Concussion substitute Harshit Rana has taken 3-33 on debut and India has beaten England by 15 runs to win the Twenty20 series with a match to spare in Pune.

Harshit Rana claimed three wickets in his debatable appearance as a concussion substitute to help India to a series-clinching 15-run victory against England in the fourth T20 International on Friday.

England slide to a 15-run defeat in a gripping fourth T20 against India as their hosts take an unassailable 3-1 lead in the series.

England overcame Varun Chakravarthy’s 5-24 to beat India by 26 runs in the third T20 to keep the series alive.

CHENNAI: In the end it was a stroll in the park for the hosts. The evening did not start as India would have liked. They were reeling at 12/3 after two overs with England pacer Saqib Mahmood striking thrice in his first over of the fourth T20I at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune on Friday.

England suffered a heavy nine-wicket semi-final defeat by defending champions India to crash out of the Under-19s T20 World Cup. After choosing to bat first, England were in a healthy position at 81-2 before the loss of six wickets for 11 runs meant they stuttered to 113-8 from 20 overs.

As England prepares for the fourth T20I of the five-match series against India at Pune with an aim to level the series, an extremely key task in their hands will be to prepare for deadly spin trio of Varun Chakravarthy,