Watch: Sanju Samson Stumps Gets Castled As Odean Smith Clean Bowls Him
Hardik Pandya is captaining India in the fifth T20I. He won the toss and chose to bat first on the same pitch that slowed down during the first match of the weekend double-header in Lauderhill.
Both teams made significant changes in order to give their remaining squad members game time.
Regular captain Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant, Suryakumar Yadav, and Bhuvneshwar Kumar were rested, making room for Pandya, Ishan Kishan, Shreyas Iyer, and Kuldeep Yadav.
India Posted A Decent Total In The First Innings
West Indies made four changes as well, replacing Brandon King, Kyle Mayers, Akeal Hosein, and Alzarri Joseph with Shamarh Brooks, Odean Smith, Keemo Paul, and Hayden Walsh.
India got off to a decent start with Shreyas Iyer and Ishan Kishan opening the innings. Once Kishan got out in the 5th over, Deepak Hooda and Iyer added 76 runs. But in the middle please of the innings as India was looking to accelerate India lost Hooda and Iyer in quick succession.
They soon lost Sanju Samson too who was trying to go hard at the bowling. He tried to play a short-length delivery from Odean Smith to the third man but the ball took the outside edge of his bat and shattered the stumps.
Watch: Sanju Samson Stumps Gets Castled As Odean Smith Clean Bowls Him:
The stumps go flying! @IamSanjuSamson is out from #OdeanSmith's good delivery.
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In the end, Hardik Pandya hit some hefty blows and helped India post 188 runs in their allocated 20 overs.
West Indies Playing XI
Shamarh Brooks, Shimron Hetmyer, Nicholas Pooran (c), Devon Thomas (wk), Jason Holder, Odean Smith, Keemo Paul, Dominic Drakes, Obed McCoy, Hayden Walsh, Rovman Powell
India Playing XI
Ishan Kishan, Shreyas Iyer, Sanju Samson, Hardik Pandya (c), Deepak Hooda, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Avesh Khan, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh
