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Sunday, July 20, 2025

West Indies lose ODI series to India

by

Vinode Mamchan, Senior Sports Reporter
2166 days ago
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Chris Gayle of the West Indies celebrates his final innings in the Maroon after he scored 72 runs during the 3rd My Team 11 One day international match between the West Indies and India at the Queens Park Oval, Port-of-Spain on Wednesday.

THANK YOU! Chris Gayle of the West Indies celebrates his final innings in the Maroon after he scored 72 runs during the 3rd My Team 11 One day international match between the West Indies and India at the Queens Park Oval, Port-of-Spain on Wednesday.

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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


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