Kolkata: Team India has won the T20 series against West Indies. In the match played on Friday (India vs West Indies), India won by 8 runs. Under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma, the team slammed the Windies team in the T20 series after the ODI. Playing first, India scored 186 runs for 5 wickets. In reply, the Caribbean team led by Kieron Pollard could only manage 178 runs for 3 wickets. This is India’s 100th win in T20 Internationals. They are only the second team in the world to do so, but with this, the team has left behind the big record of Pakistan. The final match of the T20 series will be played on February 20.
If we look at the record of the T20 International match, India has played 155 matches so far. He has won in 97, while 3 matches were tied. But the thing to note here is that in the 3 matches which are recorded in the account of a tie, India also won them in super over or ballot. In such a situation, this is his overall 100th victory. He has lost in 51, 4 matches have been canceled. Team India became the team to register 100 wins in the fewest matches. Earlier, Pakistan had done this feat in 164 matches. Apart from India and Pakistan, no other team in the world has touched the mark of 100 wins so far. Pakistan has won a maximum of 117 matches.
From Dhoni to Rohit made a record
Looking at the T20 record of Team India, 7 players have captained. That is, their role has been important in taking the team to this point. MS Dhoni has won 42 T20 matches as an Indian captain. Virat Kohli has 32, Rohit Sharma 20, Suresh Raina 3 while Shikhar Dhawan, Ajinkya Rahane, and Virender Sehwag have won one T20 International each as captain.
1993, 2009, and now 2022
Talking about the 100th victory of Team India in all three formats, then we have to go back 29 years. India got its 100th victory in ODIs against South Africa in 1993. Then the team defeated Sri Lanka in 2009 and registered 100 wins in Tests. Now defeating West Indies has got the 100th victory of T20. India has so far won 166 out of 560 Tests and 521 out of 1002 ODIs.
8th consecutive win for Rohit as captain
Rohit Sharma was made the new captain of the ODI team after the last T20. After becoming the new captain, he has not lost a single match so far and has won 8 matches in a row. Under the captaincy of Rohit, the first team won the T20 series against New Zealand 3-0. Then defeated West Indies 3-0 in the ODI series. Now the team has taken a 2-0 lead in the T20I series. Team India is focusing more on T20. T20 World Cup 2022 is to be held in Australia in October-November this year. The Indian team has not been able to win the T20 World Cup title since 2007.
