Bowlers, Karthik steer India to five-wicket win in 1st T20I

The ball fizzed past the bat, the Indian batsmen jumped and swayed, the West Indian captain Carlos Brathwaite even had a forward short leg in place. This is not a report of an India-West Indies Test match at Barbados in the 80s. This transpired at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata in a T20 match in which only 219 runs were scored at the cost of 13 wickets at an unnatural scoring rate of 5.76 runs per over. In the end, it needed a calm head of Dinesh Karthik and an exuberance of debutant Krunal Pandya for India to emerge victorious by 5 wickets.