First ODI: India Defeated West Indies By Eight Wickets, Fourth-Time Kohli-Rohit Made A Century In One Match.

First ODI: India Defeated West Indies By Eight Wickets, Fourth-Time Kohli-Rohit Made A Century In One Match.

• #West Indies made 322 runs in first 50 overs, Hetmyer scored a century.
• India achieved the target in 42.1 overs by losing 2 wickets.
• Kohli-Rohit’s century partnership 15th time.
• The second match of the series will be held in Visakhapatnam on October 24.

Guwahati: In the first match of the five matches one-day series, India defeated the West Indies by 8 wickets on Sunday. India achieved the target of 323 in 42.1 overs by losing two wickets. #Virat Kohli and #Rohit Sharma scored a century Kohli scored 140 and Rohit scored 152. Both of them put together a century for the fourth time in the same innings. Rohit-Kohli is just behind AB de Villiers and Hashim Amla in this case. De Villiers-Amla did this five times.

In the second innings, India scored 300 runs in 28 times. Among this, India won 18 times, a match was tied and nine were lost.

Hetmyer scored a century for the West Indies: The West Indies batted first, scoring 323 runs for eight wickets in 50 overs. For West Indies, Shimron Hetmeyer scored 106. He made six boundaries and six sixes in his 78-ball innings. This is the third century of his career. Yuzvendra Chahal took three wickets for India.

Kohli-Rohit’s partnership of 246 runs: The Indian team started to chase the target was not good at the start. Shikhar Dhawan returned to Pavilion at the score of 10 runs. Thomas bowled Shikhar Dhawan on his personal score of four runs. This is the first wicket in Thomas’s one-day #cricket. Rohit and Kohli then took charge. Both added 246 runs for the second wicket. It is a 15th Century partnership between the two. Kohli scored his 36th and Rohit with his 20th century.

Kohli equals Tendulkar’s equation: Kohli also completed two thousand runs in this century. He is the fourth batsman to score more than two thousand runs in international cricket for three consecutive years. Before them, Sachin Tendulkar, Matthew Hayden, and Joe Root have done so. Kohli scored 2,595 runs in 2016 and 2,818 runs in 2017. He scored more than two thousand runs in a year in international cricket five times. In this case, he equals Sachin Tendulkar and Sri Lankan Mahela Jayawardene. Now Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara is only six ahead of him.

Powell hit half-century: The start of the West Indies was poor. Chandrapaul Hemraj was bowled by Mohammad Shami on the score of 19. Hemraj scored nine runs. Kieran Powell and Shai Hope shared 65 runs for the second wicket. Powell was dismissed by Khaleel Ahmed on 51 on his personal score. #Marlon Samuels returned to the pavilion with zero and Shai Hope with 32 runs.

Hetmyer has two half-century partnerships: After falling four wickets for 114 runs, Rovman Powell and Hetmeier shared a 74-run partnership for the fifth wicket. Rovman was bowled with a personal score of 22 runs by Ravindra Jadeja. Hetmyer shared a 60-run partnership with Captain Jason Holder for the sixth wicket. Holder played 38 runs.

Samuels out at zero in the 200th match: Marlon Samuels returned to the pavilion at zero. Yuzvendra Chahal made him LBW. This is their 200th ODI. He is the eighth in the world and the second batsman of the West Indies to get out on zero in his 200th ODI. Before that, Roshan Mahanama of Sri Lanka, Brian Lara of West Indies, Chris Cairns of New Zealand, Adam Gilchrist of Australia, Abdul Razzaq of Pakistan, Shoaib Malik and Harbhajan Singh of India have been out for zero in their 200th ODI.

Rishabh’s debut: Rishab Pant debuted for India in ODIs. Prior to the match, former captain and wicketkeeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni gave him ODI cap. Pant has played five Tests and four T20s before this. At the same time, Chandrapaul Hemraj and Oshane Thomas debuted from the West Indies.