Vikrant Shekhawat : Feb 02, 2025, 10:33 PM
IND vs ENG: India registered a historic win by defeating England by 150 runs in the fifth and final T20 International match played at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. With this brilliant performance, Team India won the five-match T20 series 4-1. This was India's second biggest win in T20 international cricket, while it is the biggest win against England so far.Abhishek Sharma's blastOpener Abhishek Sharma played an important role in this huge victory of the Indian team. He played an explosive innings of 135 runs in just 54 balls, which included 7 fours and 13 skyscraper sixes. His aggressive approach completely pushed the England bowlers on the backfoot. Shivam Dubey also scored a blazing 30 runs in 13 balls.Team India scored a huge score of 247 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in 20 overs. Brydon Carse bowled the best for England and took 3 wickets, but the rest of the bowlers looked helpless in front of the Indian batsmen.England's innings faltered completelyThe England team, which came out to chase the big target given by India, proved to be a complete failure. Opener Philip Salt certainly played a quick innings of 55 runs in 23 balls, but apart from him no batsman could survive. Jacob Bethell could score 10 runs, while all the other batsmen could not even touch the double digit mark. The entire England team was reduced to just 97 runs.Indian bowlers performed brilliantly, in which Mohammed Shami took the maximum 3 wickets. Varun Chakraborty, Shivam Dubey and Abhishek Sharma took 2-2 wickets, while Ravi Bishnoi also took one wicket.India's biggest wins in T20Is
- 168 runs vs New Zealand (Captain: Hardik Pandya)
- 150 runs vs England (Captain: Suryakumar Yadav)
- 143 runs vs Ireland (Captain: Virat Kohli)
- 135 runs vs South Africa (Captain: Suryakumar Yadav)
- 133 runs vs Bangladesh (Captain: Suryakumar Yadav)
- 106 runs vs South Africa (Captain: Suryakumar Yadav)