India vs West Indies 1st T20I at Hyderabad, 06 Dec, 2019

Toss: India, who chose to bowl
West Indies 207/5 (20)
India 209/4 (18.4)
India won by 6 wickets
Man of the Match: Virat Kohli
  • Shivam Dube 0 * (0)
  • Virat Kohli 94 * (50)

  Over 1.0   

Hello and welcome to live coverage of 1st T20I between India and West Indies at Hyderabad.

India have won the toss and have opted to field

Virat Kohli: We're going to bowl first. There will be dew in 45 mins to one hour. It's a good wicket to bat on, and it's going to get better to bat with the ball coming on nicely. Chasing has been better for us to be honest. The data has to be taken into account, particularly when you win the toss, which is uncontrollable. Shami and Bhuvi come back into the squad. Bhuvi has done well in this ground to be honest. At the international level, we tend to over-complicate, and it's important to maintain the IPL mindset (on Pant). Samson, Pandey, Yadav miss out.

Keiron Pollard: The toss is 50-50, so we can't really control it. We just need to bat really well. It's important to ignore the outside noise, try to do the right things on the field and come out on top. We have a few young guys who have done well in the CPL. You don't want to put extra pressure on them, just do really well and express themselves in terms of their skills and fielding. Rutherford, Keemo Paul, Fabian Allen, Pooran, missing out today.

Over 0.1Sheldon Cottrell bowls good length delivery to Rohit Sharma, goes back and cuts it away straight to backward point.No runs

Over 0.2Sheldon Cottrell bowls short and wide to Rohit Sharma, goes back and cuts it away straight to backward point.Single

Over 0.3Sheldon Cottrell bowls dragged way too short, that's a long hop to Lokesh Rahul, goes back and cuts it away straight to backward point.No runs

Over 0.4Sheldon Cottrell bowls short and wide to Lokesh Rahul, gets onto the frontfoot and drives it straight to point.Single

Over 0.5Sheldon Cottrell bowls full toss to Rohit Sharma, gets onto the frontfoot and drives it straight to point.No runs

Over 0.6Sheldon Cottrell bowls dragged way too short, that's a long hop to Rohit Sharma, gets onto the frontfoot and drives it straight to point.Two runs

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Over 1.1Jason Holder bowls short and rising delivery to Lokesh Rahul, gets forward and guides it away towards thirdman.Boundary!

Over 1.2Jason Holder bowls full toss to Lokesh Rahul, gets forward and guides it away towards thirdman.No runs

Over 1.3Jason Holder bowls short and rising delivery to Lokesh Rahul, goes back and cuts it away straight to backward point.Boundary!

Over 1.4Jason Holder bowls short and wide to Lokesh Rahul, flicks it off his pads towards the fine leg region.Boundary!

Over 1.5Jason Holder bowls full toss to Lokesh Rahul, goes back and cuts it away straight to backward point.No runs

Over 1.6Jason Holder bowls full toss to Lokesh Rahul, gets onto the frontfoot and drives it straight to point.Single

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Over 2.1Sheldon Cottrell bowls short and wide to Lokesh Rahul, goes back and cuts it away straight to backward point.Single

Over 2.2Sheldon Cottrell bowls good length delivery to Rohit Sharma, flicks it off his pads towards the fine leg region.No runs

Over 2.3Sheldon Cottrell bowls short and rising delivery to Rohit Sharma, goes back and across and punches it straight to pointSingle

Over 2.4Sheldon Cottrell bowls half volley to Lokesh Rahul, gets onto the frontfoot and drives it straight to point.Single

Over 2.5Sheldon Cottrell bowls short of length delivery to Rohit Sharma, gets forward and leaves it outside off to the wicket keeper.Four byes

Over 2.6Sheldon Cottrell bowls short and wide to Rohit Sharma, goes back and cuts it away straight to backward point.Boundary!

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Over 3.1Khary Pierre to Lokesh Rahul Two wides ...

Over 3.1 Khary Pierre tossed up delivery to Rohit Sharma, no run, gets forward and dug out off the toe-end.

Over 3.2 Khary Pierre tossed up delivery to Rohit Sharma, out Caught by Hetmyer! He was always going to charge down the track, before the ball had left the hand, and Pierre boldly feeds him a flat, quick one on the middle-stump. Sharma is really quick and goes aerial with the whip, but ends up picking out Hetmyer at the cow corner fence who gobbles it up.

Over 3.3 Khary Pierre tossed up delivery to Lokesh Rahul, no run, gets forward and driven well but straight to the man at point.

Over 3.3 Khary Pierre tossed up delivery to Lokesh Rahul, no run, gets forward and driven well but straight to the man at point.

Over 3.4 Khary Pierre tossed up delivery to Lokesh Rahul, no run, gets forward and check-driven straight to the man at cover.

Over 3.5 Khary Pierre bowls a quicker arm ball to Lokesh Rahul,1 run, comes across and tucked away off the back foot towards deep square leg for a single.

Over 3.6 Khary Pierre tossed up delivery to Virat Kohli, no run, make room and slaps it towards cover.

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