A dominating win for England in the first T20I as they beat India by 8 wickets. After an all-round bowling effort, England batsman show the way with the bat. Jason Roy was the top scorer as he scored 49 runs before missing out on a well-deserved half century. Roy and Buttler started in typical fashion and took the game away inside the first six overs. After a fall of the duo, Malan and Bairstow ensured that there were no more hiccups as they crossed the victory line with relatively much ease. For India, Shreyas Iyer smashed a sensational half-century to rescue India from early blows but England kept taking wickets at regular intervals to restrict the hosts to 124/7 in the allotted 20 overs.
After being four down with 48 runs on board in the first ten overs, Shreyas and Hardik Pandya rescued India as the hosts crossed the 100-run mark in the 17th over. But Archer in the 18th over gave just three runs and removed Hardik and Shardul Thakur on consecutive balls to jolt India's progress. Wickets kept falling for India on one end but Shreyas (67) continued to play his shots before Dawid Malan pulled off a screamer at fine leg. In the last three overs, India scored just 22 runs and lost three wickets courtesy of some fine death over bowling by the English side.Put in to bat first, India got off to the worst possible start as the hosts lost two big wickets inside the first three overs. While KL Rahul scored one run, skipper Virat Kohli departed for a duck. Jofra Archer and Adil Rashid provided England a dream start and Mark Wood then extended the visitors' upper hand in the match by removing Shikhar Dhawan in the fifth over. The second game will played on Sunday at the Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad the biggest cricket stadium in the world.
