West Indies beat India by 24 runs in the fourth T20I at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad, leveling the five-match series at 2-2 with the decider to come. Shai Hope finished unbeaten on 102 off 50 balls — his third T20I century — to power West Indies to 247 for 3, and Keemo Paul's 5 for 41 then did enough to see off India's reply despite a late flurry from Sanju Samson.
Put in to bat, West Indies never let India's bowlers settle, with Hope anchoring the innings from the top of the order and accelerating through the middle overs to reach his century before the back end of the innings. Sherfane Rutherford finished unbeaten on 49, adding to a total that pushed well past 240 and left India needing one of their highest successful chases of the series to stay ahead.
India were bowled out for 223 in 19.3 overs, with Sanju Samson top-scoring on 56 off 23 balls in a innings built around six fours and four sixes before he was caught off Paul's bowling. The chase never got consistently ahead of the required rate, and Paul's burst late in the innings — three wickets in four balls, including Axar Patel caught at 213 for 9 — removed any realistic chance of India closing the gap in the closing overs.
Keemo Paul's 5 for 41 was the difference between a tight finish and the 24-run margin that eventually separated the sides, with his late burst doing the most damage to India's lower order just as the chase threatened to build momentum. It is the kind of all-round bowling performance that can get overshadowed by a flashy century at the other end, but it was Paul who turned a chase India had kept alive into one that fell comfortably short.
The result means India's Indore win and West Indies' Hyderabad response have kept the series locked at 2-2 heading into the decider, continuing a pattern in which no side has won back-to-back matches across the first four games. For India, a middle and lower order that has looked thin through the back end of recent innings will again be under scrutiny ahead of Bengaluru.
The series moves to the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru for the fifth and final T20I on October 17, with the series on the line for both sides.
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