India vs West Indies 2nd T20 highlights: WI level series after thrilling five-wicket win over IND

Jadeja uses his feet and sends the ball soaring over long on. Encouraging that for India, they are 84/4 after 11 overs. 

Well it seems India's tactic is to get their top four to play like pinch hitters in the powerplay and then get the rest of the batters to be watchful and carry them to the 15th over. Might not be sustainable against teams in better touch than the West Indies. For now, Hardik Pandya and Ravindra Jadeja being far more watchful than any of their teammates thus far. 

Well Pant has been trying to hit the ball everywhere but this time, he falls. Full from Hosein and Pant skips down the track to try and go over midwicket. It was hit against the wind and falls into the hands of Odean Smith. 

Pant c Smith b Hosein 24 (12), India 61/4 in 6.3 overs

As was the case in the first T20I really, India have got off to a quick start but they are also losing wicket. 

Big slog from Shreyas Iyer and he edges it to the keeper, Alzarri Joseph gets his first wicket. Well India seem to be going ahead with their see ball, hit ball strategy. 

Iyer c Thomas b Joseph 10 (11), India 40/3 in 4.2 overs

Back of a length at middle and angling away, Pant uses Smith's pace and laps it over short fine leg. 

Pant whips away the second ball he aces and it flies over the boundary. This is a six-hitting ground and it shows. Fuller delivery outside off, Pant clears his front leg and sends it flying over fine leg. 

A wicket off the first ball of his first over, a wicket off the first ball of his second over. Rishabh Pant may not officially have been the opener today but he is practically playing as an opener now. 

Suryakumar Yadav c Thomas b McCoy 11 (6), 17/2 in 2.1 overs

India had not scored a run for the first eight balls and then got off the mark with a six from Suryakumar Yadav. Shreyas Iyer then ended the second over with another six and that made it 17 from it.

Well how about that! The bounce completely surprises Rohit Sharma and he is off first ball! It has taken three hours for this match to start and West Indies have wasted no time in sending back the Indian captain. Back of a length ball on middle and leg and it takes off, Rohit fends away and it flies to Akeal Hosein at short third man. 

Rohit Sharma c Hosein b McCoy 0 (1), India 0/1 in 0.1 overs

It seems India are going to stick with this combination for this series at least. What is the intended end result of this, only they would know. 

India surprised everyone when they sent out Suryakumar Yadav to open the innings with Rohit Sharma in the first T20I, just as it started to look like they had decided to give Rishabh Pant a go at that position. It will be interesting to see if Suryakumar continues in that role. 

So India bring in Avesh Khan for Ravi Bishnoi. The conditions were favouring spinners in the first T20I so this was probably expected but there are no more changes. 

It was quite pleasing for us, the way we played first game. We stuck to our plans and executed it really well. It's another opportunity for us and we are looking to repeat what we did in the first one. We want the guys to be able to bat anywhere and don't want them to be batting in specific positions. We want the guys to be flexible, there are two ways to look at it depending on certain players. We probably read the pitch well in the first game and thought as a team we made the right call to go with three spinners. The dimensions are different here and wanted to get an extra seamer here. Bishnoi misses out unfortunately and Avesh Khan comes in. It's unfortunate that he misses out but we are trying whatever we can from the team's perspective.

We are going to have a bowl, wickets look nice and we will try and use our experience. We want to forget that game and believe in our process and execute our plans. Different conditions today and the guys are looking forward to whatever spin/seam attack they have. We have two changes. Keemo Paul and Brooks are out.

Kyle Mayers, Brandon King, Nicholas Pooran(w/c), Rovman Powell, Shimron Hetmyer, Devon Thomas, Jason Holder, Akeal Hosein, Odean Smith, Alzarri Joseph, Obed McCoy

Rohit Sharma(c), Suryakumar Yadav, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant(w), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Dinesh Karthik, Ravichandran Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Avesh Khan, Arshdeep Singh

Rohit Sharma and Nicholas Pooran are in the middle after all. West Indies have won the toss and chosen to bowl first.

Or so it seems for now. The next update will probably tell you who is batting first, or what the new toss timing will be. 

Kyle Mayers, Shamarh Brooks, Jason Holder, Nicholas Pooran(w/c), Rovman Powell, Shimron Hetmyer, Akeal Hosein, Odean Smith, Keemo Paul, Alzarri Joseph, Obed McCoy, Hayden Walsh, Devon Thomas, Brandon King, Romario Shepherd, Dominic Drakes

Rohit Sharma(c), Suryakumar Yadav, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant(w), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Dinesh Karthik, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravi Bishnoi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Arshdeep Singh, Harshal Patel, Axar Patel, Deepak Hooda, Avesh Khan, Ishan Kishan, Kuldeep Yadav, Sanju Samson

Just a reminder that this match has been delayed by a total of three hours. The delay was initially two but it has now gone up to three. The reason is not rains, indeed it seems to be quite a good day for cricket in Basseterre, but a delay in the arrival of “significant delays in crucial team luggage” arriving in St Kitts and Nevis. 

Well this delay comes hot on the heels of news that visa issues has put a cloud of uncertainty on the fourth and fifth T20Is being played in Florida, United States. "Having the games in the Caribbean is not unlikely but efforts are being made to resolve the visa issue," Cricbuzz quoted a source in West Indies cricket as saying. "The initial information was that the players would be handed the US travel documents in St Kitts where the teams have arrived. But there's a chance that the players may have to travel back to Trinidad for the visa documents and from there to the US if they obtain the all-clear."

Well technically we still are minutes away from the toss, its just that we are just under 60 minutes away from it. The match has been further delayed to a 11pm start and so toss is, for now, scheduled to take place at 10.30pm. We will keep updating you if there are any further delays of course. 

As stated earlier, chasing is the more preferred option at this venue with the wickets here predominantly aiding the bowlers.