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Tuesday, November 6, 2018

2018 West Indies Tour of India - Second T20@ Lucknow - India beat West Indies by 71 Runs Tuesday Nov 06,2018

  India beat West Indies by 71 Runs,take 2-0 lead in the 3-match T20 series

India Captain   Rohit Sharma smashed an unbeaten ton while four bowlers scalped two wickets each as India thrashed Windies by 71 runs to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee International Cricket Stadium in Lucknow on Tuesday Nov 06,2018

India’s stand-in-captain Rohit Sharma made all the difference on Tuesday with his whirlwind century. Rohit was at his brutal best here, smashing an unbeaten 111 off just 61 balls with (7x4, 8x6) to power India to 195/2
 

Rohit surpassed New Zealand’s Colin Munro, who has three T20 centuries, finishing off in style as 20 runs came off the final over by skipper Carlos Brathwaite. Rohit took his T20 tally to 2,203 runs, to move ahead of Kohli’s aggregate (2,102).


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rohit overtakes kohli runs




West Indies began their two-month long tour of India with 0-2 Test series defeat and followed it up with a 1-3 defeat in the subsequent ODI series.

West Indies were expected to fare better in the Twenty20 but were handed a crushing 71-run defeat in the second T20 International to concede an unassailable 0-2 lead in the 3-match T20 series

Match Statistics

Rohit Sharma, who now has 2,203 runs in 86 matches, became India’s highest run-scorer in T20s after surpassing regular captain Virat Kohli (2,102 runs) during his red-hot knock.
When the score was 10/0, the pair of Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan surpassed Australia’s David Warner and Shane Watson to have most runs by a pair in T20Is.

Shikhar Dhawan completes 1000 runs in T20Is. He becomes the 6th Indian to cross the 1000 run mark

Rohit and Shikhar posted a 50+ run opening stand for the 18th time in T20Is

India have won 15 out of 17 previous encounters

88.23%: India’s chances of winning after Rohit and Dhawan’s 50 run opening partnerships

Rohit Sharma (19) surpassed Virat Kohli to become the leading batsman in T20I with most number of 50+ plus knocks.

Skipper Rohit Sharma smashed his fourth Twenty20 international century -- the most by any batsman in the format . New Zealand’s Colin Munro has three T20I tons.

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