England pacer Jofra Archer said bowling first on the two-paced Motera track gave them a bit of an advantage as they exploited the conditions early to beat India by eight wickets in the series-opening T20I here on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Returning from an elbow injury, Archer led England’s bowling attack with three for 23 runs as they restricted India to 124 for 7 in 20 overs after skipper Eoin Morgan won the toss and elected to bowl first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I was excited to bowl first because there was a bit of dew when we trained the other night …. getting on top of the conditions gave us a little bit of an advantage. It was a very good team performance on a slow wicket,” Archer told reporters at the post-match interaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
India lost three early wickets, including that of skipper Virat Kohli, who continued his poor form from the Test series after being dismissed for another duck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“He is a dangerous batter. To see him back early in the innings so many times is a bonus. It’s kind of a dampener in their camp obviously being the leader of the side they expected him to score some runs. So it was some advantage to get him early,” Archer said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The series is seen as a build up to the T20 World Cup slated in India later this year but Archer said they are not looking too far ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“It’s just the first game of the series. We still have four games to go. They are number two in the world for a reason,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The second T20I is slated here on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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