T20Is between India and the West Indies

Hope that you read this before the caravan moves on to the ODI series.

India won the 3-match series 3-0, repeating the margin of the series played in late 2018. Thus India had won 6 T20Is in a row.

Here is a list of T20Is between these teams:

And the summary of wins and losses:

We now look at individual performances:

Batting: most runs (100 and above):

RG Sharma and Kohli are far ahead of the others. E Lewis is the only one with 2 centuries, and Sharma the only one with 4 50+ scores.

Highest innings scores (75 and above):

Lewis did well in 2016-17 but has slipped since then. The just-concluded series was low scoring as no one scored 75 or more.

Bowling-most wickets (5 and above):

As you will see, the best performance is a 4-for. Bumrah has the most wickets (8) while 3 others have 7.

Best innings bowling (3wi and above):

Sammy and Bravo have the only 4-fors here. DL Chahar had the freakish figures of 3-4 in 3 overs during this series.

Fielding-Most dismissals (4 and above):

RG Sharma has the most dismissals (7), ahead of keeper MS Dhoni and 2 others with 5.

Most innings dismissals (3):

KD Karthik has the most for a keeper, while Lendl Simmons and RG Sharma also have 3.

All-round performance (Minimum 20 runs and 2 wickets):

Krunal Pandya is the only one who comes close to Dwayne Bravo, whose figures during the 2009 World Championship were then the best in all T20Is.

 

 

The records of the T20I match on 27 Jul 2016

Some records were almost broken (like Richard Levi’s 45-ball century). As you can see below, the challengers E Lewis and KL Rahul just fell short.

But here are some records which did get broken.

India’s 244/4 is their highest in T20Is, surpassing their 218/4 v England in the 2007 World Championship. It is also the highest in any T20I’s second innings, surpassing 236/6 by WI v SA in 2015. And it is the highest losing total in any T20I, surpassing SA’s 231/7 in the match against WI in 2015 mentioned earlier. And WI and India made the 3rd and 4th highest T20I totals in today’s match. All these details can be seen below:

Coming to individual scores: After todays’s match, 22 centuries in T20Is have been made by 20 players (Gayle and McCullum making two centuries apiece).

Of these 20, as many as 12 have made centuries in all three formats.

They are: Watson, McCullum, du Plessis, Gayle, Ahmed Shehzad, Rahul, RG Sharma, Dilshan, Tamim, Guptill, Raina and Jayawardene. And Rahul’s individual score is the highest in T20Is in the US, for what it is worth.

Interestingly, some of those listed above have never played in Tests or even ODIs. An extreme case is that of E Lewis who had played one T20I (without scoring much) before this and no ODI or Test.