West Indies may have lost the T20 series after losing the first 3 matches against England. But, by winning the fourth T20, he showed that he is not going to clean sweep the 5-match series. West Indies gave a record-breaking performance in the fourth match of the T20 series played against England on their home soil and with this also increased the tally of the T20 series to 3-1. However, it was not easy for the Caribbean team to do this because firstly, the score in front was very big and secondly, at one time in the match, their three big wickets had fallen on three consecutive balls. But, West Indies overcame all these hurdles and not only won the match but also broke a 7-year-old record.
How did England score 218 runs?
In the fourth T20, England, batting first, scored 218 runs for 5 wickets in 20 overs. England’s opener Phil Salt played a explosive inning of 55 runs in 35 balls. Whereas in the middle order, Jacob Bethel looked even more stormy than him, who played an unbeaten inning of 62 runs in 32 balls. Apart from these, captain Jos Buttler scored 38 runs in 23 balls.
West Indies counterattack on England’s attack
West Indies now had a target of 219 runs, chasing which both the openers – Evin Lewis and Shay Hope – made a splash. Both scored 136 runs in the first 9 overs. But, the twist and turn that came in the match after this was no less than the spice of a Bollywood film.
3 wickets fell in 3 consecutive balls
What happened was that on the first three balls of the 10th over, three big wickets of West Indies fell suddenly. Lewis was out first. After that, Hope and then Nicholas Pooran, playing his record 102nd match for West Indies. That means West Indies’ score from 136/0 became 136/3. England’s hopes were also raised due to the sudden turn of the match. But, whatever happened was only for some time.
West Indies still won, broke 7 years record
Caribbean captain Rovman Powell’s intentions were very clear. He did not want to let his team’s good start go to waste. And this is what happened, not only Powell but Rutherford also played an important role in helping the team cross the threshold of victory.
For West Indies, opener Evin Lewis scored the highest score of 68 runs in 31 balls. Whereas the other opener Shay Hope scored 54 runs in 24 balls. Talking about Captain Powell, he scored 38 runs on 23 balls. Whereas Rutherford remained unbeaten after scoring 29 runs on 17 balls.
West Indies achieved the target of 219 runs given by England by losing 5 wickets in one over. With this, he also broke his 7-year-old previous record of chasing the biggest target on home soil in T20 International. West Indies chased the target of 194 runs against India in 2017 on home soil. But, against England they scored 221 runs for 5 wickets and successfully chased the total of 219 runs.
