The Windies tour of India 2018/19 has come to an end as the hosts and the visitors are going to meet for the last time in this tour with the final T20I game of the three-match T20I series on Sunday night at M. A. Chidambaram Stadium (Chennai).
India has already secured this T20I series by leading it 2-0 at present. It means another India’s victory will complete the whitewash in this T20I series, while Windies are looking for a consolation victory.
Indian cricket team
Just like the Test and ODI series, the Indian cricket team has mostly dominated over the Windies cricketers in this T20I series too. After a fighting victory in the first T20I at Kolkata, the Indian side claimed a dominating victory in the second T20I at Lucknow.
While the Indian top-order batsmen are in very good form, Indian stand-in T20I skipper Rohit Sharma (111*) hit another T20I century in the last game. The middle-order batsmen have also shown their potentials at the right time.
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The Indian bowlers have totally dominated over the Windies batsmen as they have hardly allowed the opposing batsmen to score the runs freely. However, some regular bowlers (Jasprit Bumrah, Kuldeep Yadav and Umesh Yadav) have been rested from the third T20I and it will be interesting to see how the other bowlers manage this situation.
Windies cricket team
The Windies side has mostly disappointed in this tour, including in the ongoing T20I series too where the team has failed badly. The inexperience is one of the major issues of this team while the top-order batsmen have hugely disappointed in this whole tour.
The visiting bowlers have also disappointed through their inconsistent performances. Players’ body-language are also not so powerful to challenge their present situation.
While some of India’s regular bowlers have been rested from the final T20I of the series, it will be a good opportunity for the visitors to showcase a better performance and clinch a consolation victory.
Full squads
India: Rohit Sharma (capt), Khaleel Ahmed, Yuzvendra Chahal, Shikhar Dhawan, Shreyas Iyer, Dinesh Karthik, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Shahbaz Nadeem, Manish Pandey, Krunal Pandya, Rishabh Pant (wk), KL Rahul, Washington Sundar, Siddarth Kaul
Windies: Carlos Brathwaite (capt), Fabian Allen, Darren Bravo, Shimron Hetmyer, Shai Hope, Obed McCoy, Keemo Paul, Khary Pierre, Kieron Pollard, Nicholas Pooran, Rovman Powell, Denesh Ramdin (wk), Sherfane Rutherford, Oshane Thomas
Key Stats Preview:
- Only T20I has been played at M. A. Chidambaram Stadium (Chennai) and that was between India and New Zealand on September 11, 2012. New Zealand won that thrilling encounter by just 1 run.
- India and Windies have faced 11 times in the international cricket at M. A. Chidambaram Stadium (Chennai) where India has won seven matches, Windies has won two matches and the other two matches were drawn.
- Indian stand-in-skipper Rohit Sharma (2,203 T20I runs) needs to score 69 more runs to become the leading run-scorer in the T20I history. New Zealand batsman Martin Guptill is on the top position at present with 2,271 T20I runs.
