IND vs WI ODI series: India clinches victory against West Indies by 200 runs

IND vs WI ODI series: Team India kicked off their proceedings in the ODI series against West Indies and continued their dominance against the West Indies with the most consecutive bilateral ODI series wins against the Caribbeans.

India clinched victory over West Indies by 200-run victory. Meanwhile, last time India suffered an ODI series defeat at the hands of the Caribbean team which stretches back to 17 years.

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India lost the ODI series by 4-1 in 2006 against the West Indies team which was led by the legendary cricketer Brian Lara.

India opened the series with a five-wicket victory but, after that West Indies went on to win the remaining four consecutive games to clinch the five-match ODI series.

Other than West Indies, India also have 10 consecutive ODI series wins agaisnt Sri Lanka.  

Coming to the game, while chasing a huge total of 352, West Indies lose their first wicket early as Mukesh Kumar dismissed Brandon King on a duck in the first over. Mukesh again struck the wicket, he cleared up WI captain Shai Hope at 5.

Shubman Gill took catch at slip 

Shubman Gill took the catch at the slip. Suffering from Mukesh’s class swing, West Indies were 17/3 after 7 overs.West Indies continued to crumble as Shardul Thakur dismissed Romario Shepherd (8) on a bounce in the 14th over. Shepherd tried a pull shot but he found Unadkat in the deep backward square.

Thakur picked the last wicket by clearing up Jayden Seales with an angled ball hitting the stumps. India won by a massive 200 runs in 35.3 overs.

Outstanding partnership between Ishan and Gill

The outstanding opening partnership of 143 runs between Ishan Kishan and Shubman Gill followed by quickfire knocks from Sanju Samson and Hardik Pandya powered India to 351/5.

Gill scored the highest for India with 85 off 92 while Kishan played a fine knock of 77 runs. Stand-in captain Hardik Pandya played a fiery unbeaten knock of 70 runs off 52 while Sanju Samson also smashed a vital 51 runs off 41 balls. Romario Shepherd scalped two wickets for West Indies, conceding 73 runs in his 10 overs spell.

India will now square off against West Indies in a five-match T20I series, which will begin on Thursday.