‘Ab aakhri match dekhne me maza aayega’ – Fans react as India defeat West Indies by 9 wickets to level series 2-2

India locked horns with West Indies in the fourth T20I of the five-match series at the Central Broward Regional Park Stadium Turf Ground, Lauderhill, in Florida on Saturday, August 12. India won the match by nine wickets and the youngster from Mumbai, Yashasvi Jaiswal was awarded the Player of the Match for his match-winning performance.

If we talk about the match, the Windies‘ skipper, Rovman Powell won the toss and elected to bat first. The hosts while batting first scored 178 runs for the loss of eight wickets after the completion of the first innings. The highest scorer for the Caribbean was Shimron Hetmyer who scored 61 runs off 39 balls with three fours and four sixes in his innings. For the visitors, the pick of the bowler was Arshdeep Singh with three wickets and Kuldeep Yadav with two wickets.

I have played a lot of balls against them: Yashasvi Jaiswal

The Men in Blue completed the chase of 179 runs in the 17th over. The openers Shubman Gill and Jaiswal built up a brilliant partnership of 165 runs for the first wicket. Jaiswal played an unbeaten knock of 84 runs from 51 balls which included 11 fours and three sixes in his innings, while on the other hand, Gill scored 77 runs off 47 deliveries with three fours and five sixes in his innings.

“It’s not easy, I am happy to go out there and express myself. I would like to thank the support staff and Hardik bhai, they’ve shown faith. That shows so much impact on my mind. I try to play how team needs and how I can express myself towards the plan. I try to score quickly, how many shots I can play in the powerplay, and put my team in a nice shape,” Jaiswal was quoted as saying in the post-match presentation.

Reading the wicket, reading the situation, how I can take the game deep everything is important My intent is always to score runs. I have played a lot of balls against them (Holder and McCoy in the IPL), which helped me to read them. It (partnership with Gill) was really amazing the way we were talking and the way we were taking singles and understanding each other. He batted really well,” the left-hand batter added.

Here’s how fans reacted:

My man jaiswal

— Vikram (@yaang_022) August 12, 2023

https://twitter.com/Prateek_Aaryan/status/1690421631041392640?s=20

https://twitter.com/Sonali_8_31/status/1690423348554326016?s=20

https://twitter.com/KingKohlifan438/status/1690421265218281474?s=20

Good to see Yashasvi Jaiswal grabbing the opportunity with both hands and showing his Yash in world cricket. On the other hand great to see Shubman Gill is playing his part.

— dotΞxe (@dotexe786) August 12, 2023

This is the approach

— Pawan Shukla (@Shukla8175) August 12, 2023

https://twitter.com/WasiyullahB/status/1690421167554007040?s=20

We should play more matches in the USA it seems!

— Shahzeb Khan (@theshahzebkhan) August 12, 2023