India vs England 4th T20I LIVE SCORE: Suryakumar looking to shake off poor form as IND hunt series win
- 34 Mins ago India's middle-over power play
- 43 Mins ago Fifth time a T20I will be played in Pune
- 57 Mins ago Phil Salt fails to fire in India
- 7 Mins ago Scenes from the eve of the match
- 11 Mins ago Arshdeep Singh close to 100
- 24 Mins ago Will Arshdeep Singh be back?
- 32 Mins ago England get their tactics right
- 45 Mins ago Suryakumar Yadav's downturn
- 58 Mins ago What the Indian coaching staff thinks about batters' inconsistency
- 12 Mins ago A high-scoring game to be expected?
- 24 Mins ago Adil Rashid chokes India out
- 42 Mins ago The unbeatable Varun Chakravarthy
- 51 Mins ago Rinku Singh set to return?
- 2 Mins ago Hardik Pandya chasing down Yuzvendra Chahal
- 13 Mins ago England full squad
- 22 Mins ago India full squad
- 50 Mins ago Hello and welcome!
India vs England 4th T20I LIVE SCORE: England have got better and better at dealing with India in the series, culminating in them winning the third T20I and staying alive. India's batters have been underperforming, as have England's, but the hosts will need them to fire if they are to pull away from the visitors again.
India vs England 4th T20I LIVE SCORE: This series has been a battle between India's spinners and England's pacers, with batters on both sides blowing hot and cold. India won the first battle emphatically, then just about managed to keep England out in the second thanks to Tilak Varma. In the third, though, even a five-wicket haul from Varun Chakravarthy was not enough for them to avoid defeat. England seem to have got increasingly better at winning in these conditions in their own way as the series progressed and so India would know that they have their task cut out as far as keeping their lead goes for the rest of this series....Read More
Some of India's batters will be under the spotlight today, particularly openers Sanju Samson and Abhishek Sharma. Both their positions are set to be threatened by Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shubman Gill whenever they return to the T20 fold. Samson had done more than enough to get an extended run in the position thanks to his three centuries in four innings before this series. Here, though, he seems to have been completely found out by Jofra Archer and Co. Abhishek Sharma played a blinder in the first T20I but wasn't able to make much of an impact in the second and third matches.
Captain Suryakumar Yadav fell for a two-ball duck in the first T20I and then couldn't capitalise on starts in the second and third. In his last six innings, he has scored just 52 runs. This is the first time that he has gone six innings without a fifty in T20Is. However, assistant coach Ryan Ten Doeschate has indicated that India are not too bothered by this as this sort of a run is bound to come when batters stick to a high-risk approach.
"Someone like Surya has set such high standards [set] by himself, and I wouldn't say consistency or predictability is a particularly high marker in T20 cricket," ten Doeschate said. "The job we ask from these guys is to go out and score really quickly and the way the international T20 game has gone, we are allowed for a bit of consistency and a lean patch like he is going through at the moment."
England's ploy of throwing the kitchen sink at the Indian bowlers, particularly the spinners, almost worked at the Chepauk in the second T20I. The fact remains that they would have probably stuck to that tactic in Rajkot for the third T20I even if it hadn't worked at all in Chennai. Such is the Bazball way. They have their task cut out for them, though - in India they are facing a side who have won 15 of the 18 T20Is they have played since they won the 2024 T20 World Cup. India are also unbeaten in their last 17 T20I series at home, with their last defeat being a 2-0 loss to Australia in February 2019.
Here are some pointers to India vs England 4th T20I:
- India lost the third T20I by lost the third T20I by 26 runs which allowed England to stay alive in the series
- Varun Chakravarthy has taken a whopping 10 wickets in just three matches at an average of 8.50
- Adil Rashid may have taken just three wickets in the series but his economy of 5.60 is the best between the two sides by a long way
- Abhishek Sharma has been India's highest run scorer with 115 runs at a strike rate of 212.96
India vs England 4th T20I LIVE SCORE: India's middle-over power play
India vs England 4th T20I LIVE SCORE: Now India have ditched all kinds of worrries for some heavy duty attacking batting and while that has resulted in the batters not geting too many big scores in this series, their strike rates suffered only in the third T20I. Which means despite being strangled by Rashid in the middle overs in Rajkot, India's strike rate of 9.45 in this period remains the highest among full member nations.
India vs England 4th T20I LIVE SCORE: Fifth time a T20I will be played in Pune
India vs England 4th T20I LIVE SCORE: Just four T20Is have been player here thus far and three of those have been against Sri Lanka, one against England. Sri Lanka beat India here in February 2016 and January 2023 while India beat England in the first-ever T20I played at this ground in December 2012.
India vs England 4th T20I LIVE SCORE: Phil Salt fails to fire in India
India vs England 4th T20I LIVE SCORE: Salt's big hits were a big reason behind KKR's title win last season and so it is quite intriguing that he hasn't really fired in this series thus far. He did come into this series in good form as well, scoring 103 and a 55 against West Indies in the Caribbean. But his three outings in this series have yielded 0, 4 and 5, even if he hasn't really looked out of touch.
India vs England 4th T20I LIVE SCORE: Scenes from the eve of the match
India vs England 4th T20I LIVE SCORE: The BCCI posted a video which had some valuable footage from the team's practice session, interspersed with Abhishek Nayar saying some very generic things like it's been "exciting" and we could have a "good competitive game of cricket".
India vs England 4th T20I LIVE SCORE: Arshdeep Singh close to 100
India vs England 4th T20I LIVE SCORE: If he does play today, Arshdeep could become the first Indian to get 100 T20I wickets. Arshdeep sits on 98 wickets in 98 wickets in 62 matches and if he gets there today, he could break Haris Rauf's record for fastest to 100 T20I wickets
India vs England 4th T20I LIVE SCORE: Will Arshdeep Singh be back?
India vs England 4th T20I LIVE SCORE: Suryakumar Yadav had said that Arshdeep Singh had been “rested” for the third T20I, which allowed Mohammed Shami to make his comeback. It remains to be seen if this “rest” period is going to continue today as well. If it doesn't, then India will have to either drop Shami or abandon their four-spinner strategy.
India vs England 4th T20I LIVE SCORE: England get their tactics right
India vs England 4th T20I LIVE SCORE: They looked completely at sea in the first T20I but England have walked the talk thus far in this tour. They have continued to attack the Indian bowlers and hoped for the best. While there were some alarming collapses, England were bailed out in the second and third T20I (although they ultimately lost the former) by some valuable lower order contributions. After that, India's shaky batting lineup hasn't really been able to dominate the English bowlers the way they did in the first T20I. The pacers' tactic of bowling short and fast and Buttler's usage of Rashid has paid dividends.
India vs England 4th T20I LIVE SCORE: Suryakumar Yadav's downturn
India vs England 4th T20I LIVE SCORE: Suryakumar Yadav is one of two captains India have, the other being Rohit Sharma for Tests and ODIs, and both are not having a great time of it at the moment. SKY is probably in a better place because, at least for now, his team is winning. But his scores since the T20 World Cup are not the kind you would associate Suryakumar Yadav with. They have read 21(17), 4(9), 1(4) and DNB in South Africa; 0(3), 12(7) and 14(7).
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India vs England 4th T20I LIVE SCORE: What the Indian coaching staff thinks about batters' inconsistency
India vs England 4th T20I LIVE SCORE: Ryan Ten Doeschate said that the Indian think tank is aware that the high-risk approach the batters take does result in them going on lean runs at times. While talking about Suryakumar Yadav specifically, he said: "I wouldn't say that consistency or predictability is a particularly high mark in T20 cricket. The way the international T20 game has gone, we allow for a bit of inconsistency and a bit of a lean patch like he's going through at the moment. "Gauti (coach Gautam Gambhir) is very keen to back these guys and give them a long road, a long chance to prove themselves."
India vs England 4th T20I LIVE SCORE: A high-scoring game to be expected?
India vs England 4th T20I LIVE SCORE: Judging how IPL matches have gone at this ground, we should be getting a high-scoring game. However, we could say the same for the last three matches in this series as well and still the highest team score thus far has been just 171.
India vs England 4th T20I LIVE SCORE: Adil Rashid chokes India out
India vs England 4th T20I LIVE SCORE: Jamie Overton got as many wickets in the third T20I as Adil Rashid has got throughout this series but it is the latter's spell that was the reason for England winning that match. Rashid took one wicket and conceded just 15 runs in his four overs in Rajkot with the Indian batters not being able to hit a boundary of any kind against him throughout the night.
India vs England 4th T20I LIVE SCORE: The unbeatable Varun Chakravarthy
India vs England 4th T20I LIVE SCORE: Varun Chakaravarthy is averaging 8.5 with the ball in this series and he has picked an astonishing 10 wickets thus far. He had taken a total of 17 wickets in seven matches that he played throughout last year and Chakravarthy has already taken more than half of that number in his first three matches of this year. It is quite an extraordinary turnaround for a player whose woeful numbers in 2021 - two wickets in six matches at an average of 66 - had resulted in him missing out on 2 years of international cricket.
India vs England 4th T20I LIVE SCORE: Rinku Singh set to return?
India vs England 4th T20I LIVE SCORE: Ryan Ten Doeschate said that Rinku batted on Thursday and is fit. "Rinku Singh is fit. He will be ready to go tomorrow," said the Dutchman. That is probably the run that Dhruv Jurel got in the lower middle-order.
India vs England 4th T20I LIVE SCORE: Hardik Pandya chasing down Yuzvendra Chahal
India vs England 4th T20I LIVE SCORE: Yuzvendra Chahal was overtaken as India's all-time highest T20I wicket-taker in the first match of the series by Arshdeep Singh. Now he could be pushed down to third spot in that list of Hardik Pandya gets three wickets today. Pandya currently sits on 94 wickets in 112 matches while Chahal has 96 in 80. Arshdeep, who sits above them both, has 98 wickets in just 62 matches. Pandya is also India's sixth highest run scorer in the format with 1750 runs at an average of 27.77 and strike rate of 140.78.
India vs England 4th T20I LIVE SCORE: England full squad
India vs England 4th T20I LIVE SCORE: Philip Salt, Ben Duckett, Jos Buttler(c), Harry Brook, Liam Livingstone, Jamie Smith(w), Jamie Overton, Brydon Carse, Jofra Archer, Adil Rashid, Mark Wood, Saqib Mahmood, Gus Atkinson, Jacob Bethell, Rehan Ahmed
India vs England 4th T20I LIVE SCORE: India full squad
India vs England 4th T20I LIVE SCORE: Sanju Samson(w), Abhishek Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav(c), Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya, Washington Sundar, Axar Patel, Dhruv Jurel, Mohammed Shami, Ravi Bishnoi, Varun Chakravarthy, Arshdeep Singh, Rinku Singh, Shivam Dube, Ramandeep Singh, Harshit Rana
India vs England 4th T20I LIVE SCORE: Hello and welcome!
India vs England 4th T20I LIVE SCORE: India were dominant in the first T20I, then England got closer in the second and then got a win outright in the third. If the whole series follows this trend then England are set for a big win today and an even bigger win in the last match. India are unbeaten in home T20I series since 2019 but an even longer and stronger Test streak was recently broken in an emphatic way. A loss in this T20I series will be nothing short of an unmitigated disaster for Gautam Gambhir and his coaching staff. But, it will take a lot for England to do that. England have been unbeaten at home for more than half a decade for a reason. And that reason is quite simple - they have been very, very, very good and they have found a way to win no matter what.
