Twitter Reactions: Chase Master Kohli breaks yet another record as India take the series
Virat Kohli with his 28th hundred ensured the final win was a commanding one.
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Just when the series looked done and dusted, Jason Holder’s Windies side sprung with a performance of high standards stunning the Indians in the fourth ODI to keep the series alive. Having failed twice in two matches all eyes were on Virat Kohli also to see if he would experiment with the playing XI.
As expected, Virat and Team India went with the same line-up, which meant that Rishabh Pant had to wait a bit longer to make his debut in the 50-over format. Jason Holder won the toss and elected to bat first, on a batting friendly track at Sabina Park in Jamaica.
The Windies were off to the decent start, as they lost the first wicket in the ninth over of the innings, off the bowling of the Indian all-rounder Hardik Pandya. Elvin Lewis failed to get a proper connection on the ball, lobbing one straight to the hands of the Indian skipper. The Hope brothers show continued in the series, with both of them looking in some good form before Kyle Hope hit the ball straight to the hands of Shikhar Dhawan.
Middle over struggle
At 76/2, the Windies were in a good position but just then Roston Chase failed to read the in-swinging delivery from Umesh Yadav the score read 76/3 within the space of two deliveries. Jason Mohammed and Shai Hope put up a partnership of 39 to stabilise things further before the former gave a simple return catch to the part-time bowler in the form of Kedar Jadhav. Windies’ skipper had a task in hand with his willow in the middle of the pitch with the score reading 115/4.
Holder responded with free-flowing strokes in his knock of 36 in 31 balls before a good reflex catch from Shikhar Dhawan sent him back. Shai Hope, could not add more runs as Ajinkya Rahane took the best catch of the series to dismiss him. Rahane covered a lot of ground towards the swirling ball and made sure that he held the ball inches from the ground. Rovman Powell added another 31 from 32 balls before the innings came crashing down at 205 at the end of the 50 overs.
King Kohli and the chase
India did not get off to the best of starts, with southpaw Shikhar Dhawan hitting one straight to the hands of Elvin Lewis off the bowling of Alzarri Joseph. Opening batsman Ajinkya Rahane and Virat Kohli ensured that there were no hiccups in this particular chase, with a partnership of 79 runs before Rahane was caught in front off the bowling of Devendra Bishoo.
Rahane, through his knock, ensured that he was the highest run-maker in a Windies series, with 336 runs in the series beating the gracious VVS Laxman, who scored 312 runs in the 2002 series. Dinesh Karthik then joined the skipper, with latter looking in some sumptuous form while the former was knocking the ball ever-so-aggressively.
At no point in the innings, the duo let the bowlers dictate terms, Windies bowlers on their part never looked like picking up a wicket either. Virat with yet another successful chase became the player with most number of hundreds in a run-chase surpassing Sachin Tendulkar with 18 hundred as he recorded his 28th in Test cricket.
Twitterati went crazy over Team India’s series victory over Windies, with the help from the skipper Virat Kohli:
Good game and a good series win.. Now onto Sunday for the T20 match. ?☺️ pic.twitter.com/QFyHRYuh6T
— Virat Kohli (@imVkohli) July 7, 2017
Congratulations team India @BCCI for d series win againts West Indies.Amazing consistency by @imVkohli another 100 n well bowled @MdShami11
— Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan) July 7, 2017
An absolute peach from .@bhogleharsha on air #WIvIND #happybirthdaymsd pic.twitter.com/ghVCyFxOR9
— Cricbuzz (@cricbuzz) July 6, 2017
It's been 11 years (May 2006) since India lost an ODI series in the Caribbean.
Since then won ODI series in 2009, 2011 and now 2017#WIvInd— Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman) July 6, 2017
Virat Kohli gets the trophy and hands it over to Kuldeep Yadav.
Good to see things not changing at times. #WIvIND
— Nikhil ? (@CricCrazyNIKS) July 6, 2017
Most 3+ wicket hauls in ODIs since Mohammed Shami's debut
Shami – 17 (49 mats)
Starc – 16 (57)
Woakes – 14 (57)
Tahir – 14 (73)#WIvIND— Shiva J (@Shiva_cricinfo) July 6, 2017
Highest career ODI batting avg
min 40 inns
54.68 Virat Kohli
53.58 M Bevan
53.56 AB deV
51.33 MS Dhoni
51.25 J Trott
50.25 H Amla#WIvInd— Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman) July 7, 2017
West Indies is Such a Beautiful Country, Thanks BCCI for Organising this Awesome Tour.
– Rishabh Pant
???? #WIvIND— Mayanti Langer (@Langer_Mayanti) July 6, 2017
Hs avg in successful chases in ODIs
(1000+ runs)
97.97 VIRAT KOHLI
97.36 MS DHONI
86.25 M Bevan
84.66 AB de Villiers
81.15 Joe Root#WIvIND— Rajneesh Gupta (@rgcricket) July 7, 2017
Last one year in ODIs:
Jadhav – 11 wkts at SR 23.1 (balls per wicket)
Ashwin – 8 wkts at SR 56.2
Jadeja – 8 wkts at SR 69.0#WIvIND— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath) July 6, 2017
Kohli's ODI career is less than 9 years old and he already has 28 centuries. 18 of them while chasing. Sachin in 22 yrs scored 17 in chases.
— Mazher Arshad (@MazherArshad) July 7, 2017
Virat Kohli is just 2 ODI centuries behind Ricky Ponting and has played just half of what Ponting has. UNREAL.
— Aakash (@PUNchayati) July 7, 2017
Smh Kohli is unbelievable pic.twitter.com/IQuHdQwNEB
— Thabang (@walker8701) July 6, 2017
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