New Delhi. After losing the ODI series, England has started exposing West Indies. The English team, which was facing the attack of critics just a week ago, is taking its revenge from the West Indies. It has defeated host West Indies thrice in 6 days and has also taken a 3-0 lead in the T20 series. Despite losing early wickets in the third T20 match, they won the match with 4 balls to spare.
The third T20 match between England and West Indies was played late on Thursday night. English captain Jos Buttler won the toss and decided to bowl first. The bowlers also took full advantage of this and took 5 wickets of West Indies within 35 runs. Saqib Mahmood took 3 of these 5 wickets. Nicholas Pooran was bowled by Archer and Shay Hope was run out.
Captain Rovman Powell took charge of the team in crisis. He played an innings of 54 runs in 41 balls. Captain Powell was given good support by Romario Shepherd (30). Alzarri Joseph, who was banned a week ago for misbehaving with the captain, also played a useful inning of 21 runs in 19 balls. Thanks to all this, West Indies managed to make a fighting score of 145 runs for 8 wickets. Apart from Saqib Mahmood, Jamie Overton also took 3 wickets for England.
Chasing the target of 146 runs, England had a bad start and lost the wickets of Phil Salt, captain Jos Buttler and Jacob Bethall within 37 runs. Meanwhile, Will Jacques played an inning of 32 runs. Will Jacques was out as the fourth batsman on the team score of 75. When the match seemed stuck, Sam Curran (41) and Liam Livingston (39) took charge and took England closer to victory. Sam was out on the team score of 123. Dan Mousley also walked out after scoring 8 runs. After this, Livingston along with Jamie Overton (4) took the team to 143 runs. After Livingston was out, Jamie Overton and Rehan Ahmed (5) took England to the target. England won the match by scoring 149 runs for 7 wickets in 19.2 overs.
FIRST PUBLISHED: November 15, 2024, 07:31 IST