India vs West Indies, 2nd T20I, Highlights: Simmons hits 67* as Windies register series-levelling win

Opener Lendl Simmons produced a scintillating knock as West Indies humbled India by eight wickets in the second T20 International in Thiruvananthapuram on Sunday. With the convincing win, Windies also levelled the three-match T20I series. Chasing a challenging target of 171 on a tricky surface, Simmons batted beautifully throughout as he took India bowlers to the cleaners. With 4 fours and equal number of sixes Simmons scored an unbeaten 67 at a strike rate of over 148. Evin Lewis (40) and Nicholas Pooran (38*) provided excellent support as the visitors chased down the target with 9 balls to spare. The series decided will be played at the Wankhade Stadium in Mumbai on Wednesday. Lendl Simmons 67* Evin Lewis 40And Nicholas Pooran ends the proceedings with a cracking four in the deep off Deepak Chahar. West Indies register a convincing 8-wicket win to level the series at 1-1. Six from Nicholas Pooran to end the over from Bhuvneshwar Kumar. West Indies are now just 3 runs away from win. : Lendl Simmons ends Deepak Chahar's over with a massive strike over the long-off fence. Over-pitched delivery from Deepak and Simmons wasted no time on that one. Smacks it straight down the ground as he moves to 64. : Expensive third over from Bhuvneshwar Kumar comes to an end. Lendl Simmons and Nicholas Pooran collect 15 runs from it including three boundaries. Windies now need just 29 off 24 balls. What a sensational effort this has been from the Windies opener. Gets to his sixth T20I fifty off just 38 balls with the help of 3 fours and equal number of sixes. Simmons is taking the game away from India. Virat Kohli takes a screamer at the long on fence. Shimron Hetmyer once again flat bats Ravindra Jadeja down the ground but Kohli was there this time and he completes a stunner. A brilliant running catch completed with a slide just inches away from the ropes. Dangerous Hetmyer departs for 23 off 14 balls. Shimron Hetmyer is looking very threatening. He is dealing in sixes at the moment. After a monstrous strike on the leg side previous ball, this time he flat bats Jadeja's delivery over deep cover region. Shimron Hetmyer gets hold of this one. Slog sweeps Ravindra Jadeja over deep mid-wicket fence for his first maximum of the match. Washington Sundar gets the much-needed breakthrough for India. Evin Lewis dances down but Sundar manages to beat him in flight. Rishabh Pant does the rest behind the stumps. Lewis walks back after scoring 40 runs. Lendl Simmons is now looking quite good at the crease. After collecting a four off a misfield, Simmons on the successive ball smacks Yuzvendra Chahal for a massive six over the deep fence. Simmons has moved to 29 off 22 balls. Washington Sundar hits Evin Lewis' pad and big shout from the India camp. On-field umpire rules not out but Sundar seems convinced. Virat Kohli has taken the review but replay confirms that they are completely wrong. Pitched outside and even the impact is outside off. Lewis survives. A review wasted from India! And Evin Lewis gets his team to the 50-run mark with a mammoth six off Yuzvendra Chahal over deep square leg fence. Second maximum of the over for Evin Lewis. Goes over deep square leg on the first occasion. Then on the fourth ball, he goes aerial again and puts the ball over the long off fence. This time Rishabh Pant is the culprit behind the stumps. Thick outside edge from Evin Lewis and Pant gets wrong footed. Gets to the ball eventually but fails to hold on to it. Lewis gets a reprieve this time. Lovely knuckle ball from Bhuvneshwar Kumar as he manages to deceive Lendl Simmons. The ball goes high up and Washington Sundar makes a mess of it. Goes for it with the reverse cup but is not able to hold on to the ball. : An excellent start from Washington Sundar. Just a single from his first over. Short from Deepak Chahar and it gets the treatment. A cracker from Evin Lewis' bat as the ball races to the mid-wicket fence. Gone over slips. And West Indies have their first boundary. Thick outside edge off Evin Lewis' bat and the ball races to the fence. A tidy over from Deepak Chahar ends with a boundary. Bhuvneshwar Kumar to share the new ball with Chahar from the other end. : Lendl Simmons and West Indies are off the mark in the run chase with a comfortable single on the leg side. Lendl Simmons and Evin Lewis walk out to the middle to start West Indies run chase. Deepak Chahar has the new ball in hand. A maiden international fifty from Shivam Dube along with a sensible 22-ball 33* from Rishabh Pant guided India to 170 for 7 against West Indies in the second T20I in Thiruvananthapuram. Put into bat after losing the toss, India got off to a poor start on a tricky surface. KL Rahul (11), who impressed in the first match got dismissed cheaply. Rohit followed him soon as he got out for 15. Promoted up at No.3, Shivam made the most of the opportunity as he scored a quick-fire 54 that came off just 30 balls. Along with skipper Virat Kohli (19), Shivam added 41 runs for the third wicket. Regular wickets towards the latter half of the innings somewhat dented India's charge but Pant played a good knock under pressure to lift India to a challenging total. Shivam Dube 54 Rishabh Pant 33* Hayden Walsh 2/28: Six runs and a wicket of Washington Sundar in the final over as India get to 170 for 7 in 20 overs. Second wicket for Kesrick Williams as he cleans up Ravindra Jadeja on the final ball of the 19th over. Final six balls to go for India. How many will Rishabh Pant and Washington Sundar manage for India? Rishabh Pant collects a boundary off the final ball of the over as 150 comes up for India after 17 overs. Pant 27* Ravindra Jadeja 1* Another wicket falls for India at the wrong time. This time its Shreyas Iyer, who mistimes and skies the ball. Brandon King completes an easy catch as Hayden Walsh gets rewarded for his superb bowling effort. Gets his first wicket of the match. Iyer walks back for 10. Over-pitched from Jason Holder and Shreyas Iyer goes over the extra-cover fielder. Times the ball to perfection and scores his first boundary of the match. : An excellent over from Hayden Walsh. Just four singles from it. Both Rishabh Pant and new man in Shreyas Iyer are struggling to accelerate. Soft dismissal for Virat Kohli. Gets beaten by the pace of the surface. And Kesrick Williams has his man. Hits it straight to Lendl Simmons at point. Kohli walks back after scoring 19 runs. Virat Kohli now getting into the groove. Hits Hayden Walsh through deep mid-wicket region to collect four runs. And Rishabh Pant gets the Indian team to the 100-run mark with a beautiful six over extra covers. Exquisite timing from Pant on that occasion. Shivam Dube gets dismissed soon after his maiden fifty. Was looking to go after every ball. But this time he fails to get the middle of his bat. Skies the ball and Shimron Hetmyer at covers completes an easy catch. Dube walks back after 30-ball 54. Scores his maiden fifty in international cricket. And it has come in quick time as well, off just 27 balls. Was promoted up the order and what a masterstroke it has turned out to be. Gets there with a comfortable single of Kesrick Williams' final ball of the over. Shivam Dube is now looking in complete control. He is going after Kieron Pollard. Back-to-back sixes after a couple of wides. Hits the first one over square leg and the second goes over the covers. Dube has quickly moved onto 46 runs. Stand and deliver. Was in the arc for Shivam Dube and he wasted no time on that one. Clubs it over square leg fence for his second maximum. Rohit Sharma goes for a cheeky scoop off Jason Holder but misses the ball completely. And it crashes onto the stumps. Holder strikes for West Indies as Rohit walks back for 15. And Sivam Dube gets his team to the 50-run mark in style. In the arc for Dube and he launches the ball over the deep fence. First six of the innings for India as well. : An excellent start from Kieron Pollard. Just three singles from his first over. Mixed his speed and length beautifully. Rohit Sharma 14* Shivam Dube 10* Shivam Dube gets his first boundary. Flashes hard at the short-pitched delivery from Jason Holder. Gets a thick outside edge and the ball flies over the keeper and first slip. Khary Pierre gets the early breakthrough for West Indies. KL Rahul goes for the aerial sweep but finds Shimron Hetmyer in the deep. Rahul walks back after scoring just 11 runs. : A tight second over from Sheldon Cottrell. 5 runs from it. KL Rahul gets into the act. Short and wide outside off from Khary Pierre and Rahul punches it through covers to collect his first boundary. : Expensive start from Sheldon Cottrell. 12 runs including a four and six extras from it. Both Rohit and Rahul are off the mark. Khary Pierre will share the new ball with Cottrell from the other end. And Rohit Sharma has his first boundary of the evening. On the pads from Sheldon Cottrell and Rohit glances it towards the fine leg fence to collect four runs. : Rohit Sharma and India are off the mark first ball. Wide outside off from Shelden Cottrell and Rohit reaches out for it and hits it on the other side of the wicket for a comfortable single. KL Rahul and Rohit Sharma walk out to the middle to start India innings. Sheldon Cottrell has the new ball in hand. : Rohit Sharma, Lokesh Rahul, Virat Kohli(c), Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant(w), Shivam Dube, Washington Sundar, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Deepak Chahar, Yuzvendra Chahal : Lendl Simmons, Evin Lewis, Brandon King, Nicholas Pooran(w), Shimron Hetmyer, Kieron Pollard(c), Jason Holder, Khary Pierre, Hayden Walsh, Sheldon Cottrell, Kesrick Williams : "Not too bad, we would have bowled first as well, dew might be a factor. Toss is an uncontrollable. It's a nice and hard pitch, much drier. I think it should be a pretty good pitch to bat on during the first half. It's not a worry, we haven't defended too many totals in the past. We might not have reacted well. It's a mindset thing, it's all about belief. Every game counts, we'll try to do things that we have not done in the past, we'll try to execute those. I learnt a lot from the last innings. That's the biggest revelation for me - if you never give up, things can change. I am happy to contribute, it might not be your day everyday. It's the same team we are playing with." : "We are gonna bowl first. If you look at it, we want to come out and have a feel of it. We need to restrict them to a low total. We can't be critical on the batsmen, everytime you score 200, you win a game. Hopefully we come out and do things right today. We have some plans for the batsmen, we need to keep them from scoring. We need to execute our yorkers, we have been practising. Pressure is playing in front of thousands. One change, Pooran is back, Ramdin misses out." : India have gone in with the unchanged playing XI. West Indies have one change as Nicholas Pooran replaces Denesh Ramdin. : West Indies skipper Kieron Pollard wins the toss and invites India to bat first. : "It isn't as flat as it was in Hyderabad. The spinners will have a say today. The team winning the toss would want to chase. Dew could be a factor as well," reckon Murali Kartik and Sunil Gavaskar. And the crowd wants local boy Sanju Samson to be part of playing XI! Another race between the two India top order batsmen is on. Virat Kohli on 2544 is just 4 runs away (Rohit Sharma has 2547 runs) from to becoming the highest runs scorer in T20Is. Will he go past his team mate or will Rohit have a blast with the bat and extend the lead. Dynamic Kohli is now just 25 runs short of becoming the first Indian cricketer to complete 1000 runs in the shortest format of the game at his own backyard. Will he get there today? After a Virat Kohli masterclass in the series opener in Hyderabad, Team India today will look to seal the series as they take on a shaky West Indies team. Hello and welcome to TimesofIndia.com's live coverage of the second T20I of the three-match series between India and West Indies in Thiruvananthapuram.

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