KL Rahul and Ishan Kishan stitched an 82-run opening partnership in just 50 balls as they ripped apart England's bowling attack.
Team India have got off to a winning start, albeit in a warm-up game but a win is a win and they beat the champion England team as the batters were up to the task chasing down 188 runs in 19 overs owing to a splendid opening partnership between KL Rahul and Ishan Kishan.
KL Rahul just continued from where he left off in the IPL when he played an outrageous knock in the Punjab Kings' final league stage game scoring an unbeaten 98 off just 42 balls against the eventual champions Chennai Super Kings. The pickup shots over square leg, the free-flowing lofted shots and the one off Chris Jordan where he hit straight over the bowler's head and Rahul had smashed his fifty off just 23 balls.
He fell soon after and Ishan Kishan inherited his role, who was playing the second fiddle till then. Ishan, who was 24* off 21 till that point just smashed the spinner and pacers alike as he gave skipper Virat Kohli to take his time.
Kohli fell cheaply and Ishan just went on. He scored 70 runs before he retired out and had done his job as Rishabh Pant and Hardik Pandya put the finishing touches while being helped by some filth bowled by Chris Jordan at the end as it was becoming harder and harder to grip the ball because of dew.
Earlier, England's batting line-up had a blast as starting from Jos Buttler, Jason Roy to Jonny Bairstow, Liam Livingstone and Moeen Ali, they all had a hit out as apart from Jaspirt Bumrah and Ravichandran Ashwin, all Indian bowlers went for runs. Despite Mohammed Shami picking up three wickets, he also gave away 40 runs but eventually, their batters chased down the target with one over to spare.
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