India thrashed the Windi⛎es by nine wickets in the fifth and final ODI at the Greenfield Stadium in Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday.
With this win, the hosts clinched the ℱfive-matc🦄h ODI series 3-1. Set a meagre target of 105, India cruised to victory with Rohit Sharma top-scoring (63 not-out) and skipper Virat Kohli remaining unbeaten on 33.
Earlier, left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja took four wickets to help India bundle out the visitors for 104. It was a complete 🌺surrender from the Windies whose innings lasted for just 31.5 overs. Jadeja stood out with figures of 4 for 34 while Khaleel Ahmed and Jasprit Bumrah took two wickets each.
Here’s how Twitter reacted:
Congratulations team india 🇮🇳
— Suresh Raina🇮🇳 (@ImRaina)
West Indies roundly thrashed. Coach Shastri and captain Kohli delighted team has shaped up after two disappointing performances, as they should be. Challenge now is to maintaining🍃 winning momentum till World Cup. And more than just 2-3 batsmen scoring all the runs!
— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah)
West Indies couldn’t challenge India in the last match today. An easy win and a satisfactory series victory for the Indian team. Congratulations to the team and the man🉐agement.
— R P Singh रुद्र प्रताप सिंह (@rpsingh)
Congratﷺulation🌜s and Team India on the series win against Windies. Well done on the dominating Performance today
— Rajeev Shukla (@ShuklaRajiv)
Sir 🥀Jadeja with a super four wicket spell! Men in Blue clinch the series win over the Windies! 🦁💛
— Chennai Super Kings (@ChennaiIPL)
. takes away the Man of the Ser🐼ies award courtesy his unbelievably consistent performance throughout the series. 👏🐻🏼
— Royal Challengers Bengaluru (@RCBTweets)
India ends their last ODI series of the year 2018 on a winningꦇ nꦗote.
— betvisa68.com (@CricketTimesHQ)
With the T20s starting India decided we will do it today itself a🐬nd closed it in 15!! West Indies lost steam in Mumbai and looked totally deflated today.
— Boria Majumdar (@BoriaMajumdar)
Well that ended quickly.
India 🇮🇳 win by 9 wickets (with 211 balls remaining).
👏 to the bowling line up!— Rajasthan Royals (@rajasthanroyals)
🤪smart tactics from windies to ensure neither rohit n🦂or kohli can get a ton today
— Gaurav Kalra (@gauravkalra75)
Most consecutive ODI series wins at home , congratulations , been clinical through out , the real win would be ,a few places have been sealed and a few finds have be🧜en made
— S.Badrinath (@s_badrinath)
Lowest totals for Windies v India in ODIs:
104, Thiruvananthapuram, 2018*
121, Port of Spain, 1997
123, Kolkata, 1993
126, Perth, 1991— Umang Pabari (@UPStatsman)
India's biggest wins in ODIs
(balls to spare)
231 v Kenya (Bloemfontein 2001)
211 v WI (Today)— Rajneesh Gupta (@rgcricket)
This is India's eighth consecutive bilateral ODI series win agaist Windies. They have not lost an ODI series against them since 2007.
— Umang Pabari (@UPStatsman)
200 sixes for Rohit Sharma in 187 innings – the fastest to reach there in terms of inns.
Prev record: Shahid Afridi (195 inns)
— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath)
Sixes in ODI cricket 🏏
200 up for 👊
Shahid Afridi – 351
Chris Gayle – 275
Sanath Jayasuriya – 270
MS Dhoni – 218
AB de Villiers – 204
Rohit Sharma – 202
Brendon McCullum – 200— The Cricketer (@TheCricketerMag)
