Slapped over extra, one bounce four. West Indies level the series. Shortish ball over the stumps, Carty made room and duly carted it with the flat bat. He was willing it on, hoping it'd go for six, but it landed just in. He looks up with a smile and there's dancing in the crowd
West Indies vs India, 2nd ODI at Bridgetown, WI v IND, Jul 29 2023 - Ball by Ball Commentary
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2nd ODI, Bridgetown, July 29, 2023, India tour of West Indies and United States of America
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A decider we wants and a decider we gets thanks to West Indies' resilience on display today. You can comb through what happened in Himanshu Agrawal's match report up here. So, let's continue to hope and pun along for the showdown in Trinidad in a couple of days. Sudarshanan will join Abhimanyu, who'll return on comms. I'm Ekanth, signing on behalf of Abhimanyu Bose, and our scorers, Chandan Duorah and Ranjith P.
Shai Hope, POTM and WI captain: I'm happy as long as my contributions lead to the win. When things are difficult, you gotta find ways to score quickly. So you gotta run hard, we got twos which helped. Very satisfied, the aim was to get back to the series. We gotta win one more and need to come back strongly. We gotta put in the effort and today we displayed the right attitude, need to replicate that in all disciplines. It was a complete performance. We want to tick the boxes and get the right result in the final game.
Hardik Pandya, India captain: We didn't bat the way we were supposed to. The wicket was better than it was in the first game. Everyone barring Shubman hit fielders and got out. Disappointing but many things to learn. The way our openers batted, especially Ishan, struck it well and is good for India. Shardul got us back in with his bowling. Hope and Carty batted well and got them through. Body's fine. I have to bowl more overs and get my workload up for the World Cup. I'm a turtle right now not the rabbit and hoping everything goes right as the World Cup comes on. To be honest, you want to be going 1-1 to the third game as it'll be more challenging and exciting.
JD: "two contrasting last 91 runs for each team"
5:01pm: A brilliant steady-the-ship effort from Hope and Carty not only rescued West Indies from 91 for 4 but took them to a win without further harm. It was set up by the spinners, Joseph and Seales earlier. Mayers was at his exuberant best early on in the chase. That was before Thakur lorded into the scene. He got the bouncer right to Mayers, capitalised on King being stuck on the back foot and had him lbw, and then did Athanaze in with another bouncer. When Hetmyer, who was all at sea against spin, was dismissed by Kuldeep, India seemed to have gotten back into ascendancy. But Carty and Hope toughed it out against the pacy spin of Jadeja and Axar and the loopier variety from Kuldeep. They ran diligently and rotated strike to whittle the target. Hope got past fifty with the end in sight. The duo got through Thakur and Hardik's last crack and Carty narrowly missed out on fifty but saw West Indies through to their first win against India in over three years.
Four needed to win, six needed for Carty's fifty
36.3
4
Hardik to Carty, FOUR runs
Carty stays leg side and prods at the length ball on off. It goes off the thickish outside edge to find the deep-third boundary
36.2
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Hardik to Carty, no run
Kuldeep spills it after misjudging how quickly it was coming at him. Carty mistimed the pull and the ball sailed towards him, he thought it came at him but died down on him. In the end he couldn't reach it
36.1
1
Hardik to Hope, 1 run
Guides the length ball outside off to deep third
Thanks, Abhimanyu
end of over 3610 runs
WI: 173/4CRR: 4.80 • RRR: 0.64 • Need 9 runs from 84b
Keacy Carty40 (62b 2x4)
Shai Hope62 (79b 2x4 2x6)
Shardul Thakur 8-0-42-3
Hardik Pandya 6-0-29-0
Like Hope and Carty (most probably) for West Indies, here comes Ekanth to finish the game off from our side!
35.6
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Thakur to Carty, no run
Ball pops up in the air but Shardul can't get there! Swiveled to put this length ball away but couldn't get proper connection. Lands just in front of Shardul running in front to his left. That one hit him on the shoulder
35.5
1
Thakur to Hope, 1 run
Short and wide, cut to deep point
Peter : "Wouldn't call India WC favourites. Would probably go with with England or Australia." I would tend to agree with you.
35.4
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Thakur to Hope, no run
Tries to pull this short ball outside off and he misses out
35.3
6
Thakur to Hope, SIX runs
That. Is. Glorious. Short ball into him and he hooks this behind square and it goes over fine leg. Nicely uses the pace of the ball and helps it along
35.2
1
Thakur to Carty, 1 run
Short delivery, pulled to deep backward square
35.1
2
Thakur to Carty, 2 runs
Goes past the diving midwicket fielder! Full delivery and he looks to drive it leg-side and it pops past the diving fielder
"Tryna wrap my head around on how did this WI team manage to lose WC qualifiers and beat one of the WC favorites!" That's sports for you, Mubeen!
end of over 354 runs
WI: 163/4CRR: 4.65 • RRR: 1.26 • Need 19 runs from 90b
Keacy Carty37 (59b 2x4)
Shai Hope55 (76b 2x4 1x6)
Hardik Pandya 6-0-29-0
Shardul Thakur 7-0-32-3
34.6
1
Hardik to Carty, 1 run
Back of a length just outside off, he drops it towards midwicket for a quick run
34.5
1
Hardik to Hope, 1 run
Dug in short outside off and he cuts hard to deep point
34.4
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Hardik to Hope, no run
Length ball on off, Hope jumps and parries tis down
34.3
1
Hardik to Carty, 1 run
Runs this down to deep third for a single
34.2
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Hardik to Carty, no run
Punches this length ball towards cover. Takes off for a single but is sent back
34.1
1
Hardik to Hope, 1 run
Back of a length outside off, Hope rides the bounce and guides this to deep third
Faisal: "@Abhimanyu! You are sweet enough already. So no more sugar for you :) " Ultimate treachery, this!
end of over 347 runs
WI: 159/4CRR: 4.67 • RRR: 1.43 • Need 23 runs from 96b
Keacy Carty35 (56b 2x4)
Shai Hope53 (73b 2x4 1x6)
Shardul Thakur 7-0-32-3
Hardik Pandya 5-0-25-0
33.6
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Thakur to Carty, no run
Full on off, Carty defends
33.5
4
Thakur to Carty, FOUR runs
Full down leg, Carty glances it fine to Kishan's left and picks up a boundary
33.4
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Thakur to Carty, no run
Very full on off, dug out to midwicket
33.3
2
Thakur to Carty, 2 runs
Fuller outside off, he drives this well to the right of the sweeper and the batters pick up two
Abhijeet: "Yashashvi Jaiswal and Samson should have played this game instead of Rohil and Kohli.Bringing Axar and having him bat at 4 was a ridiculous decision.Dravid's selections lacks vision for the future.Last year Avesh Khan play a lot of games and now has vanished" Yashasvi not in the squad. Samson is playing!
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