West Indies wins series after rain in second match

Sun, Aug 28, '16

Torrential rain just two overs into India’s chase put paid to any hopes of it squaring the Twenty20 International series against West Indies on Sunday (August 28), as some of the areas in the outfield of the Central Broward Regional Park Stadium Turf Ground in Lauderhill were too soggy for play to resume. When play was stopped, India was 15 without loss in two overs in reply to West Indies’s 143 all out in 19.4 overs.

The result gave West Indies the two-match series by a margin of 1-0, having prevailed by one run in the first T20I at the same venue on Saturday.

When India took the field Amit Mishra, playing his first T20I after more than two years, made the biggest impact. He returned career-best figures of 3 for 24 as West Indies could not bat out its complete quota of overs.

Mohammed Shami provided the first breakthrough when he had Evin Lewis, the centurion from the previous game, caught at short fine-leg by Mishra. Johnson Charles continued his hitting spree to race off to 43 in 25 balls and take West Indies to 50 before Mishra struck with his first ball of the game.