India vs West Indies 3rd ODI 2019 Stat Highlights: Shardul Thakur, Ravindra Jadeja Guide Hosts to 2-1 Series Win; Virat Kohli, Mohammed Shami Script Records
The third game between India and West Indies was no less than a nail-biting thriller as the team won the game by four wickets. It was Shardul Thakur and Ravindra Jadeja who led the team to a stunning win after the departure of Virat Kohli on the score of 85 runs. In this article, we bring you the stat highlights of the match, but before that let’s have a look at how the decider panned out for both sides.
The third game between India and West Indies was no less than a nail-biting thriller as the team won the game by four wickets. It was Shardul Thakur and Ravindra Jadeja who led the team to a stunning win after the departure of Virat Kohli on the score of 85 runs. In this article, we bring you the stat highlights of the match, but before that let’s have a look at how the decider panned out for both sides. So after winning the toss, India elected to bowl first. The Indian cricket team had a bad outing with the ball as the bowlers bot battered left, right and centre. Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Shami and Kuldeep Yadav leaked runs and went over the economy of six runs per over. India Vs West Indies, Live Cricket Score 3rd ODI Match.
Only Navdeep Saini could snap a couple of wickets. It was Kieron Pollard and Nicholas Pooran who were the heroes for the visitors as they made 89 and 74 runs respectively. The visitors set a target of 315 runs on the board. Now, when it comes to India, Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul gave a great start to the team by scoring 63 and 77 runs respectively.
Virat Kohli also stood tall and just when we thought that he would lead India to a drastic win, he got out on the score of 85 runs. Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Iyer got out in quick succession as they made seven runs each. But Shardul Thakur and Ravindra Jadeja chipped in with the partnership of 30 runs and the team achieved the target in 48.4 overs. Now, let’s have a look at the stat highlights of the match below:
#Virat Kohli surpassed South African legend Jacques Kallis to become the seventh-highest run-scorer in One Day Internationals. The former South African legend made 11579 runs in 328 ODIs with the help of 17 centuries and 86 fifties and Kohli has gone past his tally in his 242nd game.
#Mohammed Shami ends 2019 as highest wicket-taker in ODIs as he bagged 42 wickets in ODIs which stands the best by any bowler in the 2019 calendar year.
#Rohit Sharma brought in his 42 ODI fifty.
#KL Rahul scored his fourth ODI half-century.
#This was India’s 17th successful chase when they were presented with the target of 300 plus.
#India won tenth successive bilateral series (2+ ODIs) win against West Indies.
# This is the sixth time, Virat Kohli has scored 50 plus runs with a run chase of 300 runs.
Rohit Sharma has been adjudged as the Man of the Series as he scored 36, 159 and 63 runs respectively. "It was a decider and we wanted to win this game and especially here in Cuttack it's a good batting track. It was a little sad that I couldn't bat longer and I quite enjoyed that Shardul pull shot it was much needed at that point. Extremely grateful for the year I had, the World Cup win would have been nice," said Sharma while speaking at the post-match presentation.
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