IND vs ENG: England destroyed by Team India's attack in Pune T20, Gambhir's decisions led to victory in the series
- byManasavi
- 01 Feb, 2025

Team India: The fourth match of the T20 series between Team India and England (IND VS ENG) was played on 31 January at the Maharashtra ground. In the T20 match played at the Maharashtra ground, England captain Jos Buttler won the toss and invited Team India to bat first. After which Team India came out to bat, Team India's start was very ordinary.
After that, with the help of half-century innings of Hardik Pandya and Shivam Dubey, Team India scored 181 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in 20 overs. In response to which, despite a great start, England's team fell to the Indian spin bowlers and in the end, chasing the target of 182 runs, England stopped at 166 runs and in this way Team India won the match by 15 runs and took a 3-1 lead in the T20 series.
Team India scored 181 runs with the help of Pandya-Dubey's half-century
Batting first on the Pune ground, Team India got 3 big shocks in the second over itself. After which first Rinku Singh and Abhishek Sharma handled the innings and then with the help of Hardik Pandya and Shivam Dubey's stormy half-century innings, Team India achieved a score of 181 runs despite getting a bad start.
Team India won the match with runs
Chasing the target of 182 runs, England team gave a stormy start and scored 62 runs in the powerplay, but after that Harry Brook, who batted in the middle order for England, batted brilliantly, but after that Varun Chakravarthy and Harshit Rana bowled brilliantly and stopped England at 166 runs and in this way England had to face defeat by 15 runs in the match.
These decisions of Gambhir became the reason for Team India's victory
In the T20 match played at Pune ground, Team India once again won the match and took an unassailable lead of 3-1 in the series. This is Team India's fourth consecutive T20 series win under the captaincy of Suryakumar Yadav.
At the same time, the credit for this series win also goes to some decisions of Gautam Gambhir like he gave chance to only one fast bowler in the playing 11 of Team India in the entire series, apart from that, he chose the option of spin to attack the England batsmen and in this way played an important role in helping Team India win the series.