India made (Cha)half-a-dozen changes to their playing eleven – Lokesh Rahul, Vijay Shankar, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Hardik Pandya, Yuzvendra and Jasprit Bumrah made way for Shikhar Dhawan, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Khaleel Ahmed.
The West Indies made a couple of changes to the eleven that last played the Indians – Sunil Ambris and Oshane Thomas made way for Evin Lewis and Roston Chase.
On winning the toss, Virat Kohli, India’s skipper, inserted the hosts.
Rain interrupted the start of play. As a result, the match was reduced to a 34-overs-a-side match.
The first Powerplay of the West Indies’ innings – which was the mandatory Powerplay – was between the first and the eighth over. They scored 33 and hadn’t lost a wicket.
Thirty-four balls into the match, rain interrupted play, resulting in a wet ground. The West Indies had scored nine without the loss of a wicket at that point. While Chris Gayle was batting on three, Lewis was batting on four.
Gayle, who faced 31 balls, scored just four. Sixty-one balls into the match, Kuldeep Yadav broke the 42-run stand.
The West Indies scored 50 off 11.5 overs (71 balls). India had conceded four extras at that point. That was, incidentally, the number of extras they eventually conceded.
Thirteen overs into the match, play was called off due to rain. The West Indies had scored 54 for the loss of a wicket at that point.
Lewis, whose 36-ball innings included two boundaries and three sixes, eventually scored 40. He was unbeaten, as was Shai Hope, who faced 11 balls, scoring half-a-dozen.
Jadeja, who bowled a wicketless over, conceded half-a-dozen. Ahmed and Mohammed Shami bowled three wicketless overs apiece. While the former conceded 27, the latter conceded five. Kumar bowled four wicketless overs, including a maiden. He conceded 11. Yadav, who bowled a couple of overs, conceding three. He picked up the only wicket to fall.
The match ended without a result, and the three-match series was levelled 0-0.
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