England pacer Jofra Archer said bowling first on the two-paced Motera track gave them a bit of an advantage as they exploited the condition...
England pacer Jofra Archer said bowling first on the two-paced Motera track gave them a bit of an advantage as they exploited the conditions early to beat India by eight wickets in the series-opening T20I in Ahmedabad on Friday.
Returning from an elbow injury, Archer led England’s bowling attack with 3/23 runs as they restricted India to 124/7 in 20 overs after skipper Eoin Morgan won the toss and elected to bowl first.
“I was excited to bowl first because there was a bit of dew when we trained the other night .... getting on top of the conditions gave us a little bit of an advantage. It was a very good team performance on a slow wicket,” Archer told reporters at the post-match interaction.
India lost three early wickets, including that of skipper Virat Kohli, who continued his poor form from the Test series after being dismissed for another duck.
“He is a dangerous batter. To see him back early in the innings so many times is a bonus. It’s kind of a dampener in their camp obviously being the leader of the side they expected him to score some runs. So it was some advantage to get him early,” Archer said.
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