Within the first three T20Is in opposition to England within the ongoing collection India has picked up only one frontline seamer. If it was Arshdeep Singh in Kolkata, Chennai it was Mohammed Shami in Rajkot. Hardik Pandya took the brand new ball and bowled on the demise and performed the position of the second seamer within the facet.
The tactic bore fruits within the first two video games nevertheless, India misplaced the third T20I at Rajkot and former Indian batter Parthiv Patel opiated that having an additional seamer on the night time would have been higher. “India is taking part in with only one quick bowler. You went with 4 spinners which labored in favour of Liam Livingstone. He went after them and scored runs. If one other pacer was there within the Taking part in XI, it might have been straightforward to focus on Liam. India is lacking a trick,” mentioned Patel on Star Sports activities.
Whereas Varun Chakravarthy has picked up 5 wickets and rattled the English middle-order it was Liam Livingstone who managed to attain quick-fire 42 to assist England to get to 171 runs which proved a lot ultimately as hosts India fell 26 runs.
The opposite knowledgeable on the present Pietersen agreed with Patel and mentioned, “Parthiv is making a very good level. After hitting fours and sixes, Livingstone was lastly dismissed by Hardik Pandya, and that’s the reason Parthiv mentioned that one other pacer within the workforce would have been good for the Indian workforce,” he mentioned.
Opposite to India who opted to assault with the spinners, England went with a excessive tempo in all of the video games. At Kolkata due to Abhishek Sharma’s pyrotechnics the sooner they left the hand the sooner they reached the boundary. Nonetheless, in Chennai the batting confirmed vulnerability in opposition to high-quality tempo nevertheless, Tilak Varma bailed the facet out with a 72 and helped the facet clinch a 2-wicket win.
In Rajkot issues went fully pear form as India saved dropping wickets within the chase in opposition to England pacers.