In reply, England started well scoring 62 in the powerplay. However, openers Phil Salt and Ben Duckett got out soon after to hand over advantage to India. The hosts also saw pacer Harshit Rana replace Dube as concussion substitute and it worked in their favour with the former claiming three wickets. Whether it was a like to like substitute remained debatable. Spinner Ravi Bishnoi scalped three while in-form tweaker Varun Chakravarthy bagged two wickets.

Earlier, the hosts made three changes to their side bringing in Rinku, who missed two matches with injury, in place of Dhruv Jurel. Arshdeep Singh replaced Mohammed Shami while Dube came in for Sundar. England, meanwhile, rested Mark Wood for Mahmood and brought back Jacob Bethell for Jamie Smith.

Once skipper Jos Buttler won the toss, he had no hesitation in inviting India to bat. Mahmood, who could not obtain travel document in time as he has Pakistan heritage and had to miss England training camp in the UAE ahead of the series, gave a dream start to the visitors but all that went in vain in the end.

With the win, Suryakumar and Co have taken an unassailable 3-1 lead in the five-match series.

Brief scores: India 181/9 in 20 ovs (Duber 53, Hardik 53; Mahmood 3/35, Overton 2/32) bt England 166 in 19.4 ovs (Brook 51; Bishnoi 3/28, Rana 3/33).