India largely managed to keep West Indies at bay managing to keep them restricted to 157 runs for the loss of 7 wickets in their registered 20 overs.
Having bowled well in the entire first half of the innings, India had the grip on West Indies till the 13th over of the game with Windies struggling at 81/4. However, fielding restrictions were put on India for a couple of overs of the game for slow over-rate and aided by Nicholas Pooran’s superb innings, Windies went up to 157 runs scoring over 65 runs in the final 5 overs.
Pooran was slow to start off with but went on about business attacking the likes of Yuzvendra Chahal and Harshal Patel. He scored his half century in 38 balls when Windies desperately needed someone to dig deep. Kieron Pollard finished with 24 off 19 making sure the Windies had at least something to defend.
For India, debutant Ravi Bishnoi did superbly well and picked two wickets for just 17 runs, barring Bishnoi Harshal Patel also picked two but gave away 37 runs in return.