In­di­an cap­tain Vi­rat Kohli con­tin­ued his crick­et lessons with the West In­dies crick­eters, lead­ing his team to a six-wick­et vic­to­ry and a 2-0 se­ries win over the West In­dies at the Queen's Park Oval in Port-of-Spain on Wednes­day.

At the end of a cloudy and rainy day, Kohli was hoist­ing yet an­oth­er tro­phy, af­ter win­ning the MyTeam11 T20 se­ries 3-0 ear­li­er on the tour. Set 255 to win in 35 overs un­der the Duck­worth/Lewis sys­tem the In­di­ans reached home at 256/4 in 32.3 overs on the back of a bril­liant un­beat­en 114 from Kohli.

The West In­dies got 72 from Chris Gayle and 43 from Evin Lewis which took them to 240/7 off 35 overs. This proved in­ad­e­quate in the end, as the bowl­ing and field­ing from the home team left a lot to be de­sired.

The right-han­der, who was dropped by wick­et­keep­er Shai Hope on 12, went on to record his 43rd ODI cen­tu­ry and sec­ond in suc­ces­sion. The classy hand came off 94 balls with 11 mea­sured fours.

The class of the In­di­ans re­mind­ed the West In­dies just how far back they are com­pared to the well-oiled In­di­an unit. Af­ter los­ing Ro­hit Shar­ma for 10, Shikar Dhawan for 36 and Rishabh Pant for a duck, the West In­dies were in the game. How­ev­er, a part­ner­ship of

120 in 15.4 overs be­tween Kohli and Shreyas Iy­er fin­ished off the Windies in­ter­est. Iy­er, the Kohli looka­like made 65 off 41 balls with three fours and five six­es.

Ear­li­er, the West In­dies won the toss and skip­per Ja­son Hold­er de­cid­ed to bat first ex­plain­ing that his bats­men need­ed to be pos­i­tive and take the fight to the In­di­ans.

This they did and af­ter 10 overs when he looked up at the score­board he would have felt vin­di­cat­ed with his de­ci­sion, as the ma­roons had 114 to the good and all ten wick­ets stand­ing. The two struck the most six­es in the first 10 overs of an ODI - 8.

The In­di­ans quick­ly re­al­ized that they need­ed to take pace off the ball and as soon as they brought the spin­ners on, they kept the open­ers, Chris Gayle and Evin Lewis, hon­est.

Gayle play­ing what looked like his fi­nal ODI game had re­quest­ed a new num­ber and got his wish­es. He wore 301 on his back, which re­flect­ed the fact that he was play­ing his 301st ODI game. He came out in a very pos­i­tive mood and it was bru­tal butch­ery from his bat. He raced to his half-cen­tu­ry off just 30 balls but soon af­ter saw the fall of Lewis. With no way to go and all day to do it - Lewis threw his hand away at 43 with the score at 115.

Gayle fol­lowed Lewis, af­ter crack­ing 72 off 41 balls with eight fours and five six­es. He waved to all the spec­ta­tors and shook hands with all the In­di­an play­ers, in­di­cat­ing that this was his fi­nal hur­rah in the ODI for­mat.

With the rain threat­en­ing all day, it de­cid­ed to come down and af­ter a stop­page of around three hours, the match was re­duced to a 35-over af­fair.

When the Windies went off at the rain break they were 158 for two af­ter 22 overs. On the re­sump­tion, they were able to add 82 off the re­main­ing 13 overs to end on 240/7. Nico­las Pooran thrilled with 30 off 16 balls, hit­ting three six­es.

SCORES

WEST IN­DIES 240 for sev­en off 35 overs (Chris Gayle 71, Evin 43, Nicholas Pooran 30, Shim­ron Het­my­er 25, Shai Hope 24; Khaleel Ahmed 3-68, Mo­hammed Sha­mi 2-50)

IN­DIA 256 for four off 32.3 overs (Vi­rat Kohli 114 not out, Shreyas Iy­er 65, Shikhar Dhawan 36; Fabi­an Allen 2-40