ęŚHere is all you need to know ahead of the fourth India vs England T20I in Pune: preview, team updates, squads, telecast and live streaming details
After a lukewarm performance in Rajkot, India will look to seal the series 3-1 when they meet England for the fourth T20 international in Pune on Friday (January 31, 2025). Watch the cricket match live on TV and online. (Preview | Full Coverage | More Cricket News)
đAfter posting seven-wicket and two-wicket wins at Eden Gardens and Chepauk in the first and second T20Is respectively, India lost the third game by 26 runs. The middle-order's performance, finishing in particular, came under the scanner as the hosts could only muster 145 runs in response to England's 171.
But assistant coach Ryan ten Doeschate did not sound too worries on the eve of the fourth match. Addressing skipper Suryakumar YadavęŚ's poor run of scores recently, ten Doeschate said at the media conference: "Someone like Surya has set such high standards [set] by himself, and I wouldn't say consistency or predictability is a particularly high marker in T20 cricket."
âHe added: "The job we ask from these guys is to go out and score really quickly and the way the international T20 game has gone, we are allowed for a bit of consistency and a lean patch like he is going through at the moment.
đ"We always look at how guys are training, how guys are playing in the nets; he played two lovely shots the other night which made me think he's back - one on the leg side and one on the off side. I don't think it's far away.
â"I know he is captain of the team but just in general, Gauti (Gautam Gambhir) is keen to back these guys and give them a long rope to prove themselves. He is one of the best batters in the world, let alone this Indian team. Certainly not concerned about him, he is a couple of shots away from being back on track and back in form."
The assistant coach also confirmed that Rinku Singhđ is fit again and available for the fourth game. The hard-hitting southpaw had missed the second and third encounters due to back spasms. "Rinku is fit. He played the first game, hurt himself and missed the next two. But I would imagine Rinku comes back in as soon as he's proper fit. He batted the other night and I think he'll be ready to go tomorrow," ten Doeschate said.
When and where will the India vs England, 4th T20I be played?
đ§The India vs England, 4th T20I will be played at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune on Friday, January 31, 2025 at 7pm IST.
Where will the India vs England, 4th T20I be telecast and live streamed?
đThe India vs England, 4th T20I will be telecast on the Star Sports network TV channels in India. It will be live streamed on the Disney+Hotstar app and website in India.
India:đŚ Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson (wk), Tilak Varma, Axar Patel, Hardik Pandya, Washington Sundar, Varun Chakravarthy, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Mohammed Shami, Dhruv Jurel (wk), Rinku Singh, Shivam Dube, Ramandeep Singh, Harshit Rana.
England:ꌺ Jos Buttler (captain), Phil Salt (wk), Ben Duckett, Harry Brook, Liam Livingstone, Jamie Smith (wk), Adil Rashid, Brydon Carse, Jamie Overton, Gus Atkinson, Rehan Ahmed, Jofra Archer, Mark Wood, Jacob Bethell, Saqib Mahmood.