IND defeats WI in the third One-Day International: Rohit Sharma leads Team India to a 3-0 victory: For the first time against visitors at home, Team India beat West Indies by 96 runs to complete a whitewash. WI was all out for 169 runs in 37.1 overs. Mohd Siraj and Prasidh Krishna both got three wickets, while Kuldeep Yadav and Deepak Chahar each claimed two wickets. Apart from Odean Smith’s quickfire 36.
WI had previously bowled India out for 265 runs in the allocated 50 overs. Jason Holder got 4 wickets, while Alzarri Joseph and Hayden Walsh both took 2 wickets. Rishabh Pant (56) and Shreyas Iyer (80) both hit 50 in the third ODI to put India on track for a 3-0 victory. The pair helped India recover from a 42/3 deficit. Later, Deepak Chahar contributed 38 runs, while Washington Sundar added in with 33 runs.
PLAYER OF THE MATCH: Shreyas Iyer
PLAYER OF THE SERIES: Prasidh Krishna
Most successive defeats overseas for WI
11 between 2019-22
9 between 1999-20
8 between 2009-10
Most wickets for India in first 7 ODIs
18 P Krishna
16 A Agarkar/ J Bumrah
15 Praveen Kumar
14 N Hirwani/ Zaheer Khan/ R Ashwin
Rohit, India captain: Definitely not looking at those numbers (captaincy record). Have ticked a lot of boxes in this series. Whatever we wanted to get out of this series, we pretty much got. Noise will be around as long as we’re playing. People look up to us, everybody watches us. As players, as individuals, we know what we need to focus on. Outside noise doesn’t bother the dressing room. Said it in the last game as well – never seen something like that in India (Prasidh’s spell). Good to have someone who can hit the deck and get that bounce. Although I didn’t feel like this was Indian conditions, was good to see the fast bowlers actually. Was also impressed with Siraj. And then Shardul and Deepak did the job for us. Both Kuldeep and Chahal are crucial players for us. Especially Kuldeep. Chahal was very much in the plans and Kuldeep went off the radar. It was important to get him back slowly. Important to give them that confidence. We start expecting things early than expected, important to give them some cushion. Pretty sure we’ll see them together soon. That was the biggest takeaway for us – the middle order batting. Today was again a great game for the middle order. We were 40/3. For me that’s the biggest takeaway.