New Delhi: Due to Suryakumar Yadav's whirlwind knock, India crushed hosts West Indies by 7 wickets in the third T20I. With this, Rohit Sharma-led Team India has taken a 2-1 lead in the 5-match T20 series. Batting first after losing the toss, the West Indies scored 164 runs for the loss of 5 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. In response, the Blue Brigade achieved the target 6 balls ago for the loss of 3 wickets.
Team India suffered a big blow in the form of captain Rohit Sharma on 19 runs. In fact, Rohit got retired hurt. After he left the field, Shreyas Iyer supported Suryakumar Yadav well and took the team to victory. After Rohit's injury, Suryakumar Yadav smashed the Caribbean bowlers and scored 76 off 44 balls. Let us know that Rohit Sharma was playing big shots on Alzarri Joseph's balls in the second over, but after the fourth ball of the same over, he looked in pain and after this he was forced to go out of the field. Rohit had scored 11 off 5 balls before retiring hurt.
Earlier, batting first after losing the toss, the West Indies tried to set a challenging target in front of India on the back of Kyle Mayers' 73-run knock. Apart from Kyle, Brendan King, captain Nicholas Pooran, and Rovman Powell, Shimron Hetmyer could not score many runs. Bhuvneshwar Kumar took 2 for 35 and Hardik Pandya and Arshdeep Singh took 1 wicket each.
Chasing the target, Team India got the first blow in the form of Iyer on 105, who went after scoring 24 runs. After Iyer returned to the pavilion, India got Suryakumar's second blow on 135. After the fall of 2 wickets, wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant along with Hardik Pandya wanted to take responsibility of the victory, but Pandya returned to the pavilion after scoring 4 runs. Pant scored an unbeaten 33 off 26 balls. At the same time, Deepak Hooda scored an unbeaten 10 off 7 balls.
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