Chris Waters: Eoin Morgan's England have no answer to Virat Kohli's vintage India side

“The coin will go up one final time on England’s tour of India!

“Let it fly, Virat!”

And with those words, Virat Kohli, the India captain, flipped the coin high into the Bangalore night.

“Heads,” called out Eoin Morgan, straining to make himself heard above the cheering masses.

“Heads it is,” confirmed Shastri.

“We’ll have a bowl,” announced Morgan.

Thus the England captain completed a whitewash of tosses in the three-match series.

Sadly for Morgan, the only whitewash that mattered was the one that India administered before a 40,000 crowd.

Victory by 75 runs gave them the T20 series 2-1 to go with their 4-0 triumph in the Tests and 2-1 win in the one-day internationals this winter.

An aggregate of 8-2 in India’s favour across the three formats perfectly summed up the gulf in class.

Although England performed fairly well in the white-ball games prior to yesterday, they will be disappointed to come away with nothing as they gear towards the Champions Trophy.

Whereas India’s batting laboured in the first two T20 matches, with the hosts posting totals of 147-7 and 144-8, it fired at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, where the pitch was flat and the boundaries short.

Thanks to 63 from Suresh Raina and, amazingly, a first T20 international half-century from MS Dhoni, who made 56, India scored 202-6 from their 20 overs.

Yuvraj Singh chipped in with a blistering 27 from 10 deliveries, including three sixes in four balls off Chris Jordan, with the other delivery going for four.

Jordan went for 56 from his four overs, his much-vaunted “death” bowling positively murdered by the Indian batsmen.

Replying to what was still no more than a par score, England were 114-2 when Raina conceded 22 runs from the 12th over.

It left England needing 89 from 48 balls with eight wickets in hand; not a stroll in the park, but a target they would have expected to run close.

However, having advanced to 119-2, England lost their last eight wickets for eight runs in 19 balls as their innings catastrophically imploded.

Yuzvendra Chahal, the 26-year-old leg-spinner, took 6-25, the third-best figures in T20 internationals, as the game suddenly went from being in the balance to being over in a jiffy.

When Morgan and Joe Root were going nicely, adding 64 for the third wicket, England had looked well in the game.

But when both fell in successive balls to Chahal, the collapse was on and, rather like the proverbial runaway train, there was no stopping it.

Jasprit Bumrah, the 23-year-old pace bowler, chipped in with 3-14, while Amit Mishra, the veteran leg-spinner, claimed 1-23.

Five England players were dismissed for a duck, with only Root (42), Morgan (40) and Jason Roy (32) getting any sort of notable score.

One tweet doing the rounds last night claimed that England’s capitulation was the second-worst eight-wicket collapse in international history.

At the same time, it has to be put into context.

England played their part in this series, just as they did in the preceding one-day internationals.

However, yesterday’s decider was the type of knockout-style game they will need to win to take the Champions Trophy.

After Kohli fittingly claimed the winning catch, for he has been outstanding all winter, Morgan was left searching for the positives.

He pointed out that England’s bowling in the first two T20s had been encouraging, and that yesterday’s collapse was something of a freak.

He might have added that his own form was a boost, for he had been under heavy pressure.

His scores in the one-day/T20 games combined were 28, 102, 43, 51, 17 and 40.

The final word belonged to Shastri.

“What we’ve witnessed today is vintage India,” he proclaimed at the post-match presentation.

Neither Indian nor Englishman was inclined to disagree.