India vs WI 2nd ODI Guwahati: 30 Sep, 2 PM IST

Assam’s international week arrives midweek, between a Sunday in Thiruvananthapuram and a Saturday in New Chandigarh, and the start is again the early-afternoon ODI slot. India vs West Indies, the second ODI, is on Wednesday, 30 September 2026, at 2:00 PM IST in Guwahati. That row is in the BCCI home-season table. Cricket West Indies lists the same game at 4:30 AM Atlantic time, and the BBC fixture card lists 9:30 AM British Summer Time for a day-night ODI.

People searching “India vs West Indies” on the Wednesday morning usually want this match, not the T20I series that starts the following Tuesday in Lucknow. The formats, the cities and the clocks are different. Mixing them up is how a 2:00 PM ODI gets advertised as a 7:00 PM game.

Verification note: Date, time and city are from the BCCI fixture release. The board’s table says Guwahati, not a stadium brand. Match roundups refer to the ACA Stadium at Barsapara. Use the city as the confirmed fact and check the ground name on the BCCI match centre before you quote a gate.

The clock, converted without a twelve-hour slip

• Local date: Wednesday, 30 September 2026
• Start in India: 2:00 PM IST
• United Kingdom: 9:30 AM BST
• US Eastern: 4:30 AM EDT
• Caribbean: 4:30 AM AST
• Competition: 2nd ODI of three

Wednesday is a working day across India. A 2:00 PM start means the first innings sits inside office hours and the second innings runs into the evening commute. That is useful for broadcasters and awkward for anyone who assumed a night match because the T20Is later in October are at 7:00 PM. The ODI series does not use the T20I clock.

If rain shortens the game, Duckworth-Lewis-Stern revisions are an on-field matter. This guide does not predict a reserve day. The BCCI table shows one date, 30 September, with no second column of dates for this ODI. A reserve day is not confirmed.

Watching from India, Britain and North America

Indian home internationals in the 2023–2028 BCCI cycle are listed with JioStar: Star Sports on television, JioHotstar for streaming, and DD Sports as a free-to-air partner in rights compilations. Confirm the afternoon tile. A Wednesday ODI can sit on a different Star Sports channel from a weekend Test, and language feeds are not interchangeable.

UK and US listings for this Guwahati ODI are not printed on the BCCI or Cricket West Indies notes used here. If your usual cricket app does not show a legal stream, follow the official scorecard instead of a pirated link. The scorecard on a board site is enough for runs, wickets and the toss; it is not a substitute for pictures if you have a licensed feed.

Why Guwahati is the middle match, not a dead rubber by default

Three ODIs do not produce a dead rubber until one side has won the first two. On the morning of 30 September the series score depends entirely on what happened in Thiruvananthapuram on 27 September. This article was written on 24 September, before that game, so the series score is not yet available and will not be invented here. Check the BCCI result before you describe Guwahati as a decider or as a series already lost.

The third ODI is in New Chandigarh on 3 October, also at 2:00 PM IST. Our New Chandigarh guide is the page for that Saturday. The Lucknow T20I is four days after Chandigarh and uses a 7:00 PM start. The T20I series page lists all five night games. Keep those clocks separate from Guwahati.

Ground, travel and what the boards have actually said

Guwahati’s international cricket has been staged at Barsapara for several seasons. Humidity in late September is normal for the Brahmaputra valley, and an afternoon start can mean a sweaty outfield and a ball that stays hard longer than it does under full lights from ball one. That is climate context, not a pitch report. The curator’s note, if the association publishes one, is the only pitch description worth quoting.

Cricket West Indies described a tour running from 27 September through the Bengaluru T20I, with the squad routed via Thiruvananthapuram first. Travel from Kerala to Assam between the first and second ODIs is a three-day gap. Whether the same ODI group plays both games is a selection call that belongs in the match-day release. Do not copy a T20 league XI into an ODI sheet.

The wider home summer after this tour leaves India. Sri Lanka’s ODIs and T20Is are in December 2026, in Delhi, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Cuttack and Pune on the BCCI list. They are outside this week. Mentioning them in a Guwahati preview is useful only so readers do not book the wrong month.

Non-betting points that actually show up in a 50-over game

1. Powerplay wickets, because a 2:00 PM new ball in humid air is a different test from a night T20.
2. Who bowls the 16th to the 40th over. That block decides more ODIs than the last five overs do.
3. The batting side’s wickets in hand at the drinks break in the second innings.
4. Reviews left after the 30th over. A team that burns both early often pays at the death.
5. Any official delay message. A late start still uses the same ground; only the board clock changes.

No odds are attached to those points. If a social card adds a “predicted score”, it did not come from this page.

Checklist for Wednesday

• Set the alarm for 1:40 PM IST, not 6:40 PM.
• Open the JioHotstar or Star Sports tile and confirm it says 2nd ODI, Guwahati.
• Read the toss from the broadcaster or bcci.tv, not from a meme page.
• If you are travelling, re-check the ACA Stadium gate map on the association channel the day before.
• Keep the New Chandigarh date, 3 October, as a separate plan.

Media teams that need event pages with the right city, the right IST offset and a clean canonical URL can look at our digital marketing and ecommerce development work. A fixture page is a product page with a clock. The same build rules apply. See also the England vs Sri Lanka trending note for how quickly a cricket query can outrun the facts underneath it.

FAQ

What time does the 2nd ODI start in India?

2:00 PM IST on Wednesday, 30 September 2026.

Is the venue Guwahati?

Yes. The BCCI lists Guwahati. Barsapara’s ACA Stadium is the ground named in roundups; confirm it on the match page.

Is the start 7:00 PM like the T20Is?

No. The five T20Is are at 7:00 PM IST. All three ODIs on this tour are listed at 2:00 PM IST.

Which broadcaster should India fans check?

Star Sports and JioHotstar under the BCCI home-rights framework, plus DD Sports where the free-to-air feed is carried. Confirm the guide on the day.

Has a reserve day been announced?

Not on the BCCI table used here. Only 30 September is listed.

Will this article name the playing XI?

No. The XI is not yet confirmed ahead of the toss.

Keeping the series score honest

Update any recap you publish with the official result from Thiruvananthapuram before you call Guwahati a decider. A one-nil lead and a tied series produce different team news, and neither score belongs in a preview written before the first game. The canonical URL for this guide is the apex host, https://thetrifusion.in/blog/india-vs-west-indies-2nd-odi-guwahati-30-sep-2026, without a www prefix and without a .com domain.

If you need the same treatment for a domestic or franchise calendar, contact TheTriFusion.

Assam logistics that do not belong on a Kerala page

Guwahati’s match-day traffic is its own problem. The ACA Stadium at Barsapara is not in the middle of the old riverfront, and evening exits after a day-night ODI coincide with city traffic. If you are going to the ground, leave earlier than a 2:00 PM start suggests, because security checks at Indian international matches often open well before the first ball and the queue is not part of the BCCI clock. The association’s gate map is the document that names which stand accepts which ticket. This page will not invent a gate number.

Out-of-town supporters flying in for a Wednesday game should treat 30 September as a one-match trip unless they already hold tickets for New Chandigarh on 3 October. Those cities are not a casual overnight hop. Hotels near the stadium fill up when an India international is in town; prices are not listed here because they were not part of any official release we used. Book from the property, not from a social-media “package” that bundles a ticket with a seat number you cannot verify.

For radio and live text, All India Radio and the board’s digital scorecard remain the legal low-bandwidth options when a video feed is geo-blocked. A workplace stream on an unlicensed site is the failure mode we see most often on Wednesday internationals: the picture works for ten minutes, then the page asks for a payment that has nothing to do with Star Sports or JioHotstar. Close it.

Editors republishing this time should also store the series context as a separate field. “2nd ODI” is not a slug you can reuse next year. The year, the opponent and the city all belong in the URL, which is why this page is specific to 30 September 2026 in Guwahati and does not try to rank for every India–West Indies game at once.