WI VS IND - Only T20I, India tour of West Indies, 2017

Phew, that was long. A number of other awards to be given off as well - it is a series mind you. Out comes the Winners' board and the trophy for the maroon army to pose with. Something finally for them to smile about after the dead dud that the ODI series was. With that, international cricket too leaves the Caribbean. Time for us to leave too. I've been Vineet Anantharaman logging off on behalf of Ramakrishnan, Pratyush Sinha, Abhishek Chaudhary and Venky. Ta ta!!

Carlos Brathwaite: Very, very happy. Yesterday we asked the batters to express themselves and take the mantle on. I gave an incentive that whoever gets a fifty gets half my match fee. In the last couple of games Marlon did really well for us. The crowds came out in big numbers and the smile on their faces does it for us. We talked about wrestling back the momentum. We have watched a lot of the IPL and wanted Bhuvneshwar to bowl three overs at the start; when that happened it was a box ticked. Evin took the mantle over and carried on. He scored a century in Florida against India and today he showed significant growth from then in staying till the end and taking us through. As a team we fought hard and knew that we had to chase whatever they put on the board. It was a good total put up but we knew that we had it in us to chase it down. Excellent bowling from Williams, he bowled superbly against Afghanistan in the two T20s and his sixth over where he got Virat and Dhawan changed the game for us. He has carried on from Pakistan to against Afghanistan to now against India. He is going from strength to strength. He is doing well in the ODI format as well and is rubbing shoulders with guys like Sunil, Badree and that would help him.

Evin Lewis, Man of the Match: It was a good game. I am enjoying playing a team like India; it is a good hundred. It was a lot on my mind after five games when I did not score and I remembered that when I scored today. But I kept telling myself to believe in my ability. It is easier for me while batting with Chris, he takes a lot of pressure off me. I am not sure what this game would do to me but I am very happy with my performance today and keep backing my ability.

Virat Kohli: I thought even in the first innings we could have scored 20-30 runs extra. We were on course to get 220+ but we did not grab our chances and when you don't, you do not deserve to win, especially with the wind and when the batsmen are playing like that. We know their strength in this format. If you give a good start up the order, one batsman needs to bat through. We couldn't really carry on. Dinesh was really good in the middle overs but no one got an 80-90 odd. We also couldn't take our catches which cost us a bit. All these games are a good feeder of how players react in such situations. We need to be patient with these guys. West Indies have a fixed squad, a settled squad and we are still at an experimental stage. We need to give our guys a few chances and are figuring out who are the youngsters we need in our side. Their performances will be up and down and we need to keep an eye on them. The whole tour was good. We did well in the ODIs, lost one game. And one match here doesn't make a series according to me. We always enjoy coming here, we won the Test series as well the last time and we go home very happy.

Harsha Bhogle: It is the small things again. A stumping and two catches on a day when every opportunity was gold.

All said and done, the game was perhaps lost towards the end of the first innings when the Indian middle order lost their way. Considering the start the openers gave them and where they were at the 15-over mark, 190 was at least a couple of dozen below par. A different issue altogether that Lewis made it seem lesser by the economy of a country. What India could have done was put a few of their men in the crowd to take some catches. Nothing else. Grab your breath back, we have the presentations..

Tells a story in itself when a team chasing 190 finishes it off with nine balls to spare. After losing only one wicket. Lewis lets out a roar, and gets a bear hug from Samuels. His love affair with India in T20s is just as intact. He swept, he slogged, he hoicked, he smashed the hapless bowling, which would take some time now to recover from the storm that has hit it. Evin Lewis, now also writes himself into history books with the highest t20 score in a chase. You could be faulted for feeling that the game could turn when Gayle fell, well not when someone is in a mood as murderous as this.

Jadeja to Lewis, SIX, and that's that. Jadeja bowls more of the middle liners. And Lewis tumbles some more records as he unleashes a mighty death slog sweep to formally bury the Indians. A crowd catch into the stands behind square. The most sixes in an innings by any player against India - guess who..

Jadeja to Samuels, 1 run, another attempt to slay the finish. Not quite the timing though as the ball rushes away off the under half to his favoured mid-wicket

Jadeja to Samuels, FOUR, heaved. The usual. Sits, under the ball and hacks it away across the line, across the turn. A bullet into cow corner

Aayush: Then it was Simmons, today it is Lewis. Then Simmons escaped twice, today Lewis escaped twice. Then India scored 192-2, today India scored 190-6. Then Windies chased it, and today history might repeat itself. --- I want to omit might from this comment!

Bhuvneshwar to Samuels, leg byes, 1 run, takes the outer half of the pad as it rolls away past the whip around the corner

Bhuvneshwar to Samuels, no run, the wide yorker. Amidst the mess, Bhuvi is putting up a show here. A lone show. A show of class. Fires it in wide when Samuels was expecting a cramper. Misses

Bhuvneshwar to Samuels, no run, another dot. Make the successive count three. When was the last time you saw that, eh. Samuels moves away this time and looks to cart it away, sneaking under the blade and past leg

Bhuvneshwar to Samuels, no run, cramped up. Follows the backing away with a stalker on the pads. Cannot do anything with it but keep it out with a bunt down

Harsha Bhogle: What an extraordinary assault by Evin Lewis. For a small built man he hits the ball a fearsome distance

Bhuvneshwar to Samuels, no run, goes short. Takes Samuels by surprise who sways away just in time

Bhuvneshwar to Samuels, FOUR, nothing really wrong with the delivery. Was an accurate top-of-off delivery. But Samuels' hands take over. Waits for the ball to get parallel to the eyeline and opens up his bat face to run it away past point. And the other side of third man

Bhuvneshwar Kumar [3.0-0-23-0] is back into the attack

13 off 18 now: Okay so the discrimate to the equation is a perfect square as well. Couldn't get simpler for the Windies

Jadeja to Samuels, 1 run, takes a palm off the handle with a slice behind point

Jadeja to Lewis, 1 run, the obvious spinner response. On the pads and a swivel down to fine leg

Jadeja to Lewis, SIX, and I am bored. #11 it is. And he becomes the player to have hit the most sixes against India in T20s. What do I tell you, clears his leg, swings his arms and off she goes. Over long-off this time