India won a high-scoring match on Sunday(July 24) at Queen's Park Oval in Port of Spain, Trinidad, thanks in large part to Axar Patel's debut ODI fifty, an unbeaten 64 off 35 with three fours and five sixes .
When West Indies decided to bat, they amassed a sizable score of 311 for 6, thanks to captain Nicholas Pooran's 74 and Shai Hope's 115 in his 100th ODI appearance. For India, Shardul Thakur picked most wickets, returning with figures of three for 54 in 7 overs.
India was down to 79/3 in the chase before Shreyas Iyer and Sanju Samson resurrected the innings with half-centuries. But thanks to Axar's outstanding performance, India defeated the West Indies by completing the third-highest successful chase in the Caribbean and winning the series with two wickets remaining.
Brief scores:
West Indies 311/6 in 50 overs (Shai Hope 115, Nicholas Pooran 74; Shardul Thakur 3-54)
India 312/8 in 49.4 overs (Axar Patel 64*, Shreyas Iyer 63, Sanju Samson 54; Alzarri Joseph 2-46) .