west indies vs england t20

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England started strongly, courtesy of Phil Dooz’s 40-ball 20, while Russell’s three-wicket display put the break on attacking intent before Rovan Powell passed the winning target of 172. The seventh wicket stood at 49 for 21 runs.

Although they started a good power play of England’s opening batsmen, with Phil Salt scoring of 40 from 20 balls, Russell cleverly stopped them from carrying on such an attacking intention by his three-wicket haul, and with that, Rovman Powell powered to In fact, Russell’s potent cut for four first balls during the 18th over that went into their favor marked the culmination of victory as the West Indies made a record-setting chase in Barbados.

Even though England lost, they had two bright spots. One was the pairing of Adil Rashid, a stalwart in English cricket, and his heir apparent, Rehan Ahmed, who took five wickets between themselves. It further added to the problems they were facing as they tried to renew their white-ball credentials ahead of next year’s T20 World Cup defense last week after losing an ODI series.

Windies hit the roof in run-chase

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At the start of their innings, they chased after 172, as Brandon King played a rampant 16 runs off the first ball of Sam Curan, scoring two leg-side pick-ups for six and, later on, Kyle Mayers had two tremendous shots beyond the

However, Ben Duckett picked a good point to grab a hold of King, which gave Chris Woakes his fourth wicket. At the same time, Shai Hope did not stop the West Indies’ momentum with a sixth-off slower ball from Woakes for as many balls. Their 59 power play could not quite measure up with England’s 77 score as far as the first innings were concerned. However, considering that the last inning collapsed so severely, this score appeared more than sufficient to get us ready for chasing.

Master and apprentice

Rehan was England’s best bowler last time, due to his early maturity in penetration and control abilities. So the re-inclusion of Rehan to fit in the fifth bowling spot of England’s ODI squad despite adil Rashid’s return is

However, Rehan’s first over of the night did not bode an encouraging beginning for him. He was thrashed by bowling to Mayers for three sixes—two more for Mayers as he had twice picked the googly, and a second for Hope, who was caught stepping into a length to drive it across long-off.

Here comes Rashid to indicate how it should be done. He had previously received a special cap in commemoration of his 100th T20I, and after that, he started with his first ball of the night. On his first ball, he caught Mayers misjudging a leg-cutter out of the back of the hand

However, Rehan’s temperament complemented his talent just as well. Returning to the attack was a triumph of character as Nicholas Pooran lobbed an attempted pull in the same direction that was sent back down the wicket for 13 runs, with Rehan leaping high to his left to catch it.

He yielded only two runs in that over also, which probably facilitated the catch by Duckett off deep midwicket to trap Shimron Hetmyer in Rashid’s succeeding over after the batsman aimed for a straight cross-line slog. Rashid reached 100 T20I wickets for England, becoming the 10th player worldwide to achieve this feat.

Full-frontal as-Salt

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Phil Salt went out for the first over of the match, and carefree brutality had then been the order of the day. The product was an item that has always been scarce in England’s sad fifty-over World Cup, where numerous batters were stuck in a trance as a result of the high reputation of limited-over cricket.

On the other hand, Salt always hanged the consequences and gave it a kick in the butt. England’s mood improved as well. Akaeal, a left-arm spinner, was struck by the first one of the seven bounds when playing the twenty balls while trying to get away from a fat edge past slip as Akeel flung his bat towards him. After three balls, he’d hit two consecutive fours, one towards the square leg and the other point. The power play was already there.

In fact, it did not take too long until his impact began to reflect on Buttler, whose form has clearly lacked during this past week’s period. This was after being driven off by a brace of thunderous drives by Jason Holder and Hosain, only to be rewarded with the unusual view of Buttler’s hallmark bang for six, which he needed twice before he achieved it off André Russell after being adjudged.

But Salt started scoring with Alzarri Joseph’s 26 off nine balls, a savage top half of six points, and finished in style with a comedic five-wide after Nicholas Pooran caught in the second over. . His 40 off 20 balls seemed to set the tone for a 200-plus innings, although Russell then fell for the last wicket of the innings courtesy of a brilliant catch by the sure-footed Shimron Hetmyer to give Russell the ticket for a comeback.