1st T20I Live: Abhishek exits Brave Knock Ends, India on course

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India vs England LIVE Updates

: Abhishek Sharma is brutally thrashing England bowlers and taking India ahead in the chase of 133. He is comfortably dealing in boundaries and has bought up his half-century in just 20 balls. He has been joined by Tilak Varma as two-down India inch closer to victory. Earlier, Varun Chakravarthy took three wickets as India bundled out England for 132 in the first T20I of the five-match series on Wednesday in Kolkata. Asked to bat first, England kept on losing wickets at regular intervals but skipper Jos Buttler kept them in the game. He scored 68 off 44 balls before getting dismissed by Chakravarthy. For India,  Varun Chakravarthy scalped three wickets, while pacer Arshdeep Singh and Axar Patel scalped two wickets each. Apart from them Hardik Pandya also took two wickets. India now need 133 runs to win. (Live Scorecard)

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