489 runs in 40 overs. 32 sixes. Two hundreds. After a frenzied, action-packed contest it was just one run separating the two sides. West Indies overcame India by a solitary run in the first of the two Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) in Lauderhill in Saturday (August 27). Evin Lewis scored a brilliant hundred for West Indies but was surpassed by an even better knock by KL Rahul. But it was the Caribbean team which had the last laugh thanks to a brilliant last over from Dwayne Bravo. He had just eight runs to defend and he did it promptly taking a wicket off the last ball of the match.
Incidentally, MS Dhoni was batting in the last over when India previously lost by one run © Cricbuzz
Statistical highlights from the first T20I in Lauderhill:
325 MS Dhoni has now led India in 325 international matches across formats - the most by any player. He surpassed Ricky Ponting's 324 matches as captain of Australia.
20 balls taken by Johnson Charles for his fifty was the joint second-fastest for West Indies in T20Is. Chris Gayle's 17-ball fifty against South Africa in
