Apart from all the talk around the ongoing Edgbaston Test between India and England where the visitors are dominating the proceedings, India’s white-ball team is also in action in the same country. Under the captaincy of Dinesh Karthik, India’s white-ball sid played a couple of T20 warm-up games against English county clubs in a bid to gear up for the three-match T20I series against Jos Buttler-led England side which begins from July 7 onwards at the Ageas Bowl in Hampshire.
India played their second T20 warm-up game on Sunday and it was the Indian all-rounder, Harshal Patel who stole the show with his all-around performance as the Indian team maintained their unbeaten run. India’s top-order crumbled on either side of the rain interruption at the County Ground in Northampton that saw both Sanju Samson and Suryakumar Yadav going back to depart for a duck.
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However, skipper, Dinesh Karthik’s 26-ball 34 along with Harshal’s unbeaten half-century helped India finish with a respectable total of 149 runs. During his fifty, Harshal managed to smash five boundaries and three maximums in his 36-ball 54, while stitching a crucial 60-run stand alongside Venkatesh Iyer.
Here is the video of the knock:
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It wasn’t a perfect start to India’s batting innings as they were reeling at 8/ 3 in three overs leaving captain Karthik to walk in at an unlikely time in T20 innings. He started off well with a boundary in the final over of the powerplay as India was standing at 27 for three against the new ball. He then smashed Josh Cobb with a boundary through covers, smashed Alex Russell for a six, and got another boundary against Freddie Heldreich before falling to the latter in the 12th over.
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Harshal Patel, who started off slow, did the rest for India. He also starred with the ball, scalping a couple of wickets for 23 runs in 3.3 overs as India restricted the hosts to 139. Yuzvendra Chahal, Avesh Khan, and Arshdeep Singh also scalped a couple of wickets each while Iyer and Yuzvendra Chahal picked on apiece.
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