First T20, Kolkata
India chase down 133 with 43 balls to spare to win by seven wickets
Abhishek smashes 79 off 34 balls
England 132 (20 overs): Buttler 68 (44); Chakravarthy 3-23
India take 1-0 lead in five-match series
Second T20 in Chennai on Saturday (13:30 GMT)
Abhishek c Brook b Rashid 79 (Ind 125-3)
A quite breath-taking knock comes to an end.
Abhishek Sharma gets away with one when a diving Jacob Bethell cannot hang on to a heave to mid-wicket but he's gone next ball.
Abhishek is attempting to keep the crowd on their feet as he goes down the pitch to Adil Rashid but ends up slicing it and Harry Brook pouches a simple catch at long-off.
Some glum England fans, wearing lanyards, in the stands at Eden Gardens but surely even they must be able to appreciate the brilliance of Abhishek Sharma here.
Another six as he picks Adil Rashid's googly and hammers it into the stands over extra cover.
Gallows humour from Jos Buttler who can only chuckle.
Jos Buttler grimaces.
Gus Atkinson looks shorn of ideas as Tilak Varma drills him low and hard down the ground for another four.
The England quick bowler's two overs have gone for 38.
Steven Finn
Former England fast bowler on TNT Sports
A masterclass in T20 batting from Abhishek Sharma. He is in full control of everything he is doing.
Gus Atkinson's first ball after drinks disappears back over his head for six as Abhishek Sharma's stylish and brutal assault on England's bowlers continues.
Sir Alastair Cook
Ex-England captain on TNT Sports
The standard of batting has been extraordinary. The bat speed and calmness from Abhishek Sharma to play the right shot to the right ball has been superb. There's been nothing premeditated.
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I would say that this is far from India’s B team and actually close to their strongest XI at home.
Gus in Durham
At the halfway point in their innings, India are pretty much home and hosed.
Kieran Parmley
Cricviz analyst
Abhishek Sharma's 20-ball half century was the ninth time an Indian batter had brought up a fifty in 20 balls or fewer, only Australia (11 times) have done so more frequently.
India's batters are on a different level here.
The left-handed Abhishek Sharma waspishly goes inside out against Liam Livingstone to smear another boundary down the ground on the up.
Four more runs to India's total.
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Series whitewash incoming.
John, Newcastle
Abhishek Sharma swipes at Jamie Overton again and the ball flies skywards over the head of Jofra Archer at mid-on who his left grasping at thin air as the ball thuds into the turf behind him.
Abhishek Sharma with a blink-and-you-will-miss-it half-century.
He brings it up by off 20 balls by whipping a short ball from Jamie Overton for six to the delight of the fans at Eden Gardens.
This is going to be a shellacking for England.
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Adil Rashid is well and truly punished as India opener Abhishek Sharma plunders 16 runs off his next three balls.
Abhishek thrashes the leg-spinner for four over cover, then pumps for two towering sixes - over the diving Jacob Bethell and square leg and then down the ground.
Abhishek Sharma offers a caught-and-bowled chance to Adil Rashid, but the England leg-spinner can only fumble it down at his boot laces.
Chipped back to Rashid but he is unable to cling on.
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India's B team not far from demolishing England's A team.
Hitesh, London
Sensing the need to take wickets to give England a prayer, Jos Buttler allows Jofra Archer to bowl the final over of his allocation.
Tilak Varma backs away and upper cuts Archer's fourth delivery to deep point where Gus Atkinson dashes in, but cannot quite get their time.
Archer serves up a brutish short ball to Tilak to finish which hits glove then helmet but drops safe. England's premier quick bowler ends his spell with 2-21.
Mark Wood with an expression of bamboozlement on his face.
Abhishek Sharma shows the full 360 strokeplay to drill a full-ish ball from Wood straight as a die down the ground for four.
India are making light work of this total.
Kieran Parmley
Cricviz analyst
That was the third time Jofra Archer has dismissed Suryakumar Yadav in T20s - their head to head now reads: 29 runs, 28 balls, 3 dismissals, 9.6 average, 103 strike rate.
| Batter | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | Minutes | Strike Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Salt,caught Samson, bowled Arshdeep Singh Salt, caught Samson, bowled Arshdeep Singh | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.00 |
Duckett,caught Singh, bowled Arshdeep Singh Duckett, caught Singh, bowled Arshdeep Singh | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 100.00 |
Buttler,caught Nitish Kumar Reddy, bowled Chakravarthy Buttler, caught Nitish Kumar Reddy, bowled Chakravarthy | 68 | 44 | 8 | 2 | 74 | 154.55 |
Brook,bowled Chakravarthy Brook, bowled Chakravarthy | 17 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 23 | 121.43 |
Livingstone,bowled Chakravarthy Livingstone, bowled Chakravarthy | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00 |
Bethell,caught Sharma, bowled Pandya Bethell, caught Sharma, bowled Pandya | 7 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 50.00 |
Overton,caught Nitish Kumar Reddy, bowled Patel Overton, caught Nitish Kumar Reddy, bowled Patel | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 50.00 |
Atkinson,stumped Samson, bowled Patel Atkinson, stumped Samson, bowled Patel | 2 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 15.38 |
Archer,caught Yadav, bowled Pandya Archer, caught Yadav, bowled Pandya | 12 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 120.00 |
Rashid,not out Rashid, not out | 8 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 72.73 |
Wood,run out Samson Wood, run out Samson | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 100.00 |
Extras, no balls 0, wides 5, byes 5, leg byes 1, total 11 Extras, no balls 0, wides 5, byes 5, leg byes 1, total 11 | ||||||
Total,132 all out 20.0 overs Total,132 all out 20.0 overs |
| Bowler | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Economy rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Arshdeep Singh | 4.0 | 0 | 17 | 2 | 4.25 |
Pandya | 4.0 | 0 | 42 | 2 | 10.50 |
Chakravarthy | 4.0 | 0 | 23 | 3 | 5.75 |
Patel | 4.0 | 1 | 22 | 2 | 5.50 |
Bishnoi | 4.0 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 5.50 |
| Fall of wicket | Batter |
|---|---|
0 for 1 (0.3 overs) | Salt |
17 for 2 (2.5 overs) | Duckett |
65 for 3 (7.3 overs) | Brook |
65 for 4 (7.5 overs) | Livingstone |
83 for 5 (11.5 overs) | Bethell |
95 for 6 (13.3 overs) | Overton |
103 for 7 (15.6 overs) | Atkinson |
109 for 8 (16.2 overs) | Buttler |
130 for 9 (19.4 overs) | Archer |
132 for 10 (19.6 overs) | Wood |
| Batter | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | Minutes | Strike Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Samson,caught Atkinson, bowled Archer Samson, caught Atkinson, bowled Archer | 26 | 20 | 4 | 1 | 23 | 130.00 |
Sharma,caught Brook, bowled Rashid Sharma, caught Brook, bowled Rashid | 79 | 34 | 5 | 8 | 58 | 232.35 |
Yadav,caught Salt, bowled Archer Yadav, caught Salt, bowled Archer | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.00 |
Tilak Varma,not out Tilak Varma, not out | 19 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 37 | 118.75 |
Pandya,not out Pandya, not out | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 75.00 |
Extras, no balls 0, wides 1, byes 4, leg byes 1, total 6 Extras, no balls 0, wides 1, byes 4, leg byes 1, total 6 | ||||||
Total,133 for 3 12.5 overs Total,133 for 3 12.5 overs |
| Bowler | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Economy rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Archer | 4.0 | 0 | 21 | 2 | 5.25 |
Atkinson | 2.0 | 0 | 38 | 0 | 19.00 |
Wood | 2.5 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 8.82 |
Rashid | 2.0 | 0 | 27 | 1 | 13.50 |
Overton | 1.0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10.00 |
Livingstone | 1.0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7.00 |
| Fall of wicket | Batter |
|---|---|
41 for 1 (4.2 overs) | Samson |
41 for 2 (4.5 overs) | Yadav |
125 for 3 (11.5 overs) | Sharma |