England captain Eoin Morgan returned to form by top-scoring with a dashing 71 as his side made 180 for seven against India in their lone Twenty20 international at Edgbaston on Sunday.
The left-hander had managed just 198 runs in his last 10 one-day international innings.
But the number five was back to his best with a 31-ball innings which included three fours and seven sixes.
Opener Alex Hales made 40 and all-rounder Ravi Bopara chipped in with 21 not out off nine balls as England scored 67 in the last four overs after Morgan had won the toss.
India paceman Mohammed Shami led the tourists' attack with three for 38 in his maximum four overs.
Meanwhile Ajinkya Rahane held four catches, including a superb grab to dismiss Hales.
Jason Roy, given an England debut after topping this season's domestic T20 scoring charts with 677 runs for Surrey, did not take long to settle in.
The second ball of the match saw him reverse-sweep off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin for four.
But Roy fell for eight when his drive off Shami went straight to Rahane at extra-cover.
And 26 for one became 27 for two when Moeen Ali fell for a duck when he tamely chipped Mohit Sharma to Rahane.
Rahane also ended Hales's 25 ball-knock with a catch that was anything but routine.
Hales hit a huge skyer off left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja and Rahane, running in and across from the long-on boundary, held a brilliant diving catch when it seemed the ball would fall safe.
Hales's exit left England 75 for three and that became 85 for four when Joe Root, who made 26 off 29 balls after being dropped on eight, holed out off debutant leg-spinner Karn Sharma.
Former Ireland international Morgan upped the tempo with a four and a six in two balls off Jadeja before launching Karn Sharma over long-on and midwicket for two sixes.
Morgan also drove Mohit Sharma for two huge sixes, one straight back over the bowler's head, off successive balls at the end of the 19th over before he was well-caught in the deep by Rahane off Shami.
Source: AFP
