Latest Match Report – West Indies vs India third T20I 2023
India 164 for 3 (Suryakumar 83, Tilak 49*, Joseph 2-25) beat West Indies 159 for five (King 42, Powell 40*, Kuldeep 3-28) by seven wickets
A chic 44-ball 83 from Suryakumar Yadav, peppered with boundary photographs throughout the park, stored India alive within the T20I collection in opposition to West Indies, though the scoreline nonetheless reads 2-1 in West Indies’ favour going into the USA leg of the five-match contest. India have been in a spot of hassle when their two openers fell early within the chase of 160 – additionally the best goal of the collection up to now – however Suryakumar, the world’s No. 1 T20I batter, counterattacked with ten fours and 4 sixes.His innings left the West Indies bowlers with few solutions, and allowed Tilak Varma to quietly settle in and play a decisive supporting position. Tilak blossomed after Suryakumar’s dismissal to complete with an unbeaten 49 himself, a 3rd straight innings of promise and the primary one to return in a victory.West Indies, who gained the toss and opted to bat, scored 159 for five, which appeared strong on the sluggish floor. However with a gentle drizzle coming into play within the second innings, their bowlers had a harder time in comparison with the Indians. They failed to duplicate what India’s spinners – led by KuldeepYadav’s three-for – did, and the collection now strikes to the USA with India presumably with the momentum.
Kuldeep leads India’s spin dominance
West Indies captain Rovman Powell selected to bat on the toss, citing the used Windfall floor, and India too believed the floor was sluggish, utilizing 9 straight overs of spin ranging from the third over. Openers Brandon King (42) and Kyle Mayers (25) discovered the occasional boundaries within the powerplay, however the mixture of Axar Patel and Yuzvendra Chahal ensured West Indies may rating solely 38 runs within the first six overs.
Axar then bought the primary breakthrough when Mayers mistimed a slog sweep, ending the 55-run opening stand, after which Johnson Charles’ sluggish innings allowed Chahal and Kuldeep to cool down. Kuldeep bought on the scorecard when he efficiently reviewed an lbw name to dismiss Charles with a googly.
With Nicholas Pooran coming in at No. 4, India went again to tempo, with Hardik bowling his second over. However Pooran pounced on Kuldeep’s left-arm wristspin from the opposite finish to point out indicators of a repeat from the second T20I, the place he had scored a 40-ball 67.
Kuldeep, although, charged again strongly in his remaining over regardless of being conscious of Pooran’s urge for food for giant photographs. He had Pooran stumped for 20 with a legbreak after which held on to a pointy caught-and-bowled probability to take away King. And with the set batters gone, West Indies have been left with two new batters, as the ultimate 5 overs approached.
Rovman Powell performed a captain’s hand with an unbeaten 19-ball 40•Related Press
Powell cameo offers West Indies huge end
With 4 overs to go, and West Indies at solely 113, they wanted the skilled pair of Shimron Hetmyer and Powell to step up. Whereas Hetmyer fell within the 18th over to Mukesh Kumar’s first supply of the match, Powell ran laborious between the wickets to choose up twos when obtainable, after which muscled the Indian quicks for boundaries.
Full tosses from Mukesh and Arshdeep Singh have been dispatched, and when Arshdeep missed his yorkers and served up slot deliveries, Powell pummelled them for 2 extra sixes in a 17-run nineteenth over to present West Indies hope of a 160-plus rating.
A six over the leg aspect from Powell within the remaining over, bowled by Mukesh, who had given away simply two runs off his first 4 balls of the over, helped West Indies, however they might solely set India 160 for a win. After the sport, although, Powell stated that West Indies have been a number of runs brief, having “misplaced our approach within the center overs”.
SKY turns it on, Tilak produces one other class act
Debutant Yashasvi Jaiswal was out within the first over of the chase to Obed McCoy whereas attempting to muscle a shot over the leg aspect, and shortly after, an out-of-sorts Shubman Gill returned for six in 11 balls after top-edging Alzarri Joseph, West Indies’ greatest bowler on the day.
However between the 2 dismissals, Suryakumar was fast off the blocks – he hit a 4 and 6 off his first two balls – and motored alongside at breakneck pace. Suryakumar did not let the harmful Akeal Hosein cool down within the powerplay both, with a boundary apiece within the left-arm spinner’s first two overs.
Suryakumar Yadav introduced up his half-century in simply 23 balls•AFP/Getty Photographs
Tilak started in Suryakumar’s vein with two boundary photographs after he walked into bat within the fourth over after Gill’s wicket. The 2 of them then mixed to pump 17 runs off McCoy within the remaining powerplay over to place India properly forward of the DLS par rating with rain within the air.
After the powerplay, although, it was the Suryakumar present, the place an expansion outfield made no distinction to India’s vice-captain. Roston Chase’s full toss was flicked to large long-on, earlier than back-to-back fours off Romario Shepherd took Suryakumar to his half-century in solely 23 deliveries.
Because the rain bought heavier – however not heavy sufficient to cease play – the moist ball made it harder for the West Indies bowlers to execute their plans, and Suryakumar pounced on the smallest of errors in size or line to punish them. A scoop over fantastic leg and a carved shot behind level off Shepherd within the tenth over deflated West Indies additional, and on the midway mark of the chase, India have been 97 for two and in whole management.
Suryakumar finally fell on 83 – two balls after hitting Joseph for his fourth six of the innings – when he tried to flick a free ball to fantastic leg, however by then the required run price was properly underneath six. In Hardik Pandya’s firm, Tilak took cost of the chase with a exact pull off Hosein and a heave over sq. leg for six off Shepherd.
Each Hardik and Tilak additionally displayed strong communication when working between the wickets, and Tilak moved to 49 within the 18th over with India needing two extra to win. Nonetheless, he can be left stranded one in need of his second T20I fifty when Pandya drilled Powell for six over long-off to seal India’s win with 13 balls to spare.
Sreshth Shah is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo. @sreshthx
