<p class="p1">Spinners Ravindra Jadeja and Kuldeep Yadav bowled exceptionally well and became the first duo of Indian left-arm spinners to take seven wickets or more in an ODI encounter. The pair reached the feat during India’s five-wicket victory over West Indies in Barbados on Thursday. This is the very first time in 49 years that pair of left-arm spinners of India have taken seven wickets or more in an ODI match.</p> <p class="p1">Kuldeep was the star among the Indian bowlers with figures of 4/6 in just three overs while Jadeja took three wickets after giving away 37 runs.</p> <p class="p1">"The way the pacers bowled was really good, Mukesh and Shardul in particular. And then Jadeja and I could handle things, the ball was spinning a bit. We had to control our lengths and the wickets were easy to get. I have been working on my rhythm and it has been amazing. The ball is coming out nicely and I’m very pleased with it. I have also been varying the pace and in the white-ball format, my focus is on hitting the right lengths," Kuldeep said during the innings break.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">🚨 Milestone Alert 🚨<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TeamIndia?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TeamIndia</a> pair of <a href="https://twitter.com/imkuldeep18?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@imkuldeep18</a> (4⃣/6⃣) & <a href="https://twitter.com/imjadeja?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@imjadeja</a> (3⃣/3⃣7⃣ ) becomes the first-ever pair of Indian left-arm spinners to scalp 7⃣ wickets or more in an ODI 🔝 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WIvIND?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WIvIND</a> <a href="https://t.co/F18VBegnbJ">pic.twitter.com/F18VBegnbJ</a></p> — BCCI (@BCCI) <a href="https://twitter.com/BCCI/status/1684596540692639744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2023</a></blockquote> <p> <script src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" async="" charset="utf-8"></script> </p> <p class="p1">Kuldeep alongside Jadeja tormented the Windies’ batting order, helping India to a five-wicket victory with more than 27 overs to spare. Earlier, India outplayed them in two-game Test series by 1-0 and the home team once again were restricted to just 114 off 23 overs as they were completely clueless while playing against the Indian spinners.</p> <p class="p1">For West Indies, it was the skipper who top-scored with the bat after scoring 43 runs. Apart from Hope and Alick Athanaze, no West Indies batter could manage to cross the 20-run mark in the series opener against India at Bridgetown.</p> <p class="p1">The Indian team while chasing down a modest total came up with a lot of batting changes in the order with Shubman Gill opening the innings with Ishan Kishan. Suryakumar came in at the 3 spot while Hardik Pandya was the next batter in the order. Rohit Sharma and senior batter Virat Kohli batted down the order. Skipper Sharma finally walked into bat at number 7 and remained unbeaten on 12. The Indian team were always seen dominating the game and kudos to Ishan Kishan’s 52-run knock that helped India chase down the modest target.</p> <p class="p2"> </p>
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