IND vs WI 2026/27, IND vs WI third ODI Match Report, October 03, 2026

West Indies 352 for five (Hope 162*, Jangoo 67) beat India 351 for 7 (Rahul 129*, Rohit 92, Gaikwad 57, Seales 3-62) by 5 wickets

Shai Hope spent the whole lot of this seemingly endless match on the sphere, hobbling for the final third of his innings after having saved for 50 overs, and sealed West Indies’ highest-successful chase in ODIs days after they skilled the agony of dropping regardless of scoring 405.

That West Indies chased down 352 with outstanding ease regardless of dropping one among solely 5 specialist batters to harm even earlier than Hope began to wrestle leaves us with a tantalising “what if”. To not point out a controversial choice towards Sherfane Rutherford, which necessitated a wonderful innings of 44 from Keemo Paul, batting within the prime 5 for the primary time in ODIs.

This was the one time West Indies acquired to chase on this collection, and the chase-friendliness of the situations in New Chandigarh have been much more stark. After the primary 10 overs of the match yielded 28 for two, with India deciding to problem themselves by batting first after profitable their third toss, the remainder of the match produced 675 runs at 7.64 per over. Regardless of all of the batting data India posted, together with KL Rahul’s private finest on this ODI, their bowling within the absence of Jasprit Bumrah and Hardik Pandya will give them little confidence lower than a yr earlier than the World Cup. What in the event that they hadn’t received all of the tosses and West Indies had acquired to chase sooner within the collection?

Led by Hope’s 162 off 143, this was a wonderfully paced chase: the primary time the asking price went previous eight an over was on the finish of the thirty eighth over. That was additionally the time when Hope was struggling together with his health. Unable to place stress on the fielders or handle the massive hits, Hope went 42 balls with out a boundary on this interval. The mentioning of his twenty first ODI century gave him little pleasure. Amongst his team-mates previous and current, solely Chris Gayle has extra.

Nevertheless, very like Amir Jangoo had executed for the second wicket, Paul dominated the scoring and made positive Hope may bide his time and goal to collect a second wind in the direction of the tip of the match. Paul had additionally taken the massive wicket of Rohit Sharma on 92 within the twenty fifth over, when Rohit was executed with the wrestle and threatened one other massive hundred. Had he acquired there, it might have been his third in 4 innings.

Rohit used all his expertise after Jayden Seales, West Indies’ finest bowler of the collection, took out Shubman Gill and Virat Kohli in successive authorized deliveries to scale back India to 4 for two. Gill gloved one down the leg aspect, and Kohli missed a straight ball, dropping his center stump.

India wanted all of the talent of Rohit and Rahul after which some given how batting appeared straightforward as soon as the pitch settled down. It’s outstanding that West Indies received not simply regardless of the accidents and the questionable choice, but in addition regardless of a minimum of six dropped catches, peculiar floor fielding and the bowling going to items when Rahul determined it was time to maximise the previous few overs.

Rahul added 40 and 61 with debutant Anshul Kamboj and No. 9 Gurnoor Brar after executing a second rebuild of the innings when Rohit and the extremely fortunate Ruturaj Gaikwad, who was dropped 4 instances, fell inside 19 runs of one another. Gaikwad’s luck took a nasty lifter from Seales to finish for 57 off 69.

Rahul stayed calm, went deep into the innings, and totally cashed in on the final three overs bowled with an additional fielder within the circle because of a tardy over price. He scored 42 off the final 12 balls he confronted as India took 50 off the final three overs. This was Rahul’s ninth ODI hundred, fourth in simply 36 innings from No. 5.

If the dropped catches weren’t sufficient, one which caught, from Naman Dhir who seemed promising in his 30 off 21, injured the opening batter Jewel Andrew so badly that he needed to go to hospital for scans. No fracture was revealed, however the ache was so unhealthy it was determined Andrew would bat provided that wanted. Because it turned out, he wasn’t.

Regardless that the returning Mohammed Siraj bowled final match’s centurion John Campbell with a wobble-seam ball early, the beginning from West Indies was adequate to stun India and the group. The revelation of the collection, Jangoo, relished a transfer as much as No. 3, attending to now exploit the sphere restrictions as effectively.

Dropped on 34 by Kohli no much less, Jangoo scored 67 off 56 in a 109-run second-wicket stand with Hope. The pair batted with ease, hit others and milked Kuldeep Yadav for a run a ball, however a run-out off a misfield by Kohli ended Jangoo’s collection at 239 runs off simply 176 balls.

Only one wicket away from bowling allrounders and bowlers, having performed a big half within the run-out of Jangoo, Hope, 62 off 62 at this level, needed to regroup if West Indies have been to have any likelihood within the chase though 202 in just a little beneath 30 overs seemed simple how the final 60 overs had gone.

Hope responded with three fours within the subsequent eight balls he confronted. Throughout this onslaught, India misplaced Brar momentarily to a calf harm. In his absence, Dhir did an honest job, however Hope saved getting the boundary each time wanted, essentially the most notable one among them a straight back-foot six as a response to a few straight dots to Dhir within the twenty sixth over.

Rutherford joined the social gathering quickly sufficient however when given out on the sphere for twenty-four off 25 to make it 206 for 3 in 30 overs, the DRS evaluate did not persuade the third umpire that the ball had not hit his bat though replays did affirm the bat hitting the pad on the similar time. The third umpire could not see a “clear hole” between bat and ball wanted to overturn the on-field name, however many an observer felt in any other case.

An ask of 146 in 20 overs with seven wickets in hand is a cakewalk on this period, however West Indies did not have Roston Chase, who was overlooked for Gudakesh Motie and nonetheless ended up spending half the bowling innings on the sphere after Vitel Lawes walked off injured.

Aided by Paul’s leg-glance-filled innings, Hope determined to take the sport as deep as he may, even conscious that India’s over price was sluggish and that India would additionally have to bowl with an additional fielder in. Regardless of the slowdown within the intervening interval as soon as Brar got here again to get the wicket of Paul, Hope made positive he was there and in a position to play a lone hand on the finish.

The best the asking price acquired was 11.2 for the final 5 overs, and Hope was not getting a lot assist from Motie on the different finish. Hope had himself scored simply 38 within the final 48 balls. Then he began to drag the set off. After hitting a straight six off the primary ball of Kuldeep’s final over, he achieved one other small win by sweeping a flawed’un, a ball that had acquired him out in each the earlier matches, for 4.

India needed to bowl the final 4 overs with the over-rate penalty in play, and it was their flip to go to items. Hope sliced a few fours off Brar within the forty seventh earlier than Gill selected to bowl Kamboj within the forty eighth though Siraj had two overs left. Kamboj seemed to reprise his IPL methodology of going around the wicket and bowling huge yorkers to right-hand batters, however not solely did he miss, he additionally bowled a no-ball to lastly give Hope a serving to hand now that he did not actually need it.

Sidharth Monga is a senior author at Cricinfo

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