India beat England to seal T20 cricket series as sub Rana vexes Buttler

India past precocious England rally aft a mini-collapse of their ain to seal five-match bid with a crippled to spare.

Harshit Rana has claimed 3 wickets successful his debatable quality arsenic a concussion substitute to assistance India to a series-clinching, 15-run victory against England successful the 4th T20 International.

India overcame Saqib Mahmood’s three-wicket burst connected Friday to station a competitory 181-9 aft half-centuries by Hardik Pandya and Shivam Dube.

England were 166 each retired with 2 deliveries near successful their innings arsenic India grabbed an unassailable 3-1 pb successful the five-match series.

All-rounder Dube was deed connected the helmet by a Jamie Overton bouncer, and seamer Rana replaced him contempt it not being a like-for-like replacement arsenic concussion substitute rules mandate.

“When Dube came backmost 2 overs into the chase, I was told [about being the concussion substitute],” Rana told broadcasters. “I person been waiting for this infinitesimal to beryllium myself,” helium said of his “dream debut”.

India’s Harshit Rana celebrates the wicket of England’s Jamie Overton [Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters]

England skipper Jos Buttler was little impressed, however.

“It’s not a like-for-like replacement. We don’t hold with that,” Buttler told reporters aft the game. “Dube has either enactment connected 25 miles per hr [40 kilometres per hour] with the shot oregon Harshit Rana has truly improved his batting.

“I inactive deliberation we should person gone connected to triumph the match, but we disagree with the decision.”

England accelerated bowler Saqib besides impressed connected his debut arsenic helium began with a three-wicket maiden implicit to rattle India astatine the Maharashtra Cricket Association (MCA) Stadium.

India opener Sanju Samson fluffed his propulsion shot, fig 3 Tilak Varma perished astatine heavy 3rd limb and skipper Suryakumar Yadav was caught astatine abbreviated mid-on, prolonging his thin spot successful the series.

Abhishek Sharma (29) and Rinku Singh (30) propped up India earlier the left-right operation of Dube and Pandya counterattacked during their 87-run partnership.

Pandya and Dube smashed identical 53s, but India managed lone 3 runs from the eventful past implicit from Overton, losing 3 wickets successful the process.

Harry Brook top-scored for England successful the pursuit [Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters]

Phil Salt (23) and Ben Duckett (39) milked 32 runs from the archetypal 3 overs of India’s seam bowling, prompting Suryakumar to employment rotation from some ends.

Thanks to their unbridled aggression, England were 62-1 aft the archetypal six powerplay overs compared with India’s 47-3.

India struck backmost done rotation arsenic Ravi Bishnoi (3-28) dismissed Duckett and Buttler successful his successive overs portion Axar Patel removed Salt.

Harry Brook (51) deed Rana for back-to-back sixes en way to a 25-ball fifty, but Varun Chakravarthy turned the lucifer connected its head, claiming 2 wickets successful his last over.

Brook fell attempting a scoop changeable against the spinner, and 2 balls later, Brydon Carse was snared astatine heavy quadrate limb arsenic India tightened their grip connected the contest.

Mumbai hosts the 5th and last T20 International connected Sunday, which volition beryllium followed by 3 one-dayers betwixt the sides.

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