- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR11.4 Heaves... straight to deep midwicket! A maiden T20I wicket for Naman Dhir. First look and you sense it is the lack of room. Dhir lobs it up, lands it on a length outside off and gets it to spin in. Hope goes back to pull but is cramped for room. As a result, he hits it off the sticker on the blade and finds Axar at the deep midwicket boundary. End of a fantastic innings, one West Indies would hope to build on. A 63-run partnership broken 107/44.3 Inside-edge and the offstump is pegged back. Full outside off stump at 129.8kph. Pooran backs away again, trying to slice that fine. But he can only manage a chop back onto his stumps. Pooran's debut innings lasts just 11 balls 38/15.2 A quick single and Hetmyer has to dive to make it in. Does he, though? The third umpire has been called for. Hetmyer might be in trouble here. His bat is in the air as he dives in and he has to depart. He is livid with the decision but his bat was not grounded when he made it in. Hetmyer was well in, mind you, but no part of the bat was grounded when he was inside the crease. It was a fuller ball on off, which Hope pushes to the left of Axar. He misfields with the ball going to Iyer at cover. Hope calls Hetmyer through for the run but Iyer releases the ball quickly and Samson whips off the bails in a jiffy 44/25.5 Another one bites the dust. Five dots, two wickets and WI are losing the plot right before the powerplay. Axar pushes this through like he so often does on middle stump. After just two balls, Powell decides to swing this across the line and send it out of Lucknow. He misses and sees his middle and leg stump rattled 44/318.5 Well-judged catch running from Dhir stays Rutherford's stay. Full and on leg, 137kph. He flicks it but cannot get under it really. Hits it right down deep midwicket's throat. End of a handy little 18-ball 36-run stand with Hosein. He is furious and striking his pad with his bat while walking back 171/912.3 Plumbest of plumb lbws and Chase is out of here! Kuldeep bowls it full on off and middle, gets it to spin in a touch. Chase should have been forward to it but chooses to play it from the crease. He is beaten on the inside and is rapped in front. Two wickets in two overs for India 114/513.2 A second T20I wicket for Dhir and this is smart, smart bowling from the debutant! Lobs it full and, importantly, wide outside off. Bowls it slower through the air after firing the previous one in. Shepherd looks to reach out and hit it over long-off. Finds Tilak judging the catch to perfection on the ropes. West Indies have lost three wickets in three overs now and are in trouble 121/614.1 Oh my word. WHAT A SENSATIONAL CATCH FROM KISHAN! Nonchalance! He was running to his left at deep midwicket, and looked as if he was searching for the white ball in the glare of the floodlights. And then manages to catch it back-handed while sliding, with his back almost towards where the ball came from! Kuldeep bowled the googly on a short length outside off. And Forde thought he had enough time to pull it over the leg side. He was done in by the fielding brilliance and West Indies' procession continues 124/715.5 Six and out and Dhir is having a ball on his T20I debut! Back over the wicket, tosses it up, slower through the air, and lands it full on off. It spins in a touch. That means Springer cannot get fully under it. Ends up miscuing it towards long-on, where Axar runs in and pouches it comfortably. West Indies have now lost 5 for 28 135/819.1 Straight to deep midwicket and West Indies are bowled out for 171. Slower through the air, outside off on a length, 96.5kph. Hosein clears his front leg and slogs high. Not long enough and this one is a simple catch for Kishan 171/10Extras8 (b 2, lb 5, nb 1)TOTAL171 all out (19.1 Overs, RR: 8.92)Fall of wickets: 1-38 (Kamil Pooran, 4.3 ov), 2-44 (Shimron Hetmyer, 5.2 ov), 3-44 (Rovman Powell, 5.5 ov), 4-107 (Shai Hope, 11.4 ov), 5-114 (Roston Chase, 12.3 ov), 6-121 (Romario Shepherd, 13.2 ov), 7-124 (Matthew Forde, 14.1 ov), 8-135 (Shamar Springer, 15.5 ov), 9-171 (Sherfane Rutherford, 18.5 ov), 10-171 (Akeal Hosein, 19.1 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB Arshdeep Singh 4 0 34 1 8.5 10 4 1 0 1 MP Yadav 4 0 40 1 10 11 7 1 0 0 AR Patel 3.1 1 26 2 8.21 8 3 1 0 0 Kuldeep Yadav 4 0 33 2 8.25 9 2 2 0 0 Naman Dhir 4 0 31 3 7.75 11 1 3 0 0
Player of the Match
Player of the Match
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR3.3 A soft dismissal and Hosein has a wicket in his 100th T20I. Quicker short of a length ball on middle at 93.2kph. Samson is late on the pull and ends up splicing this gently back to the bowler who takes a comfortable catch over his head 35/22.3 The change in angle works for Chase. A top catch from Hetmyer to top it off. Gently tossed up at 88.2kph with the ball spinning away from Abhishek. He backs away again, giving himself room but has to reach for the ball. In doing so, he loses shape and toe-ends to the right of Hetmyer who runs in from long-off, dives and takes an excellent catch. Abhishek falls to offspin again 29/1Extras1 (nb 1)TOTAL172/2 (14.4 Overs, RR: 11.72)Fall of wickets: 1-29 (Abhishek Sharma, 2.3 ov), 2-35 (Sanju Samson, 3.3 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB MW Forde 2 0 39 0 19.5 2 3 4 0 0 AJ Hosein 4 0 37 1 9.25 8 4 1 0 1 RL Chase 3.4 0 37 1 10.09 3 3 1 0 0 S Joseph 2 0 23 0 11.5 2 4 0 0 0 R Shepherd 2 0 24 0 12 2 4 0 0 0 SK Springer 1 0 12 0 12 2 1 1 0 0
Match Details
Toss
India , elected to field first
Player Of The Match
Series result
India led the 5-match series 1-0
Match number
Season
Hours of play (local time)
19.00 start, First Session 19.00-20.30, Interval 20.30-20.50, Second Session 20.50-22.20
Match days
6 October 2026 - night match (20-over match)
T20I debut
Umpires
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Match Notes
- Powerplay: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 44 runs, 3 wickets)
- West Indies: 50 runs in 6.5 overs (42 balls), Extras 2
- Drinks: West Indies - 82/3 in 10.0 overs (SD Hope 41, SE Rutherford 18)
- 4th Wicket: 50 runs in 30 balls (SD Hope 21, SE Rutherford 30, Ex 4)
- West Indies: 100 runs in 10.6 overs (67 balls), Extras 6
- SD Hope: 50 off 36 balls (6 x 4, 2 x 6)
- West Indies: 150 runs in 17.4 overs (107 balls), Extras 7
- SE Rutherford: 50 off 31 balls (6 x 4, 2 x 6)
- Innings Break: West Indies - 171/10 in 19.1 overs (S Joseph 0)
- Powerplay: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 62 runs, 2 wickets)
- India: 50 runs in 5.2 overs (32 balls), Extras 0
- 3rd Wicket: 50 runs in 31 balls (Ishan Kishan 17, SS Iyer 36, Ex 0)
- India: 100 runs in 9.3 overs (57 balls), Extras 0
- Drinks: India - 102/2 in 10.0 overs (Ishan Kishan 25, SS Iyer 45)
- SS Iyer: 50 off 28 balls (8 x 4)
- 3rd Wicket: 100 runs in 56 balls (Ishan Kishan 28, SS Iyer 71, Ex 1)
- India: 150 runs in 13.2 overs (81 balls), Extras 1
- SS Iyer: 100 off 42 balls (10 x 4, 6 x 6)
Match Coverage
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Shreyas Iyer rises to No. 7 in ICC rankings after maiden T20I century
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Hope: West Indies need to 'do more rights than wrongs' to compete
"We were a little bit chaotic in the backend [of the batting innings]," Shai Hope says of West Indies' below-par effort with the bat
Naman Dhir the bowler makes a mark with the six-and-out trick
Everyone thought he was a late-order hitter and an occasional bowler. West Indies - and India too - found out in the first T20I that Naman Dhir is a match-winning offspinner too
Naman Dhir and Kamil Pooran debut in Lucknow after India opt to bowl
India, who played all three of Kishan, Sooryavanshi and Samson at the Asian Games, went in with an extra middle-order batter in Dhir



