Rain hit the match during the second innings of the game when India was batting at 15 runs for the loss of no wickets at the end of two overs.
Advertisement
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”.
Lokesh Rahul was unbeaten for India on 110 in just his fourth T20I match, hitting 12 fours and five sixes. He shared crucial 107-run partnership with Dhoni.
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 have made one change to their playing eleven which was pipped by Carlos Brathwaite-led West Indies on Saturday.
Cape Town – The decision to abandon the second T20 between the West Indies and India in Florida was met with contrasting opinions from the skippers, with Carlos Brathwaite saying the ground was unsafe, while MS Dhoni saying that it was fine.
“We never do things easy, but we held our nerve”.
Saturday’s game in Lauderhill had been a spectacular affair, West Indies winning by one run after the highest-scoring Twenty20 global in history.
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.
The 24-year-old Lewis, whose only other appearance in the game’s shortest form had ended with a duck in the shock defeat to Afghanistan at the World Twenty20 this year, feasted on flawless batting conditions at the Florida venue.
West Indies’ Evin Lewis’ 49-ball 100 in the first T20 has helped him move up 288 slots to reach 51st position.
It was the fifth fastest T20I century.
Charles’s 25-ball innings consisted of two sixes and five fours.
Mishra put the brakes on the scoring rate, giving away only four runs in that over.
Dhoni said there needed to be quicker recognition from the bowlers to adjust their game plans when it became clear that the pristine batting pitch was suiting the West Indies’ hyper-aggressive approach spearheaded by Charles, who struck 79 off 33 balls.
After bowling out the West Indies for 143 in 19.4 overs, India were 15/0 in two overs when the dark clouds hovering over Lauderhill opened up, interrupting the play.
Advertisement
Fellow opener Johnson Charles looked set for another 50 but was dismissed seven runs short by recalled leg-break bowler Mishra who enticed a chance to Ajinkya Rahane at long-on.
