Suryakumar Yadav’s blistering batting helped India beat hosts West Indies by 7 wickets in the West Indies vs India third T20 on Tuesday, August 8, and kept alive the hope of winning the series. Suryakumar Yadav not only played an inning of 83 runs in 44 balls with 10 fours and 4 sixes but also made a very significant partnership of 87 runs in 51 balls with Tilak Verma, who came in fourth place. If we talk about young batsman Tilak Verma, he again showed wonder with his batting.
In the third T20 also, Tilak played an unbeaten 49* in 37 balls, giving a good introduction of understanding, but missed the half-century by just one run. Cricket fans held Hardik Pandya responsible for Tilak not getting a half-century, who hit the winning six in the last when 2 runs were needed in 14 balls to win.
Tilak Verma misses half-century
The start of the Indian team was once again poor and debutant Yashasvi Jaiswal could only play 2 balls, of which 1 run was made with his bat. The Indian team lost its second wicket in the form of Shubman Gill for 34 runs. Shubman Gill returned after scoring 6 runs in 11 balls. After this, Suryakumar Yadav shared 87 runs in 51 balls for the third wicket with Tilak Verma and made the team’s victory easy. Captain Hardik Pandya came to the crease after the dismissal of Suryakumar and along with Tilak Verma led the team to win.
The team won but during this, something happened which brought Hardik to the target of the fans. It so happened that after the end of 17 overs, India’s score was 154 runs and now 6 runs were needed to win in three overs. During this, Tilak Verma was 3 runs away from his half-century. After taking a single on the second ball in the 18th over, Hardik also stole a run on the third ball. Tilak took a single on the fourth ball and reached the score of 49 runs.
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After this, Hardik came to the striker’s end and everyone felt that the captain would take one run and give Tilak a chance to score a half-century. But something opposite happened. Hardik gave victory to Team India by hitting a six, but Tilak could not score his second consecutive half-century. Tilak scored an unbeaten inning of 49 runs in 37 balls with the help of 1 six and 4 fours.
Fans called Hardik ‘selfish’
Many fans are now angry with Hardik’s six and are calling him selfish on social media. The hashtag Selfish is also trending since the match.
See the tweets of some random fans
