Kolkata: Indian seamers fired in unison after Suryakumar Yadav’s belligerent fifty as the hosts coasted to a series-sweeping 17-urge retract over the West Indies in the third and last T20I here on Sunday.
After Deepak Chahar limped off the sphere after failing to full the third over on account of a hamstring damage, Harshal Patel (3/22), Venkatesh Iyer (2/23 from 2.1 overs) and Shardul Thakur (2/33) performed their responsibilities impressively to defend India’s 184/5.
Wicket-keeper batter Nicholas Pooran continued his just correct-attempting build slamming a third successive fifty (61 off 47 balls; 8×4, 1×6) but it surely used to be no longer ample as West Indies managed correct kind 167 for 9.
That’s that from the last T20I as #TeamIndia retract by 17 runs to full a 3-0 spruce sweep in the sequence.
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— BCCI (@BCCI) February 20, 2022
For Rohit, it used to be his third successive spruce sweep as fulltime skipper, having earlier defeated Unique Zealand (0-3) in T20Is and West Indies (0-3) in ODIs. The retract additionally matched their 2020 narrative of 9 successive victories on the scamper.
For the West Indies, this used to be their third successive bilateral sequence defeats some distance from dwelling — 0-2 to Unique Zealand in 2020-21 and zero-3 to Pakistan 2021-22 — as they capped a forgettable India sojourn losing six fits on the scamper (including three in the ODI leg).
Even supposing ebutant pacer Avesh Khan (4-0-42-0) struggled in conjunction with his line, Chahar made early inroads for India early on striking off both the openers — Kayle Mayers (6) and Shai Hope (8) — in the space of 11 deliveries within the powerplay.
Chahar swung the ball both ways and additionally smartly changed his tempo to deceive the Windies openers and gave the most major breakthrough in the fifth ball after India reviewed it successfully to brush aside Mayers.
In his next over, he took the outside edge of Hope with a peach of an outswinger and regarded on hearth before he sustained an damage and limped off the sphere without ending his over.
In absence of Chahar, Harshal stepped it up displaying his just correct cricketing mind as he done his slower ones to perfection to be the wrecker-in-chief.
Earlier, Suryakumar Yadav unleashed his brute energy on technique to a 31-ball 65, and used to be well supported by all-rounder Venkatesh (35 no longer out off 19) as India posted a no longer easy 184 for five after being build in to bat.
Suryakumar smashed seven sixes and one boundary in an distinctive expose of energy-hitting before getting out for his profession-supreme T20 ranking in the last offer.
Tear bowling all-rounder Venkatesh smashed four fours and two sixes on the other live as the duo build together 91 runs from 37 balls for the fourth wicket to serve India recuperate from a mini center repeat crumple.
The rejigged Crew India misplaced three wickets for 55 runs in the center overs including that of skipper Rohit Sharma, who batted at amount four, to be struggling at 98/4 in 15 overs.
Surya cruised to his fourth T20 fifty in exactly 27 balls with a huge internal-out six over covers off Romario Sheperd in the last over as India stepped up popular smashing 86 runs in the last 5 overs.
It used to be a peculiar-query Indian batting repeat on expose with Ishan Kishan opening the batting with Ruturaj Gaikwad, while Shreyas Iyer batted at No 3, and skipper Rohit dropped him down the repeat at No 4 in absence of Virat Kohli and Rishabh Pant who were rested.
Having obtained an various after making a debut in the Sri Lanka sequence in July last year, the Maharashtra ‘urge machine’ Ruturaj impressed in his immediate close on the crease and timed the ball to perfection before getting out while playing out of his consolation zone.
Essentially the most costly steal on the IPL 2022 mega public sale Ishan, who had two forgettable outings in the most major two T20Is, began to hearth in opposition to Shepherd with three boundaries in four balls in the fourth over.
Having build on a fifty-plus stand in exactly 32 balls, the duo of Shreyas and Ishan did now not severely change their begins and obtained out in the space of seven balls.
The Windies wander duo of Hayden Walsh Junior (4-0-30-1) and Roston Bound (4-0-23-1) bowled brilliantly in the center overs.
