Former England skipper Michael Vaughan, who has been some of the ardent critic of the Indian pitches, took a dig towards Virat Kohli and co. after they produced a shoddy present with the bat within the opening encounter of the five-match T20I sequence.
The former cricketer took to Twitter and acknowledged that Mumbai Indians, the defending champions of the Indian Premier League, is a better unit than Team India.
The @mipaltan are a better T20 team than @BCCI !!! #JustSaying #INDvENG
— Michael Vaughan (@MichaelVaughan) March 12, 2021
However, former India cricketer Wasim Jaffer was fast to react to it as he pointed that not like England different groups haven’t got the luck to area abroad gamers, referring to overseas nationals who opted to play worldwide cricket for England.
Not all groups are fortunate sufficient to play 4 abroad gamers Michael #INDvENG https://t.co/sTmGJLrNFt
— Wasim Jaffer (@WasimJaffer14) March 12, 2021
If we glance carefully into England’s enjoying XI for the primary T20I, Ben Stokes, Eoin Morgan, Jofra Archer, and Jason Roy have been inducted within the England squad regardless of having overseas nationalities.
Meanwhile, earlier within the night, middle-order batsman Shreyas Iyer’s innings of 67 runs off 48 balls was the one vibrant aspect to India’s struggling innings within the first T20I towards England. India, after being despatched into bat had an terrible begin to their innings as they misplaced the wickets of opener KL Rahul and skipper Virat Kohli in simply three overs.
After which, Rishabh Pant joined Shikhar Dhawan and performed a few good pictures to reinforce India’s scoring fee. However, Dhawan left him too, getting bowled to Mark Wood within the fifth over.
Iyer, then together with Pant tried to rebuild the innings. The right-handed batsman performed immaculate drives as he upped the ante amidst the heap of wickets India have been dropping.
After Pant went, Shreyas discovered an ally in Hardik Pandya as each stitched a 50-run partnership to assist India go previous the 100-run mark.
Iyer continued and introduced up his fifty of simply 36 balls and was dismissed on 67 off 48 balls however had given some respectability to India’s rating.
India completed the innings with 124/7 as they struggled all through the innings to place an honest complete on the board.
– with inputs from dnaindia.com
