Suryakumar sizzles as India stay alive with seven-wicket triumph in 3rd T20I vs West Indies

Within the chase, India didn’t get off to an auspicious begin as debutant Yashasvi Jaiswal fell for 1 attempting to go after Obed McCoy. Suryakumar started his innings in ominous trend, slamming a 4 and 6 off his first two balls. On the different finish, although, Shubman Gill (6) miscued one off Alzarri Joseph.

Suryakumar reached his half-century off solely 23 balls, taking up many of the West Indies bowlers. In all, he struck 10 fours and 4 sixes, which featured his trademark whips and scoops. He was wanting good for 3 figures when he fell to a full toss off Joseph.

Varma and skipper Hardik Pandya (20 not out off 15) then did the ending job for India. Pandya ended the sport in effective trend, launching his reverse quantity Rovman Powell for a most over long-off.

Earlier, West Indies put up 159/5, batting first after profitable the toss. Powell led the way in which for his crew, hammering 40 not out off solely 19 balls. After a slight delay because of the 30-yard circle not being drawn, West Indies acquired off to a powerful begin as openers Brandon King (42 off 42) and Kyle Mayers (25 off 20) added 55 in 7.4 overs.

Axar Patel dismissed Mayers because the batter top-edged a slog-sweep, whereas Johnsn Charles fell lbw to Kuldeep for 12. Nicholas Pooran smashed a quick-fire 20 off 12. He couldn’t keep it up as he was stumped by Kuldeep for 20. The left-arm spinner additionally dismissed King caught and bowled in the identical over.

Shimron Hetmyer fell to Mukesh Kumar for 9; Powell acquired some much-needed large hits on the loss of life. He struck two sixes off Arshdeep Singh within the nineteenth over and one off Mukesh within the final over as West Indies set India what appeared like a difficult goal of 160.

The final two T20Is of the sequence shall be performed in Lauderhill, Florida on August 12 and 13.

–By A Cricket Correspondent