India vs West Indies, 1st T20I Stats Preview: Players records and approaching milestones

After suffering a clean sweep in the ODI series, West Indies now face Rohit Sharma‘s team India in the three-match T20I series, starting from February 16, 2022. All three matches will be played at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata with two other games slated on February 18 and February 20. Team India’s last international T20 was also at the same venue where they defeated New Zealand in November last year. On the other hand, West Indies won their last T20I series against England at home in January this year.

Talking about the ODI series, nothing went right for the Caribbean side. They lost their regular skipper Kieron Pollard due to an injury after the first match as Nicholas Pooran took over the charge in the last two ODIs. The team  suffered severely in the batting department and that has been an area of concern for some time now. The hosts enjoyed all the three ODI contests as the Men in Maroon didn’t even put a fight in any of the games.

Notably, both sides failed to qualify for the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup in 2021 with West Indies enduring a disastrous campaign in which they lost four out of the five matches. But with the next T20 World Cup hardly eight months away, which will be hosted by Australia in October 2022, both teams would like to kick start their preparations for the mega event from this series onwards. The teams will be looking to try out all the necessary combinations keeping the bigger picture in mind.

Meanwhile, here are some of the important stats and numbers ahead of India vs West Indies, 1st T20I:

3 – Yuzvendra Chahal (64) needs three wickets to surpass Jasprit Bumrah (66) and become India’s highest wicket-taker in T20Is.

2 – Kieron Pollard (98) needs two sixes to reach 100 sixes in T20Is.

22 – Rohit Sharma (519) requires 22 runs to go past Babar Azam (541) and become the highest run-getter against West Indies in T20Is.

3 – Kieron Pollard (26) needs three sixes to surpass Glenn Maxwell (28) and Evin Lewis (28) to become the batter with the most sixes against India in T20Is.

4 – Shreyas Iyer (46) requires four fours to reach 50 fours in T20Is.

1 – Rohit Sharma (119) is set to surpass Mohammad Hafeez (119) and become the second-most capped player in T20Is.

73 – Virat Kohli (3227) needs 73 runs to go past Martin Guptill (3299) and become the highest run-scorer in T20Is.

2 – Kohli needs (17) two sixes to surpass Shane Watson (18) and become the batter with third-most sixes against West Indies in T20Is.

4 – Nicholas Pooran (96) is four sixes away from reaching 100 sixes across formats.

6 – Rishabh Pant (44) needs six fours to complete 50 fours in T20Is.

42 – Nicholas Pooran (458) requires 42 runs to complete 500 runs in away T20Is.

4 – Sheldon Cottrell (46) is four wickets away from reaching 50 wickets in T20Is.

2 – Roston Chase (98) requires two wickets to complete 100 wickets in international cricket.