Match Details
West Indies got off to a great start after winning the toss and opting to bat first, Mayers looks dangerous in the powerplay helped by Brandon King on the other end who together scored 58-0 in the Powerplay. Adil Rashid broke the partnership in the 7th over by dismissing Mayers for 31, Romario Shehpard was promoted up the order for a quickfire inning which failed, he managed to get 6 runs of the 5 balls he played, Pooran was the next man to take strike, right from the beginning he didn’t look comfortable at the crease and his struggle was soon ended by Rashid again, who picked his second wicket of the game finished with figures of 4 overs – 17 runs – 2 wickets. Livingstone was the other successful bowler for England finished with the figures of 3 overs – 17 runs– 2 wickets. Pollard and Powell finished the innings with a flurry of boundaries and sixers and pushed the West Indies total to 179 which at one stage was looking hard to get
With the pitch assisting stroke play, West Indies had to get the early breakthrough in the powerplay overs which they did right in the first over, Hosein got the big wicket of Roy but they leaked 56 runs in the powerplay and managed to take only two wickets. Oden Smith caused problems for England dismissing Banton 16, he almost got Moeen Ali the very next ball, but unfortunately, the catch was dropped at gully. Moeen did not look in the same kind of form as yesterday and got out to Holder right after the drinks break in the 11th over, scoring just 14 of 19 balls. Vince on the other hand looked magnificent with the bat, was timing the ball excellently, and kept the charge on but he too was dismissed by Hosien in the 14th over. Philip Salt was Hosein’s next victim who got 3 of 6. Hosein was the pick of the bowlers for the Windies picking up 4 for 30 in his 4 overs.
48 runs were required in the last 3 overs, Oden Smith was
hammered all over the park by Billing for 20 runs in the 18th over. Down
to 28 runs to get of the last two overs, Cotrell came up with a magnificent
penultimate over, giving away only 8 runs despite bowling a no-ball. 20 runs
were required of the last over and drama! Holder oversteps on his first delivery
but came back brilliantly picking up a HATRICK, and then went on to pick the last wicket as well. 4 wickets in a row were taken, the crowd erupted and it was all
over for England. Sam Billing scored 41, showed some aggressive intent at the back end
of the game, looked like taking the game away from Windes but
it was too difficult and a task for him alone.
West Indies win the match by 17 runs.