England seal the series in Bristol as India slump to a nine-wicket defeat
Harry Brook’s unbeaten 79 and a second straight fifty from Phil Salt swept England to a nine-wicket win in Bristol, wrapping up the T20I series with a match to spare.
Jul 10, 2026
England needed barely more than half their overs to finish the job. Chasing 159 at Bristol, Harry Brook and Phil Salt tore India apart in a nine-wicket win that sealed the five-match T20I series with a game still to play. It is England’s first T20I series victory over India, and it leaves the tourists nursing questions a dead rubber at Southampton will do little to answer.
Brook and Salt make light work of the chase
Set 159 to win, England knocked it off in 13.5 overs. Salt set the tone at the top with an unbeaten 59, his second fifty in as many matches, before Brook took over with a brutal 79 not out from 35 balls. Only one wicket fell, Arshdeep Singh accounting for an opener, and the pair then piled on an unbroken 146 in 70 balls to make a mockery of the target. It was the fastest England have chased 150 or more.
The margin flattered nobody. India’s bowlers had no answer to Brook’s range through the off side, and England were clear of the required rate inside the powerplay and never came back to it.
Iyer’s lone stand goes to waste
India’s innings leaned almost entirely on Shreyas Iyer. Reduced to 48 for 3, they were dragged to 158 for 7 by their captain, who finished unbeaten on 80 from 49 balls with five sixes. It looked a passable total at the halfway point and turned out nowhere near enough. The batting beyond Iyer again lacked substance, the recurring theme of a chastening tour.
A series to forget for India
England lead 3-0 with one to play, the opener at Chester-le-Street having been washed out without a result. They edged the Manchester match by four wickets, crushed India by 125 runs at Trent Bridge, and have now added a nine-wicket rout in Bristol. For India it is a first back-to-back T20I series defeat since 2018-19, a sobering run for a side rebuilding around a new captain.
Iyer’s team head to Southampton with only pride left to play for in the format, before attention turns to the three-match ODI series where Jasprit Bumrah returns to the plans.