England in India: Brendon McCullum’s team suffers a crushing defeat in the first T20 of the new era.

Following his transformative impact in the Test team, McCullum’s arrival in white-ball form has been highly anticipated, with England hoping he can revive a team that has fallen en route to losing two world titles in the last two years. Has deviated from.

The aggressive attitude adopted by the New Zealand players has been criticized many times. However, this was the result of England’s chronic weakness rather than any tactical mistake.

While left-arm pacer Arshdeep struck twice early on, it was the spin that saw them fall to 65-2 in the eighth over.

Only Buttler, who was at his classy rather than inventive best in hitting eight fours and two sixes, seemed able to decipher Chakravarthy’s mystery.

Brook and Livingstone were bowled by their googlies and the only boundary after that was the England captain’s strike from Adil Rashid in the 19th over.

Bethel and Atkinson in particular chewed up the balls and were unable to provide strikes to Buttler. Overton was caught and Atkinson stumped left-arm spinner Akshar, who supported Chakravarthy with 2-22.

Without many of the big names from last year’s World Cup win, the ground fielding and catching by young India was also top class.

Last man Mark Wood was run out on the last ball of the innings and England were never able to perform well on a good pitch.