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Cricket West Indies (CWI) have confirmed that the start of the third T20I between India and West Indies has been pushed back by 1.5 hours to give both teams adequate time to rest. The match was slated to start at 8 PM IST, but it will now begin at 9:30 PM IST. It is important to note that the second T20I between both these sides on Monday had begun three hours late due to logistical issues.
Left-arm paceman Obed McCoy decimated a star-studded Indian batting line-up with sensational career-best figures of 6 for 17 as West Indies equalised the five-match series with a five-wicket victory in the second T20I. McCoy wreaked havoc in his two spells as India, after being put into bat, were bundled out for 138 in 19.4 overs on Monday.
IND vs WI, 2nd T20I Live Updates: India face the West Indies in the second T20I of the five-match series at the Warner Park in Basseterre. The start of the match has been delayed further by an hour and will begin at 11 PM IST. The match was initially scheduled to start at 8 PM IST. India lead the series after winning the first T20I by 68 runs in Tarouba last Friday. Rohit Sharma and Dinesh Karthik laid the foundation with a strong total before the bowlers steamrolled the West Indian batting line-up. The venue for the second T20I, the Warner Park, has historically been a pacer-friendly track, and teams find it difficult to score big total. West Indies will be boosted by the returns of Brandon King and Romario Shepherd, who had missed the first T20Is due to US visa appointments. (LIVE SCORECARD)
Rohit Sharma-led India will take on West Indies in the second T20I of the five-match series on Monday. The visitors will look to gain a 2-0 lead in the series after having one the first T20I by 68 runs at the Brian Lara Stadium in Tarouba. In the first game, Team India displayed an all-round performance to brush aside the challenge of West Indies. It would be interesting to see whether the visitors make any changes to their playing XI or not. In the first T20I, the likes of Rohit, Dinesh Karthik and Arshdeep Singh were at their best.
After winning the first T20I, Team India will look to march ahead with their winning momentum in the second game of the five-match series against West Indies on Monday. It would be interesting to see whether India looks to give Sanju Samson some game time in the middle, but it looks unlikely at this stage, as head coach Rahul Dravid is not someone who like to chope and change, especially when the side is winning. In the first T20I, Suryakumar Yadav had opened the batting, so it needs to seen whether the experiment is persisted with or there is someone else in team's mind to open alongside skipper Rohit.
West Indies have been fined 20 per cent of their match fees for maintaining a slow over-rate in the first T20I against India in Trinidad on Friday, ICC confirmed in a media release. Richie Richardson of the ICC Elite Panel of Match Referees imposed the sanction after the West Indies were ruled to be one over short of the target after time allowances were taken into consideration.
Tight bowling by India, led by Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravi Bishnoi's two-wicket haul respectively helped the Men in Blue to defeat West Indies by 68 runs in the first T20I of the five-match series against West Indies, here at Brian Lara Stadium on Friday. "Disappointed. The players are feeling hurt, it is the first game of the series and we are looking to bounce back.
Team India got off to a winning start in the first T20I against West Indies as the Rohit Sharma-led side displayed an all-round performance to register a comprehensive 68-run win. Rohit Sharma and Dinesh Karthik got among the runs to help India post 190 runs on the board and then the bowlers did a collective job to reduce West Indies to 122/8. Shreyas Iyer came up with a brilliant piece of fielding in the fifth over of the innings and this effort denied Nicholas Pooran a six off the bowling of Ravichandran Ashwin.