It was the moment when he summed up this tour of the white ball of England through India: as it seemed that the world number one team was on the ropes, an error altered drastically the course of the contest.
At least England's investigation in a decade defeat in an international one of a day, which goes back at the beginning of the World Cup here 16 months ago, has an obvious starting point.
He arrived in the ninth place, after an scorching start of the match in which Jos Buttler ran to 75 without loss, when a horrible confusion turned out that Phil Salt was exhausted.
Minutes later, England had 77 by three, all ceded impulse. Finally they retired for 248: India Target put them in the fifth and last Twenty20 match between the teams last weekend.
The defeat by four wickts was confirmed later than it could have been due to a burst of Indian layoffs with the finish line in sight, obscuring the margin between the two teams.
Things had been so good Gong. Buttler won his third launch in a row and perhaps after learning a lesson from the 2023 tournament, when his players in England were exhausted in the heat of Maharashtra, allowing South Africa to establish a notional objective of 400 races, he chose not to insert the opposition the opposition .
England suffered a decade of one day in 21 international games on Thursday in Nagpur
Phil Salt sold out after horrible confusion in the middle with his opener partner Ben Duckett
India takes a 1-0 advantage in the three-game series as a result of successfully pursuing 249
It was a cooling of 31 degrees when Mohammed Shami sent a maiden to start the game, but a temperature that nevertheless caused the Indians to sweat in the early stages.
Arshdeep Singh and Varun Chakravarthy, the two best bowling players in India of their recent 4-1 victory in the T20, were conspicuous figures in their fluorescent bibs, running around the limit in the early stages to recover balls, thus reducing the persecutions of your teammates. , or transport drinks.
After sending his first three overs, Shami briefly left the field to breathe and in his absence, Phil Salt doubled the score by taking 26 from the sixth, sent by Rana Harshit, with a variety of bold shots.
After the four consecutive legi of Shami at the other end, the second of which should have been trapped by half by Hardik Pandya, Salt reached five own limits, anticipating Harshit switches in the steps and lengths with an effect devastating
The 40,000 crowd was surprised in the silence for the assault, but they woke up for a moment of madness of the Opening Association of England.
There was no apparent danger when the salt cut Pandya's gang on the free side, until Shreyas Iyer slid and prevented him from hitting the rope. However, inexplicably, when Salt went back to a third race, Duckett remained motionless.
Salt's departure for an England of 26 balls added to England in the mud. This Indian team lacks the dynamism of its T20 equivalents, but Duckett became the second victim of a spell of three for two in eight deliveries when Jaiswal produced a surprising capture of shoulder on the head to intercept a surpassed pull and provide his debuting partner Harshit with a wickt.
Harshit had retired from the attack after an initial spell of 3-1-37-0, but when he hit for the second time, Harry Brook guiding one on the side of the leg for a second ball duck, England had collapsed to 77 For three: a position they never recovered.
Buttler and Jacob Bethell made the tickets with a 59 -racing stall for four, the point at which Joe Root's return was completed by a classic stage of Ravindra Jadeje before the dismissal, but each one fell immediately after lifting the bats.
And there were two overs unused when the sixth Wickt of India with Spin left Archer stranded in a cameo 21 that was not.
India wore a completely different batting unit for a series that will heat both sides for the Champions Trophy, although a right knee injury incurred in training less than 24 hours before meant kohli virat, possibly the best player of 50 in all time , He took, allowing Jaiswal to torment England as he has done in the test series last year.
However, he did not take it, since Jofra Archer, challenging a cut in his bowl, was rewarded by a new high quality ball spell with an edge behind.
When the captain of India, Rohit Sharma, Saqib Mahmood stirred, England had eliminated both Indian openers with the score on 19.
However, Shreyas Iyer's response to Buttler publishing in the short leg was to launch a wild counterattack, transporting Archer to the stand in Deep Midwicket, then using the rhythm of 90 miles per hour of the man's time.
When Iyer was caught by the left arm spinner Bethell for 59 of 36 deliveries, the 50 -year -old cast of India was fine and really up to date.
Not even Brydon Crsar, the Bowling Banker of England this winter, could stop the position, admitting 10 races so propelled by a fourth wickt position between Shubman Gill and Axar of 108 in 18 overs, India came home with 68 deliveries without using .