Watch: Shubman Gill was out pulling a steep Alzarri Joseph short ball in the third match of the West Indies-India T20I series today (August 8), registering his third consecutive single-digit score in the process.
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West Indies scored 159-5 from their 20 overs after winning the toss. Each of their top five players got starts, but none could go past fifty. Brandon King top scored with 42, but he took 42 balls to score those runs.
The impetus to the West Indies innings was provided once again by the middle-order duo of Nicholas Pooran and Rovman Powell, who scored 20 off 12 and 40 off 19 respectively. For India, Kuldeep Yadav was the pick of the bowlers, registering figures of 3-28.
Shubman Gill walked out to bat alongside a new opening partner in this game, debutant Yashasvi Jaiswal. Jaiswal was out slogging across the line to an Obed McCoy delivery in the very first over of the innings.
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Gill was then joined by Suryakumar Yadav, who looked in imperious touch as he raced off to 24 off 13 balls by the end of the fourth over. Gill, however, had managed only six off 10 balls by then and was visibly struggling to time the ball.
On the second ball of the fifth over, he tried forcing a short-arm pull off an Alzarri Joseph short ball on his body but wasn’t able to free his arms and ended up top-edging the ball to hand an easy catch to Johnson Charles at mid-wicket.
This was the third successive single-digit score for Gill in this series, after a nine-ball three in the first game and a nine-ball seven in the second. Overall, it was his sixth score of less than 10 and seventh score of less than 12 out of just nine T20I games.
Following his dismissal, Tilak Varma and Suryakumar stitched an 87-run third-wicket partnership that took India to a position of comfort. Suryakumar scored 83 off 44 while Tilak was unbeaten on 49 off 37 as India won the game by seven wickets and kept the series alive at 2-1 heading into the America leg of the series.
Watch Gill get out pulling to a short ball by Alzarri Joseph for a third consecutive single-digit score:
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