Holder stings uncharacteristically dull India
REASONS BEHIND DEFEAT: The visitors were dismantled by a multiple of trained West Indies bowling and their possess irregular dawdling during a crease. PHOTO: AFP
NORTH SOUND: West Indies captain Jason Holder led from a front with a five-wicket transport as his side snatched an 11-run win over India in a fourth one-day general in Antigua on Sunday.
India came into a compare during a Sir Vivian Richards Stadium streamer 2-0 in a array and were set a medium aim of 190 to say their dominant run in this brief campaign.
But a visitors were dismantled by a multiple of trained West Indies bowling and their possess irregular dawdling during a crease.
That walking swell was typified by Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s perfected innings of 54 off 114 deliveries — a slowest of his 64 ODI half-centuries — before he fell off a final round of a 49th over bowled by Kesrick Williams.
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That left India wanting 15 runs off a final over with usually dual wickets in hand.
It was Williams’ usually success of a parsimonious 10-over spell though valid vicious as Holder hermetic a win that keeps a array alive streamer into a fifth and final compare in Kingston on Thursday.
He discharged Kuldeep Yadav and Mohammed Shami in a space of 4 balls to finish with 5 for 27, his best-ever ODI total as India folded for 178.
“At a median theatre there were a few heads dropping in a sauce room though it took a large bid and I’m unequivocally gratified to play a partial in gripping us in a series,” pronounced Holder after receiving a male of a compare award. “We targeted removing wickets during a front to plea their other batters who haven’t had most work to do of late. It worked this time.”
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Ajinkya Rahane’s glorious form during a tip of a sequence continued with a tip measure of 60, though a rest of a Indian batting struggled to settle any arrange of movement as a West Indies showed fortify and purpose with a ball.
Young quick bowler Alzarri Joseph, brought into a group in place of medium-pacer Miguel Cummins, set a tinge for a fightback with a wickets of Shikhar Dhawan and Dinesh Karthik.
Meanwhile, Holder private his Indian counterpart, Virat Kohli, for a second time in as many matches around a top-edged hook.
“Our shot preference wasn’t adult to symbol though credit to a West Indies bowlers for a vigour they put on us to force those mistakes,” pronounced Kohli in assessing his team’s warn defeat. “I am certain a guys are going to come behind additional tough for a final match. We only indispensable a finish opening and currently wasn’t one.”
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Earlier, pacers Umesh Yadav and Hardik Pandya claimed 3 wickets any while wrist-spinner Kuldeep Yadav again teased and worried a West Indies batsmen in adding dual some-more victims to his array transport as a hosts limped to 189 for 9 batting first.
While any of a tip 5 managed to get a start, nothing could get past 35 as India exerted roughly finish control over a choice that lacked a inspirational hint to put a antithesis underneath pressure.
Openers Evin Lewis and Kyle Hope were a corner tip scorers with 35 every nonetheless their delayed swell — a opening mount of 57 was damaged in a 18th over — meant those who followed were compulsory to collect adult a pace.
None managed to do so for any postulated duration with Pandya and Kuldeep doing a bulk of a repairs to a West Indies batting choice early on.
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Umesh afterwards ensured there was to be no hazard from a conjectural lower-order big-hitters as he accounted for Holder, Rovman Powell and Ashley Nurse in his second spell.
India had stage a changes for this compare with Karthik replacing Yuvraj Singh in a middle-order, Ravindra Jadeja entrance in as a dilettante spinner for Ravichandran Ashwin and Shami creation his initial ODI coming given a 2015 World Cup as Bhuvneshwar Kumar was rested.
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