England vs India 5th T20I Predictions - England to maintain their dominance over India

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England have secured a 3-0 series lead with three convincing victories.
India have lost their last five T20Is in a row after being crowned world champions.
India are without three key players through injury while England have a settled squad.

Phil Salt is enjoying a rich vein of form with the bat (Getty Images).

England vs India Predictions

England have held the upper hand over the touring Indian side and look a good option to back to go 4-0 ahead, but the Indian side has some powerful hitters and dangerous bowlers and they are bound to hit their groove soon. I’m just not going to back them personally just yet with England in such good form.

England vs India Predictions
Head-to-Head
England Form
India Form
Team news

England’s Phil Salt has scored 34, 70 & 59* in his last 4 knocks.
England’s Harry Brook has scores of 39, 16 & 79* in his last 3 innings.
England’s Josh Tongue has figures of 4/28 & 2/36 in 2 matches.
India’s Shreyas Iyer has scored 68, 37 & 80* in his last 4 matches.
India’s Abhishek Sharma has scores of 59 & 43 in his last 4 innings.
India’s Arshdeep Singh has taken 2/35, 3/40 & 1/41 in his last 4 matches.

Head-to-Head

England have won three and lost one of their last five T20Is against India, including the last three on the bounce. The other match was rained out.

England Form

England secured the series by winning their third match on the bounce against India with 37 balls to spare.

Josh Tongue was again in the wickets, taking 2/36 as India battled their way to 158/7 off their 20 overs. Jofra Archer was the star of the innings with the ball, picking up 2/20 and going for just 5.00 runs to the over on the back of figures of 3/29 in the 3rd ODI.

Phil Salt (59* off 42) and Harry Brook (79* off 35) added 146 for the second wicket to power England to a nine-wicket win off 13.5 overs. Brook hit eight fours and four sixes in his swashbuckling innings.

India Form

India succumbed to their second T20I series defeat in a fortnight on their tour of the UK when they suffered another big loss to England, going down in the 4th T20I by nine wickets.

Shreyas Iyer (80 off 49, five sixes) and Shivam Dube (22 off 23) rescued India from 48/3 with a 53-run stand for the fourth wicket. The middle-order failed to fire as India struggled to a score 158/7 off their 20 overs.

Prasidh Krishna (0/26, econ 8.66) was the only Indian bowler to go for under 9.3 runs to the over, while Arshdeep Singh (1/41) was again India’s most successful wicket-taker.

Team news

We’re in for perfect weather for the final match of their T20I series as India look for a morale-boosting win to avoid a 4-0 series defeat. Harshit Rana and Varun Chakravarthy are likely to remain sidelined with their hamstring injuries.

England (possible XI): Phil Salt, Jos Buttler, Will Jacks, Harry Brook (c), Jacob Bethell, Sam Curran, Liam Dawson, Jofra Archer, Rehan Ahmed, Saqib Mahmood, Adil Rashid.

India (possible XI): Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson, Shreyas Iyer (c), Tilak Varma, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Suryansh Shedge, Prasidh Krishna, Prince Yadav, Arshdeep Singh.