India vs West India: Fifth T20 International – teams, start, lineups, Hope

Who: India vs West Indies
What: Twenty20 International cricket series
Where: M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru, India
When: Saturday, October 17, astatine 7pm (13:30 GMT)
How to follow: Al Jazeera Sport volition person each the build-up from 11:30 GMT earlier our unrecorded substance commentary stream

India big West Indies successful the decisive T20 International bid finale connected Saturday aft 1 of the astir compelling white-ball tours successful caller memory.

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The five-game bid is level astatine 2-2 earlier the lucifer successful Bengaluru aft record-breaking feats by the tourists that person pushed the T20 World Cup holders to the limit.

Al Jazeera Sport takes a look astatine what has go a must-not-miss showdown.

How did West Indies circuit of India begin?

The teams played a three-match One-Day International to statesman the white-ball tour, which saw India instrumentality an unassailable pb aft opening eight-wicket wins successful Thiruvananthapuram and Guwahati.

After posting a mammoth 351-7 disconnected their 50 overs – acknowledgment mostly to KL Rahul’s 129 disconnected 87 balls – successful New Chandigarh, India would person felt they had capable connected the committee to assertion the 3rd match, too.

Enter West Indies skipper Shai Hope. The opener deed 162 disconnected 143 balls successful an unbeaten sound that led his broadside to a five-wicket win.

It was the West Indies highest ODI tally chase.

How did the India-West Indies T20 bid begin?

India enactment the disappointment of the closing decision successful the ODI bid down them by claiming an eight-win win, with 5.2 overs to spare, successful the archetypal T20 of the series.

Despite fifties from Hope and Sherfane Rutherford, West Indies were bowled retired for 171, with Naman Dhir taking 3 wickets for the hosts.

Hope past deed an unbeaten 102 disconnected lone 45 balls successful the 2nd lucifer to pb West Indies to their highest palmy Twenty20 tally chase.

Hope deed 9 sixes and six boundaries arsenic the West Indies finished with 252-4 successful reply to India’s 249-5.

India restored their bid pb successful the 3rd match, but lone via a constrictive 14-run victory.

After being bowled retired disconnected the past shot of their innings, India posted 223 – led by Abhishek Sharma’s 69 disconnected 30 balls.

Arshdeep Singh claimed 3 wickets arsenic West Indies were restricted to 209-7.

What happened successful the past India-West Indies T20?

It was clip for the Hope amusement again successful the 4th crippled of the T20 tour, arsenic the wicketkeeper-batter deed his second period of the series.

The tourists struck 247-3, having been enactment in, with Hope hitting an unbeaten 102.

His 9 sixes and 4 fours were a grounds tally for a West Indies batter successful a T20 International.

The full was the second-highest archetypal innings people successful T20s against India, trailing England’s 257-3 successful Southampton this year.

Opener Sanju Samson’s 56 disconnected 23 balls acceptable India disconnected to a bully start, but Keemo Paul’s five-wicket haul led West Indies to a 24-run bid levelling win.

What did Shai Hope gag astir his Player of the Match awards?

Hope joked aft the 4th T20 that helium was disquieted helium whitethorn ⁠have to fork ⁠out excess baggage fees aft picking up his 3rd Player of the Match grant connected their circuit of India.

“To beryllium honest, they are a spot heavy, and we person got to look astatine the luggage weight,” helium quipped aft the win.

“I deliberation we are going to person immoderate problems going backmost home.”

Predicted India squad lineup

Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson (w), Ishan Kishan, Shreyas Iyer (c), Tilak Varma, Naman Dhir, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Axar Patel, Prince Yadav, Mayank Yadav, Arshdeep Singh

Predicted West Indies squad lineup

Shai Hope (c and w), Jewel Andrew, Shimron Hetmyer, Rovman Powell, Sherfane Rutherford, Romario Shepherd, Roston Chase, Shamar Springer, Keemo Paul, Shamar Joseph, Gudakesh Motie