http://bit.ly/pJkDxW Samit Patel celebrates right after hitting the winning boundary for England from India in their T20 international. Photograph: Gareth Copley/Getty Photographs

India's disbelief when England whitewashed them four- in the Check sequence was serious adequate, but they will be even more demoralised right after the sole Twenty20 international fell England's way by six wickets with three balls to spare in front of the summer's most feverish ability crowd.
England were in handle for much of their pursuit of 166, their chase fashioned by a scheming 49 from 27 balls from Eoin Morgan, but when he fell at backward stage to an excellent catch by Rohit Sharma, and an even far more courageous selection by the Tv umpire Nigel Llong, they almost created a hash of it. Thirty-two from 29 balls with 6 wickets left ought to have been a doddle.
Munaf Patel had put in an complete English summer with his ft up, but in his initial global appearance on tour he virtually turned the sport by conceding a few from the penultimate over. England essential 10 from Vinay Kumar's very last over, Samit Patel was lucky to obtain a marginal wide call from the initial ball, edged his following two for 4 and struck the winning boundary above mid-off. "The guys realized we had it underneath manage," said England's captain, Stuart Wide, with his greatest butter-wouldn't-melt expression.
Twenty20 may possibly have been invented by England, but it has been commercialised by India. The Indian Premier League's brand name appeal is estimated at £2bn, and was once greater before fraud allegations as well their toll, even though the Pals Daily life t20 proceeds in an understated county way.
India have been hampered by a damp ball as Manchester suffered not from drizzle but evening dew, and as a outcome had few versions to trouble Morgan, whose knee bend is now so pronounced that he looks as if he is about to squat on a cold toilet seat. No 1 is questioning his decision to play in the IPL now.
England's focus on was more manageable than appeared likely when India ended up 104-one in the 12th about but Jade Dernbach supervised the clear-up operation towards a reduced order befuddled by his changes of tempo and finished with figures of 4-22, matching England's best return in T20 internationals accomplished by Paul Collingwood in opposition to Sri Lanka at the Rose Bowl 5 a long time back.
Alex Hales, a single of England's two debutants, had suggested he had recognized big T20 crowds at Trent Bridge, but he had not remotely knowledgeable the kind of clamour seen at Aged Trafford wherever Indian supporters created up at least 50 percent of the 19,500 capacity crowd and Lancashire could have marketed the recreation twice about. He fell second ball, lbw to Praveen Kumar. Kevin Pietersen's quick 33 ended when Virat Kohli, with his initial ball for India in T20, outwitted him with a leg-facet stumping.
England had analysed India and made a decision to bowl small and aggressively. Or maybe they had analysed the India that played in the Test sequence. They may well not have had considerably footage of Ajinkya Rahane's strategy in T20 couriered by Rajasthan Royals, and appeared not to have taken account of Previous Trafford's new square which since they turned it 90 degrees to steer clear of issues induced by the setting sun has a sub-continental lack of tempo. When England struck in the fifth above, it was Dernbach's back-of-the-hand delivery at only 70mph that outwitted Parthiv Patel.
The brief-ball tactics had failed early on, not aided by field restrictions in the first six overs, but when Broad returned it paid out dividends as Rahane's 61 from 39 balls finished on the cover boundary and Virat Kohli edged to the wicketkeeper.
This game will become a collector's item since of what will surely be Rahul Dravid's only India T20 appearance, at 38. He dropped the initial ball dead at his ft, as he has been undertaking for twenty years or a lot more, and may possibly have been caught, or indeed stumped, when he had only 6 runs from ten balls, Swann throwing one wider as he made a scarce foray out of his crease, but Kieswetter missed the likelihood.
But Dravid stays a entire world-class batsman, and allowed to settle he struck Samit Patel for 3 successive leg-aspect sixes. The Wall had acquired down with the young children.