India’s tour to the West Indies

INDIA’S TOUR TO THE WEST INDIES 23 Jun 2017 - 09 Jul 2017

Question: The India tour of West Indies concluded recently.Who amongst the following players has been chosen as the Match of the Player in the five matches one day series?
(a) Virat Kohli
(b) Jason Holder
(c) Shikhar Dhawan
(d)Ajinkya Rahane
Answer- (d)
Related facts:

  • Indian cricket team played 5 ODIs and a T-20 match on the West Indies tour from June 23rd – July 9th, 2017.
  • Indian team won the one-day series 3-1 and the West Indies won the T20 match.
  • Indian team was headed by Virat Kohli in ODI and T20 matches.
  • Indian batsman Ajinkya Rahane, who made highest score in the ODI series (336), was chosen Player of the Series.
  • Jason Holder (West Indies) and Kuldeep Yadav took highest nuber of wickets (8-8) in the series.
  • In the final and fifth match of the series Indian skipper Virat Kohli broke Sachin Tendulkar’s record for most centuries in One-day Internationals while chasing.
  • This was Kohli’s 28th hundred in One-day cricket, 18 of which have come while chasing.
  • Tendulkar took 232 innings to reach 17, while Kohli reached the milestone in only 102 innings.
  • In the fourth ODI of the series, Mahendra Singh Dhoni scored 50 runs off 108 balls which is the second slowest half-century in Indian cricket history.
  • Sourav Ganguly (50 runs /105 balls) was the second lowest scorer against Sri Lanka in 2005 before Dhoni.
  • Earlier in 1999, Team India’s Sadagoppan Ramesh scored 50 runs in 117 balls in ODIs against Kenya.
  • West Indies palyerEvin Lewis scored an unbeaten 125 (62 balls) in the only T20 match played during the tour.
  • This is the highest score ever made by any player pursuing the target in the Twenty20 match.
  • This is the third highest score of international Twenty20 cricket.
  • Aaron Finch holds the world record for highest score (156) in a T20I (against England, year 2013).
  • Lewis became the first batsman to score two T20I centuries against the same country.
  • Earlier in August 2016, Louis made a century against India in Florida, America.
  • Apart from Louise, Chris Gayle and Brendon McCullum have also made two centuries in international Twenty20 cricket but against different teams.
  • Thus Louise became the third batsman to score two centuries in international Twenty20 cricket.

Reference:
http://www.bcci.tv/west-indies-v-india-2017/results
http://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-series/2587/india-tour-of-west-indies-2017/squads
http://www.espncricinfo.com/west-indies-v-india-2017/content/story/1110275.html