23	2
Livingstone	1	0	15	0

ENG - 148/10

Player

R(B)

4s

6s

SR

Jason Roy	4(16)	0	0	25
c Harshal Patel b Hardik Pandya

Jos Buttler	0(1)	0	0	0
b Bhuvneshwar

Dawid Malan	21(14)	4	0	150
b Hardik Pandya

Liam Livingstone	0(3)	0	0	0
c Karthik b Hardik Pandya

Harry Brook	28(23)	2	1	121.74
c Suryakumar Yadav b Chahal

Moeen Ali	36(20)	4	2	180
st Karthik b Chahal

Sam Curran	4(4)	0	0	100
c Karthik b Hardik Pandya

Chris Jordan	26(17)	2	1	152.94
not out

Tymal Mills	7(8)	0	1	87.5
c and b Harshal Patel

Reece Topley	9(8)	1	0	112.5
c Karthik b Arshdeep Singh

Matthew Parkinson	0(3)	0	0	0
c Deepak Hooda b Arshdeep Singh

Extras 13

(nb 0, b 0, penalty 0, w 5, lb 8)

Total 148

(19.3 ovrs, 10 Wkts)  RR 7.59

Bowling

Bowler	O	M	R	W
Bhuvneshwar Kumar	3	0	10	1
Arshdeep Singh	3.3	1	18	2
Hardik Pandya	4	0	33	4
Harshal Patel	3	0	24	1
Yuzvendra Chahal	4	0	32	2
Axar Patel	2	0	23	0