WI vs ENG: Powell, Pooran star as West Indies defeat England in third T20I
Cricket | January 27, 2022 10:32 ISTWith this win, the hosts have gained a 2-1 lead in the five-match series against England. The fourth T20I will be played on Sunday (IST).
With this win, the hosts have gained a 2-1 lead in the five-match series against England. The fourth T20I will be played on Sunday (IST).
England was all out for 103 in 19.4 overs — after recovering from 39-6 at the halfway stage — before West Indies reached 104-1 with nine wickets and 17 balls to spare.
England pacer Jofra Archer is set to miss out the West Indies tour as he has undergone a second surgery on his injured right elbow. The right-arm pacer will be out of the game until next summer, the England and Wales Cricket Board said.
The three-Test series in England will mark the resumption of international cricket after it was suspended in March due to coronavirus pandemic.
A confident Phil Simmons reckoned that the team will be all geared up to retain the trophy they had lifted 18 months back at home.
Misbah said everyone in Pakistan will keep a close eye on the series because they are the one's who will be travelling to England next after West Indies.
Besides Bravo and Hetmyer, Keemo Paul also refused to travel to the UK for the Wisden Trophy starting July 8.
Cricket West Indies (CWI) selection panel on Wednesday named their 25-member squad for the impending three-match Test series in England of which 11 are reserves.
Minutes before lunch, Lara equalled Hayden's record of 380, one the Aussie had carved just six months back. And a few balls later the record was his. He soaked in the appreciation from the overwhelmed Antigua crowd and then kneeled down to kiss the pitch.
It is also understood that Cricket West Indies has also offered to host England's three-Test series against Pakistan, scheduled to start on July 30.
West Indies defeated England by 71 runs via DL method while Australia got the better of Nigeria by 10 wickets in their respective U19 World Cup.
Opening for the first time in 28 matches Bairstow broke the back of a 161-run target, which owed much to Rashid's miserly return of 1-15.
Dwayne Bravo said in Dubai that he was very impressed with the way the young West Indies team was developing and its performance against England in the one-day series in the Caribbean was proof of that.
Gayle struck a brutal 77 as West Indies crushed England to win the fifth and final one-day international by seven wickets to clinch a 2-2 draw in the series.
Ten days after Gayle announced his intention to retire after the World Cup, the West Indies cricketer smashed 162 off 97 balls.
Gayle ticked off a shopping list of targets — 50 up in 32 balls, a 10,000th one-day run and then his hundred in 55 balls.
Gayle is one of a handful of players who would not shirk from chasing 419 and the 39-year-old Jamaican picked up Buttler's baton with a ton of his own.
England's Test captain Joe Root has played only 28 T20 matches for his country since making his debut in the format in 2012.
Andre Russell will replace Kemar Roach in the side as the latter has been ruled out of the series owing to a stress reaction in the back.
The five-match ODI series between West Indies and England is tied 1-1.
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