India (IND) and England (ENG) crossed swords within the summit conflict of the T20I collection on the iconic Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Sunday, February 02.
The sport was all about Abhishek Sharma‘s thunderous century to place India within the driver’s seat after England’s choice to bowl first after profitable the toss backfired closely. Sharma, who reached the three-figure landmark in 37 balls, additionally grew to become the second-fastest centurion for India within the shortest format of the sport, following Rohit Sharma, who made his in 35 balls in opposition to Sri Lanka in 2017.
Aside from Abhishek’s 135 from 54 balls, useful contributions by Shivam Dube (30 off 13), Tilak Varma (24 off 15), and Sanju Samson (16 off 7), powered the Suryakumar Yadav-led aspect to a frightening whole of 247/9 of their set quota of 20 overs. England knew they needed to begin firing from ball one to achieve the humongous whole set by the Males in Blue.
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Within the very first over, Mohammed Shami, taking part in his comeback collection, was taken to the cleaners for 17 runs by Phil Salt. Nonetheless, the pacer struck on the very first ball of his second over, sending again Salt’s companion Ben Duckett for a golden duck. Thereon, wickets began to return at common intervals for India, as Jos Buttler (7 off 7), Harry Brook (2 off 4), and Liam Livingstone (9 off 5), departed with none vital contributions.
Though Salt continued his assault within the center, he too departed after a slower huge supply by Shivam Dube. Salt’s 55 off 23 did solely little good to England’s chase, nonetheless, lack of help from the opposite finish turned the tide in India’s favour, if it wasn’t already after the primary innings. The visiting aspect misplaced their eighth wicket having put solely 90 runs on the board, which was a transparent signal that win was only a formality for the Indian group.
For India, the bowlers did a wonderful job to stem the stream of runs and in addition take common breakthroughs. Shami was the choose of the bowlers for India with three wickets below his belt. Moreover, Abhishek Sharma, Varun Chakravarthy, and Dube bought a few wickets every, whereas Ravi Bishnoi bought a solitary wicket. Because of the all-round efficiency, India gained the sport by a large 150 runs, their second largest by way of runs.
All through the match, the social media fraternity was abuzz with their hilarious takes on the match, and posted a flurry of rib-tickling memes and movies on ‘X’ (previously often known as Twitter) to point out the humorous aspect of the thrilling encounter between India and England, which the previous gained slightly convincingly, the place Abhishek was undoubtedly was awarded the Participant of the Match for his thunderuous show.
In the meantime, listed here are prime memes from the fifth India vs England T20I
The rating line of #INDvENG was Smog & bother free for group India 🇮🇳 nicely executed boys.
— Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan) February 2, 2025
Fraud Shunya kumar Yadav 🥴 pic.twitter.com/15wst5VKYT
— v. Jatin (@JatinTweets_)
#INDvENG
*England 97 all out*
Rishi Sunak rn: pic.twitter.com/aothdOKdop— 🇮🇳 رومانا (@RomanaRaza)
Abhishek Sharma with bat and ball at the moment pic.twitter.com/fCFHPk8KN0
— Desi Bhayo (@desi_bhayo88)
itna bekar community hai vi ka, salt ke wicket pe ye tweet kiya tha ab ship hua https://t.co/hez1DEcoOA
— vortex (@lazyafguy)
#INDvENG
England 97 all out.. pic.twitter.com/9LQezhFmwE— 🇮🇳 رومانا (@RomanaRaza)
Solely Indian who can be upset seeing England not batting complete 20 overs and going again house early is Narayana Murthy.
— Foolish Level (@FarziCricketer) February 2, 2025
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