India vs West Indies 1st T20I Live Cricket Score: India will take on West Indies. (FILE photo)

India (IND) vs West Indies (WI) 1st T20I Cricket Match Live Score Updates: Indian skipper Shreyas Iyer won the toss and opted to bowl first against Shai Hope’s West Indies in the first of the five-match T20I series on Tuesday. The visitors have lost the ODI series but have won an improbable final game and would want to build that confidence into this series.

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The hosts, on the other hand, are coming off a gold medal at the Asian Games, and that team is increasingly looking like a force to reckon with after the poor start they had under Iyer, losing in Ireland. The batting of the team with the likes of Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan and others is looking imperious.

For the West Indies, though, although they have the batting, it is their bowling which is a concern. While they have managed to put on decent scores in the ODI format, their bowlers have let them down, and the pitches will be no different for T20I’s either.

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