🏏West Indies VS India, 2nd T20I: Providence Stadium, Guyana🏏 - Page 4

Pitch report: It is 66, 64 metres on the sides and 77 down the ground. There is a bit of light grass on the surface which may assist the seamers early on. It is generally a good surface and quite hard. 150-160 should be a good score. Slower balls will definitely play a part and most likely in the second innings," reckon Ian Bishop and Shakera Selman.

India have won the toss and have opted to bat

Powell: Looks a pretty good surface and hopefully gets better as the day goes along. We didn't lose wickets in clusters in the last game which was good to see. We have grown as players and it is about continuing to do the right things and keep improving as a batting unit. We are going with the same team.

Hardik: We will bat first, surface looks good. We will put good score on the board. I don't think we did much wrong in the last game, we spoke about it and the focus is to learn and keep going ahead. When we have these totals (chasing 9 or 10 an over), you gotta keep wickets in hand and that's what happened in the last game where we lost a couple of wickets during crunch moments. We have a forced change. Kuldeep got a hit on the hand yesterday in the nets, it is not serious and just a precautionary measure. Ravi Bishnoi comes in place of him.

Teams:

West Indies (Playing XI): Brandon King, Kyle Mayers, Johnson Charles, Nicholas Pooran(w), Rovman Powell(c), Shimron Hetmyer, Romario Shepherd, Jason Holder, Akeal Hosein, Alzarri Joseph, Obed McCoy

India (Playing XI): Ishan Kishan(w), Shubman Gill, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya(c), Sanju Samson, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mukesh Kumar, Ravi Bishnoi

Pitch report: It is 66, 64 metres on the sides and 77 down the ground. There is a bit of light grass on the surface which may assist the seamers early on. It is generally a good surface and quite hard. 150-160 should be a good score. Slower balls will definitely play a part and most likely in the second innings," reckon Ian Bishop and Shakera Selman.

Good decision by Indian team, batting first, will give them a chance to put a decent score on board.

IND: 1-0 after 1 overs

IND: 9-0 after 2 overs

2.4 Alzarri Joseph to Shubman Gill, SIX, pressure building on Shubman Gill with succcessive dots and he responds in style. Dug in short and angled into the armpit, Shubman Gill plays the typical short-arm-jab-pull and gets great elevation on it to get it sailing over deep square for an 85-metre maximum

2.5 Alzarri Joseph to Shubman Gill, out Caught by Hetmyer!! 100th T20 wicket for Alzarri Joseph. He goes full and wide of off, Shubman Gill tries for another big hit with a booming bat swing across the line. He was perhaps looking to go over mid-on/mid-wicket but ended up slicing it high into the air to the left of deep backward point where Hetmyer completes a fine catch with a slide. Shubman Gill c Hetmyer b Alzarri Joseph 7(9) [6s-1]

Alzarri Joseph to Shubman Gill, THATS OUT!! Caught!!