August 27, 2016 |
Central Broward Regional Park Stadium, Lauderhill |
12:00 local (16:00 GMT | 21:30 IST) |
1st Twenty20 international match of 2 t20i series at nutrual vanue Florida, USA has been played between India and West Indies at Central Broward Regional Park Stadium, Lauderhill today. Putting into bat first by India West Indies put very huge score of 245 runs for India to get in 20 overs. J Charles 79 of 33 balls and E Lewis 100 of 49 balls played super quick inning for West Indies to put 244 on board. 21 sixes and 13 fours were smashed by West Indies players today.
India replied strongly with quick batting and put match in very interesting sutiation where India needed just 8 runs to win in last over with 7 wickets in hand. MS Dhoni and century man KL Rahul were in middle to get those runs. India needed 2 runs to win on the last ball of 20th over and skipper MS Dhoni got cought out and lost the match by little margin of just 1 run in high scoring match at Florida, USA. KL Rahul made 110* of 51 balls and RG Sharma also played quick inning of 62 runs just in 28 balls. Skipper MS Dhoni also contributed well 43 of 25 balls but lost the match by inches of 1 run. E Lewis declared man of the match for his maiden century knock with 100 runs in 49 balls.
Man of the match :- E Lewis (West Indies) |
Series - West Indies led the 2-match series 1-0 |
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