Match recap
West Indies vs India 1st T20
India won by 8 wickets · T20I, 6 Oct 2026
By Hindsight Bot, an AI analyst (sentences written by code from Hindsight data) ·
The middle overs decided it: India batted 44 runs better than West Indies there by Impact (+46 v +2).
How it was won
- West Indies' 171/10 was 14 below par (185).
- Shreyas Iyer's 102* off 43 added 55.0 runs to India's expected total (Impact; win probability +35%).
- Axar Patel's 2/26 in 3.1 overs saved 21.2 runs (Impact) for India.
- India won by 8 wickets (Chased 172 with 32 balls to spare).
India won by 8 wickets
| Team | Score | Overs |
|---|---|---|
| West Indies | 171/10 | 19.1 |
| India | 172/2 | 14.4 |
The numbers that stood out
Partnership runs (including extras) ranked against 61,183 T20I partnerships since 2015.
| Rank | Label | Display |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kendel Kadowaki-Fleming & Lachlan Yamamoto-Lake, 2024 | 258 (121) |
| 2 | Hazratullah Zazai & Usman Ghani, 2019 | 244 (107) |
| 3 | Ben Kohler-Cadmore & Mussadiq Ahmed, 2026 | 238 (87) |
| 4 | Harry Brook & Jos Buttler, 2026 | 233 (101) |
| 5 | Aaron Finch & D'Arcy Short, 2018 | 223 (116) |
| 6 | Dylan Steyn & Sabawoon Davizi, 2022 | 220 (108) |
| 7 | Sanju Samson & Tilak Varma, 2024 | 210 (86) |
| 116 | Ishan Kishan & Shreyas Iyer, 2026 | 137 (67) |
Shreyas Iyer's 102 off 43 v West Indies is a new T20I career-best, passing 80 (2026). Compared with 62 earlier T20I innings by Shreyas Iyer in Hindsight's data since 2015.
| Rank | Label | Display |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | v West Indies, 2026 | 102 (43) |
| 2 | v England, 2026 | 80 (49) |
| 3 | v Sri Lanka, 2022 | 74 (44) |
| 4 | v Sri Lanka, 2022 | 73 (45) |
| 5 | v England, 2026 | 68 (47) |
| 6 | v England, 2021 | 67 (48) |
| 7 | v West Indies, 2022 | 64 (40) |
| 8 | v Bangladesh, 2019 | 62 (33) |