“It will easily fit into our schedule because at this time of year we don’t play many games at home”, Dhoni said at the post match presentation ceremony. The match ended with no result after India cut through the West Indies early in the match by getting them all out for just 144 and then themselves raced to 15 no loss.
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With spinners looking like making an impact, India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni introduced left-armer Ravindra Jadeja, who bowled five dots and conceded only one run in the next over.
Dhoni, on the other hand, said: “What the umpires told us, there was not adequate equipment over here and the condition of it was quite bad, so because the conditions wouldn’t improve we won’t be able to play a game. The venue looks good”, he said. Let’s see what strategy he has for the second game to counter MS Dhoni. “As far as I am concerned, I have played closed to 10 years of worldwide cricket and frankly I’ve played under worse off conditions”. It will also give us time to spend more time in the USA, we played back to back games.
Ind vs WI: It was Amit Mishra, with his vicious Leg spinners who provided the initial breakthrough by dismissing Johnson Charles (43) and the R Ashwin and Jasprit Bumrah put on a combined stranglehold on the Wet Indian batsmen that they ultimately succumbed to. So it is a win-win situation. They replaced Darren Sammy, as he was not well to perform, with Carlos Brathwaite and he is the team captain for this series.
“For me as a young leader to lead the players is an exciting experience”.
Rahul scored his maiden Twenty20 global century in 46 balls and stayed unbeaten on 110, striking 12 fours and five sixes in the process.
Opener Johnson Charles was the top scorer for West Indies with a steady knock of 43, in a tiresome innings, which saw cameos of 19 from Lendl Simmons and 18 from Captain Carlos Brathwaite. Bumrah then claimed the wicket of Marlon Samuels (5) caught behind, and Ashwin trapped risky Kieron Pollard (13) lbw.
Two overs and 22 runs later, the West Indies were six down with Ashwin having Kieron Pollard lbw for 13 and Bumrah clean bowling Andre Fletcher for three.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar accounted for a scalp, picking up the wicket of Andre Russell.
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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.
