Twitter Reactions: English bowling outshine the Indian batting as the visitors go 1 up

The T20 series kicked off with a bang at the Kanpur Stadium. England won the game by 7 wickets to gain an early edge in the series. Earlier in the day, it was captain Eoin Morgan who won the toss as the visitors elected to field first. While India made quite some changes coming into the T20 International format, with the likes of Suresh Raina, Manish Pandey, Ashish Nehra, Parvez Rasool and Yuzvendra Chahal making appearances. For England, Chris Jordan and Tymal Mills were the new faces.

India didn’t begin well as KL Rahul continued his poor form. Virat Kohli who opened the innings along with comeback man Suresh Raina looked stable. Just as it seemed India were doing good enough, Raina got out. Wickets kept tumbling one after the other as Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Pandey got out in quick succession. Hardik Pandya too failed to hit out. However, thanks to some late charge by MS Dhoni, India managed to finish off at 147/7 in their quota of 20 overs.

England, on the other hand, began in splendid fashion. Jason Roy and Sam Billings smashed boundaries at will to put India under pressure early. Chahal then struck twice in an over to send both openers back to the pavilion.

From there on Eoin Morgan and Joe Root played some sensible cricket as England went on to win the game quite comfortably in the penultimate over and gain a competitive edge over India in the series.

Twitter was quite entertained in the evening as they enjoyed some good cricketing action in the midst. While they sounded quite disappointed with the Indian batting approach, England played to their potential and displayed their valor. Moeen Ali was rewarded the man of the match for superb figures of 2/21.

Here are some of the amazing Twitter reactions that took place during the course of the game:

England's bowlers won it for them. Ensured batsmen didn't have much to do.

— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) January 26, 2017

Ashish Nehra – the ideal finisher for India.

— Nikhil ? (@CricCrazyNIKS) January 26, 2017

Bad batting performance sums it up. Anyway will be sweeter to come from behind and win this series. #INDvsENG

— Clive (@vanillawallah) January 26, 2017

Hope England can finish the match in this over so that we are saved from watching that Gionee commercial #INDvENG

— TheGoanPatiala (@TheGoanPatiala) January 26, 2017

Fearless batting from Morgan, a tad too fearless. Be cool to see England bat first and India start with spin. #IndvsEng

— Gaurav Sethi (@BoredCricket) January 26, 2017

We all not #Raees in runs today. so it time to be #Kaabil.
Virat to Bowlers.#IndvsEng

— Him@n (@Hhimanmi) January 26, 2017

At end of 10 overs:

India 75 for 2
Eng 76 for 2#IndvsEng

— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath) January 26, 2017

Batsmen ~ Bowling Kon Karega Ab ?

Dhoni ~ Yuzuvendra…

*Batsman Tries To Pronounce While Batting, Gets Out*#INDvENG #IndvsEng

— Babu Bhaiya (@Shahrcasm) January 26, 2017

Suresh Raina has been brought back because Indian cricketers were confused on who should first hug the bowlers after a wicket #INDvENG

— Shashi (@AllTimeBakchod) January 26, 2017

Only Naseeruddin Shah from Chamatkar can save India from here. #IndvsEng

— Ojas. (@Ojasism) January 26, 2017

Below Par. Quite a bit. #IndvsEng

— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) January 26, 2017

Cashless system ki wajah se Billings bahut fast ho gayi hain ? #IndvsEng

— Rofl Gandhi (@RoflGandhi_) January 26, 2017

Dhoni's stay in the middle till the end helped in posting a decent total, not to forget Raina's contribution#IndvsEng

— AkShAtA (@MenInBlueDvotee) January 26, 2017

Dino Morea at the stadium. He came to study Dhawan.. To play the lead in his biopic.. Dhawan: The unseen batsman #INDvENG #IndvsEng

— AprilFoolsDay (@TheSehwagFC) January 26, 2017

Bumrah has not yet scored a run in his 33 International matches. Only 5 times he came to bat and faced 3 balls. #IndvsEng

— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath) January 26, 2017

Dhoni is the best at assessing conditions & playing accordingly. He's got India to a good score. A lesser player would've panicked #IndvsEng

— Paul Dennett (@the_summer_game) January 26, 2017

Hardik Pandya sets an example that India's all-rounders will be rated on the scale of Kapil Dev & Hardik Pandya.#IndvEng

— Sunil- The Cricketer (@1sInto2s) January 26, 2017

Rahul departs and the local boy enters the arena…it's the season of successful comebacks. Let's see how Raina goes. #INDvENG

— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) January 26, 2017

When you can't find Kedhar Jadhav's name in the playing XI.. #INDvENG pic.twitter.com/wNNGMl4NxW

— Sameer Allana (@HitmanCricket) January 26, 2017

Now watching : England vs Royal Challangers Bangalore

— Sagar (@sagarcasm) January 26, 2017

Proud moment for @ImParveezRasool as he gets his T20I India cap on #RepublicDay #INDvENG pic.twitter.com/Ac44QBryKW

— BCCI (@BCCI) January 26, 2017