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India won the fifth T20 with Abhishek Sharma's explosive century. The team defeated England by 150 runs at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. With this, the series also became India's name 4–1. Player of the Series Varun Chakraborty took 14 wickets.
Abhishek scored 135 runs, it was the biggest T20 score of an Indian player. He also took 2 wickets in bowling. Mohammed Shami took 3 wickets. Phil Soldt scored 55 runs from England, while Bridan Cars took 3 wickets. The ODI series between the two teams will start from 6 February.
Team India with the trophy of the series win.
Abhishek Sharma scored 135 runs out of the match. The English team could not even score an equal run as Abhishek.
1. Player of the Match
Abhishek Sharma, who scored the largest individual score in T20 history for India, scored 135 runs. He hit 7 fours and 13 sixes. He partnered 115 runs for the second wicket with Tilak Verma. Abhishek scored a century off just 37 balls, which was a fastest century against England. He also took 2 wickets for just 3 runs in 1 over. He received the Player of the Match Award for this performance.
2. Hero of victory
3. Fighter of the Match
2 players from England showed the fight. Almost all were beaten up during bowling, but Bridan Cars took wickets consecutive wickets. He took 3 wickets for 38 runs. In the batting, opener Phil Sold started fast, he was dismissed for 55 runs. The team shattered after his wicket.
4. Player of the Series
Mystery spinner Varun Chakraborty was the Player of the Series. He took runs from the economy of just 7.66 in 5 matches and took 14 wickets. It is also the highest wicket taken as a bowler in the T20 series. Earlier, Chakraborty took 12 wickets against South Africa.
5. Match report
India scored 247 runs with Abhishek's century England won the toss and chose bowling. India scored 247 runs losing 9 wickets. Abhishek Sharma scored 135 runs with 13 sixes. Shivam Dubey scored 30 runs. The remaining batter could not even cross the 20 -run figure. Bridan Cars from England took 3 and Mark Wood took 2 wickets. Adil Rashid, Jofra Archer and Jamie Overton got 1–1 wickets. 1 batter runout was also done.
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