Cricket News | India defeated West Indies by 17 runs in the last match of the three-match T20I series. With this win, Team India has also reached the first place in the T20 rankings. India had earlier defeated West Indies 3-0 in the ODI series as well. Batting first after losing the toss, India scored 184 runs for the loss of five wickets in 20 overs. Suryakumar Yadav scored 65 runs in 31 balls. This was the fourth half-century of his T20 International career.
Great catch by Rohit
India has got another success in the last over as well. Dominic Drakes is out on the ball of Shardul. Drakes hit hard towards mid-off, but captain Rohit, who was there, jumped to his right and took a tremendous catch.
23 runs needed in 6 balls
West Indies need 23 runs in the last over. Dominic Drakes and Fabian Allen have a tough challenge in the last over. Shardul Thakur will bring the last over.
Great over from Shardul
The 18th over went very well for India. Shardul Thakur not only gave a big breakthrough in this over, but spent only 6 runs from the over. With this, now West Indies need 31 runs in the last 12 balls.
Score after 18th over – 154/7
West Indies did not start well
Chasing the target of 185 runs, West Indies could only manage 167 runs in 20 overs for the loss of nine wickets. For the Windies, Nicholas Pooran played the highest innings of 61 runs in 47 balls. Apart from this, Romario Shepherd scored 29 runs in 21 balls. West Indies did not have a good start and Deepak Chahar sent openers Myers and Shai Hope to the pavilion.
India became number-1 after six years
India has reached the first position in the ICC T20 rankings after a long wait of six years. Earlier, on 3 May 2016, the team became number one in the T20 rankings. The captain at that time was Mahendra Singh Dhoni. After Dhoni, Virat Kohli became the captain of the team, but he could not make the team number-1 under his captaincy.
