Vizag: India young spinner Kuldeep Yadav's hat-trick after heroic tons from Rohit Sharma (159) and KL Rahul (102) helped team India make a solid comeback against West Indies and beat them by 107 runs in second ODI, to level the three-match series 1-1 at Vizag. For India, Mohammed Shami and Kuldeep Yadav were the pick of the bowlers as they picked three wickets each to hand Windies a humiliating loss. The series-decider will be played on Sunday at Cuttack.

Jadeja departed Pierre for 21(18) and Keemo Paul to end the frustrating 50-run partnership for 8th wicket.Team India performed brilliantly in the bowling department, but were equally bad in the fielding as they dropped three catches today.

The West Indies were set a target of 389 by India with Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul scoring centuries as part of a 227-run opening stand. The visitors started the chase well with a 61-run stand between Shai Hope and Evin Lewis. Shardul Thakur got the breakthrough off the last ball of the 11th over with Lewis mistiming a pull right down the throat of Shreyas Iyer.





Shimron Hetmyer, who scored 139 in the previous match, replaced Lewis but his stay didn't last long primarily thanks to a brilliant fielding effort from Shreyas. Jadeja then dismissed Roston Chase with a nearly unplayable delivery in his next over.With a solid Hope holding up one end, Pooran went after the Indian bowlers.The pair put up 106 runs for the fourth wicket, most of which were scored by Pooran. However, Mohammed Shami effected a turnaround in the 30th over with consecutive wickets.


He first managed to get a top edge off Pooran after which the ball ballooned up in the air. Kuldeep made no mistake with the catch and Pooran had to walk having made 75 runs off 47 balls. Shami then got West Indies skipper Kieron Pollard off the very next ball. Earlier, Pollard's counterpart Virat Kohli had been dismissed for a golden duck too, thus making this the first time in an ODI that the captains of both teams had been dismissed off the first ball they faced.

Shami did not get a hat-trick but that is exactly what Kuldeep ended up doing two overs later. The first man to fall was Hope, who went for a sweep off the third ball of the over hoping to get it over the boundary but Indian captain Virat Kohli caught it right at the edge of the boundary. He walked on 78 off 85 balls.

Kuldeep then deceived Jason Holder in flight with a googly. The all-rounder missed it altogether and dragged his feet out of the crease. Wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant was alert to it and knocked off the bails while Holder's foot was still in the air.

Kuldeep then bowled a wrong'un from around the stumps towards new batsman Alzarri Joseph. The ball took a thick outside edge and Kedar Jadhav did well to hold on to it at second slip.

Keemo Paul anchored the tail and fell four runs short of his maiden ODI fifty to a Mohammed Shami yorker which marked the end of the West Indies innings. Paul shared a 50-run stand for the ninth wicket with Khary Pierre and added 20 for the last wicket.


Earlier, fluent tons from India openers Rohit Sharma (159) and KL Rahul (102) and a fine finishing touch from batting pair of Pant-Iyer helped India finish their innings on 387/5 in the 2nd ODI against West Indies at Vizag.

(With IANS Inputs)