India vs England 3rd T20I Live Cricket Score: Salt-Buttler start for ENG vs IND in Nottingham
India (IND) vs England (ENG) 3rd T20I Live Cricket Score: Indian skipper Shreyas Iyer won the toss and opted to bowl first against Harry Brook’s England at Trent Bridge in Nottingham on Tuesday. Even with the debut of explosive batter Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, India could not get the better of the hosts going down by 4 wickets and are trailing the series 1-0 after 2 matches with the first encounter at Chester-le-Street abandoned due to rain
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India will likely start with the same team that played the second T20I which means veteran batter Sanju Samson will have to sit out again in favour of Sooryavanshi. New captain Shreyas Iyer will also look for the first win of his tenure, having lost 3 of the 4 matches he has skippered so far, including a 2-0 series whitewash vs Ireland.
England, meanwhile, have little reasons to tweak their team after convincingly defeating the reigning world champions. All eyes will be on skipper Harry Brook who after the retirement of Ben Stokes, might also be appointed as Test skipper and a series victory over India might just convince the ECB that he is the correct man to lead the team into the future.
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Vaibhav Sooryavanshi during the 2nd T20I against England at Old Trafford (BCCI/Creimas Photo)
England’s ‘homework’ pays off against Vaibhav Sooryavanshi
England had a plan. They may have been in all sorts of turmoil in recent times, but they had done their homework on the youngest-ever cricketer to represent India. “We have some tactical decisions. Just a matter of executing now,” captain Harry Brook said at the toss about their ploy to keep Vaibhav Sooryavanshi in check on his international debut.
Sooryavanshi’s debut seemed an inevitability at Manchester, considering the form — or the abject lack of it — of Sanju Samson in the last three matches. Anticipating the move, England had devised a plan against Sooryavanshi. Not that plans always work against the youngster, but today, they did as he only scored a 10-ball 14.