🏏England tour of India 2025: 4th T20I: 31/01/25 at 7:00 PM IST🏏 - Page 27

Harshit Rana: It is still a dream debut for me. When Dube came back, after two overs I was informed I will be the concussion substitute. It is not just for this series, I have been waiting for an opportunity for a long time and I wanted to prove I belong here. I have bowled well in the IPL and was just following the same here.

The fireworks go off in Pune as the hosts win the series with a game to spare. The players now exchange handshakes. A game that had plenty of twists and turns. Inserted to bat, India were reduced to 12/3, thanks to Saqib Mahmood's triple wicket maiden. Abhishek Sharma and Rinku Singh decided to counterattack but they still slipped to 79/5. Shivam Dube and Hardik Pandya recorded fifties and stitched a crucial partnership to take India's total over 180. Overton bowled a brilliant final over and one of his bouncers hit Dube hit on the helmet. In reply, England got off a flier with Salt surviving against Arshdeep and Ducket hitting a flurry of boundaries. They forged a fifty stand for the opening stand. Duckett fell off the final ball of the powerplay,

Yay Ind won wow

IND 181/9

ENG

(19.4/20 ov, T:182) 166

India won by 15 runs

Originally posted by: Aurora_77

Inserted to bat, India were reduced to 12/3, thanks to Saqib Mahmood's triple wicket maiden. Abhishek Sharma and Rinku Singh decided to counterattack but they still slipped to 79/5. Shivam Dube and Hardik Pandya recorded fifties and stitched a crucial partnership to take India's total over 180. Overton bowled a brilliant final over and one of his bouncers hit Dube hit on the helmet. In reply, England got off the blocks quickly

England got off a flier with Salt surviving against Arshdeep and Ducket hitting a flurry of boundaries. They forged a fifty stand for the opening stand. Duckett fell off the final ball of the powerplay, Salt and Buttler followed him in quick succession

Harshit Rana: It is still a dream debut for me. When Dube came back, after two overs I was informed I will be the concussion substitute. It is not just for this series, I have been waiting for an opportunity for a long time and I wanted to prove I belong here. I have bowled well in the IPL and was just following the same here.

Definitely he's going to thank dube

Samson vs short balls from seamers this series

4 innings

23 balls

19 runs

4 dismissals

Avg 4.75

SR 82.60

Saqib Mahmood is the first English player to bowl a triple wicket maiden and the first from any team to do so against India in T20 Internationals. Second over is the joint earliest a bowler managed a triple wicket maiden in a T20I alongside Jerome Taylor, against SA in Gqeberha in 2007.

Fireworks go off above the MCA Stadium in Pune. The players are shaking hands, Jos Buttler wearing a tight smile. Whatever the discussion around the concussion sub, they had India 12 for 3 and then 79 for 5 - and followed up by galloping to 62 for 0 with one ball left in the powerplay. But they lost 3 for 5 as India's spinners exerted their influence, and then 3 for 8 after Harry Brook's half-century had seemingly put them back in charge. Ravi Bishnoi and Harshit Rana both picked up three wickets, their efforts following a vital stand of 87 between Shivam Dube and Hardik Pandya - and demonstrating the depth of India's squad, fighting back from a triple-wicket maiden in the second over from Saqib Mahmood

Jos Buttler: We started brilliantly, taking wickets in the powerplay and we were in a great position at the end of the batting powerplay. We should have gone onto win the game. We did some really good things in the game. We dropped Dube first ball and he went to play a really good innings. With the bat, we were in a fantastic position and lost a couple of key wickets.

Buttler wasn't asked about the conussion substitute!

Shivam Dube is the Player of the Match, SKY collects it on his behalf