In the second match of the three-match ODI series played in Visakhapatnam on Wednesday, India defeated the West Indies by 107 runs and made the series 1-1. Now the last match of this series will be played at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack on Sunday. It was very important for the Indian team to win this match to stay in the series. In this match, West Indies captain Kieron Pollard won the toss and decided to bowl first. In such a situation, the Indian team came out to bat first and scored a huge score of 387 runs by losing 4 wickets in 50 overs on the basis of Rohit Sharma's 159 runs, KL Rahul's 102 runs and Shreyas Iyer's 53 runs, in response to which the West Indies team scored just 280 runs.
With Kuldeep Yadav's hat-trick and good bowling by Mohammed Shami and Ravindra Jadeja stopped West Indies for 280 runs in 43.3 overs chasing a target of 388 runs. In this way, India won this match by 107 runs. Rohit Sharma was adjudged 'Player of the Match' for his historic innings. For West Indies, Shai Hope, Nicholas Pooran and Keemo Paul played well, but the team was left behind. Chasing a target of 388 runs, the West Indies team got off to a good start with the opening pair of Shai Hope and Evin Lewis scoring 56 runs in 10 overs. However, on the last ball of the 11th over, Evin Lewis scored 30 runs in 35 balls and was caught by Shreyas Iyer off Shardul Thakur. Shimron Hetmyer, who came to bat after Lewis, was run out by scoring 4 runs in this match. Kuldeep Yadav took the hat-trick of his ODI career by taking wickets on the fourth, fifth and sixth balls of the 8th over of his quota. Kuldeep completed his hat-trick by dismissing Shai Hope, then Jason Holder and then Alzari Joseph. West Indies got the 9th blow as Khary Pierre, who scored 21 runs off Jadeja's ball, caught by Kohli.
Earlier, the Indian team came out to bat first after losing the toss and openers Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul gave a good start. Together, they scored 227 runs in 37 overs. During this time, KL Rahul completed his century in 102 balls while Rohit Sharma completed his 28th century of ODI career off 107 balls. Rohit completed his century off 107 balls with the help of 11 fours and 2 sixes. KL Rahul was dismissed for 102 off 104 balls.
At the same time, Virat Kohli returned without opening the account on the first ball. After this, Rohit Sharma was also dismissed for 159 runs. Rohit hit 17 fours and 5 sixes in 138 balls in his innings. Rishabh Pant was dismissed after a blistering 49 off 27 balls. At the same time, Sheryas Iyer also scored 53 runs off 32 balls. With this, the Indian team made a match in its name by performing well in bowling too.
