Suresh Raina and Yuvraj Singh got out for single digits to spinners Adil Rashid and Moeen Ali leaving the home team at a difficult 69 for three just past the half way mark.
This was the second lowest total India defended in a T20 International in the country.
Suresh Raina and Yuvraj Singh got out for single digits to spinners Adil Rashid and Moeen Ali leaving the home team at a difficult 69 for three just past the half way mark. Raina slogged and was caught at long on while Yuvraj missed a sweep and was caught plumb in front of the stumps.
Rahul's innings was the saving grace in this period as he coolly got about getting the runs and also used his feet well against the spinners.
The innings' 100 came up in the 14th over as the Indian batsmen started attacking Dawson and leggie Rashid even as off spinner Moeen did a good job, taking 1 for 20 in four overs.
Manish Pandey, who came in at no. 5 instead of Dhoni, had a lucky escape when a ball from Stokes hit the stumps as he went for a slog but failed to dislodge the bails.
Pandey survived on 10 and India's score after 15 overs was 108 for three as the English bowlers cleverly mixed it up.
Rahul was finally dismissed in the 18th over while trying to lift Jordan over the mid-wicket region but could not clear the rope and was caught by Ben Stokes to bring Dhoni to the crease with only 16 balls left in the innings.
The hosts also lost Pandey in the penultimate over, bowled by Mills, after clobbering the bowler over long on, his only boundary hit.
The former captain could not do much in the limited overs and got out to the last ball of the innings. Hardik Pandya and Amit Mishra, included in the XI in place of Parvez Rasool, were both run out for ducks in the same over. Jordan finished with 3 for 22.
India started the defense of their small total in encouraging fashion when Nehra packed off the openers Jason Roy and Sam Billings off successive balls in the fourth over.
Both Roy and Billings had smacked leggie Yuzvendra Chahal, who opened the bowling for the home team, for a six each before falling prey to the wiles of the left-arm pacer.
Billings was the first to go as he charged out and top-edged a pull to long-leg fielder Jasprit Bumrah for 12.
With the batsmen having crossed over, Roy was on strike to the next ball that he spooned into the hands of mid-on off.
The two wickets fell at 22 to bring together senior batsmen Root and Morgan and they did the repair work like they had done in the series opener at Kanpur.
Mishra broke the blossoming stand by having Morgan, who stroked his way to 51 off 46 balls in the successful run-chase at Kanpur in the first T20I, caught in the deep for 17.
It was a big blow for England and also enabled Mishra to reach the landmark 200 wickets in T20Is, the second Indian bowler to do so after Ravichandran Ashwin.
England then got a fright off the next ball when Mishra foxed another left-hander Stokes, only to have the ball declared a no-ball via the TV replay.
Reprieved by Mishra's overstepping, Stokes muscled his way by hoisting Suresh Raina and Chahal for huge sixes in the 14th and 15th overs at the end of which the visitors needed 41 runs off 30 balls.
(This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)
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