west indies vs england
England vs West Indies, 3rd Test Day 4, Highlights: Rain forces play to be abandoned England vs West Indies need (ENG vs WI) 3rd Test Day 4 Higlights. While England need eight wickets on the final day to win the series decider, west indies need 389 runs for a victory.
England vs West indies 3rd Test Day 4: The rain had the final say on day 4 as it washed out an entire day’s play with out a ball being bowled. The seires decider will go into the fianl day on Tuesday with both the teams fighting for a series deciding win. As it stands, England need 8 wickets from a minimum of 98 overs on Day 5. West Indies, on the other hand, need another 389 runs for an unlikely win and they will resume on 10/2 with Kraigg Brathwaite (2*) and Shai Hope(4*) in the middle
West Indies tour of England, 2020 – 3rd Test
England
369 (111.5) & 226/2 dec
vs
West Indies
197 (65.0) & 129 (37.1)
Match Ended ( Day 5 – 3rd Test )
England beat West Indies by 269 runs
Andre Russell stars on international return as West Indies hit England for six in Barbados
Andre Rusell stars on international return as west Indies hit england of six in Barbados. The power the poise the sheer audacity to see a fielder on the boundry ropes as no encumbrance at all. England were braced for what to expect from west indie’s phalanx of six-hitters at a heaving Kensington oaval.
Knowing what awaits, though, is not the same aas having a response. England’s plans for west indies batting thudded into the reality of a line-up of such depth that Andre Ruusell-perhaps the most feared six-hitter in T20 history and aged 35, now back in international cricket after two years away waltzed out at a number eight.
He plundered 29* including a slog sweep from an Adil Rashid googly that soared onto the top of socreboard. A ferocious cut, which bounced just inside the rope, sealed west indies four wicket victory with 11 balls remaining. Rusell marked his comeback, which head coach Darren Sammy had strongly advocated by being palyer of the match; Jason Holder, who has hit a test double hundred against England on this ground, wasn’t even needed to bat.
As during their twin T20 world cup victories in 2012 and 2016 west indies beat a team by outhitting them. England hit six sixes; west indies crashed 14. The ebullient Kyle Mayers hit four out in his 21 balls, combining power with such supreme timing that he didn’t just hit them into the Greenidge and Haynes stand but onto it, peppering the white roof. Shai Hope, west indies anchor at number four, still managed three of his own. then, after Rehan Ahmed was rewarded for daring to toss the ball up to remove Hope and Romario Shepherd in consecutive balls and reduce west indies to 123-6, captain Rovman powell and Russell gallivanted to victory with a stand of 49 from 21 balls. It ended a match that emphatically made good on the promise that the night held.
For all that much bilateral cricket can feel like contractual Necessity, as the last vestiges of the day’s sunset over the kensington oval, the sense of anticipation in Barbados was not manufactured. This storied ground was sold out as anyone navigation bridgetown’s packed roads could attest.
About half the fans were locals, with attendance buoyed by the spectator friendly 6pm start and west indies ODI series victory. To see west hall, scourge of test batsmen in the 1960s now in his 87th year, singning copies of his book for travelling supporters was to be reminded of the awesome history of the west indies England contest.
The catching from both sides was in keeping with the occasion. In west indies, run chase, Ben Duckett leapt from his left to pluck to the ball out of the air at backward point; Rehan Ahmed then caught and bowled Nicholas pooran, leaping up to his left in his follow through.
West indie’s own catching had been even more spectacular. Brandon king ran backwards from mid off, overcoming an initial mis judgement and the ball swirling in the wind, to catch will jacks, diving at full length; Alzarri joseph’s perfectly timed leap at long off intercepted a thundering sam curran straight drive.
Ye the most important catch of the day came from an unlikey source; Shimron Hetmyer, who often been lampooned for his fitness. From the first ball of the seventh over, Hetmyer Intercepted Phil salt’s blistering pull on the midwicket boundry, flicked the ball in the air as he fell over the ropes and then calmly walked back over the rope to complete the catch.
Attacking the new ball like a more revved up version of Jason Roy, Salt played with a fluency that none of his teammates could match. After slashing his second ball, from left arem spinner Akeal Hosein, for four, salt then slog swept the next past square leg and cut his fifth through point .This innings distilled salt’s selflessness and instinctive reaction to hitting any boundry to double down, most audciously after thrasing Alzarri Joseph over mid off for four, he then backed away next ball and carved a six over third man. Jos Buttler, who straight driving fiercely and unfurled a trademark scoop flipping an Andre Russell delivery like it was a pancake with such timing that it soared over the fine leg boundry-seemed almost becalmed by comparison.
Salt’s blistering 40 felt like the prelude to England reaching 200 instead after saoring to 77-0 from the first six overs, England mustered just 94 in the rest.
Russell ended his first over with a slower ball, which Buttler missed and then told his teammates the template to follow. The jamaican’s combination of pace and cutters snared 3-19 with Romario Shepherd almost as effective. when Joseph was too quick for Rashid and Tymal Mills, England were all out for 171 three balls shy of battling the full 20 overs. Beginning with Joseph’s terrific catch off curran, England’s added just six runs, while losing five wickets, in the last three ovrs a collapse to rival some of those by the test team here.
West Indies adapted Buttler said. We needed to find a way to score 20-25 more runs in that phase which would have been a really good score on that wicket.
They hit a lot of sixes as a team that’s something that is a trademark of their side an we’ve got find ways to limit that . Obviously the swing in the game with sixes is so big.
Yet, for all west Indies’s success with pace, on a used pitch England were dependent upon spin.
As Ahmed and Rashid shared five wickets between them, showing flight, guile and the resilience that all leg spinners need, it indicated England’s decision to pair the two together. When Hetmyer chipped to midwicket, Rashid became the first ever English man to reach 100 T20l wickets. For all England’s difficulties in the field the new stop clock was not one of them. neitherside cam close to missing the 60 seconds target to be ready to bowl a new over. Now, an altogether more onerous target awaits England: to win three of the four remaining T20s, beginning in Grenada on Thursday, to avoid another seires defeat.
West Indies vs England : As it happened
West Indies win by 4 wicktes
Powell and Russell finish the job
Over 15: WI 123/6
Two in tow for Rehan Ahmed
Over 12: WI 101/4
Rashid makes history with 100th wicket
WI need 172 to win
England lose all 10 wickets for 94
Over 6: Eng 77/0
Joseph’s First over disappear for 25
