Highlights: India vs West Indies 5th ODI: Ravindra Jadeja clinched four wickets as the Windies were bundled out for 104 in the final ODI.
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It might not have been as obvious as the six iceberg warnings doled out to Titanic in 1912, but there were enough pointers to why batting first in Thiruvananthapuram could have spelt doom. Under overcast skies, on a sticky pitch, and with dew expected later, Jason Holder's decision to bat first against inspired hosts chaperoned Windies to 104 all-out, their lowest total against India, who won the fifth and last ODI by nine wickets to romp home a scintillating 3-1 series win.
Chasing 105, the most India had to contend with was Oshane Thomas's pace. The 21-year-old fast bowler accounted for Shikhar Dhawan in his first over, getting the left-hander to play on for the second time in the series, and then extracted outside edges from two of India's best: Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma. While Kohli's edge was dropped by Jason Holder at first slip, Rohit's caught-behind was overruled by a nasty front-foot no-ball.
Once Thomas's pace was behind them, India rattled to the target like a superfast train. Rohit topped 200 sixes en route to his 37th ODI fifty, and with Kohli's over run-a-ball 33 helped overhaul the 105-run target with 35.1 overs to spare.
It was India's bowlers who did everything but win the game in the first innings. Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Jasprit Bumrah were again phenomenal with the new ball, which swung for the first time in the series to limit Windies's strokeplay, which was already inhibited by the slow pitch on offer. Windies could tally only 10 runs for the loss of Kieran Powell and Shai Hope in the first six overs, with both the batsmen departing for ducks.
It took Marlon Samuels to turn things around, if only for a short while. Two boundaries in Bhuvneshwar's over was followed by a planned counterattack in Khaleel Ahmed's first over. To put things into contest, it was Khaleel who had taken Samuels's wicket in the last match and celebrated it with a demerit point-inviting send-off. Today, it was Samuels's turn.
Ravindra Jadeja's introduction in the tenth over, and rightly on a pitch with some moisture to aid spin, was what seeded a middle-order meltdown. The left-arm spinner struck twice in his marathon eight-over first spell, that witnessed him get rid of an attacking Samuels and then Shimron Hetmyer, before ending up with four wickets in total. Jadeja's airtight lines and lengths also allowed Khaleel and Bumrah to attack from the other end. While Khaleel got the wicket of Rovman Powell, who was promoted to open the batting in place of dropped Hemraj Chandrapaul, Bumrah picked Fabian Allen's wicket - both wickets coming off miscued pull shots - to leave the Windies reeling at 66 for 6.
It was to be Khaleel again who put an end to Jason Holder's 33-ball 25, an innings that promised to take Windies to something worth defending. Trying to hit in the air, Holder was caught at mid-off and it all went awry for Windies, if it wasn't already. Such was India's dominance at the start, in admittedly good conditions for bowling, that Kuldeep Yadav wasn't even called upon to bowl until the 23rd over of the innings. Eight Windies batsmen scored in single-digits, and the number of extras in the game outscored six of them.
The fact that India didn't need the 35.1 overs at their disposal, which is 4.4 overs fewer than what Windies lasted in this ODI, belies what this series witness: a tied game, a rare loss for India at home, and more importantly a restoration of the belief that there's some hope for this Windies side overall. With World Cup just months away, both India and Windies walk away with more answers than questions, which is what both sides would have hoped for.
Brief scores: Windies 104 in 31.5 overs (Jason Holder 25, Marlon Samuels 24; Ravindra Jadeja 4-34) vs India 105/1 in 14.5 overs (Sharma 63*, Kohli 33*; Thomas 1-33) by 9 wickets
(SCORECARD)
India won by 9 wkts
Windies Innings104-10 (31.5)
Batsman
R
B
4s
6s
SR
Kieran Powell
c Dhoni b Bhuvneshwar
0
4
0
0
0.00
Rovman Powell
c Dhawan b K Khaleel Ahmed
16
39
1
0
41.03
Shai Hope (wk)
b Bumrah
0
5
0
0
0.00
Marlon Samuels
c Kohli b Ravindra Jadeja
24
38
3
1
63.16
Shimron Hetmyer
lbw b Ravindra Jadeja
9
11
1
0
81.82
Jason Holder (c)
c Kedar Jadhav b K Khaleel Ahmed
25
33
2
0
75.76
Fabian Allen
c Kedar Jadhav b Bumrah
4
11
0
0
36.36
Keemo Paul
c Rayudu b Kuldeep Yadav
5
18
0
0
27.78
Devendra Bishoo
not out
8
15
1
0
53.33
Kemar Roach
c Kedar Jadhav b Ravindra Jadeja
5
15
1
0
33.33
Oshane Thomas
lbw b Ravindra Jadeja
0
2
0
0
0.00
Extras
8
(b 0, lb 1, w 7, nb 0, p 0)
Total
104
(10 wkts, 31.5 Ov)
Fall of Wickets
1-1 (Kieran Powell, 0.4), 2-2 (Shai Hope, 1.4), 36-3 (Marlon Samuels, 11.5), 53-4 (Shimron Hetmyer, 15.5), 57-5 (Rovman Powell, 16.6), 66-6 (Fabian Allen, 20.6), 87-7 (Jason Holder, 25.2), 94-8 (Keemo Paul, 28.1), 103-9 (Kemar Roach, 31.3), 104-10 (Oshane Thomas, 31.5)
Bowler
O
M
R
W
NB
WD
ECO
Bhuvneshwar Kumar
4
1
11
1
0
1
2.75
Jasprit Bumrah
6
1
11
2
0
1
1.83
K Khaleel Ahmed
7
1
29
2
0
3
4.14
Ravindra Jadeja
9.5
1
34
4
0
1
3.46
Kuldeep Yadav
5
1
18
1
0
1
3.60
Powerplays
Overs
Runs
Mandatory
0.1-10
30
India Innings105-1 (14.5)
Batsman
R
B
4s
6s
SR
Rohit Sharma
not out
63
56
5
4
112.50
Shikhar Dhawan
b Oshane Thomas
6
5
1
0
120.00
Virat Kohli (c)
not out
33
29
6
0
113.79
Extras
3
(b 0, lb 1, w 1, nb 1, p 0)
Total
105
(1 wkts, 14.5 Ov)
Did not Bat
Ambati Rayudu, MS Dhoni, Kedar Jadhav, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Kuldeep Yadav, K Khaleel Ahmed, Jasprit Bumrah
Fall of Wickets
6-1 (Shikhar Dhawan, 1.5)
Bowler
O
M
R
W
NB
WD
ECO
Kemar Roach
5
2
13
0
0
0
2.60
Oshane Thomas
4
0
33
1
1
1
8.25
Keemo Paul
2
0
22
0
0
0
11.00
Jason Holder (c)
1
0
15
0
0
0
15.00
Devendra Bishoo
1.5
0
16
0
0
0
8.73
Fabian Allen
1
0
5
0
0
0
5.00
Powerplays
Overs
Runs
Mandatory
0.1-10
52
Match Info
Match
IND vs WI, 5th ODI, Windies tour of India, 2018
Date
Thursday, November 01, 2018
Toss
Windies won the toss and opt to bat
Time
08:00 AM GMT
Venue
Greenfield International Stadium, Thiruvananthapuram
Umpires
Anil Kumar Chaudhary, Paul Wilson
Third Umpire
Ian Gould
Match Referee
Chris Broad
India Squad
Playing XI
Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli (c), Ambati Rayudu, MS Dhoni (wk), Kedar Jadhav, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Kuldeep Yadav, K Khaleel Ahmed, Jasprit Bumrah
Bench
Lokesh Rahul, Yuzvendra Chahal, Rishabh Pant, Umesh Yadav, Manish Pandey
Windies Squad
Playing XI
Kieran Powell, Rovman Powell, Shai Hope (wk), Marlon Samuels, Shimron Hetmyer, Jason Holder (c), Fabian Allen, Devendra Bishoo, Keemo Paul, Kemar Roach, Oshane Thomas
Bench
Obed McCoy, Ashley Nurse, Chandrapaul Hemraj, Sunil Ambris
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