Attacking knocks by skipper Jos Buttler and Brydon Carse helped England reach 165-9 against India in the second T20 international on Saturday.
Buttler hit 45 and Carse 31 off 17 deliveries as the tourists look to level the five-match series in Chennai after India won the opener.
Spinners Axar Patel and Varun Chakravarthy took two wickets each.
Buttler, who made 68 in the first match, started aggressively despite England losing openers Phil Salt for four and Ben Duckett for three.
Left-arm quick Arshdeep Singh struck with the fourth ball of the match to have Salt caught for his 98th T20 wicket in 62 matches.
Spinner Washington Sundar got Duckett with his first ball, luring him into an attempted reverse sweep, but Buttler and Harry Brook then took up the attack with a flurry of sixes and fours.
Brook lasted eight balls for his 13 before first-match hero Chakravarthy bowled the England vice-captain.
Wickets kept tumbling as left-arm spinner Patel dismissed Buttler and then Liam Livingstone out for 13.
Jamie Smith smashed 22 off 12 balls, hitting one four and two sixes in his T20 debut before falling to Abhishek Sharma's left-arm spin.
Carse then took on the spinners and hit two successive sixes off Chakravarthy but was run out after a mix-up with Jofra Archer, who stood unbeaten on 12 off nine balls.
Earlier, India skipper Suryakumar Kumar won the toss and elected to field first against England.
The hosts, who are 1-0 up in the five-match series, have made two changes due to injuries, with Washington Sundar and Dhruv Jurel coming in.
All-rounder Nitish Kumar Reddy was ruled out of the rest of the series due to a side strain, while batsman Rinku Singh will miss the second and third matches because of a lower back spasm.
India's left-arm quick Arshdeep Singh, who is three wickets away from the 100 landmark in the format, was named T20 cricketer of the year by the International Cricket Council on Saturday.
England, led by Jos Buttler, have also made two changes as they try to bounce back from their seven-wicket defeat on Wednesday.
Debutant Jamie Smith and Brydon Carse come in for "unwell" Jacob Bethell and Gus Atkinson.
Teams
India: Sanju Samson (wk), Abhishek Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav (capt), Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya, Washington Sundar, Dhruv Jurel, Axar Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Varun Chakravarthy.
England: Ben Duckett, Philip Salt (wk), Jos Buttler(c), Harry Brook, Liam Livingstone, Jamie Smith, Jamie Overton, Brydon Carse, Jofra Archer, Adil Rashid, Mark Wood.
Umpies: KN Ananthapadmanabhan (IND), Virender Sharma (IND)
TV Umpire: Rohan Pandit (IND)
Match Referee: Javagal Srinath (IND)