India vs England 3rd T20I Highlights: ENG beat IND by 26 runs

India vs England 3rd T20I LIVE SCORE: That is virtuoso stuff from Adil Rashid and India's in-form player falls. He pushes Tilak on to the backfoot, then the ball rips right past him and hits his middle stump. Tilak was completely deceived there.

Tilak Varma b Rashid 18 (14)

India 68/4 in 8 overs

India vs England 3rd T20I LIVE SCORE: Livingstone bowls the seventhe over, singles off the first two balls and then Tilak gracefully lifts the third ball back over the bowler's head for a six. Three more singles after that. Tilak on 14 off 10, Pandya on three off five.

India 62/3 in 7 overs

India vs. England 3rd T20I LIVE SCORE: Wood returns, and SKY goes for the sky. But he has mistimed, and the ball goes up, kisses a satellite or two, and then comes down to nestle in the hands of Salt, who had just taken the gloves from the injured Jamie Smith. Smith, by the way, has left the field.

Suryakumar Yadav c Salt b Wood 14 (7)

India 48/3 in 5.1 overs

India vs England 3rd T20I LIVE SCORE: Is this the day he ends his run of low scores. He sends the first ball from Archer for a six with that trademark supla shot of his. Two runs off the next and then SKY sends the third ball over point for a four. Rashid stops the next one at mid on quite brilliantly and so just a single there. Suryakumar is on 14 off six balls at the end of that over, Tilak Varma on four off four.

India vs England 3rd T20I LIVE SCORE: He had to back track a long way but he kept his eyes on the ball and completed a brilliant catch. Abhishek had hit a couple of boundaries off Carse in that over but his attempted drive off the fourth ends up popping up high into the night sky. Archer keeps his eyes on it all the way while running back towards the cover boundary.

Abhishek c Archer b Carse 24 (14)

India 31/2 in 3.4 overs

India vs England 3rd T20I LIVE SCORE: Hard length delivery that seemed to skid on to Samson and that is what did the batter in. He was ready for the pull but it in the end came a slight bit quicker than he was ready for. The ball floats to the fielder at mid-on.

Samson c Rashid b Archer 3 (6)

India 16/1 in 2.2 overs

India vs England 3rd T20I LIVE SCORE: Wood starts off with a wide down the leg side. He goes fuller and Samson whips it square for a single. Abhishek then lifts the first ball he faces from Wood over covers for a four. The second is lifted straighter down the ground for another four. A single next ball and then Wood sprays the last one wide down the leg side as well. Abhishek on 10 off seven, Samson on three off five.

India 15/0 in 2 overs

India vs England 3rd T20I LIVE SCORE: Samson worked the first ball off his hip for a single, Abhishek finds the cover fielder for a dot second ball. Then he goes for a hail mary over covers and misses it entirely, the ball goes just above his off stump. He plays the next ball to covers and takes a single after that. Samson heaves at the last one and mistimes, he runs another single.

India vs England 3rd T20I LIVE SCORE: Now for the Indian chase. It is not a small total by any stretch of imagination but it is certainly a below-par score considering the conditions. Will Samson's extra work for facing the bounce of Archer and Wood pay off for him today?

India vs England 3rd T20I LIVE SCORE: Whether it is par or not, what is clear is that this is much, much more than what seemed possible at the end of the 16th over.

India vs England 3rd T20I LIVE SCORE: Shami digs the first ball in, Rashid just calmly opens his bat face and guides it past the wicketkeeper for a four. Rashid takes a single next ball and then Shami sends in a beamer. Wood falls down getting out of the way of that and Samson also fumbles his take, allowing the batters to run a single. Four runs off the last three balls. England go past 160.

England 162/9 in 19 overs

India vs England 3rd T20I LIVE SCORE: Now Shami returns, as expected. It has been quite a spell from Pandya thus far, he has figures of 2/24 in 3 overs and he is likely to bowl the last one too. Can Shami get a wicket on his comeback?

England 151/9 in 18 overs

India vs England 3rd T20I LIVE SCORE: Livingstone tries to take on Pandya and perishes first (legal) ball. Pandya had sprayed his slow bouncer leg side for a wide. He reloads, Livingstone heaves and puts it down the throat of the fielder at long-on.

Livingstone c Jurel b Pandya 43 (24)

England 147.9 in 17.1 overs

India vs England 3rd T20I LIVE SCORE: Ravi Bishnoi has been tonked around the park here by Livingstone. The first ball of the over is sent soaring over midwicket for a six. The next one is heaved even further into the stands over deep midwicket. Livingstone then mistimes another heave to deep square and refuses the single. Then he smashes the fourth ball over deep square for another six. Takes a single next ball and Rashid keeps out the last one. Livingstone has raced to 43 off 23 balls.

England 146/8 in 17 overs

India vs England 3rd T20I LIVE SCORE: This is incredible from the spinner. He gets it to drift into Archer and then skid away, the ball sneaks behind him and takes the stumps. Archer looking completely befuddled by that, England had a good start but it is all down the drain now.

Archer b Varun 0 (2)

England 127/8 in 16 overs

India vs England 3rd T20I LIVE SCORE: Carse looking to sweep, he ends up hitting it staright down the throat of Tilak Varma at deep square. England are in free fall now. Varun Chakravarthy ruling the roost.

Carse c Tilak Varma b Varun 3 (4)

England 127/6 in 15.4 overs

India vs England 3rd T20I LIVE SCORE: As stated earlier, Varun Chakravarthy is INEVITABLE. He drifts this delivery in quicker, Overton goes too far across the stumps shaping up for the paddle and the ball hits the leg stump unimpeded.

Overton b Varun 0 (1)

England 115/6 in 13.5 overs

India vs England 3rd T20I LIVE SCORE: He is inevitable. Smith hit Chakravarthy for a six second ball of the 14th over, he tries to go for it again but this time, hits it to Dhruv Jurel at deep midwicket. Chakravarthy seemed to have shortened his length slightly for that ball after being hit previous delivery.

Smith c Jurel b Varun 6 (4)

England 115/5 in 13.3 overs

India vs England 3rd T20I LIVE SCORE: Ravi Bishnoi gets a wicket in this series at last.

India vs England 3rd T20I LIVE SCORE: Their run rate has come crashing down due to those two wickets falling in the last four overs. England surely would be targeting 200, considering just how good the batting conditions are and how much better it will get as the night goes on. Liam Livingstone is on nine off seven, Harry Brook on seven off eight.

England 101/3 in 12 overs

India vs England 3rd T20I LIVE SCORE: Ben Duckett falls almost immediately after getting to his fifty. Axar holds back his line a touch, Duckett gets on the backfoot and mistimes his pull. It goes straight down the throat of the fielder at deep midwicket.

Duckett c Abhishek Sharma b Patel 51 (28)

England 87/3 in 10 overs

India vs England 3rd T20I LIVE SCORE: A huge moment right there and it is largely due to Sanju Samson's brilliant anticipation behind the stumps. The umpure shakes his head but Samson and Varun convince SKY to go upstairs and the Indian captain does so. There is a tiny spike on the gloves and Samson makes that tiny adjustment to have his own gloves in the right place at the right time for the ball to arrive. You have to see it in slow motion to appreciate the sheer brilliance of that catch.

Buttler c Samson b Varun 24 (22)

England 83/2 in 9 overs

India vs England 3rd T20I LIVE SCORE: Well this is starting to look quite good for England. Bishnoi bowls the seventh over, Buttler sends the fourth ball through third man with a reverse sweep for four. He then dances down the track next ball and sends it soaring over the bowler's head for his first six of the match. Single off the next ball and he stays on strike to face Axar Patel.

England 65/1 in 7 overs

India vs England 3rd T20I LIVE SCORE: Just three runs off the last over of the powerplay and that was bowled by Varun Chakravarthy. Buttler took a single off the first ball in that over and that brought up England's 50. A couple of singles came off the third and fourth balls and that was that. Duckett is on 39 off 18 at the end of that over, Buttler on eight off 11.

India vs England 3rd T20I LIVE SCORE: Ben Duckett has found a gear he had been missing in this series thus far. Washington Sundar had dismissed him with his first ball in the last match. This time he gets smashed for two fours and a six. Duckett is on 38 off 14 balls, Buttler on six off nine at the end of that over.

Englad 49/1 in 5 overs

India vs England 3rd T20I LIVE SCORE: Ben Duckett has made this a rather good start for England. He ends Shami's second over with a ramp that sent the ball for a six over the wicketkeeper's head. Then he pulls the fourth ball of the next over by Pandya for a four. The fifth is sent through cover for another four and then the last is sent over wide mid on for completing his boundary hat-trick. Duckett is on 24 off nine, Buttler on five off eight.

England 34/1 in 4 overs

India vs England 3rd T20I LIVE SCORE: No Arshdeep but no runs for Salt. Duckett got off strike first ball, Pandya then met Salt with a snorter off a short one. He then goes for an off cutter from wide of the crease, Salt hits it straight to Washington Sundar at cover.

Salt c Abhishek Sharma b Pandya 5 (7)

Englamnd 7/1 in 1.3 overs

India vs England 3rd T20I LIVE SCORE: Shami goes back of a length at the stumps, slight movement away and Salt caresses it back down the ground to the boundary for a four. Shami gets the next ball to move in, then the next goes away and then Salt works the fifth to deep square leg for a single. Duckett then takes a single off the last ball as well.

India vs England 3rd T20I LIVE SCORE: All right here we go. Mohammed Shami's first ball in international cricket since he bowled a short one to Travis Head for the last ball of the 26th over of the 2023 World Cup final on November 19, 2023. The Australian had dispatched that for a four which brought Australia's deficit down below 100.

India vs England 3rd T20I LIVE SCORE: Here is a gist of what the captains said at the toss.

Suryakumar Yadav: We will bowl first, looks nice and hard, don't think it will change later as well. Rajkot has always been a good track, sure it will be a sporting one. We wanted to play a different brand of cricket but at the same time you need to understand the situation and he (Tilak) bailed the side out. We'll look at it as a 3 game series from here, boys are charged up. Arshdeep is resting, Shami comes in.

Jos Buttler: Looks a really good surface, looking forward to batting. We would've chased as well. Looks a good wicket, guys have had a good practice yesterday and we're excited for the match. Was a really good game of cricket, we fought really hard and pushed them all the way. We need to play really well tonight. We know how well India play, they're a strong team. We need a good total to defend. Same team but Jamie Smith will keep wickets, Salt has got a little stiff calf.

India vs England 3rd T20I LIVE SCORE: This is how India are lining up for the night. The only change is that of Shami.

India XI: Sanju Samson(w), Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav(c), Dhruv Jurel, Hardik Pandya, Washington Sundar, Axar Patel, Mohammed Shami, Ravi Bishnoi, Varun Chakravarthy

India vs England 3rd T20I LIVE SCORE: SKY says that Arshdeep is "resting" and Mohammed Shami is back. There you go.

India vs England 3rd T20I LIVE SCORE: Suryakumar Yadav has won it again and says that India are bowling... again.

India vs England 3rd T20I LIVE SCORE: Don't be too surprised by this though. Shami had done that in Kolkata and Chennai as well. We will know soon if he is playing or not with Suryakumar Yadav and Jos Buttler standing in readiness for the toss.

India vs England 3rd T20I LIVE SCORE: The average first innings total in the five T20Is played here is 189. As stated earlier, India scored 228 for 5 against Sri Lanka the last time they played in Rajkot. There were also plenty of 170-plus totals in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy matches held here in November-December. The pitch itself looked rather pale without much grass. All these suggest a high-scoring encounter is on the cards. The chasing sides have had a better success rate in T20 games played in Rajkot.

India vs England 3rd T20I LIVE SCORE: It hasn't been a very promising start to life as England's white-ball head coach for Brendon McCullum. First of all, he has taken over a side that underperformed in the 2024 T20 World Cup and they are now looking quite far away from looking good enough to get a win in India.

India vs England 3rd T20I LIVE SCORE: If England had won the second T20I Brydon Carse would've been the player of the match hands down. He bailed England out of being all out for a low score by smashing 31 in 17 balls and then he dismantled the Indian middle order, recording figures of 3/29.

India vs England 3rd T20I LIVE SCORE: Sanju Samson arrived at the ground much earlier yesterday than the rest of his teammates and was seen batting against plastic balls on a cement pitch. He later batted on the side nets and appeared rather comfortable playing short-pitched bowling as he geared up the play against the likes of Archer, Wood and Carse.

India vs England 3rd T20I LIVE SCORE: Jofra Archer was pretty much the only bowler who could stop the Indian batters from scoring at will in the first T20I. The story couldn't be more different in the second. He recorded figures of 2/21 in the first T20I, with Abhishek Sharma going berzerk only after Archer bowled all four of hs overs on the trot. The second T20I, however, marked the first time Archer conceded more than 50 runs in a T20I match. He ended up with figures of 1/60.

India vs England 3rd T20I LIVE SCORE: They threw the kitchen sink on Indian spinners in the second T20I and that only almost got them to a win. Not to a win itself. Since the start of 2024, England have gone for 6/58 in 11 overs Providence, 2024), 5/67 in 12 overs (Kolkata, 2025) and 6/118 in 14 overs (Chennai, 2025) against Indian spinners.