India tour of England | Harshal Patel heroics retains India undefeated in heat up video games heading into T20I sequence

All rounder Harshal Patel starred within the secon dand ultimate warm-up match for India as they the touring facet remained undefeated going into the T20Is towards Jos Buttler’s England.

Harshal Patel throughout India’s warm-up recreation towards Northamptonshire. (Courtesy: Reuters)

HIGHLIGHTSHarshal Patel saved India with a 36-ball 54Harshal Patel returned to take two wickets within the gameEveryone from the Indian bowling line-up took one wicket every a minimum of

India’s touring facet remained undefeated going into the T20I sequence towards England after sneaking a 10-run victory towards Northamptonshire. While the sooner recreation towards Derbyshire was all about some speedy assault by the batters as they chased down 150 runs inside 17 overs, on Sunday night, the Indian bowling unit put their fingers as much as defend a small complete towards the English home facet.

Indian pacer Harshal Patel placed on an allround present choosing up two wickets through the defence, however extra importantly, rescued India from a troublesome spot with the bat after the group was down at 72/5 inside the primary 12 overs. Patel hit 5 boundaries and three sixes and batted at a strike fee of 150 to take India to a decent complete of 149/8 after their 20 overs. He scored 54 off 36 balls.

On the night time, India didn’t have the providers of Umran Malik who took two wickets within the final recreation, however the likes of Avesh Khan, Arshdeep Singh and Prasidh Kirishna joined fingers alongside Patel to maintain the scoring fee in verify. Avesh was the choose among the many bowlers, choosing up two wickets from his three overs. Most importantly, he bowled an important maiden over whereas defending a small complete.

The Indian group seems to be to be shaping up properly regardless of the batting failure on Sunday. All the batsmen have been amongst runs and it might be tight competitors for the taking part in XI towards the Jos Buttler-led facet. Arshdeep Singh has excessive possibilities of getting a few video games after doing effectively in each video games for India and he can be raring to go after two very profitable Indian Premier Leagues as a specialist demise bowler. Deepak Hooda additionally has possibilities of getting chosen after he continued kind within the first warm-up recreation after his beautiful century towards Ireland at Malahide.

Brief scores

India: 149/8 in 20 overs (Harshal Patel 54, Dinesh Karthik 34; Brandon Glover 3/33)

Northamptonshire: 139 all out in 19.3 overs (Saif Zaib 33; Avesh Khan 2/16, Yuzvendra Chahal 2/25)