India will aim to seal the T20I series when they take on West Indies in the second match at Ekana International Cricket Stadium in Lucknow tonight.
In the first game, Indian bowling was top class and they'll look to do the same here as well and in batting top order needs to be more consistent. Players like KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant and Manish have to play big knocks to cement their places.
On the other hand, West Indies' top order looked clueless against Indian pacers and inform players like Shimron Hetmyer, Shai Hope have to repeat their ODI heroics to keep West Indies alive in this series. In bowling West Indies was excellent in the first T20I and must be motivated after that performance.
All the major stats and facts as India take on West Indies in the second T20I in Lucknow :
Head to Head -
| Venue | T20Is | Won by IND | Won by WI | Tied | NR |
| India | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| West Indies | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Neutral | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Overall | 9 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
1 - Ekana International Cricket Stadium, Lucknow will host it's first ever international match tonight. It will be 22nd Indian ground to host an international T20 match.
7.20 - Kuldeep Yadav's bowling average in T20Is in 2018. He has taken 15 wickets at this average in just 5 T20Is this year.
11 - Rohit Sharma (2092 runs) needs 11 more runs to go past Virat Kohli (2102 runs) and become the leading run-scorer for India in T20I format.
20 - Shikhar Dhawan needs 20 more runs to complete 1000 T20I runs. He will become 6th Indian player to achieve this milestone.
98 - Yuzvendra Chahal has taken 98 wickets in international cricket and needs just 2 more wickets to achieve 100 international wickets milestone.
445 - Rohit Sharma has scored 445 runs in T20Is in 2018 and needs 55 more runs to become the sixth player after Virat Kohli, Fakhar Zaman, Babar Azam, Mohammad Shahzad and Colin Munro to score 500 T20I runs in a calendar year.
