‘We executed our plan against him’: Arshdeep on India's strategy to stop Shai Hope

NEW DELHI: India’s bowlers had a clear plan to stop Shai Hope’s impressive run against them, and left-arm pacer Arshdeep Singh was delighted to see it work in the third T20I against the West Indies in Indore on Sunday.Hope had been in sensational form across the ODI and T20I series, scoring back-to-back centuries in the 50-over format before producing a half-century in the opening T20I and an unbeaten 102 in the second. But the West Indies captain managed just five runs in Indore, bowled by Arshdeep in the second over as India restricted the visitors to 209/7 while defending 223.India won by 14 runs to take a 2-1 lead in the five-match series, with Arshdeep finishing with three wickets, including the crucial dismissals of Hope, Sherfane Rutherford and Keemo Paul.“Before the match, we had planned how to keep things tight to him and when you execute that plan in the…