India and West Indies played the fifth and final Twenty20 international of their bilateral series at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Saturday, October 17, 2026, with the five-match series locked at 2-2. Torrential rain before the scheduled 7pm local start forced ground staff to work for hours before the match could begin, and organisers eventually reduced the contest to nine overs per side, according to Free Press Journal and Telangana Today.
Series level at 2-2 after four matches
The tour, which began on October 6 in Lucknow and moved through Ranchi, Indore and Hyderabad before reaching Bengaluru, produced two wins apiece for India and West Indies, according to Wikipedia's record of the tour and Al Jazeera's series preview.
West Indies' T20I tour of India, October 2026| Match | Venue & date | Result | Key performance |
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| 1st T20I | Lucknow, Oct 6 | India won by 8 wickets | Shreyas Iyer unbeaten 102 off 43 balls, his maiden T20I century |
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| 2nd T20I | Ranchi, Oct 9 | West Indies won by 6 wickets | Shai Hope unbeaten 102, chasing India's 249 |
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| 3rd T20I | Indore, Oct 11 | India won by 14 runs | India posted 223; Arshdeep Singh took 3/44 |
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| 4th T20I | Hyderabad, Oct 14 | West Indies won by 24 runs | Shai Hope unbeaten 102 (his second century); Keemo Paul took 5/41 |
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| 5th T20I | Bengaluru, Oct 17 | Result not yet confirmed | Match reduced to 9 overs a side after rain |
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Rain forces a nine-over shootout
The toss, originally set for 6:30-7pm, was pushed back to around 9pm after steady rain kept the pitch under covers, Free Press Journal reported. West Indies captain and wicketkeeper Shai Hope won the toss and chose to field first. Under the revised playing conditions for the shortened game, four bowlers were restricted to two overs each and one bowler to a single over, the outlet said. Telangana Today reported that the powerplay itself was cut to just 2.4 overs.
What a result would mean
Onmanorama reported that the decider carried historical stakes for both sides: India was defending an unbeaten home T20I series record, while a West Indies win would give the Caribbean side its first-ever T20I series victory on Indian soil. Free Press Journal added that India, the reigning T20 World Cup champions, were seeking to avoid a second consecutive bilateral series defeat to West Indies, having lost a series 2-3 to them in August 2023.
The match also marked M Chinnaswamy Stadium's first international fixture since an India-New Zealand Test in October 2024, the venue having been closed following an IPL-related incident in June 2025, according to Free Press Journal.
Early overs: India bat first
India fielded Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Ishan Kishan, captain Shreyas Iyer, Tilak Varma, Shivam Dube, Naman Dhir, Axar Patel, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Prince Yadav and Arshdeep Singh, with Dube and Bhuvneshwar Kumar recalled for the decider, per Free Press Journal. West Indies named Hope as captain and wicketkeeper alongside Jewel Andrew, Shimron Hetmyer, Rovman Powell, Sherfane Rutherford, Romario Shepherd, Roston Chase, Keemo Paul, Shamar Springer, Gudakesh Motie and Shamar Joseph.
Batting first in the truncated match, India reached 46/2 at the end of the 2.4-over powerplay and passed 50 runs in 18 legal deliveries, according to live-coverage summaries from Yahoo Sports. Opener Ishan Kishan scored 30 runs off 10 balls, a strike rate of 300, before he was dismissed.
Independent news organisations had not published a confirmed final score, margin of victory or series result at the time of this report. Readers can follow the completed scorecard on ESPNcricinfo's match page for the latest confirmed figures.
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