The 3-match T20I series between India and West Indies is
perfectly poised at 1-1 heading into the decider at Mumbai on Wednesday Dec 11,2019
It's India who will be under pressure at this point
West Indies will be happy to be where they are given how poor they have been in the format in recent years having won only 12 of their last 39 T20Is before the series, and having a chance of winning a series in India will give them confidence going into the next year when the T20 World Cup will be played
Squads
India
Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, Virat Kohli(c), Rishabh Pant(w), Shreyas Iyer, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Deepak Chahar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Manish Pandey, Sanju Samson, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami
West Indies
Lendl Simmons, Evin Lewis, Brandon King, Shimron Hetmyer, Kieron Pollard(c), Denesh Ramdin(w), Jason Holder, Khary Pierre, Hayden Walsh, Sheldon Cottrell, Kesrick Williams, Fabian Allen, Nicholas Pooran, Keemo Paul, Sherfane Rutherford.
India won the first match, chasing 208 in Hyderabad on Friday Dec 06,2019
Scorecard
West Indies 207/5
India 209/4 in 18.4 Overs
Match Result - India won by 6 wickets
MOM - Virat Kohli for his 94*
West Indies drew level chasing chasing 171 in Thiruvananthapuram on Sunday Dec 08,2019
Scorecard
India 170/7
West Indies 173/2 in 18.3 Overs
Match Result - West Indies won by 8 wickets
MOM -Lendl Simmons(West Indies)for his 67
India beat West Indies by 67 Runs,win the 3-Match T20I Series 2-1
Scorecard
India 240/3
Rohit Sharma 71(34 Balls 4x6 and 6x5)
K LRahul 91(56 Balls 4x9 and 6x4)
Risabh Pant 00(2 Balls)
Virat Kohli 70*(29 Balls 4x4 and 6x7)
Shreyas Iyer 00*( 0 Balls)
West Indies 173/8
Shimron Hetmeyer 41(24 Balls 4x1 and 6x5)
Kieron Pollard 68( 39 Balls 4x5 and 6x6)
Match Result India won by 6 Runs
MOM K L Rahul
Series Result - India won the 3-Match T20I Series 2-1
Player of the Series Virat Kohli
India beat West Indies by 67 runs in the third and final Twenty20 International in Mumbai on Wednesday to clinch the three-match series 2-1.
61 - The loss in Mumbai was West Indies' 61st in T20Is making them the joint leaders in terms of most losses suffered in the shortest format. West Indies joined Sri Lanka who have also lost 61 matches to date. Bangladesh (60), New Zealand (56) and Pakistan (55) round up the top-5 teams with most T20I defeats.
2633 - Both Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli finished at the joint top spot on the all-time T20I runs chart after their final innings of the year in the shortest format. The two batsmen now have 2633 runs each, though Kohli (75) has reached there in fewer innings than Rohit (104).
404 - With his 1st six on Wednesday, Rohit Sharma joined an elite list of players to hit 400+ sixes in all international matches (Tests, ODIs and T20Is). Chris Gayle (534) and Shahid Afridi (476) are the only other players to have crossed the milestone.
240/3 - 3rd highest total for India in all T20Is. 260/5 vs Sri Lanka in Indore (2017) and 244/4 vs West Indies in Lauderhill (2016) are the only higher totals by India in T20Is. Incidentally, it is now also the highest T20 total made at the Wankhede Stadium beating England's 230 vs South Africa in the 2016 World T20.
India restricted West Indies to 173-8 in their chase of 241 with skipper Kieron Pollard hitting a valiant 68 off 39 balls.
West Indies were then reduced to 17/3 before Pollard and Shimron Hetmyer (41) shared a 74-run stand for the fourth wicket to keep the visitors in the game. But once Hetmyer hit Kuldeep Yadav straight down long on's throat where KL Rahul took the catch, it looked all over.
However, Pollard kept their slim chances alive with some big hitting. The captain finally got out, trying to go for one too many as the asking rate was touching 20 runs per over.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar had the West Indian caught by substitute Ravindra Jadeja at deep mid-wicket in the 15th over and from there on it was only a matter of time before India wrapped up the series.
Mohammed Shami, playing his first T20I in more than two years, returned impressive figures of 2/25 from his four overs, while Kuldeep Yadav, Bhuvneshwar and Deepak Chahar also picked up two wickets each.
Earlier Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul and skipper Virat Kohli combined to hit 16 sixes as India reached 240-3 in the first innings.
Sharma (71) and Rahul (91) put on 135 runs for the opening wicket to lay the platform for India's imposing total after the hosts were put into bat first.
Kohli soon joined the party to flay the West Indies attack as he completed his fifty in 21 deliveries and finished on an unbeaten 70 with four fours and seven sixes.
Rohit led the onslaught with an attacking fifty that was brought about with two sixes and a boundary to raise the roof.
Sharma became the first Indian batsman to hit over 400 international sixes with his first of five strikes over the fence. West Indies' Chris Gayle leads the sixes show with 534 across all three formats.
He finally fell while attempting another big heave to be caught by Hayden Walsh Jr off paceman Kesrick Williams.
Four balls later, Pollard got Rishabh Pant trudging back to the pavilion for nought to check India's surge but Rahul remained firm
The Windies lost destructive opener Evin Lewis even before they started their chase as the opener picked up a knee injury while fielding and could not continue.
Rahul, who completed his third fifty in the last four T20 innings and hit four sixes in his 56-ball knock, then put on 95 runs with Kohli before getting out in the last over.
India and West Indies will now play 3 ODI's on December 15 (Chennai), December 18 (Visakhapatnam) and December 22 (Cuttack).
It's India who will be under pressure at this point
West Indies will be happy to be where they are given how poor they have been in the format in recent years having won only 12 of their last 39 T20Is before the series, and having a chance of winning a series in India will give them confidence going into the next year when the T20 World Cup will be played
Squads
India
Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, Virat Kohli(c), Rishabh Pant(w), Shreyas Iyer, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Deepak Chahar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Manish Pandey, Sanju Samson, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami
West Indies
Lendl Simmons, Evin Lewis, Brandon King, Shimron Hetmyer, Kieron Pollard(c), Denesh Ramdin(w), Jason Holder, Khary Pierre, Hayden Walsh, Sheldon Cottrell, Kesrick Williams, Fabian Allen, Nicholas Pooran, Keemo Paul, Sherfane Rutherford.
India won the first match, chasing 208 in Hyderabad on Friday Dec 06,2019
Scorecard
West Indies 207/5
India 209/4 in 18.4 Overs
Match Result - India won by 6 wickets
MOM - Virat Kohli for his 94*
West Indies drew level chasing chasing 171 in Thiruvananthapuram on Sunday Dec 08,2019
Scorecard
India 170/7
West Indies 173/2 in 18.3 Overs
Match Result - West Indies won by 8 wickets
MOM -Lendl Simmons(West Indies)for his 67
India beat West Indies by 67 Runs,win the 3-Match T20I Series 2-1
Scorecard
India 240/3
Rohit Sharma 71(34 Balls 4x6 and 6x5)
K LRahul 91(56 Balls 4x9 and 6x4)
Risabh Pant 00(2 Balls)
Virat Kohli 70*(29 Balls 4x4 and 6x7)
Shreyas Iyer 00*( 0 Balls)
West Indies 173/8
Shimron Hetmeyer 41(24 Balls 4x1 and 6x5)
Kieron Pollard 68( 39 Balls 4x5 and 6x6)
Match Result India won by 6 Runs
MOM K L Rahul
Series Result - India won the 3-Match T20I Series 2-1
Player of the Series Virat Kohli
India beat West Indies by 67 runs in the third and final Twenty20 International in Mumbai on Wednesday to clinch the three-match series 2-1.
61 - The loss in Mumbai was West Indies' 61st in T20Is making them the joint leaders in terms of most losses suffered in the shortest format. West Indies joined Sri Lanka who have also lost 61 matches to date. Bangladesh (60), New Zealand (56) and Pakistan (55) round up the top-5 teams with most T20I defeats.
2633 - Both Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli finished at the joint top spot on the all-time T20I runs chart after their final innings of the year in the shortest format. The two batsmen now have 2633 runs each, though Kohli (75) has reached there in fewer innings than Rohit (104).
404 - With his 1st six on Wednesday, Rohit Sharma joined an elite list of players to hit 400+ sixes in all international matches (Tests, ODIs and T20Is). Chris Gayle (534) and Shahid Afridi (476) are the only other players to have crossed the milestone.
240/3 - 3rd highest total for India in all T20Is. 260/5 vs Sri Lanka in Indore (2017) and 244/4 vs West Indies in Lauderhill (2016) are the only higher totals by India in T20Is. Incidentally, it is now also the highest T20 total made at the Wankhede Stadium beating England's 230 vs South Africa in the 2016 World T20.
India restricted West Indies to 173-8 in their chase of 241 with skipper Kieron Pollard hitting a valiant 68 off 39 balls.
West Indies were then reduced to 17/3 before Pollard and Shimron Hetmyer (41) shared a 74-run stand for the fourth wicket to keep the visitors in the game. But once Hetmyer hit Kuldeep Yadav straight down long on's throat where KL Rahul took the catch, it looked all over.
However, Pollard kept their slim chances alive with some big hitting. The captain finally got out, trying to go for one too many as the asking rate was touching 20 runs per over.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar had the West Indian caught by substitute Ravindra Jadeja at deep mid-wicket in the 15th over and from there on it was only a matter of time before India wrapped up the series.
Mohammed Shami, playing his first T20I in more than two years, returned impressive figures of 2/25 from his four overs, while Kuldeep Yadav, Bhuvneshwar and Deepak Chahar also picked up two wickets each.
Earlier Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul and skipper Virat Kohli combined to hit 16 sixes as India reached 240-3 in the first innings.
Sharma (71) and Rahul (91) put on 135 runs for the opening wicket to lay the platform for India's imposing total after the hosts were put into bat first.
Kohli soon joined the party to flay the West Indies attack as he completed his fifty in 21 deliveries and finished on an unbeaten 70 with four fours and seven sixes.
Rohit led the onslaught with an attacking fifty that was brought about with two sixes and a boundary to raise the roof.
Sharma became the first Indian batsman to hit over 400 international sixes with his first of five strikes over the fence. West Indies' Chris Gayle leads the sixes show with 534 across all three formats.
He finally fell while attempting another big heave to be caught by Hayden Walsh Jr off paceman Kesrick Williams.
Four balls later, Pollard got Rishabh Pant trudging back to the pavilion for nought to check India's surge but Rahul remained firm
The Windies lost destructive opener Evin Lewis even before they started their chase as the opener picked up a knee injury while fielding and could not continue.
Rahul, who completed his third fifty in the last four T20 innings and hit four sixes in his 56-ball knock, then put on 95 runs with Kohli before getting out in the last over.
India and West Indies will now play 3 ODI's on December 15 (Chennai), December 18 (Visakhapatnam) and December 22 (Cuttack).
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