🏏India vs West Indies:2nd ODI At Queen’s Park Oval 🏏 - Page 8

2.40pm It's raining, and they are now going off after the umpires were seen deliberating earlier in the over. It doesn't look very gloomy at the moment; in fact, even the pitch is not fully covered until a few minutes after the players were taken off.

1st wkt down, Dhawan out.

India need 155 runs from 20.2 overs.

What an exciting match it was.

India wins. Amar Patel does it with a Six!!!

HUM JEET GAYE 🇮🇳. WHAT A KNOCK AXAR. DIDN'T EXPECT THIS. 🥳

Fantastic win by India. I don’t want to call this team B for India as these lads have shown their hunger and desire with their performance and leading the way for some seniors to be rested till they show performance in Ranji if they still desire to don the blue

Congrats to team India 🍾🍾🍾🎉🎉🎉

Originally posted by: vijay

What an exciting match it was.

India wins. Amar Patel does it with a Six!!!

Great win by India. 👏

Congratulations to team India for the match and the series.🥳

Cheers..

Axar is still in smiles as he's greeted by his team-mates as he walks back. He's turned this one. India started well despite Dhawan's low scoring, Gill got off the blocks. Iyer and Samson consolidated and their wickets signalled trouble. Every bowler aside from Hayden Walsh, who bowled only three, were among the wickets. Shepherd and Seales hit their lengths consistently, Alzarri was excellent till his last two overs. His leakage of runs put India back in. There were ample turning points and potential moments of truth. Gill's hard-to-comprehend scoop, Samson's run out, Hooda's wicket after being unable to launch big shots. But Axar stood tall, Avesh got lucky breaks with swings falling in gaps, bowlers going wrong in a couple of overs and it almost inexplicably finished with India winning.

Axar Patel, POTM for 1 for 40 and 64* (35): It's very special, to get it in a crucial, series-winning cause is amazing. When I went out, I aimed for 10-11 an over. We thought it could be done as we have IPL experience. We wanted to be calm and keep cover of the rate. This was special as this is my first ODI since 2017, even my first fifty came here. Winning the series too makes me feel wonderful.

Shikhar Dhawan, India Captain: I feel it was a great a team performance. We made mistakes, we took the challenge and we had self-belief. I was also surprised. Hats off to our middle order. All the batters were amazing, Axar and Avesh, who got those boundaries, were amazing. Our domestic and IPL cricket keeps us ready as we play in front of big crowds. As Axar said, he's done it multiple times in IPL. That brings a big stage. At the halfway stage, we felt we pulled them. We got a couple of wickets, then Hope and Pooran took off. We thought we can do it if they can. We started slowly, I thought we can take off against left arm spin. I got out, Shreyas and Sanju played well. There was a silly mistake with the run out. But the way Axar played was amazing. Our support staff has been excellent. (On Hope) It was great when I scored a 100 on my 100th match. Congrats to Hope on doing it, he's a quality player. He's got a bright present and future with West Indies.