India vs West Indies 3rd T20I Highlights: SKY, Tilak lead India to 7-wicket win

“We'll bat first. Looks a little slow wicket. Holder in the last game picked up a niggle to his knee. He misses out, Chase comes in. Guys are excited, we are on the doorstep on history. They have such quality players, have to keep them on their toes. If you become predictable, they will destroy you.”

“Don't mind chasing. Obviously would've preferred to bat looking at the surface. Might get slower. It is what it is. Pooran has been batting very well. Would like to keep things simple to him, rather than trying a lot of things. Two changes, Yashasvi makes his debut, Kuldeep comes in for Bishnoi. Ishan misses out.”

Rovman Powell has won the toss and the West Indies will bat first

Darren Ganga says it is a “little bit cloudy". “It's the same pitch as the second T20I. 66 meters on one side, 67 on the other, and 77 down the ground. Pitch looks good. It's a bit drier than the second T20I. No green blades of grass. It's still very hard. Spin will play a little more leading role in wicket-taking”

Yashasvi Jaiswal has been handed his maiden T20I cap. He will be making his debut today. Who makes way? We'll find out soon. 

The one batter who has done well for India in this series is the new guy, Tilak Varma. He has been a mainstay in the Mumbai Indians middle order for the past two years and an India call-up was long time coming. He has grabbed the opportunity with both hands thus far, scoring 39 and 51 in the two T20Is.

Samson impressed in one of the two games he got in the ODI series but is yet to come to the party in the T20Is. In fact, he has failed to impress throughout his T20I career thus far - Samson has just 320 runs in 19 matches at a strike rate of 131.14 and average of 18.82. There is a chance that India could bring in Jaiswal in his place and make changes in the top order to slot him in.

Nicholas Pooran has been the destroyer-in-chief for the West Indies thus far in the series. He gave them a much needed boost in the powerplay in both games and in the second T20I, he just carried on the same vein. It is Pooran's innings that was a major, major reason for West Indies chasing down 153. He has scored 108 runs in these two matches at a strike rate of 145.94.

Suryakumar Yadav's T20I career numbers are mind boggling and the opposite can be said for his stats in ODIs. It is in the latter that India have required him to perform this year but SKY's form has been blown assunder with every ODI failure this year. While he showed that he still has got the goods in the shortest format in the IPL this year, he is yet to truly impress in the international version of the format. SKY's last 50-plus score in T20Is came on January 7 this year. That was an unbeaten 51-ball 112, which just shows how lethal he can be on his day. Since then, his scores have read 47, 26*, 23, 21 and 1.

This match is being played in Guyana, as was the previous one, and so spin-friendly conditions are expected once again. The forecast for the week is for rain in Guyana and this could be another key factor in the game.

“That was not a pleasing batting performance by us. The wickets were falling, and the track was on the slower side. We were not good enough to get to 160+. Batters need to take more responsibility. It is what it is. The current combination that we have means we have to play with seven batters. Bowlers win your games. We have to figure out how we get batting strength from No. 8, 9, 10."

Pooran has been fined 15 per cent of his match fee for breaching the Level 1 ICC Code of Conduct during India's innings. Pooran flouted Article 2.7 of the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel, which pertains to public criticism in relation to an incident occurring in an international match. The incident had happened in the fourth over after India captain Hardik Pandya opted to bat first. Pooran had criticised the umpire for having to use up a player review option for a decision that he felt was clearly not out.

Jaiswal was quite sensational in the Test series but he was not picked in the ODIs, with Shubman Gill and Ishan Kishan opening for them. They have continued with the same combination but it hasn't worked for them at all in this series. The opening stand got just 5 runs in 2.2 overs in the first match and 16 runs in 2.5 overs in the second. Ishan Kishan may have been impressive in the ODI and Test series but it has been a while since he played an innings of note in the T20Is. India have another wicketkeeper-batter in the form fo Sanju Samson in the XI so, is there a case for giving Jaiswal a nod in place of Kishan?

India's bowlers have been quite exceptional in this series and have kept them in the game in both the T20Is that have been played thus far. Their batting performance, though, has been on the other end of the spectrum. India laboured to 145 for the loss of nine wickets in the first match and in the second, they managed to score just 155, which are rarely scores that would win you matches even on a slow wicket against a team like West Indies who are known for their big-hitting. Now, the hosts seem to be consciously trying to improve their running between the wickets as well and so the Indian batters have to put this game beyond their reach so as to stand a chance at saving this series today.

Ishan Kishan(w), Shubman Gill, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Sanju Samson, Hardik Pandya(c), Axar Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Mukesh Kumar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Umran Malik, Avesh Khan

Brandon King, Kyle Mayers, Johnson Charles, Nicholas Pooran(w), Rovman Powell(c), Shimron Hetmyer, Romario Shepherd, Jason Holder, Akeal Hosein, Alzarri Joseph, Obed McCoy, Odean Smith, Shai Hope, Oshane Thomas, Roston Chase

Well, well, well, when all those comments were being made from multiple quarters of blooding youngsters against a weak West Indies and this series not being one through which we can judge players' form considering how weak the opposition is, who'da thunk that India would stand on the cusp of a series defeat twice in the tour and be blocked and rained into a draw during a Test match. Cricket-wise, this series has not really been the Carribean vacation that the Indians would've envisaged. In this rubber, they have been beaten to submission by Nicholas Pooran and while India made a heartening fightback towards the end of the second T20I, Hardik Pandya's puzzling decision to not give his most succesfull bowler his final over played a big part in them going 2-0 down. All that means that after facing the prospect of losing an ODI series to the West Indies for the first time since 2006, they now stare at the danger of losing a T20I series for the first time since 2016.