Having put to bat first, West Indies' skipper Shai Hope scored 32 runs in 33 balls, including three boundaries and a maximum. Fellow opening batsman Roston Chase registered 40 runs off 25 deliveries, laced with five boundaries and a maximum (Pic: X/@ICC)
Shimron Hetmyer departed after scoring 27 runs in 12 balls, including a boundary and two maximums. Sherfane Rutherford also scored 14 runs in nine balls, including a maximum (Pic: X/@ICC)
Later, Rovman Powell smashed an unbeaten 30 runs off 19 deliveries, including three boundaries and two maximums. Along with him, Jason Holder garnered an unbeaten 37 runs after facing 22 balls. His knock also included two boundaries and three maximums. With this, the West Indies posted a total of 195 runs for the loss of four wickets in 20 overs (Pic: X/@ICC)
Team India's Jasprit Bumrah returned with the figures of two wickets for 36 runs in four overs. Hardik Pandya and Varun Chakaravarthy also claimed one wicket each. Arshdeep Singh and vice-captain Axar Patel went wicketless in the T20 World Cup 2026 match against the West Indies (Pic: X/@BCCI)
In the all-important clash against the Caribbeans, it will be interesting to see if Team India's wicketkeeper-batsman Sanju Samson delivers a big knock in Kolkata (Pic: X/@BCCI)
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