England vs India 2018: 5 reasons why England lost the first T20I

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England v India - 1st Vitality International T20
England held the advantage briefly before throwing it away

#3 Losing three wickets in an over

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Three wickets in four balls completely turned the game on its head

The old cricket adage of one wicket brings two might seem like a cliche but England found out why that has stuck around for all these years. After Alex Hales' dismissal, England were still decently placed at 95/2 from 11.3 overs.

But Kuldeep's third over (14th over of the innings) completely changed the complexion of the game. Not only did he get rid of Eoin Morgan off the first ball of his third over, he then followed that up by getting rid of one of England's in-form players (Jonny Bairstow) for a golden duck before dismissing Joe Root off the next ball.

While he missed out on a hat-trick, those three wickets in the space of four balls made England go from contemplating a total in excess of 200 to having doubts about whether they would be able to play out their overs.

Although they did manage to do that, they never quite recovered from that over.

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