Pandya scored 51 and took four for 33 in a 50-run victory at the Ageas Bowl in Jos Buttler’s first match as England’s white-ball captain
A spectacular all-round performance from India, whose excellence with both bat and ball was personified by Hardik Pandya becoming their first player to score a half-century and take four wickets in the same game, consigned England to a crushing defeat in their first match since Eoin Morgan’s international retirement.
Liam Livingstone also went without scoring, attempting a scoop and gloving a catch to Dinesh Karthik behind the stumps. Dawid Malan, the one English batter to find a semblance of form in the early overs, had been cleaned up a couple of balls previously. At this point England were 33 for four, while at the same stage of their innings India had been 66 for two, and their position already looked forlorn.
Parkinson meanwhile bowled bravely if not particularly cheaply – though given the ferocity with which India attacked that was a failing he shared with most of his teammates. Only Chris Jordan, whose bowling particularly at the death has been much criticised of late but whose four overs here cost just 23 runs and brought two wickets, emerged from the mauling with reputation in any way enhanced.
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