4, 4, 6, 4, 4! Sanju Samson bowls out Gus Atkinson in first T20I at Eden Gardens

Sanju Samson gave it his all with the bat in the first T20I between India and England at Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Wednesday (January 22).

Starting with the bowling, India performed brilliantly, beating England by a total of 132 runs. When asked to bat first, England got off to a poor start, losing two wickets in three overs. Arshdeep Singh batted in the first over and sent back Phil Salt for three in the first over.

In the third over, the left-arm pacer struck again to send back Ben Duckett, taking England to 2-17. England captain Jos Buttler then hit multiple boundaries to bring some much-needed impetus to the game. He and Harry Brooke shared 48 runs for the third wicket before the latter was dismissed by Varun Chakravarthy in the eighth over.

In the same over, India spinner Liam Livingstone was also dismissed for a duck, leaving England 4 runs behind at 65. After that, England kept losing wickets and were eventually knocked out for 132 runs.

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At the end of the 10th over, they were at 74 for 4 and looked destined for a total of over 150 runs. However, India’s bowlers performed well and restricted England to 132 runs. Butler is the visiting team’s top scorer with 68 goals from 44 goals.

No other England batsman could reach 20 runs. India’s bowler Chakravarthy took 3 wickets while Arshdeep, Hardik Pandya and Axar Patel took two wickets each.

Sanju Samson takes Gus Atkinson to the cleaners:

After a great performance from the bowlers, it was the batsmen’s turn to bowl and Sanju Samson did not disappoint. The in-form batsman, who has hit three centuries in his last 5 innings of T20Is, started his innings with a bang, sending Gus Atkinson to the net. tower.

He hit five consecutive dot balls in the first over bowled by Jofra Archer and then hit a single off the last ball of the innings. In the second over, Sanju Samson was at his best when toying with Atkinson. He hit four and a six in the match and scored 22 runs.

Watch Sanju Samson beat Gus Atkinson:

4⃣, 4⃣, 6⃣, 4⃣, 4⃣

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Atkinson looked very distraught after the game and didn’t throw another shot on the power play. Talking about the match, at the time of writing this report, India were 93/2 at the end of the 9th over.