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Images from the second One-Day International between India and the West Indies, in Ahmedabad, on Wednesday.
Prasidh Krishna turned in a brilliant performance with the ball as India scored a thumping 44-run victory in the second One-Day International against the West Indies, in Ahmedabad, on Wednesday.
The Karnataka fast bowler took four wickets for 12 runs in nine overs, including three maidens, to send the visitors hurtling to their second straight defeat and give India an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series.
Chasing India’s modest total of 237 for 8, built around Suryakumar Yadav's 64, the West Indies were bowled out for 193 in 46 overs.
They lost opener Brandon King (18) and Darren Bravo (1) early, Krishna accounting for both.
Opener Shai Hope (27) and Shamarh Brooks (44) tried to get the innings back on track but could add only 14 runs, as Hope holed out to Suryakumar at long-on off Yuzvendra Chahal.
Rival skipper Nicholas Pooran (9) was Krishna's third victim as the West Indies lost half their side for 76.
Thereafter, it was just a matter of time though Brooks and Akeal Hosein (34) delayed the inevitable.
Odean Smith (24) raised hopes briefly in the end overs but eventually he too fell.
Krishna fittingly ended the game by dismissing last man Kemar Roach, who was trapped leg before wicket.
Pacer Mohammed Siraj (1/38), Shardul Thakur (2/41), Chahal (1/45), Washington Sundar (1/28) and Deepak Hooda (1/24) aided Prasidh well.
It is the 11th time in the last 17 games that the West Indies failed to bat their quota of 50 overs despite the presence of senior players.
India won the first ODI by six wickets. The third game will be played on February 11.
Earlier, Yadav scored a fine fifty as India recovered from a bad start. The Mumbai batter came up with a gutsy knock and in the company of K L Rahul (49) steadied the hosts after the loss of skipper Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant and Virat Kohli by the 12th over.
Put in to bat, the home side opened with Rohit and Pant, who was promoted from No. 4, but did not get the desired results as Rohit was dismissed cheaply for 5 by Roach, caught behind by wicketkeeper Hope.
Kohli joined Pant in the middle and, exercising caution, took the total to 37 for 1 in 10 overs of the mandatory powerplay.
Their 30-run partnership was broken in the 12th over, when Pant was caught by Jason Holder for 18 off Odean Smith, who replaced his injured skipper Kieron Pollard for Wednesday’s match.
Smith dealt India another blow in the same over, getting the prized scalp of Kohli, getting him caught behind for 18, leaving India in a spot of bother on 43 for 3.
However, Yadav and Rahul steadied the innings, taking India past the 50-run mark in the 16th over.
Rahul got a lifeline when on 4, when wicketkeeper Hope dropped a simple catch off Roach's bowling.
The batter made the West Indies pay for the lapse as he started scoring runs at a brisk pace and put up a 50-run partnership with Yadav.
The pair took India's total past the 100-run mark in the 26th over, but just when it looked like the hosts would claw their way back in the game and set a big target, the Windies got rid of Rahul. The India vice-captain was run out off a throw from deep extra cover after a slight hesitation with his partner Suryakumar while going for the second run.
Akeal Hosein's throw meant that Rahul was dismissed for 49, one short of his half-century, leaving India on 134 for 4.
All-rounder Washington Sundar was sent in ahead of Deepak Hooda and the southpaw started his innings with a boundary off the first delivery he faced.
He and Yadav guided India beyond the 150-run mark, the former notching his half-century in the process.
Just when he started to look dangerous he miscued the sweep off Fabian Allen and was caught at short fine leg by Alzarri Joseph after a good innings of 64 off 83 balls.
Sundar too perished in trying to up the ante, caught at long-on by Joseph off Hosein's bowling, leaving India in trouble at 192 for 6.
Deepak Hooda and Shardul Thakur took India's total past the 200-run mark but they kept losing wickets at regular intervals.
Shardul was out trying to accelerate the score, caught by Shamarh Brooks off Joseph's bowling for 8, reducing India to 212 for 7.
Hooda kept losing partners at the other end as Joseph got his second wicket of the match, dismissing Mohammed Siraj, caught by Hope for 3.
That dismissal reduced India to 224 for 8 as Hope took his third catch of the match.
Hooda (29) was caught at deep point by Hosein off Jason Holder's bowling.