England crush India by 125 runs, take 2-0 T20 series lead

England's pace attack ripped India apart at Trent Bridge, bowling the world champions out for 76 to seal a 125-run win and a 2-0 lead in the five-match series. Josh Tongue took 4 for 28 and Jofra Archer claimed 3 for 29 as India were dismissed in 11.4 overs, their second-lowest total in men's T20 internationals.

Phil Salt had already set the tone with a hard-edged 70 from 44 balls, while Sam Curran added an unbeaten 41 from 24 to lift England to 201 for 7 after a stop-start innings that still kept the pressure on India. Archer later said Salt's innings was "really important" in setting up the victory, and the numbers backed him up: once England had passed 200, India were always chasing a game their top order had lost control of before it began.

The collapse started early when Abhishek Sharma fell for 10, and the brief hope of a response came from 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, who struck two sixes in a five-ball 13 before edging Archer to Jos Buttler. India then lost Ishan Kishan and Shreyas Iyer in successive deliveries, and the innings never recovered after slipping to 52 for 5. From there, seven wickets fell in 20 balls.

Shreyas Iyer later called the performance "atrocious", a blunt assessment that matched the scale of the defeat. India had arrived in England carrying fresh baggage from a 2-0 T20 series loss in Ireland, a setback that had already raised questions about the side's shorter-format form. That makes this result harder to dismiss as a one-off: only months after winning the men's T20 World Cup in March 2026, India were shown how quickly a talented batting order can unravel when pace hits early and keeps coming.

England's control was complete enough that even isolated moments from Prince Yadav and Harshit Rana could not alter the outcome. The margin surpassed every previous India defeat in T20 cricket and left their old low of 74, set in 2008, only narrowly out of reach. For England, the win guaranteed the series with two matches still to play. For India, it was a warning that their status as champions means little when elite fast bowling exposes the gaps before the chase can begin.