|| India Correspondent ||
After facing a 1-3 defeat in the recently-concluded four-match Test series against India, England had a positive start in the five-match T20I series. They have registered a convincing 8-wicket win over India in Ahmedabad where England speedster Jofra Archer bagged three wickets for 23 runs. After that, he revealed that competition brings out the best in him.
England reached the target with 27 balls to spare here at the Narendra Modi Stadium while chasing a below-par total of 125. Jason Roy and Jos Buttler played beautifully with the bat scoring 49 and 28 respectively. Meanwhile, Archer's bowling performance earned him the Player of the Match award as well.
"When the competition is tough you step up and competition brings out the best in me. Probably in the IPL (I see myself as the leader of the attack) but not in England set up there are many world class bowlers. I rather go for dot balls than wickets in the powerplay and if I get wickets it is a bonus. Usually for a new batter or you have the bigger side of the boundary you bowl the short ball. Everything has been very good," Jofra Archer said after the match.
Earlier in the game, England captain Eoin Morgan won the toss and elected to field first in the opening T20I of the five-match series. Put into bat, India faced a horrible start where Virat Kohli got out for a duck. After a top-order collapse, Shreyas Iyer played single-handedly and scored 67 runs while batting at number five and helped his side put up a score of 124 for 7 on the board in their allotted twenty overs.
For India, Yuzvendra Chahal and Washington Sunder picked up one wicket each. India and England will now take on each other in the second T20I at the same venue on Sunday, March 14.
