IND vs WI: West Indies beat India by eight wickets, historic series named after them
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India lost the series 2-3 after suffering an eight-wicket defeat to the West Indies in the inclement weather-affected fifth and final T20 International in Florida on Sunday due to a disappointing display by the batsmen.
West Indies thus won the first T20 International series against India after 2017. Brandon King was the star in the final match victory, whose unbeaten 85-run innings was studded with five fours and six sixes. This is also his best score in T20 International.
Captain Hardik Pandya’s team came back from 0-2 down to level the series 2-2, but the players faltered in the decider. With the help of a half-century from Suryakumar Yadav (61 runs), the Indian team, winning the toss and coming out to bat, scored 165 runs after losing nine wickets after the poor performance of the batsmen.
The pitch was not easy to stroke, yet Suryakumar hit four fours and three sixes during his 45-ball innings. Chasing this target, West Indies got off to a brisk start and shared a 72-ball 107-run partnership for the second wicket with King (55 balls) and wicket-keeper batsman Nicholas Pooran (47 runs, 35 balls, one four, four sixes). Won by scoring 171 runs for two wickets with overs remaining.
Hardik tried four bowlers in the powerplay and Arshdeep Singh got the first success. And West Indies lost the wicket of Kyle Meyers (10 runs) in the second over, who was caught by Arshdeep at mid-off by Jaiswal. But Pooran and King scored 61 runs in the powerplay for the West Indies, losing one wicket with six sixes and three fours.
Due to these two batsmen, West Indies had scored 96 runs for one wicket in 10 overs. King completed his half-century by hitting Yuzvendra Chahal on the third ball of the 13th over for a six over long off, after which the players came out of the ground due to lightning in the sky.
This was the third hurdle in the match and the West Indies were 117 for one and the team was ahead by the Duckworth-Lewis method. According to DLS, the equal score at this time would have been 91 runs. Then when the match started, Chahal completed his over.
Tilak Verma was put on the bowling who took the first wicket in international cricket by dismissing Pooran and also ended the 107-run partnership for the second wicket between Pooran and King. Earlier, during the Indian innings, there were two bouts of rain, due to which the match had to be stopped twice.
The start of the Indian team was disappointing. He had lost the wickets of both his openers in the first two overs. Left-arm spinner Akil Hussain gave India a double whammy by taking the wickets of Yashasvi Jaiswal (05) in the first over and Shubman Gill (09) in the second over.
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