The first T20 match between India and West Indies ended on the similar note as it was in the ODIs with India clinching another victory against the visitors at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata today.
Batting first, West Indies faced troubles right from the start and wickets kept falling at regular intervals as Indian bowlers continued the assault. Windies scored 109/8 in 20 overs.
India was no excception today, skipper Rohit Sharma was the first to fall, surrendering to Oshane Thomas' pace and
Shikhar Dhawan followed him soon.
Rishabh Pant couldn't find any flair today, contributing just a single run before falling to Brathwaite's delivery.
Manish Pandey waited for a while, contributed 19 runs, including 2 boundaries but Dinesh Karthik was the sole batsman who spent time on the wicket at the same time added valuable 31 runs.
Debutant Krunal Pandya was in IPL hangover, playing clever shots without much fear and in the process added 21 runs in his teams tally.
For West Indies, Oshane Thomas and Carlos Brathwaite delivered well with the ball, the duo forced the hosts to surrender to their pace and line.
At one time, it looked that India will find it hard to proceed towards victory but it all did not go in West Indies' favour.
India won the toss and decided to put West Indies to batting, Ramdin was the first one to be dismissed and then there was no recovery, Shai hope committed a blunder and got run out in return.
Kuldeep Yadav (4-0-13-3) picked key wickets and derailed Windies' progress. H was also chosen as the Man of the Match. Umesh, Khaleel, Bumrah, Pandya picked a wicket each.
Widnies almost had the match as major inroads were made at a significant time and India was finding it hard to pick boundaries, but luck too was not in their favour.
West Indies bowlers did bring the team back into the match but they did not have a defending total, rest Karthik and Krunal Pandya rescued India on time.
There were major changed in West Indies line up today as experienced palyers joined the team, including Pollard, Brathwaite and Bravo.
Krunal Pandya and Khaleel Ahmed made their T20 debut for India.
India now have 1-0 lead over West Indies in the three-match T20 series.