India vs West Indies, 2nd T20I Stats Preview: Players records and approaching milestones

Rohit Sharma and his team continued their dominance over West Indies when they defeated the Caribbean side in the first T20I by six wickets at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata. The second match of the T20I series takes place at the same venue on February 18, 2022. For West Indies to keep the series alive they need to win the match to take it to the final game to be played on Sunday, the 20^th.

Ravi Bishnoi made headlines in the first match when he snared two wickets for 17 runs on his very first international match. The leg-spinner got rewarded with the Player of the Match award later after India’s victory.

Except for hard-hitting Nicholas Pooran and skipper Kieron Pollard, nobody rose to the occasion for the men in maroon. Brandon King hasn’t been able to give the team a good start for what he is known for in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL). The team also missed the services of tall all-rounder Jason Holder who was injured.

With experienced Holder expected to return for the second match, Pollard will be hoping to turn it around for his side and square the series 1-1 by winning the first game on the tour. Team India will look to inflict more misery on the Windies side who look well short of ideas by sealing the match and the series and go into the dead rubber on February 20.

Meanwhile, here are some of the important stats and numbers ahead of India vs West Indies, 2^nd T20I:

2 – Yuzvendra Chahal (65) needs two wickets to surpass Jasprit Bumrah (66) and become India’s highest wicket-taker in T20Is.

1 – Kieron Pollard (99) requires one six to reach 100 sixes in T20Is.

1 – Kieron Pollard (99) is one game away from reaching 100 matches in T20Is.

56 – Virat Kohli (3244) needs 56 runs to go past Martin Guptill’s tally of 3299 T20I runs.

63 – Rohit Sharma (3237) requires 63 runs to surpass Martin Guptill’s tally of 3299 runs in T20Is.

3 – Rohit Sharma (32) needs three sixes to become the batter with most T20I sixes against an opponent. He has struck 32 maximums against the Caribbean side. Aaron Finch and Hazratullah Zazai have 34 sixes against England and Ireland, respectively.

3 – Sheldon Cottrell (47) needs three wickets to complete 50 T20I wickets.

2 – Kieron Pollard (27) needs two sixes to go past Glenn Maxwell (28) and Evin Lewis (28) and become the batter with most T20I sixes against India.

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

4 – Pant (296) also needs four fours to complete 300 fours across formats.

4 – Shreyas Iyer (46) requires four boundaries to reach 50 T20I fours.