Dhoni-led India on Sunday lost the two-match T20 global series to West Indies which was being played in Florida.
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India once again won the toss and MS Dhoni made a decision to bowl first for the second consecutive day.
The earlier highest number of sixes in an innings was 19 hit by Netherlands against Ireland in 2014.
In a breathless few hours at the sold-out 20,000-capacity Central Broward Regional Park, 489 runs were scored, smashing the record not just for T20 internationals, but any 20-over-a-side contest.
But his fellow opener and Saturday centurion Evin Lewis went for just seven and, after Charles fell to the first ball of the sixth over, making it 50-2, West Indies began to struggle.
A typical torrential Florida downpour just two overs into India’s chase put paid to any hopes of them squaring the Twenty20 Internationals series against West Indies on Sunday (August 28) as some of the areas in the outfield were too soggy for play to resume.
Except for Ravichandran Ashwin (0/36), all the other five bowlers went for more than 10 runs an over.
Wickets started to fall in a heap in a passage of play between the 11 and 16 overs as Marlon Samuels edged Jasprit Bumrah’s first ball to Dhoni.
INDIA (Target: 144): R Sharma not out 10, A Rahane not out 4. Mohammad Shami was able to take out the risky Lewis caught by Mishra.
The West Indies continued to score at a brisk pace with Bhuvneshwar Kumar conceding 20 runs in his first two overs.
They posted a robust 126 runs for the opening association before the partisan Indian crowd had anything to cheer about.
But all the drama was stored for the last over, in which India managed to score six out of the required eight runs, before Dhoni, who survived a catch on the first ball, was caught at short third-man on the final ball.
Still, even India’s captain was largely positive after a match that was an ideal advertisement for cricket in the U.S. It was the first time since 2012 that the country has hosted an global and the first time India had ever played an worldwide in the U.S. Charles looked to get across and play a lap sweep but missed it completely as the stumps were disturbed. The duo steered West Indies past the 100 mark by the eighth over.
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.
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“It was a good exposure to our bowlers and they finished off well and because of which we could actually restrict them (Windies) to 245 and there was a point we thought they would be looking to get 270 and even more”, he added. The spinners were able to put brakes on the fast moving scoreboard.
