India vs England Live Score, 5th T20I Today Match Updates: Jos Buttler’s scintillating hundred and captain Harry Brook’s unbeaten 95 powered the England national cricket team to a mammoth score of 257/3 in 20 overs against the India national cricket team in the fifth and final T20I of the series at The Rose Bowl in Southampton. Follow The Sunday Guardian for India vs England LIVE Score, live cricket score, full scorecard, ball-by-ball commentary, toss, playing XI, match highlights, post-match analysis, and all the latest coverage from the fifth and final T20I between India and England at The Rose Bowl, Southampton.
Can Team India come out of this rough patch?” — the question echoes across the nation, as the Shreyas Iyer-led India face England in the fifth and final T20I of the series, which has already been settled. The hosts secured an unassailable 3-0 lead by winning the last game by nine wickets. After an infamous series defeat to Ireland, India remain on the verge of another humiliating result, while England are one win away from a clean sweep.
Batting has been the biggest concern for India. Following a rare collapse in the third T20I that saw the Men in Blue manage 76 runs, the situation didn’t improve a lot in the following fixture. Despite a strong knock from Shreyas Iyer, they wrapped up the innings with 158 runs.
While the skipper added 80 to the board, no other batter from the team could breach the 30-run mark. England had a smooth chase despite losing Jos Buttler early. Harry Brook and Phil Salt finished the match with an unbeaten 146-run partnership to win the series.
England Squad: Jos Buttler (wk), Harry Brook (c), Philip Salt, Jacob Bethell, Tom Banton, Sam Curran, Will Jacks, Rehan Ahmed, Jofra Archer, Adil Rashid, Josh Tongue, Liam Dawson, Sonny Baker, Jordan Cox, Saqib Mahmood, Luke Wood
India Squad: Ishan Kishan (wk), Shreyas Iyer (c), Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Abhishek Sharma, Shivam Dube, Tilak Varma, Washington Sundar, Axar Patel, Prince Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Sanju Samson, Ravi Bishnoi, Suryansh Shedge
Adil Rashid bowls the final over and finishes with figures of 3-0-24-2. But India have lost the match by a comprehensive margin of 57 runs and concede their No.1 ranking in T20Is as England go on top. It has come on the back of Jos Buttler's 131 and Harry Brook's 95. Sam Curran was the pick of the bowlers with figures of 4-0-36-3.
Relief for Tilak Varma even as Team India are sleepwalking to another defeat. He goes to fifty off 23 balls but gets out in the very next delivery.
Shivam Dube struck two boundaries in the last two overs but his stay is ended at 14 as Sam Curran gets his second scalp. Dube goes for the pull shot but holes out to Jofra Archer at deep backward square.
Adi Rashid is into the wickets column now too!! Team India have lost Ishan Kishan for 56. The task now becomes steeper.
That's the end of Shreyas Iyer. Liam Dawson, bowling his second over of the innings, gets his first wicket as the Indian captain goes for 28 off 16 deliveries. The chase looks to be over for the visitors with that wicket.