India vs England 3rd T20I, Stats: A Formidable Start of Virat Kohli’s Era

India vs England 3rd T20I was the final game of the last leg of England tour and unfortunately for the visitors, it was scheduled at M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru. The venue has a reputation for sixes, ‘Big sixes’. Even mishits sail over the rope more than often and no other venue in the World sees more heart wrenching Maximums than M.Chinnaswamy Stadium. Bowlers tend to bow down here but the India vs England 3rd T20I, saw the hosts ticking all the right boxes and gave the visitors one of the most humiliating defeat ever.

Backed by fifties from Suresh Raina, MS Dhoni and Yuvraj Singh’s 27 off 10, India posts a humongous total of 202 runs, with Indian batsmen treating sixes as they were nothing. They showed no mercy to the England’s bowlers and neither to the ball itself. Coming out of the crease seemed their traditional style and the maximums were so huge and powerful that even a teenage fan got hurt and was rushed for treatment. However, by the time he was treated and discharged, his favourite team gave him another memorable moment by clinching the T20I series against England.

The target already seemed impossible and a havoc created by Yuzvendra Chahal must have sent chills down the spine of England team. What was so great about it? Well, this was the first time any Indian bowlers clinched 6 wickets, yes six freaking wickets in a T20I ever.

Jasprit Bumrah and Amit Mishra did the remaining task, taking out the whole England’s batting lineup at just 127 runs in 16.1 overs and taking their team to a 75 runs victory.

From Suresh Raina’s form with the bat and on the field, to the seniors leading the team, Virat Kohli led Indian team has everything except a suitable opening pair and their dominance can be felt with the following statistical highlights.

• This is India’s biggest T20I triumph at home, and their second best overall, the previous one being a 69 margin win against Sri Lanka.

• 202/6 is India’s fifth highest score in T20Is while their best is 244/6 against West Indies in 2016.

• After playing for nearly 10 years and 66 innings, MS Dhoni registered his first 50 in T20Is, his previous best being 48* against Australia. He also faced the second most deliveries in a T20I innings (36).

• England witnessed the second all time worst eight wicket collapse (within 8 runs) in cricket history as New Zealand’s 8 wickets loss for just 5 runs against Australia in 1946 is the still the worst of all.

• Suresh Raina registered the second most sixes (3) in a powerplay by an Indian batsman, Virender Sehwag tops the tally with four sixes against New Zealand in 2009.

• Yuzvendra Chahal became the first Indian to claim 6 wickets in T20I cricket, defeating R. Ashwin who has the personal best of 4 wickets.

• Suresh Raina is the only eighth International players with most number of sixes in T20I.

• Suresh Raina registered his highest T20I score (63) in India.

• Suresh Raina now has 252 sixes under his belt, the second-most for an Indian after Rohit Sharma (254).

• Virat Kohli remained unbeaten as a captain in all three formats since 2015 with 8 consecutive series wins.

• Virat Kohli now has 2096 T20 runs at M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, the most by a batsman at one particular ground.

• India registered the second most number of sixes against England (12) and made us relive the 2007 T20I World Cup match against the same team, the only game with more than 12 sixes.

• Rishabh Pant became the youngest Indian to debut in T20Is at 19 yrs and 120 days.

What’s Next

India now has everything a team needs to become unbeatable and there are only two more departments where the Virat Kohli led formidable force has to demonstrate its excellence. First, they need a dependable opening pair for limited overs formats and secondly, we would like to see them dominate on foreign turf.

However, with the perfect combination of experience (MS Dhoni, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina and Ashish Nehra) and young talent (Jasprit Bumrah, Yuzvendra Chahal, Hardik Pandya and KL Rahul), it seems that they are already doing great and Virat Kohli has just a tiny bit of work left to make Indian Team the best in all formats.

With IPL and Champions Trophy just around the corner, we are in for another run fest and as for England, they should learn from their mistakes and came back hard the next time.

Here is how Cricket Fraternity congratulated India after a successful completion of England’s tour of India.

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2 Feb 2017
Rohan Jaitly