Saqib Mahmood vs Sanju Samson and Tilak Verma: The first T20 International match played between India and England in Chester-le-Street may have been a draw due to rain, but this match definitely exposed a big danger for the two star batsmen of Team India. England's fast bowler Saqib Mahmood bowled lethally in the match and took 3 important wickets for 33 runs in his 4 overs. During this match, Saqib Mahmood made Sanju Samson and Tilak Verma his victims. The interesting thing is that Saqib Mahmood's record against both these batsmen in T20 International cricket is so surprising that it can be said that both these batsmen surrender before him as soon as they come to the crease.
For Indian wicketkeeper-batsman Sanju Samson, Saqib Mahmood has become such a puzzle which he is unable to solve. In this first T20 match too, Mahmood sent Samson to the pavilion in the second over on a personal score of just 1 run. The special thing is that these two players were face to face for the second time in T20I cricket and both times Shakib made Sanju his victim. During this period, Sanju has played 5 balls of Saqib Mahmood and has given his wicket both times without scoring any runs.
The situation of young batsman Tilak Verma is worse than Samson. Tilak Verma also looks completely helpless in front of Saqib Mahmood. In the first T20 match, Tilak was playing after scoring 13 runs in 12 balls, when Mahmood trapped him in his net and dismissed him. The surprising thing is that Tilak Verma has faced only 3 balls against Saqib Mahmood in T20I, in which he has been able to score only 1 run and has been out 2 times. That means every second ball of Mahmood proves to be time for Tilak.
Talking about the match, India batted first and scored a strong score of 189 runs in 20 overs. Which included Shreyas Iyer's 68 runs, Abhishek Sharma's 59 runs and Shivam Dubey's unbeaten stormy innings of 42 runs on 21 balls in the last overs. But as soon as the Indian innings ended, it started raining heavily, due to which the England team could not take the field to chase the target and the match had to be declared 'no result'. Now the second match of the series will be played on July 4, where the Indian batsmen will have to find a way to overcome Saqib Mahmood.
