West Indies defeated England by 8 wickets in the third and decisive match of the ODI series. With this victory, the Caribbean team has won the 3 match series 2-1. Windies won the first ODI by 8 wickets, while lost the second by 5 wickets. Now a series of 3 T20 matches will be played between the two teams. On Wednesday night in Bridgetown, West Indies won the toss and chose to bowl. England came out to bat first and scored 263 runs for 8 wickets in 50 overs. In reply, West Indies achieved the target by losing 2 wickets in 43 overs with the help of centuries from Brandon King (102 runs) and Casey Curtie (128 runs). Brandon King was chosen the Player of the Match. While Matthew Ford was chosen the Player of the Tournament. The match status from here… England lost wickets continuously, Salt’s fifty
England, who came out to bat after losing the toss, did not have a good start. The team lost the first wicket at the score of 9 runs. Here opener Will Jacks returned to the pavilion after scoring 5 runs. He was caught by Matthew Ford at the hands of wicketkeeper Shai Hope. From here the team kept losing wickets at regular intervals. At the same time, Phil Salt stood at one end. He scored 74 runs in 108 balls. The middle order failed, Mousli took the score past 200
The middle order of the team failed. Jordan Cox, who came to play after Jacks, scored 1, Jacob Bittle zero and captain Liam Livingstone was out after scoring 6 runs. In the lower order, Sam Curran scored 40, Dan Mousli scored 57, Jamie Overton scored 32 and Jofra Archer scored an unbeaten 38 runs. Matthew Ford took 3 wickets for West Indies. Alzari Joseph and Romario Shepherd took 2-2 wickets. Roston Chase got one wicket. Mixed start for Windies, Lewis out after scoring 19 runs
Chasing the target of 264 runs, West Indies had a mixed start. The team lost the wicket of Evin Lewis at a score of 42 runs. He was out after scoring 19 runs. Overton got him caught by Adil Rashid. The team’s second opener Brandon King played an innings of 102 runs on 117 balls. He was bowled by Reece Topley. Casey Curtie also scored 128 runs on 114 balls. There was a partnership of 209 runs on 203 balls for the second wicket between the two. First match of T20 series on 9 November
The first match of the T20 series between England and West Indies will be played on 9 November. After that the second T20 match will be played on 10 November and the third T20 match will be played on 14 November. ———————————————————— Also read this news related to cricket… Second unofficial test – IND-A all out on 161 runs in the first innings India-A team has been all out on 161 runs in the first innings of the second unofficial test going on in Melbourne against Australia A. Indian batsman KL Rahul was out after scoring just 4 runs. While Dhruv Jurel played the highest innings of 80 runs. Read full news
