{"id":300145,"date":"2018-07-07T01:31:03","date_gmt":"2018-07-07T01:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=300145"},"modified":"2018-07-07T08:31:46","modified_gmt":"2018-07-07T08:31:46","slug":"england-won-by-5-wickets-in-second-t20i-in-cardiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/england-won-by-5-wickets-in-second-t20i-in-cardiff\/","title":{"rendered":"England won by 5 wickets in second T20I in Cardiff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">England beat India by five wickets in the second T20I at Cardiff to level the series 1-1. Alex Hales emerged as a star. Hales smashed a six and a four in the last over when 12 runs were\u00a0required to win the match. Indian team had a bad day as their batsmen and bowlers failed to impress on the field. Indian Skipper Virat Kohli complemented the opposition team stating England were the better team on the day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kohli said, \u201cWhen you lose 3 wickets in the first 6 overs for 30 runs it\u2019s difficult to come back. I thought a partnership would get us to 145, and that would have been competitive. England made good use of the wicket which had some extra bounce. We were pushed back initially in the first six.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI think we competed quite well but England were the better side, that\u2019s why they came through today. We need to focus on the next game,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Meanwhile, England skipper Eoin Morgan praised his boys for their all-round effort \u201cTo come back from Old Trafford, we played quite well. When there is bounce in the wicket there is certainly a chance to take wickets upfront, and we did that,\u201d Morgan said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWilley did well and Jake Ball was great on debut. Alex was fantastic today. We normally play spin well, and the guys were really confident and they stuck to the plans and executed extremely well today,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England beat India by five wickets in the second T20I at Cardiff to level the series 1-1. Alex Hales emerged as a star. Hales smashed a six and a four in the last over when 12 runs were\u00a0required to win the match. Indian team had a bad day as their batsmen and bowlers failed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":300146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[3448,3447,3445,3449,574,3446,1921],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300147,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300145\/revisions\/300147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}