India are ViKtorious over WI

India (Shar)made seven changes to their playing eleven – Lokesh Rahul, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Dinesh Karthik, Vijay Shankar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Jasprit Bumrah and Siddarth Kaul made way for Rohit, Manish Pandey, Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Khaleel Ahmed and Twenty20 International debutant Navdeep Saini (the player of the match).

The West Indies made five changes to the eleven that last played the Indians – Shai Hope, Darren Bravo, Denesh Ramdin, Fabian Allen and Khary Pierre made way for John Campbell, Evin Lewis, Rovman Powell, Sunil Narine and Sheldon Cottrell.

On winning the toss, Virat Kohli, India’s skipper, inserted the West Indies.

The first Powerplay of the West Indies’ innings – which was the mandatory Powerplay – was the first and the sixth over. They scored 33, for the loss of five wickets.

The West Indies’ openers didn’t get off the mark. Campbell, who faced a couple of balls, didn’t open his account. A couple of balls into the match, he was caught by Krunal Pandya off the bowling of Sundar.

Lewis, who faced four balls, didn’t get off the mark. Ten balls later, Kumar broke the eight-run stand.

Nicholas Pooran, whose 16-ball innings included a boundary and a couple of sixes, scored 20. Sixteen balls later, he was caught by Rishabh Pant. Saini broke the 20-run stand.

The fourth-wicket pair didn’t get off the mark. Shimron Hetmyer, who faced a ball, didn’t open his account. The next ball, he was dismissed by Saini.

Powell, who faced five balls, scored four. His runs came by way of a boundary. Seven balls later, he was caught by Pant. Ahmed broke the five-run stand.

The West Indies scored 50 off 11.4 overs (70 balls). The number of extras they had conceded at that point gave India no reason to be in seventh heaven.

Carlos Brathwaite, the West Indies’ skipper, faced 24 balls, scoring just nine. Fifty balls after Powell’s dismissal, he was caught by Pandya, who broke the 34-run stand.

Narine, who faced four balls, scored a couple. Five balls later, he was caught by Ahmed. Jadeja broke the three-run stand.

Keemo Paul, who faced 11 balls, scored just three. Eighteen balls later, he was caught by Kohli. Kumar broke the run-a-ball stand.

A hundred and seventeen balls into the match, India sought a bowling review. Kieron Pollard, the batsman, scored 49. His run-a-ball innings included a couple of boundaries and four sixes. It was upheld by the West Indian umpire Nigel Duguid. Saini had a reason to be in seventh heaven – he trapped him leg before wicket.

Both Cottrell, who faced a ball, and Oshane Thomas, who faced three balls, failed to get off the mark. They were unbeaten.

India eventually conceded eight extras. The West Indies scored 95 for the loss of nine wickets off 20 overs.

Sundar and Ahmed bowled a couple of overs each, picking up a wicket apiece. While the former conceded 18, the latter conceded eight.

Pandya and Jadeja bowled four overs, including a maiden, each, picking up a wicket apiece. While the former conceded 20, the latter conceded 13.

Kumar, who bowled four overs, conceded 19. He picked up a couple of wickets.

Saini bowled four overs, including a maiden. He conceded 17, picking up three scalps.

The first Powerplay of India’s innings – which was the mandatory Powerplay – was the first and the sixth over. They scored 31, for the loss of a wicket.

Shikhar Dhawan had a reason to be in seventh heaven – he scored just a run. A couple of overs into the chase, he was trapped leg be‘four’ wicket by Cottrell.

Sharma, whose 25-ball innings included a couple of boundaries and as many sixes, scored 24. Twenty-seven balls later, he was caught by Pollard. Narine broke the 28-run stand.

The third-wicket pair didn’t get off the mark. Pant, who faced a ball, didn’t open his account. The (Nari)next ball, he was caught by Cottrell off the bowling of the offie.

India scored 50 off 9.3 overs (57 balls). The West Indies had conceded three extras at that point.

Pandey, whose 14-ball innings included a couple of boundaries, scored 19. Thirty balls after Pant’s dismissal, Paul broke the 32-run stand.

Kohli, whose 29-ball innings included a boundary, scored 19. Thirteen balls later, he was caught by Pollard. Cottrell broke the five-run stand.

Pandya, whose 14-ball innings included a boundary, scored a dozen. Thirteen balls later, Paul broke the 19-run stand.

Jadeja, who faced nine balls, scored unbea‘ten’.

Sundar, whose five-ball innings included a six, scored eight. He was unbeaten.

The West Indies eventually conceded five extras. India, who conceded 98 for the loss of half-a-dozen extras off 17.2 overs, won by four wickets with 16 balls to spare.

Brathwaite bowled two overs, conceding 12. He was wicketless, as was Thomas, who bowled four overs, conceding 29.

Paul bowled 3.2 overs, conceding 23. He picked up two scalps, as did Cottrell and Narine, who bowled four overs apiece. While the former conceded 20, the latter conceded 14.  

India led the three-match series 1-0.