India captain Virat Kohli reiterated that Mahendra Singh Dhoni remains an integral part of the ODI team and the veteran wicket-keeper batsman decided not to play the upcoming T20s only to make way for the much younger Rishabh Pant.
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'Run Machine' Kohli now has 38 ODI centuries in ODIs and out of them, only six came in a losing cause including the one in the third ODI against Windies in Pune.
No Mahendra Singh Dhoni for T20I series against West Indies, Australia
Former India captain and wicketkeeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni was on Friday dropped from India's 16-member teams for both the T20 International series against the West Indies and Australia later this year.
Boosted by the return of white ball specialists Jasprit Bumrah and Bhuvneshwar Kumar, India will aim to bounce back. Following a heart-stopping draw that denied them a 2-0 lead, they face a resurgent West Indies in the 3rd ODI.
Run-machine Virat Kohli sprinted to fastest 10,000 ODI runs but West Indies stole a tie from India with Shai Hope's gutsy hundred in an exhilarating second one-dayer in Vizag on Wednesday.
India captain Virat Kohli on Wednesday joined an elite list of cricketers as he became the fastest man to complete 10,000 runs in one-day international cricket. He reached the milestone in the 2nd ODI against West Indies in Vizag. Kohli surpassed batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar to reach the milestone. Tendulkar entered the 10k club in his 259th innings and in his 266th match, while it took Kohli only 205 innings and 213 matches to canter to 10,000 runs.
India captain Virat Kohli won the toss and decided to bat in the second One-Day International (ODI) against at the Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium here on Wednesday. Both teams have made one change each from the last match. India have brought in left-arm spinner Kuldeep Yadav in place of rookie pacer Khalil Ahmed. The visitors have replaced Oshane Thomas with debutant Obed McCoy. India lead the five-match series 1-0 after winning the opening match by eight wickets.
India are favoured to extend their dominance while West Indies face insurmountable odds to draw parity, in the 2nd ODI at Vizag.
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Making a mockery of what looked like a stiff 323-run target, the home team cantered to the win with 7.5 overs to spare, taking a 1-0 lead in the five-match series.
Skipper Virat Kohli and his deputy Rohit Sharma conjured up breathtaking centuries as India's ruthless domination over the West Indies continued with a facile eight-wicket win in the first One-day International in Guwahati on Sunday. Making mockery of what looked like a stiff 323-run target, the home team cantered to the win with 7.5 overs to spare, taking a 1-0 lead in the five-match series. Kohli pounded the Caribbean bowlers with 21 fours and two sixes to raise his 36th ODI century and now needs just 81 runs to join the elite club of cricketers who have amassed 10,000 runs in the One-day format.
India will hope to get more answers for their unresolved middle-order puzzle when they take on West Indies.
India pacer Umesh Yadav was rewarded for his maiden 10-wicket haul in Test cricket with a recall in the ODI squad.
India are slated to play five ODIs against the Caribbean side and that means that the explosive batsman just needs 186 runs in these five matches to overtake his idol, Tendulkar.
Following India's 2-0 home series win aginst West Indies, Virat Kohli remains the number one Test batsmen while Prithvi Shaw and Rishabh Pant have made big gains in the latest ICC rankings.
While the bowlers have done the job for India, both home and away of late, batsmen have let the team down time and again.
India are unbeaten at home since 2012/13 and since then, they have played 29 Tests at home, winnings 23, losing one and drawing five.
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