Preview: Riding high after clinching the One-Day International (ODI) series, the Indian team will look to repeat their performance against Windies in the one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) at Sabina Park here on Sunday. The visitors have retained the same squad which won them the ODI series 3-1 while the Carlos Brathwaite-led Windies have made significant changes for the match. [caption id=“attachment_3794259” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]
File photo of Windies captain Carlos Brathwaite and India captain Virat Kohli. AFP[/caption] It will be a slightly more difficult task for the men-in-blue to outplay the hosts like they did in the ODI series because the Windies T20 team seems to be a more balanced side as compared to the ODI squad. Windies will rely heavily on their swashbuckling batsman Chris Gayle who has joined the T20 squad to provide them a good start against a decent Indian bowling line-up. Brathwaite, all-rounder Kieron Pollard and Marlon Samuels are the other important inclusions for the side in the batting department, who will look to go hard at the Indian bowlers. The bowling department under the likes of experienced pacer Jerome Taylor and spinning duo Samuel Badree and Sunil Narine will look to put the brakes on the formidable Indian batting line-up. On the other hand, the Indian batting line with the likes of Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Yuvraj Singh will look to help their side put up a big total keeping in mind the visitors strength in batting. Kohli may also make some changes in the playing XI with the kind of depth India has got in their squad. India’s bowling department will be duly tested against the hard-hitting Windies’ batsmen on show for hosts in the shorter format. Squads: India: Virat Kohli (captain), Shikhar Dhawan, Rishabh Pant, Ajinkya Rahane, Mahendra Singh Dhoni (wicketkeeper), Yuvraj Singh, Kedar Jadhav, Hardik Pandya, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Shami, Umesh Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Kuldeep Yadav, Dinesh Karthik. Windies: Carlos Brathwaite (captain), Samuel Badree, Ronsford Beaton, Chris Gayle, Evin Lewis, Jason Mohammed, Sunil Narine, Kieron Pollard, Rovman Powell, Marlon Samuels, Jerome Taylor, Chadwick Walton (wicketkeeper), Kesrick Williams. With inputs from IANS
India vs West Indies, T20I at Kingston, Highlights and cricket result: Lewis powers Windies to a 9-wicket win
Catch all the live updates of the only T20I between India and Windies at Sabina Park, Kingston.
)
Highest difference between 6s and 4s for a batsman in T20Is:
17 – EVIN LEWIS*
10 – Albie Morkel
7 – Ziaur Rahman
6 – Yusuf Pathan, Tanwir Afzal, Craig McMillan
Most sixes in a T20I innings:
14 – Aaron Finch v England, Southampton, 2013
13 – Richard Levi v New Zealand, Hamilton, 2012
12 – Evin Lewis v India, Kingston, 2017*
125* by Evin Lewis today:
– Highest by a West Indies player in T20Is
– Highest against India in T20Is
– Highest by a player while chasing in T20Is
Most sixes against India in T20Is:
21 – EVIN LEWIS* (Just 3 innings)
20 – Shane Watson (8 innings)
17 – Eoin Morgan (8 innings)
After 18 overs,West Indies 183/1 ( Evin Lewis 119 , Marlon Samuels 31)
Bhuvneshwar resorts to a short ball after the boundary off the first ball. Then keeps it wide and full. Samuels cannot get it away for the next four balls and they run a leg bye off the last ball. Need 8 off 12.
After 17 overs,West Indies 178/1 ( Evin Lewis 119 , Marlon Samuels 27)
Lewis is simply hitting sixes for fun now! He has brought the required rate under 5 now. 13 off 18 required. Simply now stopping this man!
After 16 overs,West Indies 164/1 ( Evin Lewis 106 , Marlon Samuels 26)
Kuldeep Yadav has been brought back. Samuels hits a delightful boundary over the covers, and then comes down the track to meet it halfway and misses, but a little deviation from his pads and the balls passes MS Dhoni, who has missed another stumping, tough, but the chance has gone down.
Players to hit nine or more sixes on two different occasions in T20Is:
Chris Gayle
EVIN LEWIS*
After 15 overs,West Indies 149/1 ( Evin Lewis 100 , Marlon Samuels 21)
Windies are now running with it. None of the Indian bowlers are able to stop the run flow.
Most centuries in T20Is:
2 – Chris Gayle
2 – Brendon McCullum
2 – EVIN LEWIS*
After 14 overs,West Indies 135/1 ( Evin Lewis 87 , Marlon Samuels 21)
3 boundaries of the over and couple of singles by Samuels and Lewis to sweeper cover. 56 off 36 now.
After 13 overs,West Indies 119/1 ( Evin Lewis 86 , Marlon Samuels 6)
Jadeja has gone only for 2. He starts round the wicket to Lewis. One was wide down the leg side, as he attempted to follow Lewis who was trying make some room and darts the final ball outside off as Lewis was again moving towards the leg side.
After 12 overs,West Indies 117/1 ( Evin Lewis 86 , Marlon Samuels 5)
Tosses it up to Samuels who gets forward and pushes to covers to get to the other end. Bowls a beauty to Lewis, the ball starts outside leg and then turns in but bounces over the stumps, Lewis goes for a expansive sweep. After a couple of dots, Lewis gets outside the line of the ball gets low and sweeps it to long leg.
After 11 overs,West Indies 106/1 ( Evin Lewis 79 , Marlon Samuels 3)
Shami decides to keep it full after the six, after taking a couple thorough covers, Shami slips one down the leg side for a wide. Follows it up with two dot balls. Then he squirted one to square. Samuels hits it down to long on to finish the over.
After 10 overs,West Indies 95/1 ( Evin Lewis 70 , Marlon Samuels 2)
Ashwin bowls it quick and flat after going for a six and Lewis tried to run it down. Lewis and Samuels take singles to square leg. Lewis picks another single to short third. Ends with a leg break to Samuels for no run.