Ashish Nehra and Jasprit Bumrah were the stars as India held their nerve at the death to win the match by five runs and level the three-match series 1-1.
India managed to win the second T20 international against England by 5 runs even after just making 144 in their innings after England put them to bat winning the toss.
Indian batting struggled to get going after skipper Kohli was out for 21 with only Lokesh Rahul playing well. Rahul went on to score 71 off 47 balls to get India to a defendable total. Manish Pandey scored 30 but the rest of the middle order crumbled as none of the batsmen managed to get a double figure score.
England Chase after Early Wickets
Chasing 145 to win, England lost early wickets, but a 50 stand from Joe Root and Ben Stokes looked to have wrenched the game back their way before Nehra dismissed the former with England needing 26 off 18 balls.
Nehra gave away 16 runs off the penultimate over and Bumrah had to defend 8 off the final over. England had six wickets in hand but Bumrah dismissed Root on the first ball and Buttler off the fourth.
Root was given out LBW by umpire Shamshuddin, despite the ball appearing to be heading down leg side, and Root getting a bottom edge. He then defended 6 off the final ball to bowlAIndia to series levelling win in Nagpur.
Bumrah delivered a world-class exhibition of death bowling from Jasprit Bumrah, who despite being given the 18th and 20th overs, conceded just five runs from them.
The deciding game of the series will be at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Wednesday, 1 February at 7pm IST.
