Summary

  • Third T20, Rajkot

  • England win by 26 runs to reduce series deficit to 2-1

  • Tourists slip from 83-1 to 127-8 before last two wickets add 44

  • England 171-9: Duckett 51 (28), Livingstone 43 (24); Chakravarthy 5-24

  • In reply, hosts can only reach 145-9: Pandya 40 (35); Overton 3-24

  • Fourth T20 in Pune on Friday (13:30 GMT)

Live Reporting

by Matthew Henry & Mike Peter

  1. Eleanor Oldroyd
    BBC cricket presenter

    A horrible middle order collapse by England but you have to give full credit to Varun Chakravarthy, who seems to have more mysteries in his spin than an episode of Scooby Doo.

  2. From 83-1 in the ninth to 147-9 in the 18th - that's the story of England's innings.

    Eight wickets lost for 60 runs, seven them to spinners with Hardik claiming the eighth.

    Varun Chakravarthy was the pick of the bowlers, taking 5-24 with his leg-spin.

    Ben Duckett made 51, Liam Livingstone 43 and Jos Buttler 24, but the remainder of top nine already made singles figures before Mark Wood and Adil Rashid added 10 apiece.

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    Jos Buttler as a captain must be on the world's thinnest ice.

    Adam

  4. Eng 171-9

    Wood smacks the ball to long-on and sets off.

    The throw from the boundary strikes him on the leg as he comes back for the second.

    Hardik closes with figures of 2-33, while England finish on 171-9 - not enough, you'd suspect.

  5. Eng 169-9

    Wood walks across his stumps to flick the ball to mid-wicket.

    Hardik then sends down an off side wide from his final delivery and Rashid hurries through an extra run.

    Still one ball to go.

  6. Eng 166-9

    Two more singles - Wood chops the third ball of the over to square, then Rashid just about manages to get on top of a bouncer to whack it to mid-on.

  7. Eng 164-9

    Hardik to finish.

    England hustle through a couple of singles - a direct hit might have seen Mark Wood run-out at the striker's end off the second of those.

  8. Eng 162-9

    Ooof, Adil Rashid has to get out of the way as Shami sends down a chest-high full toss.

    England's final pair run-up a few, but can't find the ropes again in the over - 13 from it.

  9. Eng 155-9

    Oh, that's cute.

    Adil Rashid opens the face to dab the returning Mohammed Shami through an empty cordon for four.

  10. Eng 151-9

    Mark Wood is the last man out of the hutch for England.

    He and Rashid work Hardik around for a trio of singles, bringing up England's 150 with the second of those.

  11. Eleanor Oldroyd
    BBC cricket presenter

    That teeny edge behind from Buttler which only Samson fancied was out seems to have been the turning point for India. All downhill for England from then.

  12. wicket

    WICKET

    Livingstone c Jurel b Hardik 43 (Eng 147-9)

    The switch to seam works!

    First sight of pace since the fourth over as Hardik returns - his first ball is a harsh wide, but he bags Livingstone with the following delivery.

    The Lancashire batter goes for another big heave and finds Dhruv Jurel at long-on.

    England's innings almost done - they were 83-1 in the ninth over.

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    That squeaking noise is the sound of the Overton window closing.

    Simon, Italy

  14. How's stat?!

    Srinivas Vijaykumar
    Cricviz analyst

    Varun ChakravarthyGetty Images

    This is the eighth time a bowler has taken a five-wicket haul against England in T20 Internationals.

    Three of eight bowlers have been Indian spinners:

    Yuzvendra Chahal - 6-25 in Bangalore, 2017

    Kuldeep Yadav - 5-24 in Manchester, 2018

    Varun Chakravarthy - 5-24, today

  15. Eng 146-8

    A single into the covers takes Livingstone to 43 from 23.

    Adil Rashid blocks out the final ball of the over to leave Livingstone on strike for the next one.

    Meanwhile Ravi Bishnoi is now finished with figures of 1-46 from his 24 deliveries, with 19 of those runs coming off Livingstone's bat in the spinner's last over.

  16. Eng 145-8

    To quote the great sports commentator A. Partridge - "And another!"

    Livingstone gets a third six over the over, heaving Bishnoi over square.

  17. 6 runs

    Eng 139-8

    All on Liam Livingstone then?

    He smokes Ravi Bishnoi for consecutive sixes over mid-wicket.

    Big, big hits.

  18. wicket

    WICKET

    Archer b Chakravarthy 0 (Eng 127-8)

    And now a fifth!

    Jofra Archer lasts two balls, well-beaten by the first and bowled by the second.

    A five-fer from Varun Chakravarthy, picking up the crucial wicket with the final ball of his spell - he finishes with figures of 5-24.

  19. wicket

    WICKET

    Carse c Tilak b Chakravarthy 3 (Eng 127-7)

    Varun Chakravarthy has his fourth!

    Brydon Carse drops to a knee, trying to lift the ball high over square but finds Tilak Varma, who runs a few steps to take the catch.

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    How much longer to we need to persist with the Overton project to realise it will never work!!

    Nigel from Somerset