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Rain stops play in second Twenty20 international between West Indies and India

West Indies team with the winning Paytm trophy
Image: The West Indies team celebrate series victory in Florida

West Indies have won their two-match Twenty20 international series with India in Florida after the second game was abandoned just over halfway through.

India appeared to be on course to level the series at 1-1 when they reached 15-0 in reply to 143 all out, but heavy rain then intervened.

With the outfield soaked, the match was abandoned 90 minutes later, and India had faced only two overs, three short of the point at which a result could have been decided via the Duckworth-Lewis method.

Saturday's game in Lauderhill had been a spectacular affair, West Indies winning by one run after the highest-scoring Twenty20 international in history.

It looked like it might be a similar story on Sunday while Johnson Charles was smashing 43 from 25 balls at the top of the West Indies order after they had been put in to bat.

But his fellow opener and Saturday centurion Evin Lewis went for just seven and, after Charles fell to the first ball of the sixth over, making it 50-2, West Indies began to struggle.

Lendl Simmons was stumped by MS Dhoni
Image: Lendl Simmons was stumped by MS Dhoni

Recalled leg-spinner Amit Mishra had Charles caught at long-on by Ajinkya Rahane and went on to claim a career-best 3-24.

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And Mohammed Shami (2-31), Ravichandran Ashwin (2-11) and Jasprit Bumrah (2-26) also weighed in with two wickets each.

Ashwin claimed a pair of key wickets in the form of Lendl Simmons (stumped by MS Dhoni for 19) and Kieron Pollard (13).

And Windies captain Carlos Brathwaite (18) smashed a six and a four off Mishra in the 18th over but was then bowled by the leg-spinner, before Shami bowled Samuel Badree for one to end the innings with two balls remaining.

Rohit Sharma (10 not out) and Ajinkya Rahane (four not out) then got the India innings off to a solid start, before rain brought proceedings to an early close.

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