West Indies to play second T20 this evening

The India and West Indies will continue to entertain the people of America when they will face each other on August 28 for the second T20 game at central Broward Regional Park Stadium Turf Ground, Lauderhill, Florida.

“This is a good journey not only for India but also West Indies, they are closer from here”. The pitch at Lauderhill has often produced scores on the higher side, the last game recording an aggregate of 489 runs – the highest-ever in the history of T20 cricket.

After the wicket of Sharma, Dhoni promoted him up the order to finish the job, and he did so very much until the last ball miss.

But his fellow opener and Saturday centurion Evin Lewis went for just seven and, after Charles fell to the first ball of the sixth over, making it 50-2, West Indies began to struggle. Dhoni was in a similar situation during the Zimbabwe tour, where he managed to get a single, when India needed four off the final delivery to win the match. We were favouring one end and hit sixes on that side and we knew that they did not have overs left from their main bowlers in the death.

“The ground itself is up to the global standard, the wicket was good, you can’t score 500 runs on a bad wicket, so a fantastic wicket”.

West Indies’ Evin Lewis’ 49-ball 100 in the first T20 has helped him move up 288 slots to reach 51st position.

It is the most runs that each team has scored in the first ten overs, while the aggregate is the second best in any T20I, three runs short of the record of 251 in a South Africa-West Indies game in Johannesburg in 2015.

Rookie opener Evin Lewis, playing in his only second T20 worldwide, hit 100 (49 balls; 5×4, 9×6) and shared 126 runs for the first wicket from a mere 9.3 overs with Johnson Charles (79 of 33 balls; 6×4, 7×6) led the mauling of Indian bowlers.

The Indian bowlers had no answer to the sudden onslaught launched by the West Indians with Charles being the more aggressive of the two.

After a narrow one-run defeat in a high-scoring thriller, India came all guns blazing to bowl West Indies out for 143 in the second and final T20 here. West Indies crawled their way to 143 before being bundled out in 20th over with two balls to spare.

With 115 required of 54 balls, India kept the pace going as the “classy” Rahul completed his half century in 26 balls.

But it was not over yet for the southpaw, who launched seamer Stuart Binny for five consecutive sixes in the 11th over to propel the Caribbean side to the 150-run mark.

Although, West Indies won the first match, but they failed to contain the Indian batsman and they must not underestimate the potential of Indians.