India-WI ODI collection: Krishna to rescue as hosts seal collection

The recreation modified after Prasidh Krishna got here into the assault within the eighth over. Until then, West Indies hoped.
India have been defending a modest 237 and early wickets have been wanted. But Shai Hope and Brandon King, the 2 Caribbean openers, have been moving into the groove and elevating the tempo, when skipper Rohit Sharma made a decisive bowling change.
Prasidh has made his title in T20 cricket, taking part in for Kolkata Knight Riders. But he has ‘red-ball bowler’ written throughout him, with an attacking line and size, and talent to maneuver the ball.
The Motera pitch for the second ODI was a bit spicy, providing good bounce and off-the-deck motion. Alzarri Joseph bowled a superb spell with the brand new ball for the vacationers. Prasidh bettered him in India’s 44-run victory. The hosts annexed the three-match collection after West Indies have been all out for 193.

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Sharma had introduced him on as a wicket-taking possibility and it was crucial for the seamer to bowl to his strengths, sticking to basic red-ball rules when it comes to line and size. Prasidh struck instantly, hitting a tough size outdoors off and managing to extract additional bounce. King, trying an expansive slash, did not get on prime of the bounce.
Darren Bravo is the previous hand within the Caribbean pack and Prasidh was satisfied that he had induced an edge from the left-hander to Rishabh Pant. Umpire Nitin Menon negated the enchantment, however Sharma determined to go upstairs. Ultra Edge detected a spike and it was 5 out of 5 for the India captain over two video games, DRS-wise. Little surprise that Sunil Gavaskar on air has began calling it ‘Definitely Rohit System’.

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This West Indies batting line-up is brittle beneath stress. So when Prasidh eliminated stand-in West Indies captain Nicholas Pooran – Kieron Pollard sat out owing to a niggle – India have been in full ascendency. It was one other back-of-a-length ball that moved away, squaring up the left-hander a contact and taking the skin edge on option to Sharma at first slip. Standing a bit wider in that place was sensible considering from the skipper. His tactical nous got here to the fore, as Yuzvendra Chahal dismissed Hope.
Googlies had served the leg-spinner effectively within the first ODI and after the sport, Chahal had confirmed that he bowled plenty of them on Sharma’s insistence. On Wednesday, the captain’s transient to the leggie was ostensibly to bowl crazy leg-breaks outdoors off stump, taking the ball away from the right-handers. Hope, shifting at a snail’s tempo, was getting stressed. He picked the fallacious supply to hit towards the flip, seemingly oblivious to the truth that Sharma had saved Suryakumar Yadav a tad wider at long-on. It was glorious cricket throughout; good bowling, a wonderful catch and top-class captaincy. This was what India had missed throughout their 0-3 ODI collection defeat in South Africa, with Virat Kohli stepping down and Sharma absent as a result of a hamstring damage.

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Promising future
Coming again to Prasidh, his emergence is sweet information for Indian cricket at a time when the workforce has been trying to find a substitute for Bhuvneshwar Kumar. After the South Africa tour, head coach Rahul Dravid had spoken about India’s lack of ability to take wickets within the center overs. Prasidh might provide an answer. After three wickets in Cape Town and a pair within the first ODI right here, the 25-year-old returned with 4/12 in 9 overs from this recreation. He and Mohammed Siraj, together with Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami, will make India’s tempo assault meaty throughout codecs. As regards to Prasidh’s rapid future, a Man-of-the-Match efficiency simply two days earlier than the Indian Premier League mega public sale was well timed.
As for Sharma’s captaincy, he hardly put a foot fallacious, save a few no-balls as a result of fielding infringements. Every bowling change labored.

He introduced again Shardul Thakur and the medium pacer bounced out Jason Holder. Rohit turned to Thakur once more, when Akeal Hosein was giving a mini scare, and the bowler removed him with one other bouncer. Siraj eradicating Fabian Allen got here on the heels of one other profitable bowling change. Before that, when Sharma launched Deepak Hooda, the off-spinner bagged his maiden worldwide wicket by dismissing a well-set Shamarh Brooks.

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Batting, although, stays a priority for India and the course correction primarily lies in Kohli returning to kind. Over the final 10-odd years, Kohli and Sharma have been the spine of the workforce’s top-order batting in white-ball cricket. Now, they aren’t scoring runs in tandem. It harm India on the T20 World Cup. Kohli not getting huge scores was a purpose for the workforce’s ODI collection defeat in South Africa as effectively.
On Wednesday, Sharma (5) bought out to a Kemar Roach supply that kicked off from a size outdoors off stump. Kohli (18) went for a canopy drive to an Odean Smith supply, simply that the ball moved off the seam after pitching and kissed the skin edge. It’s virtually two-and-a-half years for the reason that former captain scored a global hundred. Without huge scores from him and Sharma, the workforce’s batting loses its sheen.
A 91-run fourth-wicket partnership between KL Rahul and Yadav gave India’s complete some respectability. Rahul was fortunate to get a reprieve on 4 earlier than falling prey to a mix-up on 49. Yadav scored 64 however but once more did not convert a half-century.

As Rahul departed, TV cameras captured the India U-19 World Cup-winning squad, resplendent of their nationwide workforce blazers and watching the seniors, sitting alongside BCCI secretary Jay Shah and treasurer Arun Dhumal. Out there within the center, Washington Sundar, an U-19 graduate, performed an excellent straight drive off Roach, additional testifying a seamless development to the following stage.