IND vs WI: Virat Kohli and Shubman Gill hit centuries, India defeated West Indies by 8 wickets in Thiruvananthapuram.

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IND vs WI: India has defeated West Indies by 8 wickets in the first ODI match. With this, Team India has taken a 1-0 lead in the 3-match ODI series. In this match played at the Greenfield International Stadium in Thiruvananthapuram, West Indies, batting first, had scored 293 runs. In reply, Team India easily achieved the target with 50 balls remaining after losing only 2 wickets. Virat Kohli and Shubman Gill scored brilliant centuries for Team India. Virat Kohli played an unbeaten stormy inning of 139 runs. Kohli likes this ground of Thiruvananthapuram very much.

Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli gave a great start to India

Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill started Team India's innings to chase the target of 296 runs given by West Indies. Both the opening batsmen made a explosive start. As soon as Rohit came, he started hitting fours and sixes, but then Alzarri Joseph gave the first blow to India by dismissing Rohit Sharma. Rohit was out after scoring 32 runs in 35 balls, which included 2 fours and 3 sixes. There was a partnership of 74 runs in 12 overs for the first wicket between Gill and Rohit.

Shubman Gill played a brilliant inning of 108 runs.

After this, Shubman Gill along with Virat Kohli handled the team's innings. Both the batsmen batted brilliantly and made the West Indies bowlers yearn for wickets. During this, Gill completed his 9th ODI century in just 96 balls. However, then in the 34th over, Roston Chase gave a second blow to India by dismissing Shubman Gill. Gill was out after playing an innings of 110 runs in 108 balls, which included 13 fours and one six. There was a brilliant partnership of 151 runs for the second wicket between Gill and Kohli.

Virat Kohli played an unbeaten match winning inning of 139 runs.

Whereas Virat Kohli remained at the other end and returned unbeaten after leading Team India to victory in a spectacular manner. Kohli had completed his century in just 74 balls. This is the 55th century of his ODI career. Kohli played an unbeaten inning of 139 runs on 88 balls, which included 10 fours and 9 sixes. Because of the way Kohli batted, Rituraj Gaikwad did not get much chance. Gaikwad remained unbeaten after scoring 13 runs on 19 balls.

Justin Greaves scored a century for West Indies, Kuldeep Yadav took 4 wickets

In this match against India, West Indies, batting first after losing the toss, scored 295 runs for 7 wickets. Justin Greaves played a century inning of 101 runs for the Windies. Apart from this, John Campbell played an inning of 62 runs and Aamir Jangu played an unbeaten inning of 58 runs. Whereas for India, Kuldeep Yadav took 4 wickets. While Prasidh Krishna achieved 2. Nitish Kumar Reddy got a success there.

Also read: Virat Kohli created history, became only the second batsman in the world to score 15000 runs in ODI, Sachin Tendulkar is on top.

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