{"id":66192,"date":"2026-07-02T08:57:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T08:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/abhishek-shreyas-power-india-to-189-7-against-england-in-first-t20i\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T08:57:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T08:57:53","slug":"abhishek-shreyas-power-india-to-189-7-against-england-in-first-t20i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/abhishek-shreyas-power-india-to-189-7-against-england-in-first-t20i\/","title":{"rendered":"Abhishek, Shreyas Power India to 189\/7 Against England in First T20I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fluent half-century by <strong>Abhishek Sharma<\/strong> and a captain&#8217;s knock from <strong>Shreyas Iyer<\/strong> guided India to a competitive <strong>189 for 7<\/strong> against England in the opening T20 International of the five-match series on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>After winning the toss, India opted to bat but suffered an early setback as opener <strong>Sanju Samson<\/strong> was dismissed by <strong>Saqib Mahmood<\/strong>, who induced an outside edge that was safely taken by <strong>Tom Banton<\/strong> at point.<\/p>\n<p>The visitors were reduced to <strong>6 for 2<\/strong> soon after when <strong>Ishan Kishan<\/strong> was run out following a mix-up with Abhishek Sharma, leaving India in early trouble.<\/p>\n<p>However, Abhishek and skipper Shreyas Iyer steadied the innings with an aggressive <strong>82-run partnership<\/strong> for the third wicket, shifting the momentum decisively in India&#8217;s favour.<\/p>\n<p>Abhishek launched a fierce counterattack, taking on England&#8217;s pace bowlers <strong>Luke Wood<\/strong> and <strong>Saqib Mahmood<\/strong> with a series of powerful strokes. He raced to his half-century in just <strong>20 balls<\/strong>, eventually scoring <strong>59<\/strong> before being trapped leg-before by <strong>Sam Curran<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Shreyas Iyer anchored the innings with a composed <strong>68<\/strong>, registering his <strong>ninth T20I half-century<\/strong> and his first as India&#8217;s T20I captain. He ensured India maintained the scoring rate after Abhishek&#8217;s departure.<\/p>\n<p>Late contributions from <strong>Shivam Dube<\/strong>, who remained unbeaten on <strong>42<\/strong>, provided the finishing touches as India posted <strong>189\/7<\/strong> in their allotted 20 overs.<\/p>\n<p>For England, <strong>Saqib Mahmood<\/strong> was the standout bowler, claiming <strong>3 wickets for 33 runs<\/strong>, while Sam Curran chipped in with the crucial wicket of Abhishek Sharma.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brief Scores:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>India:<\/strong> 189\/7 in 20 overs (Abhishek Sharma 59, Shreyas Iyer 68, Shivam Dube 42*; Saqib Mahmood 3\/33).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fluent half-century by Abhishek Sharma and a captain&#8217;s knock from Shreyas Iyer guided India to a competitive 189 for 7 against England in the opening T20 International of the five-match series on Wednesday. After winning the toss, India opted to bat but suffered an early setback as opener Sanju Samson was dismissed by Saqib [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-66192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}