Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s India lost the T20 series 1-0 to Carlos Brathwaite’s West Indies.
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The teams play a second Twenty20 at the same venue today.
Dhoni praised the effort of his bowlers at the death. “In my opinion, I don’t think it was and the umpires also made that decision as well”. India will next move in to Test mode and will take on New Zealand.
Charles hoicked Bhuvneshwar, who dug one short, for a massive six over mid-wicket to begin the fireworks even as Shami removed the first match centurion Evin Lewis (7). “As a young man, that means a lot to me”. As much of an unattractive spectacle as that is, it does not seem to be an issue with the game’s administrators here who appear to consider television rights revenue as financial salvation. At the time of the delay, BCCI officials only said there was a “technical reason” for play to be held up, and when the issue was raised after the match was abandoned, they said a press release would be put out to clarify the matter, though none has yet been issued.
However, Dhoni said he has played in worse conditions during his career, citing the example of 2011 tour of England. “For me to share the knowledge and get that knowledge will serve me in good stead”.
Although staged in a part of the world over which the West Indies Cricket Board is supposed to have caretaker responsibility based on the International Cricket Council’s directive, this T20 International double-header was essentially a made-for-TV-and especially the Indian television audience-event controlled in nearly every respect by the all-powerful BCCI, the Board of Control for Cricket in India.
Brathwaite was also enthused about cricket in the United States of America, and advocated playing One-Day Internationals in the country as well. “It feels like home for us and we want to make this our second home”, he said. It’s a matter of US experiencing these games. We were favouring one end and hit sixes on that side and we knew that they did not have over’s left from their main bowlers in the death.
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Asked about more cricket in US, Brathwaite said,”Most definitely we would love to come here back again”. Three, four days ago there was nothing here, they built the temporary stands in no time and they are taking it down already, no injuries reported, obviously that’s safe enough. The match, the first global outing for India in United States, was in fact a competition of show of batting prowess between the two teams on a featherbed of a pitch on a small ground at Lauderhill and Dhoni’s men came second at the end.
