IND VS ENG - 5th T20I, England tour of India, 2025

The World Champions continue their stunning run in T20 cricket which has seen them win 29 of their last 32 matches. They're playing aggressive cricket with the bat, and their spinners, led by Varun Chakravarthy, are bamboozling opposition lineups with regularity. England had their moments in a couple of games but couldn't grab them. They made too many mistakes which you just can't afford against such a formidable force and paid for it by way of a 4-1 series defeat. Next up will be three ODIs, starting with the first one in Nagpur on Thursday. That's all for now. It's a goodbye from Sagar Chawla on behalf of Siva and Nikhil Jadhav.

Surya collects the trophy and walks over to his teammates who have been waiting patiently. He hands the trophy to Dhruv Jurel and Harshit Rana as they pose for the photographs.

Gautam Gambhir: England are a very high quality side. We don't want to fear losing a game. We want to get to a total of 250-260, and at times we will get bowled out for 120, but we are on the right track. We are going to do this going forward, got to play fearless cricket. We want to keep backing players like Abhishek Sharma. We have to be patient to with these boys, it's important to keep backing them. Most of these boys believe in the ideology of playing fearless cricket. I haven't seen a better T20 hundred (Abhishek's ton) against bowlers who are bowling at 140-150 kph consistently. They (these players) have played a lot of cricket against each other. That's all Indian cricket is all about us. When results start going your way, everything goes well. Our players know what it means to represent 140-150 crore Indians. For me having Bishnoi and Varun bowling in tandem was really important. We want to try as hard as possible with the bat. It's about the top seven going hard. He (Dube) probably bowled four overs today (laughs.) There is no fixed batting order apart from the openers and that's what T20 cricket is all about. We want to play as aggressively as we can in the ODIs, want to entertain the crowd.

Varun Chakravarthy | Player of the Series - Happy that the fielding drew applause. The team has been emphasising on improving the fielding standards, and I have been working with our fielding coach. This is the best I have bowled, but there's a lot to improve (going forward.) It was about bowling the right ball at the right time. I was working on that. This is special, I would like to dedicate it to my son and my wife.

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Stats by Deepu Narayanan

Biggest defeat by runs for a Full Member side in T20Is
168 Ind vs NZ Ahmedabad 2023
150 Ind vs Eng Wankhede 2025 *
143 Pak vs WI Karachi 2018
143 Ind vs Ire Dublin 2018
137 Eng vs WI Basseterre 2019
135 Ind vs SA Joburg 2024

Shivam Dube: It feels great when you contribute as an all-rounder for the team. I have been doing that since a long time, so I was really excited, I knew I was going to bowl. I gave the team what they wanted. The wicket was amazing for batting, but I enjoyed both (batting and bowling.) The wicket was good, so I tried to play my shots and went hard against their bowlers. I am working with our new coach - Morne Morkel, I am working on all the angles and that helped my today.

21:59 Local Time, 16:29 GMT, 21:59 IST: As emphatic as it gets from India who win by 150 runs in the fifth and final T20I to seal the series 4-1. After a sensational knock by Abhishek Sharma earlier in the evening, they came out and bundled England out for just 97 on a belter of a pitch. Phil Salt hammered a 21-ball fifty, but none of the other batters got going at all with Chakravarthy and Bishnoi removing the cream of their batting once more. To top it off, Shivam Dube showed that he isn't too bad with the ball either as he got rid of Salt with his very first delivery before Shami came back and wrapped up the lower-order in no time.

Shami to Mark Wood, out Caught by (sub)Dhruv Jurel!! Brilliant with bat, with ball, in the field and with their reviews as well. Short of length down leg, cramps Wood on the pull and it brushes his glove on the way to the keeper. Clear spike on UltraEdge and the decision is overturned. India seal the series in comprehensive fashion. Mark Wood c (sub)Dhruv Jurel b Shami 0(1)

Shami to Mark Wood, THATS OUT!! Caught!!

Mark Wood, right handed bat, comes to the crease

Shami to Adil Rashid, out Caught by (sub)Dhruv Jurel!! The top-edge goes straight up, and it's an easy catch for the keeper. Short ball on off, Rashid makes room and tries flat-batting it down the ground. But he's rushed for pace and it gets big on him as well. Balloons off the top-edge and Rashid departs. Adil Rashid c (sub)Dhruv Jurel b Shami 6(6) [4s-1]

Shami to Adil Rashid, THATS OUT!! Caught!!

Shami to Jofra Archer, 1 run, back of a length on leg, Archer pulls it flat and hard, and it lands just short of deep midwicket where Rinku does well to stop it

Mohammed Shami [2.0-0-24-1] is back into the attack

Shivam Dube to Adil Rashid, 2 runs, dug in short on off, hurries onto Rashid who somehow manages to swat it over mid-off. Not sure if that was the idea but he picks up a couple of runs

Shivam Dube to Adil Rashid, FOUR, back of a length outside off, Rashid sizes it up and slaps it over mid-off

Shivam Dube to Adil Rashid, no run, good length on off, slapped to mid-on

Shivam Dube to Adil Rashid, no run, back of a length outside off, steered to backward point