IND vs WI 4th T20I: Hardik Pandya & Co. eye series-levelling win in Lauderhill

India will expect the toporder to helm their march towards a serieslevelling victory over the West Indies with another impact effort in the fourth T20I on SaturdayThe Men in Blue might have stayed afloat with a win in the third T20I but Windies still lead the series 21 a quick reminder to the fact that the visitors still have concerns surrounding the batting unitIt was a comforting sight indeed to see Suryakumar Yadav flicking on his beast mode and Tilak Varma chipping in with crucial runs But Indias opening combination continued to falterIndia had handed T20I debut to Yashasvi Jaiswal resting Ishan Kishan But for the third successive match the pair at the totem pole position failed to impress making just six runs Jaiswal got out to pacer Obed McCoy in the first over itselfIn the previous two matches Kishan and Shubman Gill had managed to score just five and 16 for the first wicket to place some amount of pressure on the middleorderWhether India will bring back Kishan for this match remains to be seen but the management will hope for a more potent outing from the openers in a mustwin matchAlso ReadTeam Indias Big Three and the inevitability of successionThat India do not have a handy bat lower down the order makes it mandatory for batsmen at the top to deliver India have deployed Axar Patel at No 7 to maintain the balance and they might continue to adopt the fivebowler policyHaving said that the way Tilak carried the burden on his young shoulders has been remarkableThe sequence of 39 22 balls 51 41 balls and 49 37 balls might be a presage that the Hyderabad lefthander is ready for bigger stages in his careerHe is currently the leading runscorer in the series with 139 runs while averaging 6950Suryakumar hinted at a possible broadening of role for Tilak his teammate at Mumbai IndiansWeve batted together for a long time now We both understand each other It was his day to bat with maturity He is batting with a lot of confidence and he helped me bat well too Suryakumar had saidKuldeep Yadav returned to the side for the third T20I and his performance will certainly add to Indias confidence He had missed the second T20I with a sore thumbThe leftarm wrist spinner bagged three wickets conceding 28 runs from four oversWest Indies batsman Nicholas Pooran has been a thorn in Indias flesh the whole series but Kuldeep snaffled him before the lefthander blossomedOverall three spinners Kuldeep Axar Yuzvendra Chahal gave a good account of themselves in the last match and India will need an encore from them at the Central Broward StadiumIn the initial part the pitch here assists the batsmen but it often slips into sluggishness as the match progresses evidenced by the 11 wins out of 13 matches registered by the team batting firstAs for the West Indies they will not want to miss a chance to score their first series win over India after 2016 and will look for a far more cohesive displayTeams fromIndia Hardik Pandya Captain Ishan Kishan Shubman Gill Yashasvi Jaiswal Tilak Varma Surya Kumar Yadav Sanju Samson Axar Patel Yuzvendra Chahal Kuldeep Yadav Ravi Bishnoi Arshdeep Singh Umran Malik Avesh Khan Mukesh KumarWest Indies Rovman Powell Captain Kyle Mayers Johnson Charles Shai Hope Roston Chase Shimron Hetmyer Jason Holder Akeal Hosein Alzarri Joseph Brandon King Obed McCoy Nicholas Pooran Romario Shepherd Oshane Thomas Odean SmithWith agency inputs