With Skipper Kohli leading from the front India clinched the series in style

India defeated the West Indies by six wickets in the rain-affected third and final One-Day International of their series at the Queen’s Park Oval in Trinidad on Wednesday.

While India clinched the series by winning the third ODI which has set a revised target of 255 based on the DLS scoring method after Gayle blazed 72 in pacing the home side to 240 for seven off 35 overs, Kohli was at his most imperious in compiling an unbeaten 114 in his second consecutive ODI hundred. Thus took the men in blue to pilot to 256 for four with 15 balls to spare.

Opener Rohit Sharma had a poor outing yet again as he could muster just 10 run in the chase. Although he looked good early on and blasted couple of boundaries as well but he couldn’t continue the start and was run-out unceremoniously in the third over.

Even the other opener Shikhar Dhawan couldn’t end the tour on a high as he was dismissed for just 36 runs in this clash. After failing in the T20I series, Dhawan couldn’t come up with the goods in the ODI series as well.

Virat Kohli, the skipper never ceases to amaze. His consistency in white-ball cricket is unbelievable and he is going all guns blazing towards Sachin Tendulkar’s century record. Kohli slammed his 43rd ODI ton power India to a series-clinching win and he also added numerous records into his kitty. He thumped 114 runs off 99 deliveries and his innings included 14 boundaries. Kohli is easily best ODI batsman in the world at the moment and that too by some distance.

Wicket-keeper-batsman Rishabh Pant remains an enigma for Team India. One day be puts up a match-winning performance and the other day, he fails to even turn up.

One player whose stocks have risen after the conclusion of the ODI series is middle-order batsman Shreyas Iyer. The right-hander finally came of age on and this could the beginning of something new for him. Iyer slammed his second fifty of the series and struck another century stand with skipper Kohli to bail India out of trouble.

All-rounder Kedar Jadhav put up a steady performance with both bat and ball. He bowled four overs and conceded just 13 runs without picking any wicket.