45.5 overs England 259 (Buttler 60, Roy 41, Hardik 4-24, Chahal 3-60) vs India
But the transfer regarded impressed, as did the collection of Mohammed Siraj to switch Jasprit Bumrah who was affected by again spasms, when he opened with a double-wicket maiden to go away England reeling at 2-12 inside two overs.
Those runs had been all all the way down to Jason Roy, who struck Mohammed Shami for 3 fours within the first 4 balls of the match, crashing his first supply via mid-off earlier than clearing sq. leg and clipping one other off his toes via midwicket.
Siraj struck along with his third ball to take away Jonny Bairstow, who tried to work him to the leg aspect however managed solely to skew the ball to mid-off with out scoring. He then had Joe Root for a second-ball duck with one which moved away barely and caught an outdoor edge which sailed to Rohit at second slip.
England saved up an aggressive strategy by way of Roy and Ben Stokes, who clubbed Shami for again-to-again boundaries which meant Shami had conceded 33 runs after his first 4 overs.
Hardik changed Siraj within the assault for the tenth over with instant affect when he had an indecisive Roy out for 41 skying the ball straight up for Rishabh Pant to pouch the catch behind the stumps.
At the tip of the ten-over powerplay, England had been 66 for 3 and their scoring price dried up as Hardik and Prashdh Krishna maintained a great size and when Hardik cramped Stokes, who superior to a brief ball and high-edged into the air for a return catch, he had 2 for two inside three overs.
Buttler and Moeen Ali needed to hunker down, placing on simply eight runs from the following 22 balls earlier than Chahal and Siraj returned to the assault, Siraj twice putting Buttler heavy blows to the aspect of the helmet as he tried to tug the brief ball.
Siraj tried to bounce Buttler once more within the subsequent over however did not fairly get the identical raise and Buttler was prepared, swatting it powerfully away to the boundary in entrance of sq. leg. Buttler then helped himself to 10 runs off Chahal’s subsequent over, beginning with a chic strike over huge lengthy on, and Moeen handed 2000 ODI runs with two fours then a six, swung over backward sq., all off Siraj.
Sixteen runs conceded off the following over, together with sixes over lengthy-on by each batters, and Chahal was out of the assault, changed by Ravindra Jadeja, who broke their 75-run partnership with simply his second ball when he had Moeen caught behind trying to brush one which spun and bounced onto the bat face for Pant to collect down the leg aspect.
Showing no sick-results from these helmet-blows, Buttler settled right into a 49-run stand with Liam Livingstone and introduced up his fifty with a single via deep further cowl off Jadeja, having cleared the identical area to search out the boundary two balls earlier.
Hardik additionally struck Livingstone on the grille by way of his arm, prompting one other helmet change, then Hardik and Jadeja mixed twice in an over to cut back England to 199 for 7. Hardik’s brief ball tempted Livingstone – who already had braces of fours and sixes in his 27 – right into a hook in direction of deep-backward sq., the place Jadeja swallowed the catch simply contained in the boundary rope.
Three balls later, Buttler fell making an attempt to dispatch one other brief ball to deep midwicket, just for Jadeja to come back racing spherical from deep sq. and sliding to satisfy the ball, then rightly lapping up the applause for his wonderful effort. That gave Hardik 4 for 18 off six overs.
Craig Overton and David Willey placed on one other 48 runs off 42 balls for the eighth wicket earlier than Willey holed out to Surayakumar Yadav at lengthy-off from the bowling of Chahal and, with 6.2 overs remaining, England regarded in peril of being bowled out inside their allocation.
Overton struck Chahal down the bottom and thru Siraj’s arms for six at lengthy off however, two balls later, he tried the identical and located Virat Kohli standing in Siraj’s place and making no mistake. Capping off an eventful over, Chahal then bowled Reece Topley via the gate with a beautiful googly to finish England’s innings with 4.1 overs to spare, having misplaced their final three wickets for 12 runs in 14 balls.
Valkerie Baynes is a common editor at ESPNcricinfo