India thrashed the Windies by nine wickets in the fifth and final ODI at the Greenfield Stadium in Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday.
With this win, the hosts clinched the five-match 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 management.
— R P Singh रुद्र प्रताप सिंह (@rpsingh)
Congratulations 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 Series 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 winning note.
— betvisa68.com (@CricketTimesHQ)
With the T20s starting India decided we will do it today itself and 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 nor 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 been 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)
