Exactly half a decade ago, Ravindra Jadeja and Shikhar Dhawan’s individual brilliance saw India qualifying for the semi-final of the ICC Champions Trophy 2013. In which was the sixth match of the tournament, India’s second, India defeated West Indies by 8 wickets comprehensively.

Having won the first match against South Africa by 26 runs at Cardiff, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the then Indian captain, won the toss and chose to field at The Oval in the second match. West Indies were coming off a 2-wicket victory against Pakistan at the same venue.

Despite losing Chris Gayle (21) to Bhuvneshwar Kumar in the fifth over, West Indies recovered well to score 55-1 in the first 10 overs. The 50-run partnership for the second wicket between Johnson Charles and Darren Bravo came up in the 14th over. Just when things appeared to slip out of India’s hand, Dhoni introduced Jadeja into the bowling attack in the 18th over.

Starting of with a maiden over, Jadeja picked up his maiden wicket in the form of Charles (60) in only his second over. Having found him trapped in front of the stumps, Jadeja used the same mode of dismissal to dismiss Marlon Samuels (1) in his third over. In which was a spell where he was nearly unplayable, he made Ramnaresh Sarwan (1) play down the leg-side as Dhoni smartly held on to the catch. Jadeja’s figures of 4-1-6-3 had reduced West Indies to 109-4 in 24 overs.

Siphoning the momentum out of their innings, Jadeja and the other Indian bowlers did not held on to this advantage, maintaining a strong hold on the innings. In the last leg of their innings, West Indies seemed to not complete their quota of 50 overs. However, captain Darren Sammy’s scored 56* (50) with the help of five fours and four sixes as West Indies scored 233-9 in 50 overs. After dismissing Sunil Narine (2) and Ravi Rampaul (2), Jadeja registered his maiden ODI five-wicket haul in ‘Man of the Match’ bowling figures of 10-2-36-5.

From registering a 101-run opening partnership to winning the match in the 40th over, seldom did India look bothered in the chase. On the back of Shikhar Dhawan’s second ODI century, 102* (107), with the help of 10 fours & a six, they scored 236-2 in 39.1 overs.