For England white-ball captain Harry Brook, this series against the strongest limited-overs team in the world is another chance to prove himself as Stokes’ successor.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Brook said he would accept the Test captaincy if offered and believes it is possible to captain all three of England’s teams simultaneously.<\/p>\n
On the field, in a repeat of a World Cup semi-final from earlier this year that India won, the visitors once again overlooked 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi despite a shock 2-0 series defeat in Ireland last week.<\/p>\n
After winning the toss, India lost Sanju Samson and Ishan Kishan in the second over. Samson was superbly caught by a flying Tom Banton off Saqib Mahmood, while Kishan was run out in a mix-up with Abhishek Sharma.<\/p>\n
Abhishek made amends with some brutal striking in his 59 from 24 balls – one Mahmood over went for 21, including two pulled sixes.<\/p>\n
Just as India were threatening to cause chaos, Sam Curran was introduced and had Sharma leg before with a clever slower ball. It gave England’s spinners the opportunity to control the scoring.<\/p>\n
India captain Shreyas Iyer was patient and, helped by Shivam Dube, provided impetus at the end.<\/p>\n
India took 64 off the last six overs, exposing the wisdom of England giving the 17th and 19th to leg-spinner Adil Rashid. Shreyas made 68 from 47, Dube 42 not out off 21, including a huge pulled six off Curran in the last over.<\/p>\n
The total seemed around par, setting up the possibility of an exciting contest, only for the rain to have the final say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For England white-ball captain Harry Brook, this series against the strongest limited-overs team in the world is another…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-668519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}