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Patna : India beat West Indies (WI) by a huge margin of 67 runs in the 3rd T20I at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai, Maharashtra, to clinch the three-match series 2-1 on December 11, 2019, night. Chasing a target of 241 runs, WI scored 173/8 in 20 overs with captain Kieron Pollard scoring 68 runs in 39 balls hitting 5 fours and 6 sixes while Shimron Hetmyer scored 41 in 24 balls with 1 four and 5 sixes. Indian batsmen hit 16 sixes in the match while WI bastmen hit 12 sixes. WI had won the toss but opted to bowl.
Batting first, India posted a mammoth 240/3 in 20 overs with captain Virat Kohli scoring an unbeaten 70 in 29 ba;lls hitting 4 fours and 7 sixes while vice-captain Rohit Sharma ( opener) scored 71 in 34 bals with 6 fours and 5 sixes. Opener Lokesh Rahul scored 91 in 56 balls with 9 fours and 4 sixes. Rohit Sharma fell to Kesrick Williams while Rahul fell to Sheldon Cottrell. Rishabh Pant fell to Kieron Pollard for a duck.
WI made a disastrous start to their innings losing their first three wickets for just 17 runs. Opener Brandon King fell to Mohammad Shami for 7 making it 12/1. His opening partner Lendl Simmons fell to Bhuvaneshwar Prasad for 5 making it 17/2. Nicholas Pooran fell to Deepak Chahar for a duck and it was 17/3. Shimron Hetmyer and Pollard added 74 runs for the 4th wicket. Hetmyer fell to Kuldeep Yadav for 41 making it 91/4. Jason Holder fell to Kuldeep Yadav for 8 making it 103/5. Pollard fell to Bhuvaneshwar Prasad and it was 141/6. Hayden Walsh fell to Shami for 11 and it was 152/7. Khary Pierre fell to Deepak Chahar for 6 and it was 169/8. Kesrick Willians remained unbeaten on 13 with a six and a four while Sheldon Cottrell remained unbeaten on 4..
For India, Mohammad Shami took 2/25 in 4 overs while Deepak Chahar took 2/20 in 4 overs. Bhuvaneshwar Prasad took 2/41 in 4 overs while Kuldeep Yadav took 2/45 in 4 overs.
Virat Kohli was declared Player of the Series while Lokesh Rahul was declared Player of the Match.