Ajinkya Rahane during the T20 International against England, at Old Trafford, on Wednesday. (AFP)

Manchester: Young Ajinkya Rahane marked his international debut with a bang as he smashed a quickfire 61 to guide India to 165 all out in the one-off Twenty20 International, against England, here Wednesday.

World champions England notched up an easy six-wicket win in the one-off T20 tie, against India. Chasing 166 for victory, the hosts reached the target in 19.3 overs. Eoin Morgan was the star for England as he made a 27-ball 49 which included seven boundaries and a six. England’s Jade Dernbach, who took four wickets, was declared the Man of the Match.

But what will worry the Indians is the fact that they failed to bat out their quota of 20 overs, being bowled out in 19.4 overs. The Mumbai opener entertained the packed crowd as he produced almost every stroke in the book to score 61 off 39 balls with eight fours in his maiden innings at the international stage.

Suresh Raina, who had suffered a miserable summer in Tests thus far, marked out both Stuart Broad and Tim Bresnan for special attention, as he smashed 33 runs off 19 balls with two fours and three sixes.

Brought in as the replacement for Virender Sehwag earlier this week, Rahane gave India a quick start with Parthiv Patel (10) and reached his half-century off only 29 balls with eight fours.

England’s pace trio of Bresnan, Jade Dernbach and captain Broad tried to intimidate the young right-hander with short-pitched deliveries but every such attempt was met with a ferocious pulls or hooks. Parthiv got the innings going with a good-looking backfoot drive into covers off Bresnan, but thereafter Rahane took over. Rahane began with a lofted cut over covers off Dernbach and then twice pulled short deliveries from Bresnan and Broad. As Broad and Dernbach persisted with bouncing deliveries, Rahane produced three more fours in breathtaking style.

India lost Parthiv in the fifth over when the left-hander played too early at a slower Dernbach delivery. Rahul Dravid walked in to bat in his maiden, and his last T20 innings as well, and surprised everyone by hitting three successive sixes off left-arm spinner Samit Patel.

Dravid (31 off 21 balls) left in the 12th over, but the innings was already past the 100-run mark by then. The veteran batsman hit the part-time medium-pace of Ravi Bopara straight into the hands of short extra cover. After Dravid was dismissed, Broad took two wickets off successive balls — both Rahane and Virat Kohli (4) falling to aggressive strokes.

Rahane lofted a short delivery into the hands of third man while Kohli, who had crossed ends, edged a pull to wicketkeeper Craig Kieswetter in the very next ball.

Raina then took over and went after England pacemen with a vengeance, striking Broad for a pulled six and four off successive balls.After the India innings, Dravid said: “It felt nice, but it also felt a bit awkward walking out (to the pitch) knowing that I wouldn’t be playing a T20 for India again.”

The former India captain also had words of praise for Rahane and said that 180 would have been a par score.