England Beat India By 8 Wickets In 3rd T20I, Lead Series 2-1

Jos Buttler powered England to an eight-wicket victory over India on Tuesday, with the tourists taking a 2-1 lead in their five-match Twenty20 series despite a sparkling inning from Virat Kohli. India

Pant was run out and Shreyas Iyer followed soon after. But Kohli added 70 runs for the sixth wicket with Hardik Pandya (17 off 15 balls), who surprisingly played second fiddle.

The home skipper's 77-run blitz revived India after a poor start and saw them to 156-6 at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, which was kept empty because of the rising number of coronavirus cases in India. India made 69 in the last five overs with the majority of those runs coming off Kohli's bat.

Chasing a 157-run target, England began well raising 23 for the first wicket before Jason Roy (9 off 13) was dismissed.

However, Buttler (83 off 52 balls, 5x4s, 4x6s) kept up the charge as England took 14 off Chahal's first over -- the innings' fourth -- and followed it up with 16 runs in the fifth over of the innings bowled by Shardul Thakur.

Jonny Bairstow contributed an unbeaten 40 -- taking him past 1,000 runs in T20 internationals -- to give England an emphatic win in captain Eoin Morgan's 100th T20I.

Buttler carried his bat through the run chase to guide England to 158 for two with 10 balls to spare. With the victory, England took a 2-1 lead in the five-match series.