India fall short despite Dhoni, Kohli

England 180 for 7 (Morgan 71, Shami 3-38) beat India 177 for 5 (Kohli 66, Dhoni 27*) by three runs
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The final match of the tour came down to the final over, 17 to win from six balls with MS Dhoni on strike - just the sort of equation the Edgbaston crowd, filled with India fans, might have asked for if they had been handed a questionnaire at the gates. Dhoni clubbed a six off the first ball and brought it down to five off two, before refusing a single off the penultimate ball.

Taking the single would have meant Ambati Rayudu could have won it with a last-ball four. But Dhoni is the sort of batsman who backs himself to hit the last ball for six. The pressure was on Chris Woakes, and he produced a slower ball that wasn't full enough to hit down the ground. Having to manufacture all the power himself, Dhoni heaved, didn't connect cleanly, and it rolled down to Moeen Ali, sweeping up on the leg-side boundary.

It was only appropriate that the slower ball won England the match, since it had been an essential ingredient in their death-overs fightback, which began just as India seemed to be cruising. Virat Kohli, having failed to cross 40 across 14 innings in the Tests and ODIs, finally made a half-century - his fourth in a row in T20 chases - and it looked while he was in like being a fourth successive match-winning fifty. Eoin Morgan's 31-ball 71 had powered England to 180, and it was beginning to look inadequate.

When Kohli holed out looking to hook Steven Finn, the equation still seemed to be in India's favour: 50 to get from 34 balls. But James Tredwell bowled a tight 16th over, and Harry Gurney produced a peach of a yorker to bowl Suresh Raina, who had put on 42 with Kohli, and Ravindra Jadeja ran himself out going for a non-existent second run. India were panicking, Dhoni and Rayudu struggled to time the ball, and England won the game by winning the death-overs mini-contest.