BCCI's bio-bubble break for Virat Kohli to miss 3rd T20I against West Indies

Virat Kohli will miss the third and final Twenty20 International against the West Indies at Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Sunday.

Virat Kohli will not feature in the third and final Twenty20 International against the West Indies to be played at Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Sunday. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has retired the former captain of the Indian team from the bio-bubble of the Indian team and will not take part in the tournament. According to news agency PTI, wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pound will retire from bio-bubble life and will miss his third T20I against the visiting West Indies team.

Virat Kohli hit a superb fifty in the second T20 match on Friday night to help India beat the West Indies by 8 wickets.

With this victory, India captured the three-match T20 series with one game remaining. The Rubber Indian team that died on Sunday may have a chance to test its bench strength.

The win on Friday made India the second team in the history of the T20I to win 100 matches. Pakistan was the first team to achieve this feat.

In the second T20, Virat Kohli (52 off 41 balls) and Rishabh Bandh (52 not out off 28 balls) scored half-centuries before India were bowled out for 186 for five.

Nicholas Pooran (62) and Rowman Powell (68) led the West Indies. The spectators seemed to reach the target without much fuss, but some excellent death bowling by Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Herschelle Patel put a brake on the West Indies scoring ratio.

In the end, despite losing just three wickets, India won another series on home soil as the West Indies fell by eight runs.