Bethell blasts England to T20 win over India after Sooryavanshi’s historic debut
India 190-7; England 191-6; England win by four wkts Bethell’s 76 helps England chase 191 in second T20 Vaibhav Sooryavanshi was both headline act and
India 190-7; England 191-6; England win by four wkts Bethell’s 76 helps England chase 191 in second T20 Vaibhav Sooryavanshi was both headline act and bit-part player on a chill, windswept Manchester afternoon, making his hotly anticipated debut to become, at 15 years and 99 days, the youngest ever Indian men’s international and the second youngest in all formats and from all full member nations.
But it was England’s youngest player, even if Jacob Bethell is a comparative veteran at 22, who decided the game and effectively did so in the space of a single over, their 17th and Ravi Bishnoi’s fourth, from which he plundered a match-turning 29.
Thanks in large part to Bethell’s 76 off 46 England eventually cantered to victory by four wickets, and with an over to spare. Continue reading...
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