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England will take on India in the third T20I match at the Trent Bridge in Nottingham on Sunday (July 10). The Rohit Sharma-led side has a great opportunity to win the T20I series. ENG vs IND 3rd T20I will start at 7:00 pm (IST).

India outplayed England by 50 runs in the first T20 International match and they won the second game too taking away the series. Now they aim to white-wash England for the first time in the history of their bilateral clashes.

Rohit Sharma Jos Buttler
Rohit Sharma and Jos Buttler. Image: BCCI/Twitter

India posted a mammoth score of 198/8 in the first innings at Rose Bowl as all-rounder Hardik Pandya registered his maiden fifty in T20 International cricket. Pandya scored 51 off 33 balls with the help of six boundaries and a six at a strike rate of 154.55.

Rohit Sharma raced to 24 runs in 14 balls before nicking one behind to his counterpart Jos Buttler off Moeen Ali’s bowling in the third over. Deepak Hooda (33 in 17 balls) and Suryakumar Yadav (39 off 19 balls) carried the momentum and scored runs in quick succession with their strike rate over 190.

On the other hand, England who boasted with the big names in power-hitting, turned out with an underwhelming performance as Indian pacers dictated the swing conditions and made the best moment with the ball. The hosts were skittled out for 148 in 19.3 overs with Moeen Ali showing some spark of a fight.

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It wasn’t an ideal start to newly appointed white-ball skipper Jos Buttler, who was dismissed for a golden duck after failing to read the sharp inswinger by Bhuvneshwar Kumar. England missed the trick by not playing David Willey which meant they had no genuine pacer in their ranks.

Tymal Mills, Chis Jordan, Sam Curran and Reece Topley were not that quite good in England’s four-pronged pace attack. Matthew Parkinson (44 from four overs) was taken to the cleaners along with Moeen Ali (26 in two) and Liam Livingstone (15 in one), displaying the lack of spin bowling options in the absence of Adil Rashid. Harry Brook could be considered to replace Eoin Morgan in the middle and England team management should groom the Yorkshire 23-year-old.

England squad for T20I series against India: Jos Buttler (Captain), Harry Brook, Liam Livingstone, Dawid Malan, Jason Roy, Moeen Ali, Sam Curran, David Willey, Richard Gleeson, Philip Salt, Chris Jordan, Tymal Mills, Matthew Parkinson, Reece Topley.

England’s predicted playing XI vs India 3rd T20I:

1. Jason Roy

Roy struggled in the first match, scoring just four runs off 16 balls before getting out to Hardik Pandya. The Surrey batter has scored 1450 runs in 59 games and will bank on his experience and come back stronger against India.

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Jason Roy
Jason Roy. (Photo: BCCI)
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