WI VS IND - 1st T20I, India tour of West Indies, 2023

West Indies take a 1-0 lead in the five-match series and it was a close encounter on a track that wasn't easy to bat on. That's it from today. The action shifts to Guyana which will host the next two matches. Tune in on Sunday for the second T20I. Until then, goodbye...

Rovman Powell | West Indies captain: It's a very good feeling. We talked about starting this series on a positive note and the guys did that. It was our game to lose, they didn't have a set batter and I was confident going into the last over. After watching the Indians bowl, I thought we were a spinner short. We got to utilise what we have and back our skills. It was difficult (to bat). We always knew that the new ball was going to give us runs. This series will be decided on how West Indies batters bat against spin in the middle overs. We have the power to load in the backend. The left-handers like Pooran, Hetmyer and Mayers will be key in that aspect. I knew it was going to be difficult to start in the Caribbean. But once you get a start, runs is there. Jason (Holder) was fantastic today. He summed up the conditions very well.

Hardik Pandya | India captain: We were right in the chase and quite comfortable there. We made some errors which costed us the game which is fine. A young team will make mistakes. We will grow together. Throughout the game, we were in control of the game which was the positive in this game. Good four games coming ahead. In T20 cricket, if you lose wickets, it becomes difficult to chase down any total, that's exactly what happened. A couple of hits can change the momentum towards you. When we lost a couple of wickets, that halted our chase. It (playing three spinners) was more to do with the conditions. We would like to give opportunities to the two wristies (Kuldeep and Chahal) to play together. Axar adds a very good component in his batting as well. We felt that was the right combination. Mukesh (Kumar) - to have this two weeks which he has had in West Indies - where he made debuts in all three formats is really good. Genuinely, he's a nice guy. He has a very good heart, wants to contribute for the team. He bowled a couple of overs back to back and that was fantastic. Tilak - very pleasing to see the way he started his innings. Not a bad way to start your international cricket with a couple of sixes. There's confidence and the fearlessness they have. They are going to do wonders for India.

Jason Holder | Player of the Match: The amount of cricket I've been playing for the last three years, it's lot. I try to find some passages of break, get some time off, refresh and come back again. I think it (break from the ODIs) was needed. I was happy that I stuck with my plans. I wanted to make them work hard for their runs, didn't want to give any free runs. It (16th over) was the turning point based on the fact that the game was coming down very close. They had set batters and we had to stay in the game. The guys really stuck together, it was a total team effort. The conditions played in the favour of the bowlers. We got early wickets, which is really important.

Lowest 1st innings total successfully defended vs India in T20Is
126/7 NZ Nagpur 2016
130/5 SA Nottingham 2009
145/7 Zim Harare 2015
149/6 WI Tarouba 2023 *

14:20 Local Time, 18:20 GMT, 23:50 IST: Excellent bowling performance from West Indies to defend 145. Captain Rovman Powell, after the WI innings, was pretty confident that his team could defend the total if their pacers could change the pace well. And that's exactly what they did against the top-ranked T20I side. Akeal Hosein provided the early breakthrough as he removed Gill with a beauty. Ishan Kishan, who had scored four successive fifties on this tour, fell to McCoy. SKY and Tilak Varma steadied the ship somewhat with the latter looking in tremendous touch. The hosts fought back. They broke the partnership with Hetmyer taking an excellent catch to dismiss SKY and the debutant perished to Romario Shepherd's off-speed short ball. Even though WI were bowling well, India would have still fancied their chances when Hardik and Samson were out in the middle. But both the batters fell in the same over bowled by Holder which also a maiden over. Arshdeep struck a couple of fours in the penultimate over but Shepherd nailed his yorkers in the final over to extinguish any Indian hope. Earlier in the day, King got West Indies off to a brisk start. Pooran came out all guns blazing but he slowed down considerably as the innings progressed. Captain Powell got a couple of reprieves and top-scored with 48. It seemed like the hosts had a below-par score, but their bowlers had other ideas. Presentations coming up in a bit...

Shepherd to Mukesh Kumar, 1 run, 136kph, yorker following a backing away Mukesh Kumar. The batsman jams it down to long-on for just a single. West Indies win by 4 runs!

Mukesh Kumar, right handed bat, comes to the crease

Equation: 6 runs | 1 ball. The debutant to face the final ball and Shepherd switches to over the wicket...

Shepherd to Arshdeep Singh, out Arshdeep Singh Run Out!! 1 run completed. Low full toss, a shuffling Arshdeep Singh flicks it straight to deep mid-wicket. The second run isn't on but Arshdeep Singh wants the strike. The throw comes to the keeper's end. Not an accurate one, but Pooran has ample time to break the sticks. Arshdeep Singh run out (Hetmyer/Pooran) 12(7) [4s-2]

Shepherd to Arshdeep Singh, THATS OUT!! Run Out!!

Equation: 7 runs | 2 balls.

Shepherd to Arshdeep Singh, no run, 138kph, wide yorker, Arshdeep Singh can't lay bat on ball

Shepherd to Arshdeep Singh, 2 runs, 138kph, yorker length from round the wicket, Arshdeep Singh squeezes it through backward point

Equation: 9 runs | 4 balls.

Shepherd to Chahal, 1 run, 114kph, slower delivery, chopped towards cover for just a single

Yuzvendra Chahal, right handed bat, comes to the crease

Chahal walked out to the middle and then he ran back as I guess India wanted to send Mukesh. But since Chahal had already entered the field, he has to bat. Equation: 10 runs | 5 balls.

Shepherd to Kuldeep Yadav, out Bowled!! Cleaned up! 135kph, slingy action from round the wicket, Kuldeep Yadav shimmies down the track and yorks himself. Can't bring his bat down in time and the ball crashes into the stumps. Kuldeep Yadav b Shepherd 3(9)

Shepherd to Kuldeep Yadav, THATS OUT!! Bowled!!