Third T20 international: India scampers home off the last ball in dramatic finish

Third T20 international: India scampers home off the last ball in dramatic finish

On view was brutal force. The ball was bludgeoned to different corners of the ground. And India sealed another run-chase ...but only after a scare.

The Delhi duo of Shikhar Dhawan and Rishabh Pant, both left-handers and both explosive, cut loose when the match seemed in the balance.

Then came a twist in the tale. Pant (58) was castled by Keemo Paul and it boiled down to five runs off the last over from left-arm spinner Fabian Allen. It became one off three when Allen, holding his nerve, delivered a dot ball and had Dhawan (92) caught in the deep off the fifth.

With a single needed off the last ball, Manish Pandey and Dinesh Karthik scampered for a single. What a finish!

It was a dramatic last-gasp conclusion but eventually the blitzkriegs from Dhawan and Pant enabled India complete a 3-0 sweep of the West Indies in the T20I series at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium on Sunday.