India vs West Indies 5th T20: West Indies defeated Team India by 8 wickets in the fifth T20 played in Florida on Sunday night. With this, West Indies won the five-match T20 series 3-2. Defeat in the fifth T20 stopped the winning chariot of Team India. This is India’s first defeat in the last 13 T20 series.
Before the defeat against West Indies, Team India had lost the series against Sri Lanka 2-1. West Indies stopped Team India’s winning streak which was going on for the last 25 months.
This is how Team India lost the fifth T20
The West Indies team won the last match of the 5-match T20 series against India by 8 wickets and also won the series 3-2. In the 5th T20 match, the Indian team had given a target of 166 runs to the Windies team, which they achieved at the loss of 2 wickets in 18 overs. Brandon King scored an unbeaten 85 runs for the team. At the same time, an inning of 47 runs was also seen with the bat of Nicholas Pooran.
Team India in the last 13 T20 series
Wins – 11
Draw – 1 (vs South Africa)
Losses – 1 (vs West Indies)
Team India lost the five-match series for the first time
In the five-match T20 series played earlier, Team India has either won or the series is drawing in some way. But under the captaincy of Hardik Pandya, the Indian team suffered defeat for the first time in a five-match T20 bilateral series against the West Indies. Earlier in 2022, India played a 5-match bilateral T20 series against the West Indies, in which India won 4-1.
India’s results in the five-match T20 series
Won 5-0 v New Zealand, 2020 (A)
Won 3-2 against England, 2021 (home)
2-2 draw against South Africa, 2022 (H)
Won 4-1 v West Indies, 2022 (A)
Lost 2-3 against West Indies, 2023 (A).
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