England captain Jos Buttler gave all credit to Tilak Varma for steering India over the line while expressing his satisfaction with the debutants and the style his side played with in the second T20I.

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Buttler's 45 was laced with three sixes and two fours. He has now raced past 150 T20I sixes (151), as per ESPNcricinfo. Overall, Buttler is now the 4th batter with 150-plus sixes in T20Is. He is also the first Englishman to achieve the milestone.

The 22-year-old Tilak Varma posted his fourth half-century in T20 internationals, with his 55-ball knock including four fours and five sixes

England captain Jos Buttler believes their Champions Trophy cricket match against Afghanistan next month should go ahead despite calls for a boycott.

In his first match as captain under coach Brendon McCullum, Jos Buttler has left a huge mark by becoming the second Englishman and seventh player overall to score over 12,000 runs in T20 cricket. Buttler achieved the feat during the first T20I against India, where he scored a brilliant half-century.

India has won the toss and elected to bowl first in the series-opening T20 against England's cricketers in Kolkata.

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Check out Jos Buttler's touching exchange with Indian wheelchair cricketer, Dharamveer Pal, ahead of England's T20I series opener against India in Kolkata, only on CricTracker.

Rohit signed off with 4,231 T20I runs at 32.05. His strike-rate was an impressive 140.89 as he registered 37 50-plus scores, including five centuries.

For India, Axar Patel and Varun Chakravarthy delivered with the ball. Axar took 2 wickets for 32 runs in 4 overs, while Varun claimed 2 for 38 in his spell. Arshdeep Singh, Hardik Pandya, Washington Sundar, and Abhishek Sharma contributed with a wicket each.