Shivam Dube, playing his first game of the series, made Jos Buttler pay for a tough drop first ball. Adil Rashid has had a stranglehold over India’s middle order in the last couple of games, but Dube played him brilliantly, taking 25 from his 11 balls from England’s wizard of a leg-spinner.

Jos Buttler hailed Adil Rashid as the ‘most important player’ in England’s white-ball team after he starred in the 26-run T20 victory over India in Rajkot. Having won the first two T20 matches, India would have taken an unassailable lead in the five-match series had they won the third game but the hosts fell 26 runs short of England’s 171-9.