West Indies and India locked horns in the second game of the five-match T20I series at Warner Park in St. Kitts. The hosts won the toss and elected to bowl first. The decision paid dividends immediately as opposition skipper Rohit Sharma was caught at short third man off Obed McCoy on the first ball of the game. The left-arm pacer stuck in his second over as Suryakumar Yadav (11) was caught behind by Devon Thomas.
Shreyas Iyer (10) couldn’t do much either as he was caught by Thomas trying to play a cut short against Alzarri Joseph. Rishabh Pant (24), who came out after the fall of Yadav started well. However, his inning was cut short as he was caught at deep midwicket by Odean Smith off Akeal Hosein. At 61/4, Hardik Pandya and Ravindra Jadeja tried to resurrect the innings and stitched a partnership of 43 runs.
However, after the fall of Pandya (31) to Jason Holder, the rest of the wickets fell like a pack of cards. from 104/4, the Men In Blue were all-out on 138 in 19.4 overs. McCoy, who took the first two wickets, completed a six-wicket haul. On the other hand, Holder took two. In reply, the Maroon Brigade didn’t have any problems even though Kyle Myers played extremely slow. He scored eight off 14 balls before falling to Pandya.
The quick wickets of the skipper Nicholas Pooran and Shimron Hetmyer gave a slight chance to make a comeback in the game. However, the cameo from Thomas (31 off 19) ensured that the good work from McCoy doesn’t go in vain. Also, not to forget, Brandon King’s 68 off 52 balls also ensured that the team remained in the game. They chased down the target in 19.2 overs and five wickets in hand.
Talking about Indian bowling, they bowled fine but they needed wickets to win such a low-scoring game. Looks like Nicholas Pooran’s men walked their skipper’s talks. For the unversed, Pooran had said that one bad game doesn’t make them a bad team.
This is how Twitter reacted
After a long time #TeamIndia
Batsman was fail in their work. No any batsman can take some effort again #WestIndies in 2nd t20I.Hope they will bounce back in next game.#IndvsWI #aravchoudhary #newindia #WIvsIND #T20
— Arav Choudhary (@iaravchoudhary) August 2, 2022
What is the roll of Iyer in team?
Where are Hooda and Samson ?@BCCI #WIvsIND— Hemant Tripathi? (@alwayshemant) August 2, 2022
Rishabh Pant never looked comfortable. Can’t let T20 become his nemesis. Opportunities don’t come every day #IndvsWI
— Vikrant Gupta (@vikrantgupta73) July 29, 2022
Rohit Sharma Registered his 4th Golden Duck in T20I (most by Indians)
Virat Kohli yet to Score Golden Duck in T20I#INDvsWI
— ?????? (@Shebas_10dulkar) August 1, 2022
#IndvsWI #SanjuSamson
Better than some of the player who getting regular chances in xi ?@ImRo45 @Rahul dravidDon't play with him & the Indian fans who know the reality ? @BCCI pic.twitter.com/b5iPGIn3vR
— Manjeet Sharma (@saddubanda12) August 2, 2022
Its high time that #SanjuSamson is the main wicket keeper in the Indian T20 team! Why double standards, non performing stars being picked consistently while Sanju never gets continued games?#IndvsWI #RishabhPant #IndvWI https://t.co/Orcx8EWPls
— Immortality (@ajay36mittal) August 2, 2022
Avish Khan is the most over rated and stupid bowler #IndvsWI
— Deva Lakshman (@DevaLux43) August 1, 2022
Experimenting too much with the batting line up is #TeamIndia. @surya_14kumar is best suited for #3or4. #deepakhooda should have gotten the chance to open. #IndvsWI
— Harisankar Menon (@jammyhari) August 2, 2022
Shreyas Iyer has having serious trouble against quality pace bowling. He is looking very uncomfortable. He needs to go back to domestic cricket and work on his shortcomings. #ShreyasIyer #IndvsWI #BCCI #sportstak #sportsyaari #sportstak #CricketTwitter #CricbuzzLive
— Pankaj Kumar Sinha (@PankajK81742908) August 2, 2022
Haar gaye, ab neend aur nahi aayegi ?.
— Bhawana (@bhawnakohli5) August 1, 2022
Really failing to understand SKY opening…Hooda sitting Out…Ashwin playing and Axar Sitting out…whose brains are working here to tell me what is happening…as Prathiv Patel said recently a lot of things are happening to save Virat’s place #IndiavsWestindies @BCCI
— Samip Rajguru (@samiprajguru) August 1, 2022
