India on Monday beat England by seven wickets in the ICC T20 World Cup warm-up match. The win was accomplished with brilliant performances by openers Ishan Kishan and KL Rahul who scored half-centuries.
India was chasing the score of 189 that England had set. Ishan scored 70 runs while KL Rahul made 51 as opening players for India. They made a brilliant start of India's innings by making 59-run in the first six overs.
Rahul (51) scored his half-century in the 9th over of the innings but was run out by Mark Wood. This was also the end to the 82-run opening stand.
However, Rahul's wicket did not slow down the run rate for the Men-in-Blue as Kishan kept on going and he brought up his half-century in just 36 balls. Indian skipper Virat Kohli joined Kishan but it didn't last long.
England's Liam Livingstone got the better of Virat (11), ending the 43-run second-wicket stand.
Kishan scored a total of 70 runs before he was retired hurt when India needed 39 more runs for the win. Sura Kumar Yadav came to bat after Kishan but got out after scoring just 8. After that, Rishabh Pant (29 runs) and Hardik Pandya (12 runs) guided Team India to victory with six balls to spare.
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Earlier, Jonny Bairstow and Liam Livingstone played knocks of 49 and 30 respectively as England posted a total of 188/5.
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Brief scores: England 188/5 (Jonny Bairstow 49, Moeen Ali 43*, Mohammed Shami 3-40); India: 192/3 (Ishan 70, KL Rahul 51, Rishabh Pant 29, Willey 1-16).