5 memorable India vs England T20I encounters

#1 Super 8, 2007 ICC T20 World Cup, Durban

A Historic Moment in Cricket.

Come on! Now please don't say that you were expecting any other contest to be on #1 on this list. This match was the first ever T20I encounter between the two teams, and it still stands as the best. This is a match that is in the all-time favorite list of every Indian cricket fan. This is the match that is only associated with one man, and one man only - Yuvraj Singh.

Batting first in Durban in this Super 8 match, India got the best possible start when both Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir scored fifties to give India a 136 run opening stand. After the loss of 3rd wicket in the 17th over, Yuvraj Singh came to the middle but was sledged by Andrew Flintoff, who tried to get into his mind. However, it was Stuart Broad, and the rest of the English team, who ended up paying the price for his cockiness.

With Broad bowling the 19th over, Yuvraj Singh smashed him for a six on all the deliveries of the over, becoming the first person to achieve this feat in T20I. In addition to that, he also scored the fastest T20 fifty in the history of cricket and took India to a mammoth total of 218/4. England fought very hard, thanks to essential knocks by Vikram Solanki and Kevin Pietersen, but could only manage 200/6, giving India a win by 18 runs.