Meanwhile, KL Rahul has moved up as many as 67 places to be at 31st spot, riding on his unbeaten century during the two-match series against the West Indies in Lauderhill, USA. “I was already exhausted by the time he came, but he kept on pushing me and like I said we just kept things simple out there in the middle”. Virat Kohli, meanwhile, continues to remain the numero uno T20 batsman, followed by Aaron Finch and Martin Guptill.
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In the second match, India’s bowlers showed marked improvement bowling out the West Indies for 143 in 19.4 overs and the team looked very much in contention to share the honours in the series.
Only last month, Lewis played two games at the venue for St Kitts and Nevis Patriots during the Caribbean Premier League – scoring 79 in one of the outings – and said this familiarity had helped during his innings.
Dhoni rued that his “wrong” execution of the shot off the final delivery prevented his side from achieving what could have been a world record run chase ever.
248 Runs scored in the first ten overs by both teams in the match – West Indies scored 132 to India’s 116. We never do things easy, but we held our nerve.
In all 32 sixes were hit on the day while the 489 total runs was the highest ever for a T20I match, beating the 469 in an IPL game in 2010.
Overall Dhoni will hope for his bowlers to learn from the mistakes they made and come back with a bold performance.
Rahul and Dhoni put on 107 in 8.1 overs for the fourth wicket, the partnership ending off the final ball of the game, which Dhoni edged to short third man when India needed two to win.
India produced an inspiring bowling performance in the second T20 global against West Indies to bowl them out for 143 on a slow yet good batting track in Florida. I know he is a good bowler and he did it for the team today.
“To talk about the facilities, it’s as good as anywhere”, Dhoni said afterward.
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The highlight of Lewis’s innings was hitting five sixes off a Stuart Binny over, all of which sailed over the boundary on the back of a stiff breeze. “If you have a mixture of all and still if you can get a game as close as this one, they feel very satisfied and they feel OK, for every dollar spent they got the best out of it”. Bumrah was also taken to task with Lewis hoisting him for two sixes and a four to amass 18 runs from the fifth over.
