Shai Hope struck a century as West Indies completed their highest successful \u200cchase in T20 internationals, overhauling a target of 250 to beat India by six \u200cwickets in Ranchi and level the five-match series at 1-1.<\/p>\n
The \u200bvisitors were also recording the second-highest successful run chase in men’s T20 international history, surpassed only by South Africa’s \u200bpursuit of 259 against West Indies in \u200c2023.<\/p>\n
Chasing the daunting target, West Indies were rocked early when pace bowler Mayank \u200bYadav removed Kamil Pooran and Shimron Hetmyer with successive deliveries in the opening over before dismissing Rovman Powell for 24.<\/p>\n
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This content is provided by Instagram, which may be using cookies and other technologies. Unfortunately we have been unable to verify if you have consented to Instagram cookies. Enable Cookies<\/a> “When you chase here in India, you always give yourself \u200ca chance. You always think you’re in the game, regardless of what score is on the board,” \u200bHope said.<\/p>\n “But five for two was always going to be challenging.”<\/p>\n Skipper Hope and Sherfane Rutherford turned the match on its head with a blistering 120-run partnership \u200bfor the fourth wicket.<\/p>\n Rutherford survived on 38 when Yadav spilled a \u2060straightforward chance at short fine leg and \u2060capitalised on the reprieve, hammering 84 off 37 balls before falling to Kuldeep Yadav.<\/p>\n Hope was unfazed, anchoring the chase \u200cwhile maintaining the required rate, and combined with Romario Shepherd to guide West Indies home with nine balls to spare. Hope remained unbeaten on 102 from 45 deliveries.<\/p>\n “When \u200cwe got that partnership there, we just got some more impetus in the innings,” Hope said.<\/p>\n “Then obviously Sherfane came and did what he did, played really well with the bat, and just gave us that spark that we needed to get over \u2060the line.”<\/p>\n Earlier, Sanju Samson’s 41-ball 82 underpinned India’s \u200btotal after he and Abhishek Sharma raced to 42 in less than \u2060four overs for the opening wicket.<\/p>\n Roston Chase halted the early surge by dismissing Sharma and later removed Ishan Kishan for 43 and Shivam Dube, while Shamar Springer struck with the key \u2060wicket of Samson.<\/p>\n India accelerated again late on \u200bthrough Shreyas Iyer and Tilak Varma, who put on 83 runs from 32 \u200bballs, with Iyer making 40 before falling off the penultimate delivery as the hosts finished on 249-5.<\/p>\n The teams meet again in \u200cthe third T20 in Indore \u200bon Sunday.<\/p>\n Watch day two of first Test between South Africa vs Australia live on Sky Sports from 8am Saturday (first ball 8.30am) Get the latest Sky Sports deals<\/a> or stream with no contract<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shai Hope struck a century as West Indies completed their highest successful \u200cchase in T20 internationals, overhauling a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-797507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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