Shai Hope Leads West Indies To T20I Series Win Over England | Cricket News

Shai Hope’s unbeaten 43 led West Indies to a 4 wicket victory over England and secured a 3-2 T20I sequence win in a tense encounter. England had been bowled out for 132 within the decider and whereas West Indies by no means bought into their rhythm, Hope held their reply collectively after which received the sport with a robust six over extra-cover off the second ball of the ultimate over. The win is the third straight T20 worldwide sequence win for West Indies in 2023 as they put together to co-host the World Cup for the shortest format in June.

It was a disappointing finish to the mini-tour for Jos Buttler’s England facet, who had additionally misplaced the 50-over sequence within the Caribbean 2-1.

The low-scoring contest was in marked distinction to Tuesday’s sport the place England scored a team-record 267 however with situations serving to the bowlers, West Indies had been in a position so as to add to their T20i sequence wins over South Africa and India.

The floor on the Brian Lara Academy provided assist to the spinners and sluggish left-armer Gudakesh Motie took full benefit, choosing up three wickets for twenty-four runs in his 4 overs.

West Indies’ different left-arm orthodox spinner, Akeal Hosein, chipped in with two for 20 in his 4 overs as the house facet restricted England to the bottom goal set within the sequence.

England skipper Buttler was eliminated for 11 when he stepped outdoors the off-stump and tried to show seamer Jason Holder down the leg-side however was caught by Oshane Thomas.

Hosein then bowled Jacks earlier than a lovely supply earlier than Motie bought important flip as he claimed the prize wicket of Phil Salt (38).

Salt had scored fast centuries in each the final two video games, received by England as they fought again to stage the sequence at 2-2.

Liam Livingston threatened with a swift 28 earlier than he was caught and bowled by Motie and Moeen Ali was additionally aggressive earlier than he was caught by a teamwork catch with Andre Russell throwing the ball to skipper Rovman Powell as he headed in direction of the boundary rope.

England had been bowled out with three balls remaining of their 20 overs when Sam Curran was caught by Sherfane Rutherford off Holder.

The dwelling facet’s reply bought off to a flying begin with 20 off the primary two overs earlier than Brandon King was eliminated by Topley and when Woakes bowled Nichola Pooran there was hope for England.

But Sherfane Rutherford (30) placed on a 41 run partnership with Hope that stabilised the innings just for England to use some late stress after Rashid eliminated Rutherford after which Powell was dismissed by Topley within the seventeenth over.

Left-arm seamer Sam Curran delivered a wonderful penultimate over, eradicating Andre Russell and conceding simply two runs to go away West Indies needing 9 off the ultimate over.

Important Hope

An inside edge from Holder allowed West Indies to scamper three earlier than Woakes went full and huge to Hope who smashed the ball over the rope to the delight of the house crowd.

“We kept on losing wickets at key times but we always knew that Shai Hope was going to be an important man on this wicket,” mentioned Powell.

“We realized this wasn’t a wicket that offered a lot of shots but if we have someone in the middle order who can get to 40 off 35 balls, that would serve us as batting group well,” he added.

Buttler mentioned England had paid the worth for attempting to drive their pictures early of their innings.

“We probably didn’t quite manage to adapt quickly enough. I thought 160 would have been a decent score to try and defend. (Then) we needed wickets to try to win the game and I thought we did well to hang in as long as we did,” he mentioned.

“If we would have had a few more runs to play with, we could have put a bit more pressure on the opposition but I thought it was a really good effort with the ball,” he added.

(This story has been edited by Mahaz News employees …)