Cricket-India hold off West Indies to take 2-1 series lead in third T20印度板球队在第三场T20比赛中击败西印度群岛队，以2-1的总比分领先。
Oct 11 (Reuters) - India beat West Indies by 14 runs on Sunday in Indore to take a 2-1 lead in the five-match Twenty20 International series.
Oct 11 (Reuters) - India beat West Indies by 14 runs on Sunday in Indore to take a 2-1 lead in the five-match Twenty20 International series.
Chasing 224 for victory, West Indies suffered an early setback when Arshdeep Singh dismissed captain Shai Hope for five after he missed a swipe at a delivery that jagged back on to his stumps.
Shimron Hetmyer kept the visitors in the hunt with a brisk 43 off 26 balls before spinner Naman Dhir broke the stand, while Axar Patel removed Rovman Powell to leave West Indies struggling to match the mounting required rate.
Quentin Sampson and Sherfane Rutherford briefly revived the chase, but West Indies could not sustain the momentum as wickets fell regularly in the closing overs and they finished on 209-7.
Arshdeep was India's standout bowler with 3-44 as the hosts defended a formidable 223 after being asked to bat.
India recovered from the early loss of Sanju Samson, who fell for just three to Shamar Joseph, through a 108-run partnership for the second wicket between Abhishek Sharma and Ishan Kishan.
Sharma dominated the scoring with an explosive 69 off 30 balls, while Kishan contributed 37. However, the hosts lost momentum when Kishan's dismissal triggered a middle-order collapse.
The platform laid by Sharma ultimately proved decisive, allowing the lower order to keep the scoreboard moving and lift India to 223 before they were bowled out off the final delivery of the innings.
The teams meet again in the fourth Twenty20 International in Hyderabad on Wednesday.
(Reporting by Karan Prashant Saxena in Bengaluru, editing by Pritha Sarkar)
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10 月 11 日（路透社）——印度队周日在印多尔以 14 分的优势击败西印度群岛队，在五场二十 20 国际系列赛中以 2-1 领先。
西印度群岛队在追逐 224 分的胜利目标时，开局不利，队长沙伊·霍普在挥棒落空后被阿什迪普·辛格淘汰出局，仅得 5 分，球反弹击中了他的球门柱。
希姆伦·赫特迈尔 (Shimron Hetmyer) 以 26 球 43 分的快速得分让客队保持着追赶的希望，但随后旋转球手纳曼·迪尔 (Naman Dhir) 打破了这一合作，而阿克萨尔·帕特尔 (Axar Patel) 淘汰了罗夫曼·鲍威尔 (Rovman Powell)，使得西印度群岛队难以跟上不断上升的所需得分率。
昆汀·桑普森和谢尔凡·卢瑟福一度让西印度群岛队重燃追分希望，但西印度群岛队未能保持势头，在最后几局中不断丢掉球门，最终以 209-7 的成绩结束比赛。
阿什迪普是印度队表现最出色的投手，他以 3-44 的成绩帮助东道主在被要求先攻的情况下成功守住了 223 分的强大优势。
印度队在桑朱·萨姆森仅得3分就被沙马尔·约瑟夫淘汰出局后，凭借阿比谢克·沙尔马和伊尚·基尚的108分第二局合作，从早早失去萨姆森的困境中恢复过来。
沙玛以30球69分的爆炸性表现主宰了得分，而基尚也贡献了37分。然而，基尚的出局引发了中局崩盘，主队失去了势头。
沙玛打下的平台最终被证明是决定性的，让下半场的球员能够不断得分，最终将印度队提升到 223 分，然后在最后一球被淘汰出局。
两队将于周三在海得拉巴再次交锋，进行第四场二十20国际赛。
（Karan Prashant Saxena 班加罗尔报道，Pritha Sarkar 编辑）
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