West Indies has chased the highest score in T20 International on its home ground. The team defeated England by 5 wickets in the fourth T20 match. However, the host team is trailing 1-3 in the 5 match series. The last match will be played on Sunday night. Windies captain Shai Hope won the toss and decided to bowl on Saturday night at Gros Islet in St. Lucia. Batting first, the English team scored 218 runs with the help of fifties from Phil Salt (55 runs) and Jacob Bethell (62 runs). In response, the West Indies batsmen chased the target of 219 runs in 19 overs for 5 wickets. Shai Hope was chosen as the Player of the Match. He played a half-century innings of 54 runs. Also, he made an opening partnership of 136 runs in 55 balls with Evin Lewis. Important fact: West Indies’ comeback, has lost the series
With this win, West Indies has made a comeback in the 5 match T20 series. However, the team is still trailing 1-3. Earlier, England has taken an unassailable lead in the series by winning the first 3 matches. In the last match also, the Windies will be able to reduce the margin of defeat. Windies chased a target of 200+ at home for the first time
The West Indies team has chased a target of more than 200 runs for the first time on their home ground. Earlier, 194 runs was the team’s best run chase, which the Windies team did against India in Kingston in 2017. Match report from here… Fifty partnership of openers, Karen Bethell took the score past 200
England opener Phil Salt, batting after losing the toss, made a great start with Will Jacks. He scored 54 runs in 35 balls and made an opening partnership of 54 runs with Jacks. This partnership was broken by Alzari Joseph. He got Will Jacks caught by wicketkeeper Pooran. Captain Jos Buttler contributed 38 runs. Then Jacob Bithell scored 62 runs in 32 balls. He shared a 63-run partnership in 30 balls with Sam Curran (24 runs). On the basis of this partnership, the team managed to score 218 runs. Lewis-Hope’s century partnership, the team lost 3 wickets at a score of 136
Chasing the target of 219 runs, the West Indies team got off to a strong start. Evin Lewis and Shai Hope gave the team a quick start by sharing an opening partnership of 136 runs. But, Ryan Ahmed, who came to bowl the 10th over, got Lewis caught by Musli on the first ball. Shai Hope was run out on the very next ball. Then on the third ball of the over, Ryan Ahmed bowled Nicholas Pooran. Now both the openers had returned to the pavilion. In such a situation, captain Rovman Powell made important partnerships with Shimoran Hetmyer (7 runs) and Sherfane Rutherford. Then Rutherford and Roston Chase took the team to the target by adding 25 runs in 15 balls. Powell scored 38 runs in 23 balls, while Rutherford scored 29 runs in 17 balls. Before these two, Lewis scored 68 runs in 31 balls and Shai Hope scored 54 runs in 24 balls. Ryan Ahmed took 3 wickets for England. Shai Hope was chosen as the player of the match against England Shai Hope was chosen as the player of the match in the fourth T20 against England. He played a half-century innings of 54 runs. Also, he made an opening partnership of 136 runs in 55 balls with Evin Lewis. After this, he was searched a lot. See Google Trends below… Source: Google Trends ————————————– Also read this news of T20 cricket… Australia defeated Pakistan in the second T20 Australia defeated Pakistan by 13 runs in the second T20. With this, the team took an unassailable lead of 2-0 in the 3 match series. The last match of the series will be played in Hobart on November 18. Read full news
