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England coasted to a surprising nine-wicket T20 series-sealing victory over India as Harry Brook and Phil Salt dazzled within the Bristol sunshine.<\/strong><\/p>\n Skipper Brook \u2013 who smashed an unbeaten 79 from 35 balls \u2013 and Salt went into overdrive as India\u2019s modest 158 for seven was passed in only 13.5 overs.<\/p>\n Brook clubbed eight fours and 4 sixes while Salt added nine fours to a six in his undefeated 59 as England beat India in a bilateral series of two games or more for the primary time.<\/p>\n Coming just two days after England romped to a 125-run win at Trent Bridge, one other one-sided encounter secured a 3-0 lead with Saturday\u2019s finale at Southampton to come back.<\/p>\n For exclusive stories and all of the detailed\u00a0cricket\u00a0news\u00a0you would like,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>subscribe to The Cricket Paper<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0website,<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0digital edition, or\u00a0newspaper<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0from as little as 14p a day<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n FOLLOW OUR LIVE SCORES CENTRE<\/em><\/p>\n England again shone with the ball as Jofra Archer and Josh Tongue backed up impressive displays in Nottingham with two wickets each, while Sam Curran and Will Jacks conceded only 24 and 28 from respective four-over spells.<\/p>\n India captain Shreyas Iyer had provided isolated resistance with an unbeaten 80 from 49 balls, however it was a record fifth straight defeat for the visitors following embarrassment against Ireland.<\/p>\n The final result was never doubtful as Brook and Salt \u2013 who was bowled from a free hit on 4 \u2013 found their rhythm to depart India a very dispirited unit.<\/p>\n India selected to bat and immediately get Tuesday\u2019s shambolic Trent Bridge display, once they were dismissed for just 76, out of their system.<\/p>\n Vaibhav Sooryavanshi clouted Tongue to the quilt boundary and sent an upper cut for six, however the 15-year-old sensation again failed to higher his age after scores of 13 and 14.<\/p>\n Sooryavanshi had reached 15 when he skied Archer to mid on, falling to his Rajasthan Royals teammate just as he had done at Nottingham.<\/p>\n Archer is actually on top of this battle having dismissed Sooryavanshi twice within the 13 balls he has bowled to the teenager.<\/p>\n India\u2019s top-order perished further to the pull shot as Ishan Kishan fell to Tongue and Adil Rashid ran 20 yards off his own bowling to pouch Abhishek Sharma and leave the visitors 48 for 3.<\/p>\n Iyer and Shivam Dube repaired the innings, albeit with a partnership that did not dominate and felt too protected without great risk.<\/p>\n The fourth wicket was price 53 from 43 balls when Dube was bemused by a slower ball from Will Jacks and picked out Tom Banton advancing from long on.<\/p>\n Iyer reached his second fifty of the series with a six off Rashid, and exacted further punishment on the leg spinner by ending the 18th over with six, 4, six.<\/p>\n Tongue and Archer had picked up their second wickets by then to dismiss Tilak Varma and Washington Sundar.<\/p>\n England\u2019s excellent effort was reflected by Curran and Archer conceding only eight runs and no boundaries in the ultimate two overs, and capped by Archer running out Axar Patel with some neat footwork.<\/p>\n India struck early as Jos Buttler nudged Arshdeep Singh behind for eight.<\/p>\n Nevertheless it was one-way traffic after that as Salt, who needed nine balls to get off the mark, and Brook produced some extraordinary hitting to ensure one other quickfire finish with a partnership of 146.<\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/em><\/strong> Josh Tongue and Jofra Archer star as England inflict record T20 defeat on India<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" England coasted to a surprising nine-wicket T20 series-sealing victory over India as Harry Brook and Phil Salt dazzled within the Bristol sunshine. Skipper Brook \u2013 who smashed an unbeaten 79 from 35 balls \u2013 and Salt went into overdrive as India\u2019s modest 158 for seven was passed in only 13.5 overs. Brook clubbed eight fours […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":364349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20675],"tags":[15022,6146,5386,24377,1937,1564,56,4216,5543,658],"class_list":["post-364348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-brook","tag-claim","tag-england","tag-halfcentury","tag-harry","tag-helps","tag-india","tag-series","tag-t20","tag-win"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t![\"Phil](\"https:\/\/www.thecricketpaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Phil-Salt-Harry-Brook-England-India-T20I-1024x576.jpg\")
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