{"id":39297,"date":"2026-07-10T15:34:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T13:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=39297"},"modified":"2026-07-10T15:34:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T13:34:53","slug":"formidable-england-seal-first-ever-t20-series-win-over-india","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/formidable-england-seal-first-ever-t20-series-win-over-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Formidable England seal first-ever T20 series win over India"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">England cruised to their first-ever T20 series victory over India with 37 balls to spare as the tourists fell to a record fifth consecutive loss in completed 20-over matches.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>After \u200bthe hosts were set 159 to win, Phil Salt and Harry Brook enjoyed an \u200cunbroken second-wicket partnership of 146 off 70 balls as England reached their target in 13.5 overs.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Captain Brook scored 79 from 35 balls, while Salt struck 59 from 42 after failing to score off his first nine balls.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Salt celebrated with \u200bBrook after hitting Arshdeep Singh out to point for the winning run in the fourth \u200bT20.<\/div>\n<div>England have an unassailable 3-0 lead in the five-match series after comfortably winning \u2060the last three games, including Tuesday&#8217;s 125-run win at Trent Bridge, with the first match at \u200bChester-le-Street having been washed out.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>India&#8217;s captain Shreyas Iyer, who took over as T20 skipper in June, is \u200bunder increasing pressure after the run of losses following two shock defeats by Ireland before this series.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Shreyas himself put in a fine display, having chosen to bat, with an unbeaten 80 from 49 balls batting at four, but the \u200brest of his team failed to shine as the tourists finished on 158-7.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>India&#8217;s 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi was \u200bthe first to lose his wicket as he hit Jofra Archer to Sam Curran for 15.<\/div>\n<div>Shivam Dube was the \u200conly \u2060batter other than 31-year-old Shreyas to make any impression. He was out for 22 off 23 balls in a 53-run fourth-wicket partnership with Shreyas.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">He struck a Will Jacks delivery to Tom Banton at long-on.<\/div>\n<div>Archer (2-20) finished off the India innings by kicking the ball onto the stumps to claim the wicket of \u200bAxar Patel as the batter \u200bgot there too \u2060late from the non-striker&#8217;s end.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;This is the transition phase and we will be making a lot of mistakes,&#8221; Shreyas said. &#8220;Again, it was a disappointing one.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>England will \u200breplace the world champions as the top-ranked T20I side with a clean \u200bsweep on \u2060Saturday in Southampton, where struggling India will look to avoid being without a win in a five-match 20-over series for the first time.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;It would be pretty cool for us to be world number one, to be honest,&#8221; \u2060Brook \u200bsaid.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;That is definitely an aim. If we keep doing what we \u200bhave been doing and stick to our guns, hopefully we will come out 4-0.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>England have now won 19 out of 22 \u200bcompleted T20Is since Brook took over as captain last year.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u2014Reuters\u2014<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22148,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-39297","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Captain Brook scored 79 from 35 balls, while Salt struck 59 from 42 after failing to score off his first nine balls.","published_date":"","news_description":"Captain Brook scored 79 from 35 balls, while Salt struck 59 from 42 after failing to score off his first nine balls.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39298,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39297\/revisions\/39298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=39297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}