West Indies posted 180-4 in 20 overs upcoming England received the toss and made up our minds to bowl first on Thursday throughout the continued T20 Global Cup 2024 Tremendous 8 spherical on the Daren Sammy Nationwide Cricket Stadium, Gros Islet, St Lucia.
West Indies made a cast get started as they reached 36-0 in 4 overs with openers Johnson Charles and Brandon King prominent the best way.
Then again, King was once retired harm with a suspected groin shock, future taking part in a shot towards Sam Curran, within the 5th over of the innings. He had scored 23 runs in 13 balls sooner than going off the ground.
Charles scored 38 runs in 34 balls future including 54 runs in 41 balls with Nicholas Pooran, who had changed King at the wrinkle.
West Indies had been 82/0 upcoming 10 overs and wanted a robust batting show in the second one part of the innings and captain Rovman Powell did simply that with a fiery cameo of 36 runs in 17 balls, which incorporated 5 sixes.
However England stored the Windies batters in test throughout the ultimate 5 overs, conceding 43 runs future additionally selecting up couple of wickets.
Sherfane Rutherford remained unbeaten on 28 runs in 15 balls with the backup of a 4 and two maximums.
Adil Rashid was once the pick out of the bowlers for England with figures of 1-21 in 4 overs. Jofra Archer, Moeen Ali and Liam Livingstone additionally claimed one wicket each and every.
That is the primary day out for each groups within the Tremendous 8 level of the T20 Global Cup.
“We’ll bowl first. It is a good wicket and we fancy a chase. One change from the last game – Mark Wood comes in for Chris Jordan. He’s [Livingstone] fit to play a full game, a few games have been a bit sick. The West Indies is the place to be, there is a great atmosphere,” England captain Jos Buttler stated on the toss.
In the meantime, Windies skipper Rovman Powell stated: “Would have bowled as well. Hopefully, our batters can make the most of it here. Two changes – Roston Chase in for Shai Hope, Romario in for Obed McCoy. We’ve been playing some good cricket and hopefully we continue to do the same, and continue to get this crowd support.”
Lineups
West Indies: 1 Brandon King, 2 Johnson Charles, 3 Nicholas Pooran (wk), 4 Roston Chase, 5 Rovman Powell (capt), 6 Andre Russell, 7 Sherfane Rutherford, 8 Romario Shepherd, 9 Akeal Hosein, 10 Alzarri Joseph, 11 Gudakesh Motie.
England: 1 Phil Salt, 2 Jos Buttler (capt & wk), 3 Jonny Bairstow, 4 Harry Brook, 5 Moeen Ali, 6 Liam Livingstone, 7 Sam Curran, 8 Jofra Archer, 9 Mark Plank, 10 Adil Rashid, 11 Reece Topley.
