IND vs WI 3rd T20I Live: Suryakumar shines as India complete 3rd whitewash

IND vs WI Live: With the 3-0 clean sweep, India overtake England and become the number one team in the ICC T20I rankings

11:24 PM

IND vs WI 3rd T20I Live Updates: WI 167-9 | 20 Over | Rohit Sharma wants to focus on the future.

 

Rohit Sharma, the Indian captain says that the Indian team that was known for chasing is no more and his team is all about winning no matter whether they are chasing or defending. He also says that for the Sri Lanka series, he would be not looking at the opposition, rather taking the opportunity to improve upon his own team in this T20 World Cup year. 

 

With that, we come to the end of the Live coverage of the third and final T20I of the three-match series between India and West Indies from Eden Gardens, Kolkata. Thanks for tuning in  

11:20 PM

IND vs WI 3rd T20I Live Updates: WI 167-9 | 20 Over | Suryakumar Yadav Player of the Match and Series

 

Suryakumar Yadav, who hit an amazing 65 off just 31 balls before getting out on the last ball of the India innings has been named Player of the Match for this knock of his. 

 

Surya also receives the Player of the Series for his 107 runs in three games and two of those knocks were match-winning knocks

11:15 PM

IND vs WI 3rd T20I Live Updates: WI 167-9 | 20 Over | Target 185- Match Summary

 

The West Indies cricket team will now head back home as the first team to be clean swept by India throughout the tour as they lost the three-match T20I series 3-0 as well. India cricket team defeated the men in maroon by 17 runs in the third and final T20I of the three-match series at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata. 

 

Chasing 185, West Indies were not able to get over the lines once again. Nicholas Pooran was at the centre of things for the Wets Indies once again as he had two good partnerships of 47 and 48 runs with Rovman Powell and Romario Shepherd before eventually getting out on the first ball of the 18th over when West Indies needed 37 to win from the last three overs with settled pair of Shepherd and Pooran at the crease. 

 

Shardul Thakur removed Pooran and thereafter a great 19th over from Harshal Patel meant that India had the match in the bag. For India, Deepak Chahar, Shardul Thakur and Venkatesh Iyer picked two wickets each while Harshal Patel picked three wickets. 

 

Earlier in the day, thanks to a great Suryakumar Yadav and Venkatesh Iyer show where they gathered 86 in the last five overs, India managed to get to 184-5 in the 20 overs, after being 98-5 at the end of the 15th over.

 

The toss between India skipper Rohit Sharma and his West Indian counterpart- Kieron Pollard was won by the latter who chose to bowl first. 

11:03 PM

IND vs WI 3rd T20I Live Updates: WI 167-9 | 20 Over | Target 185- India No. 1 T20I side

 

With this victory, India have now become the number one T20I side as they win their ninth consecutive game in a row and take over England at the top of the table. This is also the first time an Indian captain has managed to clean sweep the entire tour by any team to India or by India to any other country in a three or matches series. India, who have won the T20I series 3-0, also won the ODIs 3-0. 

10:59 PM

IND vs WI 3rd T20I Live Updates: WI 167-9 | 20 Over | Target 185- Clean sweep by India

 

This is now the third consecutive clean sweep or whitewash by Rohit Sharma as India captain after taking reigns full time. He earlier whitewashed New Zealand in three-match T20I series and defeated West Indies in the ODI series 3-0 as well. 

 

This will now make the expectations higher from Rohit Sharma the captain who has in the past two games shown that he has a different range, that he does get angry and that he does trust his bowlers to defend the total in the death no matter how bad or good they have performed in the earlier overs. 

10:50 PM

IND vs WI 3rd T20I Live Updates: WI 167-9 | 20 Over | Target 185- India win by 17 runs

 

Over Summary: 0 4 W WD 0 0 0

 

Ball 1: Dot ball and that is priceless from Thakur 

 

Ball 2: Four!! Drakes hits this four and keeps the match interesting 

 

Ball 3: Wicket!! And that's a brilliant catch by Rohit at the edge of the circle and gets the wicket of Drakes. West Indies now need 19 off three balls 

 

Ball 4: Wide

 

Ball 4: Dot ball and that's it, that's the game for India. Now West Indies need 18 off two balls

 

Ball 5: Dot ball once again 

 

Ball 6: Bouncer to finish the proceedings and India win by 17 runs

10:47 PM

IND vs WI 3rd T20I Live Updates: WI 166-9 | 20th Over | Target 185- Thakur removes Drakes

 

Over Summary: 0 4 W

 

Ball 1: Dot ball and that is priceless from Thakur 

 

Ball 2: Four!! Drakes hits this four and keeps the match interesting 

 

Ball 3: Wicket!! And that's a brilliant catch by Rohit at the edge of the circle and gets the wicket of Drakes. West Indies now need 19 off three balls 

10:44 PM

IND vs WI 3rd T20I Live Updates: WI 162-8 | 19 Over | Target 185- 23 needed off last over

 

Over Summary: 1+1 1 0 1 W 4

 

Ball 1: 2 runs. Huge appeal for LBW but the batters sneak an overthrow 

 

Ball 2: 1 run

 

Ball 3: Dot ball

 

Ball 4: Just the one run and all this is reminding me of the last match itself. Now West Indies need 27 off 8 balls

 

Ball 5: Wicket!! And Romario Shepherd is gone as Harshal Patel strikes with slow dipper

 

Ball 6: Four!! And that would keep West Indies in the game as they now need 23 off the last over 

 

Windies now need 23 off 06

10:42 PM

IND vs WI 3rd T20I Live Updates: WI 158-8 | 19 Over | Target 185- Patel strikes again

 

Over Summary: 1+1 1 0 1 W

 

Ball 1: 2 runs. Huge appeal for LBW but the batters sneak an overthrow 

 

Ball 2: 1 run

 

Ball 3: Dot ball

 

Ball 4: Just the one run and all this is reminding me of the last match itself. Now West Indies need 27 off 8 balls

 

Ball 5: Wicket!! And Romario Shepherd is gone as Harshal Patel strikes with slow dipper

10:38 PM

IND vs WI 3rd T20I Live Updates: WI 154-7 | 18 Over | Target 185

 

Over Summary:  W 4 0 0 WD 0 1

 

37 needed from three overs 

 

Ball 1: Wicket!! And once again Pooran fails to finish the game as he is unable to clear the infield and Ishan Kishan takes a stunning catch. He departs in the sixties once again. 

 

Ball 2: Four!! Gets the ball past the third man for four runs. 

 

Ball 3: Dot ball

 

Ball 4: Dot ball

 

Ball 5: Wide 

 

Ball 5: Dot ball. And a lot of things happened as the ball was hit straight to Rohit Sharma and he threw at the striker's end but Ihsna Kishan slipped and wasn't able to collect it and thus Shepherd survived 

 

Ball 6: 1 run

 

Excellent over from Thakur and Windies now need 31 off 12

10:33 PM

IND vs WI 3rd T20I Live Updates: WI 148-7 | 18th Over | Target 185

 

Over Summary:  W 

 

37 needed from three overs 

 

Ball 1: Wicket!! And once again Pooran fails to finish the game as he is unable to clear the infield and Ishan Kishan takes a stunning catch. He departs in the sixties once again. 

10:30 PM

IND vs WI 3rd T20I Live Updates: WI 148-6 | 17 Over | Target 185

 

Over Summary:  1 2 4 0 1 6

 

Ball 1: 1 run

 

Ball 2: 2 runs. Misfield from Shreays at long-off 

 

Ball 3: Four!! That was hit powerfully and very straight by Pooran for four runs 

 

Ball 4: Dot ball

 

Ball 5: 1 run. Great yorker execution from Avesh Khan

 

Ball 6: Six!! That was a full toss and you don't bowl those to the big hitter Romario. Hits this for a huge six

10:25 PM

IND vs WI 3rd T20I Live Updates: WI 134-6 | 16 Over | Target 185- Fifty for Pooran

 

 

Over Summary: WD 1 1 2 4 0

 

Ball 1: Wide

 

Ball 1: 1 run

 

Ball 2: 1 run. It was a nicely executed yorker from Harshal Patel

 

Ball 3: 2runs. And with that cover drive, Nicholas Pooran scores his third consecutive fifty in the series. But can he finally get his team over the line?

 

Ball 4: Four!! Wide outside off and Pooran cuts this towards third-man for four runs

 

Ball 5: Dot ball

 

Ball 6: Dot to finish the over

10:20 PM

IND vs WI 3rd T20I Live Updates: WI 125-6 | 15 Over | Target 185- Shepherd dropped

 

Over Summary: 0 1 6 0 2 0

 

Ball 1: Dot ball. Ravi Bishnoi comes in for his final over

 

Ball 2: 1 run. Cut well for a single

 

Ball 3: Six!! Bang says Shepherd again as he picked the googly and hit a monstrous six over deep mid-wicket 

 

Ball 4: Dot ball

 

Ball 5: Dropped!! Well, that was a bullet from Sphepheerd once again and the ball carried to Venkatesh Iyer at mid-off who could not catch it. Two runs taken

 

Ball 6: Dot ball. 

10:15 PM

IND vs WI 3rd T20I Live Updates: WI 116-6 | 14 Over | Target 185- Huge hit from Romario

 

Over Summary: 0 0 1 1 6 0

 

Ball 1: Dot ball. Avesh Khan comes into the attack and starts with a dot ball

 

Ball 2: Dot ball. That came back in sharply and cut Shepherd into half

 

Ball 3: 1 run

 

Ball 4: 1 run

 

Ball 5: Six!! Buzzingaa!! that was a bullet from Shpeheerd as he pulled that 91 meters into the Eden Gardens stands

 

Ball 6: Dot ball. That was well bowled