Krishna, Siraj bowl hosts to 96-run win vs Windies in 3rd ODI

India complete clean sweep

AHMEDABAD: Half-centuries by Shreyas Iyer and Rishabh Pant followed by cameos from Deepak Chahar, Washington Sundar and the bowlers helped India register an emphatic 96-run win over West Indies in the third and final match at the Narendra Modi Stadium on Friday.

Chasing 266, West Indies were never in the hunt and were bowled out for 169 in 37.1 overs despite some fireworks from Odean Smith and Alzarri Joseph and Hayden Walsh showing some resistance. It is also the first time that India blanked West Indies in an ODI series.

Chahar tested the opening pair of Brandon King and Shai Hope with some movement available from the pitch. He was almost successful when King top-edged the third ball of the innings but it fell between mid-on and mid-off fielders. King survived a DRS call off Chahar and ended the over with successive boundaries.

Mohammed Siraj was the first bowler to strike, trapping Hope with a sharp nip-backer to hit him flush on the back pad. Hope didn't take the review as replays later showed the ball was missing the stumps. In the next over, Chahar returned to take out King and Shamarh Brooks in the space of four balls. While King nicked an outswinger to first slip, Brooks sliced the ball straight to point, departing without troubling the scorers.

Darren Bravo and Nicholas Pooran amassed some boundaries but Prasidh Krishna broke the 43-run stand for the fourth wicket in the 14th over. Bravo played an expansive drive away from the body and edged to second slip. The extra bounce in the pitch helped Krishna in taking out Jason Holder as the ball hit the shoulder of the bat while defending and the edge flew to slip fielder.

Joseph and Walsh frustrated India with a 47-run stand for the ninth wicket. Siraj broke the stand with a short ball directed towards Walsh, and the left-handed batter gave a simple catch to the leg gully. Krishna finished off the match as Joseph pulled and the top-edge flew to deep mid-wicket.

Earlier, on a pitch that was used in the second ODI on Wednesday, West Indies kept the Indian batters on a tight leash in the first ten overs before Iyer and Pant fought back with a stand of 110. For the visitors, Jason Holder finished with figures of 4/34 in his eight overs.

Iyer was the first to reach fifty off Walsh in 74 balls. Two overs later, Pant reached his fifty-off Allen in just 47 balls. Neither of the duo took any unnecessary risk, barring the huge mix-up in the start, as the run rate began to increase. The partnership of 110 off 124 balls for the fourth wicket was broken by Walsh as Pant tried to cut close to his body but the ball bounced a little and took a faint toe-edge to Hope.

Brief scores: India 265 all out in 50 overs (Shreyas Iyer 80, Rishabh Pant 56; Jason Holder 4/34, Alzarri Joseph 2/54) beat West Indies (Odean Smith 36, Nicholas Pooran 34; Prasidh Krishna 3/27, Mohammed Siraj 3/29) by 96 runs. IANS

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