With the help of Virat Kohli’s crucial knock of 81 runs in 103 balls and Amit Mishra’s four wickets for 31,India registered a seven-wicket victory with a Duckworth/Lewis method against West Indies in the rain-interrupted second One-Day International.With this win,India took a 2-0 series lead.Parthiv Patel contributed with 56 runs in 64 balls.Suresh Raina played the role of a finisher,making 26 runs.
Earlier,with help of half-centuries from Ramnaresh Sarwan (56) and Lendl Simmons (53),West Indies posted 240 for nine. India reached a revised target of 183 for three inside 37 overs.Leg-spinner Mishra grabbed the four important West Indian wickets of Kirk Edwards, Dwayne Bravo, Kieron Pollard and Carlton Baugh.Munaf Patel took 3 wickets for 35.
Kohli became the third fastest Indian to reach 2000 ODI runs, reaching his milestone in 53 innings to the 52 managed by both Sourav Ganguly and Navjot Sidhu.
The third match in the five-match series is on 11th June in Antigua.
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