Indian batter Suryakumar Yadav, assisted by Venkatesh Iyer, gave a clinic on how to finish an innings as they took apart the West Indies bowling attack in the third and final T20I of the series in Kolkata on February 20, 2022.
West Indies bowled first after winning the toss and both sides made four changes. India gave a debut to Avesh Khan, while Ruturaj Gaikwad got his first game of the series. West Indies bought in Hayden Walsh Jr, Fabien Allen, and Shai Hope amongst other changes.
Though Ruturaj Gaikwad fell for 4 runs, Ishan Kishan (34 with 5 fours) and Shreyas Iyer (25 with 4 fours) laid a good platform for the finishers to do their job. Rohit Sharma batted at 4 but failed, making only 7 runs.
At 93/4 in 14 overs, India was looking at a score of around 160 at the most. But Suryakumar Yadav and Venkatesh Iyer had other plans as they caused mayhem in the last five overs or so. The duo added 91 runs in just 37 deliveries together and 42 of those came in just two overs.
Suryakumar got out on the last ball of the innings for 65 in 31 balls with 1 four and 7 sixes, while Iyer remained unbeaten on 35 in 19 with 4 fours and 2 sixes, to take India to 184/5 in 20 overs. Romario Shepherd went for 50 runs in his 4 overs for one wicket, while Dominic Drakes have 37 runs in his 3 for one wicket.
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The cricket fraternity was in awe thanks to the carnage caused by Venkatesh Iyer and especially Suryakumar Yadav, helping India put up a formidable total. They took to Twitter to laud Yadav with appreciative tweets.
Here are some of them:
