India began their tour of England with a big win as the visitors beat the hosts by 8 wickets in the first T20I match at Manchester and took a 1-0 lead in this 3-match series.
Captain Kohli asked England to bat first and English openers gave a good start to their team as they added 50 runs in the first 5 overs, but Kuldeep Yadav's 5/24 rattled English middle order and India restricted them to 159/8.
In response, India lost Shikhar Dhawan's wicket in the first over itself but Lokesh Rahul's unbeaten knock of 101 runs made the chase easy and India chased down the target with 10 balls to spare. Kuldeep Yadav was named Man of the Match for his awesome bowling spell of 5/24.
All the key stats and facts from the first T20I match between England and India at Manchester :
1 - For the first time ever India beat England in a T20I match in England. Before this game India had lost all the three T20Is they played against England in England.
2 - KL Rahul became the second Indian player to score 2 hundreds in T20I cricket after Rohit Sharma.
4 - Virat Kohli (2012 runs) became the 4th player in the world and 1st from India to score 2000 T20I runs. Brendon McCullum, Martin Guptill, and Shoaib Malik have also scored 2000 runs in T20Is.
7 - This was India's 7th consecutive T20I win. The last loss came against Sri Lanka at Colombo in Nidahas Trophy earlier this year.
5/24 - Career-best bowling figures for Kuldeep Yadav in T20 cricket. The previous best was 4/21 which he recorded against Ireland last week.
5/24 - Kuldeep Yadav's bowling figures of 5/24 are also best bowling figures by a chinaman bowler in T20I cricket and joint second best bowling figures for India.
Best bowling figures for India in T20Is -
Yuzvendra Chahal - 6/25 vs ENG at Bangalore, 2017
Kuldeep Yadav - 5/24 vs ENG at Manchester, 2018
Bhuvneshwar Kumar - 5/24 vs SA at Johannesburg, 2018
56 - Number of innings taken by Virat Kohli to complete 2000 T20I runs - the fastest to reach 2000 runs in this format. Kohli was also the fastest to reach 1000 T20I runs.
Innings to complete 2000 T20I runs -
Virat Kohli - 56
Brendon McCullum - 66
Martin Guptill - 68
Shoaib Malik - 92
101* - KL Rahul's hundred was the 5th hundred for India in T20Is. Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul have scored two hundreds each and Suresh Raina scored once.
100s for India in T20Is -
Suresh Raina - 101 vs SA at Gros Islet, 2010
Rohit Sharma - 106 vs SA at Dharamsala, 2015
KL Rahul - 110* vs WI at Lauderhill, 2016
Rohit Sharma - 118 vs SL at Indore, 2017
KL Rahul - 101* vs ENG at Manchester, 2018
