{"id":89550,"date":"2026-10-17T20:54:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T20:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/89550"},"modified":"2026-10-17T20:54:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T20:54:38","slug":"india-west-indies-draw-t20-series-after-rain-washes-out-decider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/89550","title":{"rendered":"India, West Indies draw T20 series after rain washes out decider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:16px;line-height:1.6\">\n<p><strong>BENGALURU \u2013 India and West Indies had to settle for a 2-2 \u200bdraw in their five-match T20 series \u200cafter the fifth and deciding game ended with no result due to rain on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Persistent showers \u200bdelayed the start and reduced the \u200bcontest to nine overs per side \u2060before West Indies won the toss and \u200belected to field.<\/p>\n<p>India lost opener Abhishek Sharma \u200bfor six off the bowling of Keemo Paul but Ishan Kishan then hammered 30 off 10 \u200bballs to provide the early impetus.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200bhosts surged to 118-5 in 7.4 overs but rain \u200creturned \u2060before the innings could be completed, forcing the players off the field. With conditions failing to improve, officials ended the \u200bmatch and both \u200bteams \u2060shared the series honours.<\/p>\n<p>The match was the first international fixture at \u200bChinnaswamy Stadium in two years. \u200bVeteran \u2060seamer Bhuvneshwar Kumar, recalled to India\u2019s T20 squad for the first time since November \u20602022, \u200bwas denied the chance \u200bto mark his return with the ball.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/india-west-indies-draw-t20-series-after-rain-washes-out-decider\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU \u2013 India and West Indies had to settle for a 2-2 \u200bdraw in their five-match T20 series \u200cafter the fifth and deciding game ended with no result due to rain on Saturday. Persistent showers \u200bdelayed the start and reduced the \u200bcontest to nine overs per side \u2060before West Indies won the toss and \u200belected to field. India lost opener&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":16,"label":"Pakistan"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-content\/uploads\/HU2RrnkawAAcUd3.jpeg",720,380,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"frkhokhar@gmail.com","author_link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/author\/frkhokhargmail-com"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":16,"name":"Pakistan","slug":"pakistan","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":16,"taxonomy":"category","description":"All about Pakistan","parent":0,"count":8124,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":16,"category_count":8124,"category_description":"All about Pakistan","cat_name":"Pakistan","category_nicename":"pakistan","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89552,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89550\/revisions\/89552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}