भारत vs वेस्ट इंडीज, दूसरा टी-20, जेएससीए इंटरनेशनल स्टेडियम कॉम्प्लेक्स, रांची, 09 October 2026 - कमेंट्री

SIX! That's been slammed into the crowd. Can Shai Hope now finish things off and get to a ton as well? Tossed up on a length, and around off. Hope lunges and drags the slog sweep high and long in front of deep mid-wicket for a biggie. 4 needed for the win now.

Length ball, sliding back in from outside off. Shai Hope taps it to covers. He knows there are plenty of balls left and wants to pick the right one to hit.

SIX! That's it! Shai Hope has done the impossible. One of the greatest T20I run chases, and Shai Hope also brings up a sensational HUNDRED in the process. Axar Patel bowls it flat and pushes it wide outside off. Hope reaches out and thwacks the ball over extra cover, and it sails over the ropes for a biggie. Hope and Shepherd celebrate in style as West Indies win by 6 wickets and 9 balls to spare.

Arshdeep goes searching for the yorker, angling it into the stumps from around the wicket. It turns out to be a low full toss, but Hope pushes it down to long on for just a single.

Singh comes over the wicket to Shepherd. This is speared in at the toes, and Shepherd just clips it to deep square leg for one more.

Good work in the deep to keep it down to a single. Another low full toss, straighter at the stumps. Hope drills it just to the right of the stumps at the other end and Tilak Varma cuts it off quickly to his left from long on, keeping it down to one run.

SIX! That's been the difference - the six-hitting. A juicy full toss on middle and leg, Romario Shepherd whacks it away over deep mid-wicket and gets the boundary required in the over. The 50-run stand is also up between these two.

FOUR! Easy pickings again for Romario Shepherd. A slower bumper, angled down leg, and with no fine leg in place, all Shepherd has to do is help it 'round the corner, and he picks up four more runs.

FOUR! That's gone to the fence as well, and West Indies are now just a couple of hits away. Singh falters with his line again, bowling it way too short and way too wide outside off. Shepherd has to reach for it but he gets enough blade on it to get it over backward point for a boundary. 10 more needed off 12 balls.

SIX! Powered away, and up comes the 200 for West Indies. Quicker one around off, a tad short and skidding through. Hope rocks back and forces the lofted shot off the back foot, straight back over the bowler's head for a biggie.

SIX! Shai Hope is enjoying more than a purple patch on this tour. Tossed up, full and around off, looking to turn it across the right-hander. Hope picks the length well, leans ahead and smashes it over long off for yet another biggie, the third one on the trot for the Windies. 39 needed now off 22 balls.

Flatter and on the pads, swept away powerfully to the left of Abhishek Sharma at deep square leg, but for just a single.

SIX! This is just raw power from the Windies batters, and everything is travelling over the ropes. Bowled flatter again, around leg and turning in. Shepherd employs the slog sweep, snatching at it but managing to clear the fielder at deep mid-wicket.

WIDE! Good work from the keeper. The faster ball, darted down leg. Sanju Samson dives to his left and stops a certain boundary. 20 off this over already.

Swing and a miss! Brave from KD to toss it up, and he pushes this one wider of the off stump. Shepherd reaches for it, trying to go over extra cover but is beaten in the flight.

FOUR! Too much width on offer, and West Indies now require just 27 runs off 18 balls. Bowled from the front of the hand, turns out to be a short and wide one, well outside off. Shepherd goes after it and slaps it down through backward point for a boundary.

Full and angled into the off pole. This is swung away down to long on for a single.

Full and fast, darted in at the stumps. Shai Hope looks to slog it away to the leg side but gets an inside edge and lets out a big grunt in disgrace.

FOUR! A tad short and wide outside off, Shai Hope reaches out and smacks it away through the point region for a boundary.

Pushed through quicker at the stumps, angling in. Hope gets rushed and gets an inside edge to short fine leg for just a single.

That's well fielded. Nagging length on middle, angled in. Shepherd gets forward and pushes it down towards mid on. Arshdeep Singh from short mid-wicket dives to his left and cuts it off.

SIX! Just over! Romario Shepherd and West Indies needed that. On the fuller side around off, Shepherd steps forward for the big hit and bludgeons it over a leaping Tilak Varma at long on for a six.

OUT! EDGED AND GONE! Kuldeep Yadav strikes gold on his return to the attack. Sherfane Rutherford flings his bat up in the air as he trudges off. Bowled with a flat trajectory, short and near the tramline on off. Rutherford does not move his feet at all and just reaches out with his hands, trying to run it down past short third. The ball catches the outside edge and there is a healthy deflection, which is snaffled by Sanju Samson around his left knee. End of the entertainment by Sherfane Rutherford but he has really set up the chase nicely for the Windies. West Indies are 178/4, needing 72 runs in 35 balls.

Pushed through, on a nagging length. Romario stabs it down towards mid-wicket.

Drops it fractionally short, on middle. Shepherd punches it to long on for a single.

FOUR! In the gap. A bit of a drag down by Kuldeep, on middle. Hope uses the depth of the crease and gets on top oif the bounce, pulling it wide of deep backward square leg to his left for a boundary.

A run saved! It is the googly by Kuldeep, on the shorter side, on off. Hope punches it away off the back foot wide of deep cover. Arshdeep Singh sprints to his left and dives to push the ball away from the fence. He is close to the boundary cushions but the third umpire check confirms that Singh's effort is clean.

Fired in full at 114.6 kph, on middle. Shepherd taps it wide of extra cover for a single.

Singh serves a low full toss, on off. Shai drives it to long on for a run.

Low full toss, on off. Rutherford smears it away to long on for a single.

Keeps it full, outside off. Hope jams it out wide of cover for one.

A crowd catch! Arshdeep nails the yorker, on middle and leg. Rutherford hurriedly gets his bat down and squeezes it out back to the bowler. Arshdeep takes the catch by sticking out the left hand. No real interest from the bowler but Shreyas Iyer makes a polite enquiry to the umpire. The third umpire is called into action. The replays confirm that it was a bump ball as the ball went into the turf off the toe end of the blade before going towards the bowler.

FOUR! Smart batting. Arshdeep sticks to the yorker ploy, on off. Rutherford predicts the length and steps out to take the ball on the full. He frees his arms and carves it behind point to the right of the man at deep point.

Another yorker attempted but it comes out as a low full toss, tailing back in on middle. Sherfane works it towards long on for a single.

Ver full, outside off. Hope jams it out to point.

SIX! Just over. Near the tramline, full in length. Hope hangs low and frees his arms to launch it down the ground. One hand comes off the bat handle and Tilak Varma at long off is in business for a moment. He leaps and sticks out the left hand but the ball sails over his head.

Flatter and on a nagging length, on off. Hope wrists it wide of deep mid-wicket for a single.

Sherfane Rutherford is not happy with wide not being given and lets out a cry in frustration. Around the tramline. Rutherford lets it go thinking it is a wide but the umpire is unmoved.

Wide! Spinning away, flirting with the tramline, on a good length. Rutherford lets it go. Not too different than the previous ball but this time, it has been given as a wide.

FOUR! A teaser for Abhishek Sharma. Skidding through, shorter and on off. Rutherford is tucked up for room as he flashes at the ball. Ends up slicing it off the outer half towards backward point. Sharma leaps and sticks out the right hand over his head but can only get fingertips to it as the ball goes behind into the fence.

SIX! That has gone back a long way. Right in the wheelhouse, off-break, on a length, on off. Rutherford gets the width to open up his arms and he bashes it way over long off. 7 runs off the first 4 balls but the over ends up going for 18 runs. 80 needed off 42 balls.

SIX! Into the stands! Sherfane Rutherford brings up his FIFTY in grand style, the 8th of his T20I career. He is making a habit of starting the over with a six. Sherfane has produced ball striking of the highest order tonight. Full and pushed across off. Rutherford just swings through the line and slams it over long off for a maximum.

Angled away, flat and full, Rutherford has a swipe across the line but the ball skids through to go under the blade.

Wide! Tries to keep it away from the batter's arc but this is spilled beyond the tramline.

FOUR! Powered away. That is a shot and a half. Short and outside off, around the tramline. Rutherford hangs back and hammers it away off the back foot through extra cover. The ball skips across the turf and beats the man in the deep to his left.

FOUR! Agricultural but effective. Very full, darted in at the toes. Rutherford gets the front leg out of the way and has a swing at it. Gets it off the inner half behind square leg for four more. 

SIX! It is going from bad to worse for Axar Patel. Axar slips in a low full toss, down leg. Rutherford walks inside the line to shovel it behind square leg. Gets more of a top edge and it goes right back towards the screen behind the wicket. 21 runs off the over with a ball to go.

Full and outside off. Rutherford reaches out and slices it wide of deep point for a couple of runs. 23 runs off the over. Axar made to look listless by the Windies, 39 runs off his 2 overs so far.

SIX! High and long enough. Sherfane Rutherford begins yet another over with a biggie. Full and following the batter as he backs away. Rutherford clears the front leg and clobbers it over the deep mid-wicket fence.

Gets in the wide yorker, near the tramline. Sherfane digs it out to backward point.

Drags the length back and it is bowled at 93.4 kph. Sherfane flashes but is beaten past the outside edge.

Had to hurry! Slower through the air, on a length, on off. Rutherford dabs it wide of cover and hurries to the other end. Shreyas Iyer swoops in and fires in a throw on the bounce. Dhir gets behind the stumps and tries to deflect the ball onto the stumps with the right hand but does not succeed in doing so. Sherfane was in anyway. Even with a direct hit, the left-hander would have been safe.

Flat and short, outside off. Hope presses back and taps it down the deck.

Good comeback by Dhir after being hit for a six on the first ball, just a single off the next 5 balls. Spinning back in towards the pads, on the shorter side.  Hope fails to help it away. The ball brushes the thigh pad and trickles towards short fine leg. 7 runs off the over. West Indies need 121 runs in 54 balls.

SIX! That's been swung hard and long by Rutherford. Tossed up on off stump, Sherfane Rutherford gives it his all and swings through the line, smashing it back down the ground for another biggie.

Floated up down leg, Rutherford tucks it 'round the corner on the leg side for a single.

A tossed-up wrong'un from Kuldeep, full and going across the off stump. Hope plays the lofted drive, slicing it on the bounce to deep cover for a single.

Oh, nearly an outside edge. Pushed through flatter and outside off, getting it to skid through. Rutherford stays back to cut but is beaten past the outside edge.

Can't get it through this time, and it becomes two dots in a row. A tad short and wide again. Rutherford waits back to cut and finds the fielder at backward point, who makes a sharp stop.

DROPPED! Mayank Yadav puts down a dolly of a chance, and Kuldeep Yadav isn't impressed one bit. Kuldeep drifts this one down the leg side, Rutherford sits down and tries to half-sweep, and ends up shovelling it straight to short fine leg. Mayank snatches at the ball and ends up shelling it down. The batters get a single, and West Indies are 122/3 at the halfway stage.

SIX! That's massive! Pitched up at the stumps, angling into the swinging arc, and at a gentle pace as well. Shai Hope just clears the front leg and hits through the line, launching the ball over long on for a biggie. 100 UP FOR WEST INDIES.

Drifted into the pads, Hope ends up chipping it off the leading edge through wide mid on and picks up a single.

Very full and straight, driven down to long on for a run more. Actually, the throw from the deep is a wide one and the back up fielder is unable to make the stop, conceding the extra run.

Dube finds the blockhole this time. Full and straight, Rutherford looks to slog it over mid-wicket but ends up inside-edging it onto his boot.

Full again, at the stumps and shaping back in. Rutherford backs away a touch, hitting it on the full and towards deep cover for just another single.

SIX! Swatted away by Shai Hope, he brings up his 14th T20I FIFTY. Dube switches things up by bowling a short ball over middle, but this one sits up for the batter. Hope gives himself a bit of room before clubbing it over cow corner for a six. This is now Hope's fourth straight score of fifty or more on this tour.

Nicely tossed up, very full and outside off. Shai Hope sets up for the big shot, but adjusts and just squeezes it through covers for a single.

SIX! Dispatched with aplomb! KD flattens it up, bowling a tad short on middle and leg. Sherfane Rutherford rocks back and lays into the slog, hammering it for a 96-meter biggie over deep mid-wicket.

Full and at the toes, bunted away towards cow corner for a couple of easy runs.

A mishit but Rutherford gets away with it. The googly now, on off and middle, Rutherford swings through the line, getting it off the inside half of the blade and down to long on for a single.

Flatter one, sliding it across the right-hander. Hope camps back and cuts it to deep point for one more.

Dragged back and pushed wider of the off stump. Rutherford reaches out and scythes it away but straight to backward point.

FOUR! Excellent placement. Just back of a length and outside off. Hope presses back and glides it between short third and backward point for a boundary.

Very full and speared in towards middle and leg. Hope drills it with a straight bat and down to long on for a single.

FOUR! Another shot filled with class. Hard length, slanting it wide of the off stump. Rutherford lets the ball come on and just angles it down behind point for another boundary.

A low full toss on middle, flicked away through mid-wicket for a single.

WIDE! Dube goes wide of the off stump, taking some pace off and ends up spilling it beyond the tramline.

Good-length delivery sliding into the pads. Shai Hope neatly tucks it away to the right of the deep mid-wicket fielder and comes back for the second run quite comfortably.

Full of a good length, on off, and sliding nicely onto the blade. Hope hits it square through the off side for a single. 14 off Dube's first over.

OUT! BOWLED! It is truly Mayank Yadav's day - a searing delivery at almost 150 kph, and he breaks the budding stand between West Indies' two most experienced batters. Yadav steams in and serves it on a good length on off, at 149.5 kph and gets the ball to skid through. Rovman Powell makes the big mistake of trying to hit across the line, that too off the back foot and is undone by sheer pace. The ball just flicks the flap of his pads and hammers into the stumps, sending the off stump cartwheeling. Yadav has three, and West Indies are 58/3 inside the Powerplay.

Full of a good length, angled across off. Sherfane Rutherford lets the ball come on and eases it to point.

FOUR! Dug in a bit shorter around off, Sherfane Rutherford leans back to pull and forces it more off the toe end of the blade between mid on and mid-wicket for a boundary.

FOUR! Cracking shot. Pitched up wide outside off, at 145.7, and Rutherford is waiting for it. Rutherford leans on and creams the drive through square covers, making it back-to-back boundaries.

SIX! What a shot! A length ball on the pads, not as quick as the rest of the delivery, a shade under 140 clicks. Rutherford nonchalantly whips it off his legs, sending the ball sailing over deep square leg for a biggie.

Bowled from around the wicket, quicker and fuller on off. Rutherford nudges it back down the pitch. Yadav fails to gather it cleanly on the follow-through, and the ball rolls to mid off. Rutherford wants the single, but Hope sends him back. West Indies are 72/3 at the end of the Powerplay.

Low full toss, on off. Powell does not try to muscle this one and just tries to thread the gap. He angles the drive wide of mid off, where Shreyas Iyer moves to his left and slides to cut it off. Just a single.

Pace off, into the wicket, near the tramline. Shai reaches and taps it wide of extra cover for a single.

Arshdeep bangs it in short, outside off. Powell lets it go through to the keeper. That looked high but the umpire is happy with the height.

FOUR! Just a chip, and it is enough to find the fence. Singh pushes the length up, on off. Rovman presents the full face of the bat and just checks his lofted hit. He still manages to clear the infield comfortably, getting it over wide mid off for a boundary. The 50 comes up for West Indies.

FOUR! Not in control but they all count. Dug in short, over middle. Powell takes it on but the ball climbs onto him and catches the top edge. It flies down to the vacant deep fine leg fence for a four.

Low full toss, on off and middle. Powell drives it wide of mid on for a single.

FOUR! Lovely shot. Darted into the left-hander, on a length, on middle. Hope backs away, opens up the front hip and goes inside out over cover for a boundary.

SIX! Up, up and away! West Indies on the charge, 20 runs in 4 balls. Axar bowls into the wicket, on middle. Hope has ample time to rock back in the crease and hit through the line of the ball, tonking it over long on for half a dozen.

Slows it down, slower through the air, on off. Hope chops it down to point.

SIX! Sent into the crowd! At 105.8 kph, pushed through, short and on middle. Shai backs away and frees his arms before launching it over long with relative ease for the second six of the over.

Patel gets away with it. Axar slides onto the pads with square leg up inside the circle. Hope fails to flick it away and wears it on the pads.

Very full, around the off stump. Hope can't squeeze it through the off side and ekes out an inside edge onto the pads. 16 runs off the over.

That took off. At 144.9 kph, Hope anticipates the length to be on the shorter side, and he backs away early. Shai shows his cards early and Mayank follows him with a hard-length ball. Hope presents a straight bat to keep it out but is beaten past the outside edge.

A swing and a miss! Mayank bashes the hard length, over off. Hope gives himself room and swings across for the pull but can only connect with thin air.

A run saved. On a back of a length, around the off stump. Hope stays beside the line and plays the lofted hit on the rise. Shai is early into the stroke and gets it off the bottom half of the blade. He manages to clear mid on and picks up three runs as Arshdeep Singh gives chase and slides to haul it in.

Serious heat from Mayank Yadav. It read 140 kph on the speed gun, but the ball seemed to gather pace off the track. Powell is in two minds about whether to hook it away or let it go. He eventually lets it through as the ball flies past him and Sanju Samson gathers it around his head.

SIX! All the way. That's what can happen when you have express pace but don't get it right. Mayank bowls the short ball but the line is a little too straight this time. Powell just uses the angle and hooks it away over long leg for a maximum.

FOUR! Through the gap. Fractionally short and equally wide on off. Powell stays back in the crease and gets his hands through to play a firece cut past point for a boundary.

FOUR! No need to run for that. Bowled across off, on a back of a length. Hope gets the width and he cashes in. He rides the bounce nicely and slaps it past cover for a boundary.

FOUR! Nicely done. On the fuller side, swinging back in, on middle and leg. Hope brings his wrists into play, gets under the ball and whips it over wide mid on for four more.

Arshdeep dishes out a bumper, over off. Hope drops his wrists and sways away from the line of the ball.

Going away, on a back of a length. Shai stands tall on top of the bounce and knocks it past cover. There is protection in the deep and it will be just a single.

At 133.9 kph, on a good length, a hint of inward shape. Powell defends with the bat close to his front pad and stabs it down on the off side.

Oh, nearly another ball that dragged onto the stumps. The length is pulled back ever so slightly, on off. Powell hangs back to play it square of the wicket on the off side but the ball tails back in late to clip the right elbow of the batter before it rolls away towards slip.

Nearly went to hand! Mayank steams in from over the wicket and hits the hard length at 144 kph. Hope stands tall and tries to bash it down the ground with a horizontal bat but he plays it well in front of his body. Gets it right off the toe end of the blade and it spoons back towards the bowler. Yadav sticks out the right hand but the ball stays out of his reach and dribbles wide of mid on.

FOUR! That should have been stopped. Shreyas Iyer will be disappointed with himself. Around off, on a nagging length. Pooran gives himself room and slams it over mid off. He does not quite get hold of it but manages to clear Shreyas Iyer there. Iyer gives chase and overruns the ball with the slide. He has a couple of cracks at pushing the ball away from the fence but fails to lay a hand and the ball trickles into the fence.

OUT! CAUGHT! A steepler taken well by Ravi Bishnoi as he makes an impact as a sub fielder. End of a short stay for Kamil Pooran, who is enduring a rough start to his T20I career, having dropped Sanju Samson earlier in the night. Dug in short pace by Mayank, on middle. Pooran makes room for himself and has a swing at it. Skies it a long way up towards mid-wicket. Ravi Bishnoi steadies himself under the skier and keeps his eyes on the ball all the way through before snaffling it close to his body.

OUT! DRAGGED ON! A golden duck for Shimron Hetmyer. West Indies have been rocked early in a big chase. Hooping back into the left-hander at 145 kph, on a back of a length, on middle. Hetmyer takes a step or two down the track as he looks to deal with it. The ball cuts back in to graze the inside edge, and it clips the top of the leg stump as the bails fall off. Two in two for Mayank and he is on a hat-trick now. West Indies are 5/2, chasing 250.

FOUR! Does not carry and it seeps through. Mayank goes full in search of swing but ends up dishing out a low full toss and drifts onto the pads. Powell flicks it a bit uppishly towards mid-wicket, where Ravi Bishnoi dives forward but the ball reaches him on the bounce and goes under his hands before racing away.

Goes past the bat! In the channel, on a good length, angled in before moving away off the seam. Powell has a tentative poke at the ball away from his body. Gets beaten on the outside edge does, Rovman. End of a probing first over by Yadav.