Men in Blue lost the match by the margin of just one run as 2 runs were needed off the last ball and Dhoni handed over the last ball to Braithwaite.
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India made their U.S. debut with this match. India ended the run chase at 244 for 4 from 20 overs.
India were chasing 144 for victory. “Even the last ball, the thinking was right, the execution was wrong”, Dhoni was quoted as saying by ESPNcricinfo.
The West Indies, who won the series 1-0 with the thrilling one-run win in the first match, not only saw some of their batsmen improve their rankings significantly but the team has also narrowed the gap with India in the ICC T20I team rankings.
This was the highest ever T20 global score against India by any team, surpassing the 219 for 4 by South Africa in Johannesburg in March 2012.
Bravo dived to his left and managed to pull off an absolute stunner inches from the ground. He made 100 off 48 balls, comprising 9 sixes and 5 fours.
India were 51 for 2 after five overs.
The raining of fours and sixes went unabated with yet another Indian bowler, Jadeja was taken to the cleaners with Lewis pummelling him for two sixes as the Windies reached to their 100 in 7.5 overs at a rate of over 13 an over.
Andre Russell (22) and Kieron Pollard (22) chipped in with late cameos. We got 11-12 runs easily in an over. They love sixes, boundaries and wickets.
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.
The second and final T20 global will be played at the same venue tomorrow.
IND vs WI 2nd T20 Match Live Score Streaming Ball By Ball Result 28th August 2016 Highlights:- The India and West Indies are ready for the second consecutive battle in a shorter version of the cricket.
India were hammered all over the park but Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni feels his bowlers were not all that bad on what was a “batters’ paradise”.
The earlier highest number of sixes in an innings was 19 hit by Netherlands against Ireland in 2014.
West Indies´ total of 245-6 was just short of Australia´s 248 against England in Southampton in 2013 while Sri Lanka´s 260 against Kenya at Johannesburg in 2007 remains the highest ever worldwide T20 total.
Lewis belted nine sixes while fellow opener Johnson Charles chipped in with 79 off 33 deliveries at the Central Broward Stadium in Lauderhill.
“Before the final ball, we were just fiddling with the field or wondering if to do a double bluff or if just to stop the two, so Bravo finally decided and ‘I said what’s your plan?’ And he said a slow ball”.
Their new T20 captain Carlos Brathwaite said Saturday’s win and the manner in which it was achieved reaffirmed that the reigning World T20 champions were the top T20 side in world cricket. Mohammad Shami, Jasprit Bumrah and Ravi Ashwin picked two wickets each while Bhuvneshwar Kumar chipped in with a wicket.
Saturday century maker Evin Lewis, again standing in for the injured Chris Gayle, mustered just seven runs before he was caught at mid-off from the bowling of Mohammed Shami.
248 Runs scored in the first ten overs by both teams in the match – West Indies scored 132 to India’s 116.
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