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👉Make your Fantasy cricket team on My11Circle App: https://bit.ly/3tgEl8U For queries: anatomizedtube@gmail.com PREVIEW: An all-round England thumped India by eight wickets in the opening T20I of the five-match series at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Friday. In a perfect day’s play for the visitors, they restricted India to 124 for 7 upon winning the toss and then smashed the chase in just 15.3 overs. Jofra Archer was the pick of the bowlers with 3 for 23 from his 4 overs while Jason Roy top scored for England with 49. India’s batsmen struggled to score freely before Shreyas Iyer showed the way with a dogged 67-run knock that gave India a decent total. The home batsmen never got the momentum going in the series-opener as England’s pace-heavy attack, including Mark Wood, used the extra bounce effectively to trouble them. Most of the Indian batsmen went for flashy shots when placement would have served them well. The track had varied pace and required patience from batsmen. Iyer though gauged the nature of the pitch quickly and adjusted his game accordingly, playing a sensible innings that helped them cross the 100-run mark. Laced with eight boundaries and a six, and coming off 48 balls, it is Iyer’s best T20 knock. He fell in the last over. England surprised India by opening the attack with leg-spinner Adil Rashid, who was not only economical but also dismissed Virat Kohli (0) after KL Rahul (1) dragged one back onto his stumps from Jofra Archer (3/23). Feeling the heat, Shikhar Dhawan — who got the opportunity since Rohit Sharma has been rested — attempted to break the shackles with a flashy shot off Wood but completely missed the line to see his timber disturbed. In-form batsman Rishabh Pant (21) was prompted to number four. He struck the ball clean, which included a reverse-flick off Archer for a six, but the England bowlers kept it tight for the home team, which was tottering at 34 for three in eight overs. Pant and Iyer added 28 runs for the fourth wicket before the former hit one straight to Jonny Bairstow off Ben Stokes. That brought Hardik Pandya to the crease, who true to his style, looked for some big hits but could not do much. As expected, England did not take much time to finish the moderate chase. Jos Buttler and Roy added 72 in 8 overs for the opening wicket before Yuzvendra Chahal trapped Buttler lbw. Washington Sundar, who came on only in the 12th over, got Jason Roy one short of his fifty. But the low target meant the chase was too easy for the power packed England side. INDIA SQUAD: Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli (c), Rishabh Pant, Hardik Pandya, KL Rahul, Washington Sundar, Axar Patel, Ishant Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav, Rahul Tewatia, Ishan Kishan, Yuzvendra Chahal, Varun Chakravarthy, T Natarajan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Deepak Chahar, Navdeep Saini, Shardul Thakur ENGLAND SQUAD: Ben Stokes, Jofra Archer, Mark Wood, Jonny Bairstow, Eoin Morgan, Liam Livingstone, Dawid Malan, Jason Roy, Moeen Ali, Sam Curran, Tom Curran, Sam Billings, Jos Buttler, Chris Jordan, Adil Rashid, Reece Topley