India leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal achieved a huge milestone while playing in the first T20I against West Indies. In his four overs, Chahal gave away 36 runs at an economy of 9 and picked up two wickets as Windies posted a total of 207 in 20 overs. Doing so, Chahal took his total tally of T20I wickets to 52, which is the joint-highest by an Indian bowler in the shortest format, along with Ravichandran Ashwin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, Shimron Hetmyer struck a quick half-century as West Indies produced a fine batting display to post a challenging 207 for 5 against India in the first T20 International of the three-match series. An aggressive Hetmyer made 56 off 41 balls which was studded with two boundaries and four hits over the fence to hold West Indies from one end after being sent into bat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He first added 37 runs with Brandon King and then shared 71 runs with skipper Kieron Pollard to lay the base for the West Indies total. The Indians, however, were far from impressive on the field as Washington Sundar and Rohit Sharma dropped a few catches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But a double breakthrough by leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal (2\/36) in the 18th over put a check on West Indies\u2019 scoring rate. Hetmyer was the first to depart in the first delivery of the 18th over when he gave a simple catch to Rohit at deep backward square and then a ball later, Pollard was cleaned up by Chahal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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