India vs West Indies: Shepherd, King help Windies thrash Men in Blue by 8 wickets, clinch T20I series

Brandon King cracked an unbeaten 85 while Romario Shepherd registered career-best figures of 4/31 as West Indies hammered India by eight wickets to win the five-match T20I series 3-2 in Lauderhill on Sunday.

India had entered the decider at the Central Broward Regional Park Stadium as the firm favourites after leveling the series with lop-sided victories earlier this week. The Men in Blue, however, ended up getting outplayed in every department by Rovman Powell and company to suffer their first T20I series defeat in two years.

Shepherd, who had been the only wicket-taker among the West Indians in India’s nine-wicket win on Saturday, triggered a batting collapse in the middle-overs at a time when Suryakumar Yadav (61 off 45) was beginning to mount a fightback.

The procession began after Shepherd got rid of India skipper Hardik Pandya (14) in the 17th over, and the seam-bowling all-rounder would end up collecting his maiden four-fer in T20Is by dismissing Arshdeep Singh and Kuldeep Yadav in successive deliveries in the penultimate over of the innings.

There from start to finish.