IND vs Eng 2024/25, IND Vs Eng 5th T20I Match Report, February 02, 2025

INDIA 247 for 9 (Abhishek 135, Carse 3-38) Beat England 97 (salt 55, shami 3-25) by 150 runs

On his watch, India romped to a massive total of 247 for 9, which would prove to be overkill in a crushing 150-run Victory, and with it a 4-1 series scoreline.

And then, after jos buttler, harry brook and liam livingstone hat each fallen in their Quest to Stay in Touch with a Rate a Rate of More Than Two a Ball, Abhishek was tossed the ball for the ninth Over, and duly bagged tweet more in fite Balls, as Brydon Carse and Jamie Overton Each Holed Out.

Abhishek tears it up
All of that, however, was somewhat superfluous to the day’s main action. The stats of abhishek’s innings were as breathless as his strokeplay. He Creamed An India-Record 13 Sixes (Equating to Almost One in Four of His Balls Faced), all of them in the Arc from point to mid-on, with the crowd at extra covering at extra covers.

At time, it was like watching a full-adelity game of stick cricket, with abhishek’s utter faith in the conditions, and in England’s often guileless lengths, encourage Pace and spin alike, and launch even 150kph deliveries with impunity through the line.

At the 10-over mark of the innings, the sky was the limit for India’s ambitions. Abhishek had pumped his way to 99 from 36 balls, and with 143 for 2 on the board, the first full member 300 was very much on the cards.

India’s Onslaught count not be entryly contained, howyver. Abhishek reasserted Himself as Carse’s Final Over Went for 17, and Thought a game of cat-mouse with adil rashid resulted in a kidnapped wind cover, that wasn’s hadk Had Connected With two more sixes back over the bowler’s head.

The fact that dube was back in action, just 48 hours after a heavy blow to the Helmet from overton, was further reason for engine for england to look slightly askance at that call. But not only did dube show no Ill -effects, he underlined the fact that his own bowling – Thought noticeably less express than haarsit’s – was always bus as capable of making an id.

His first delivery, at the start of the eighth over, was the final death knell to england’s innings. Salt Had Bludgeoned 17 Runs from Shami’s First Over – The only moment at which england has been ahead of India’s rate – but when he snicked dube’s 117kPh sighter throuvv jurrow England was 82 for 5 and Sinking fast. He then bowled jacob bethell with the first ball of his next over. Oh, and he also thumped 30 from 13 balls for good measure.

Carse Keeps His Cool
Carse has an exceptional Breakthrough Winter for England Across Formats. His thirsty for the hard overs means he has alredy inked Himself in as their go-to third seamer in test cricket, and many of that only those people Big-Hearted Traits were on Show in a Gruesome Match Situation Tdayay.

Carse Began His Speell With India Rattling Along at more than 15 runs an over, having reacted 127 for 1 after eight, but from the outset, his ability to Hit Hit Hit Lengths with canny changes of pace set from apart from the more One-dimensional block-knocking approach that his colleagues had settled for.

Mark Wood and Joffra Archer set the tone for england’s approach with another Deeply Unsubtle PowerPlay display, albeit it was throwing to behold. Archer’s First-Over Duel With Sanju Samson Featured Two Sixes, 16 Runs and a nasty cut to the finger from a third-ball lifter into the gloves; Wood’s follow -up barely Dipped Below 150KPh, as Samson Holed Out to Deep Square Leg – His Fifth Dishesal to the Pull Shot in as Many Innings This Series.

Suryakumar Yadav had a similar experience – Once Again India’s Captain Came a Cropper to a Leading Edge as He Finished His Series with Just Just Just 28 Runs innings. But at the other end was abhishek, and so it matted little.