Mumbai: On the strength of the stormy play of opener Abhishek Sharma (135 runs and two wickets), India defeated England by 150 runs at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Sunday. With this, India won the five-match T20 series 4-1. India, after losing the toss and batting first, scored 247 runs for 9 wickets and then bundled out England for 97 runs in 10.3 overs.

For India, Mohammed Shami took the maximum three wickets. Apart from him, Varun Chakraborty, Shivam Dubey and Abhishek Sharma took two wickets each while Ravi Bishnoi took one wicket. Phil Salt scored the highest 55 runs for England. Apart from him, Jacob Bethell scored 10 runs. The rest of the batsmen could not even reach double figures.

Earlier, Abhishek Sharma completed his century in 37 balls. This is the second fastest century for India in the shortest international format of the game. He scored 135 runs in 54 balls. Abhishek completed the second century of his T20 international career by stealing a run against Brydon Carse in the 11th over.

The record for the fastest century in this format for India is held by Rohit Sharma, who completed a century in 35 balls against Sri Lanka in Indore in 2017. He scored 118 runs in 43 balls in this match. India won this match by 88 runs. He had earlier completed a half-century in 17 balls, which is the second fastest half-century for an Indian.