Key occasions
Andre Russell is Player of the Match:
In his first T20I in over two years he took 3-29 and smashed 29* off simply 14 deliveries with the sport in the stability. He appears more than happy to be again in maroon.
Life is so humorous. Since once I acquired chosen for the West Indies two weeks in the past I’ve been dreaming of being man of the match.”
West Indies win by 4 wickets!
Andre Russell smashes the profitable runs off Sam Curran! A size ball is spanked over level for a one bounce 4 to provide the house aspect the win, they go 1-0 up in the sequence.
18th over: West Indies 168-6 (Powell 31, Russell 25) Adil Rashid is recalled for his closing over, can he flip the sport again to England?
Nope.
ANDRE RUSSELL SMASHES THE RASHID GOOGLY CLEAN OUT OF THE GROUND!
Huge SIX! The massive man even permits himself a coy smile. He loved that one.
A dot the following ball is adopted by a robust drive all alongside the baize for 4! Eleven in complete off the over and West Indies now simply want 4 runs.
seventeenth over: West Indies 157-6 (Powell 31, Russell 14) Tymal Mills is entrusted. Singles off the first two balls. Powell swipes a full ball into the deep to gather a pair. SIX! Mills goes brief and Powell will get a mighty prime edge for a most! Fortune favours the courageous, the Windies skipper gave that the whole lot and it may have gone wherever. Mills sends one down the leg aspect – extensive ball. Pressure on the bowler right here… Shot! Short and extensive from Mills and despatched to the fence with Swiss clock timing by Powell. Sixteen off the over, wanting terminal for Buttler and co. 15 wanted from 18 balls.
sixteenth over: West Indies 141-6 (Powell 26, Russell 4) Livingstone continues. Four singles off the first 4 balls retains the stress on the West Indies. HOLD THAT THOUGHT. Rovman Powell crunches consecutive sixes down the bottom with a shrug and swagger to make it sixteen off the over. The scales tip as soon as extra, England must eliminate one or each of Powell and Russell – there’s no approach they don’t win this for West Indies if they’re there on the finish. 31 wanted from 24 balls.
fifteenth over: West Indies 125-6 (Powell 12, Russell 2) Andre Russell the person to face the hattrick ball… Boo! A good ball on the stumps is patted again by the large man. Drama in Barbados, Russell works for a pair. Ahmed takes his cap with a broad smile on his face – he hasn’t had all of it his personal approach however finishes with 3-39 from his set of 4. Advantage England? 47 wanted from 30 balls.
WICKET! Shepherd c Curran b Rehan Ahmed 0 (West Indies 123-6)
Rehan Ahmed on a hattrick! Buttler brings Curran into slip and Shepherd pokes a leggie to him off his very first ball. Great stuff from Rehan who has turned the sport England’s approach in the house of a minute.
WICKET! Shai Hope c Brook b Rehan Ahmed 36 (West Indies 123-5)
Ahmed is bunted for SIX by Shai Hope however strikes with the following ball as Hope holes out!
14th over: West Indies 112-4 (Hope 27, Powell 10) Liam Livingstone as a substitute of Rashid and he does properly to maintain it to singles, England attempting to take this as deep as attainable and hope West Indies fluff their strains on the dying. West Indies want 55 from 36 balls.
thirteenth over: West Indies 112-4 (Hope 27, Powell 10) Rehan has two balls left to finish his over. The first ball is flayed for 4 by Powell behind level! Valuable runs for West Indies. Rehan’s closing ball is a dot, defended by Powell into the off aspect. West Indies want 60 from 42 balls.
Ok, the gamers are out on the pitch. Here we go…
Simon Burnton is our man in Barbados and he sends excellent news! “It’s a 9.35pm restart. We haven’t lost any overs.” We needs to be underway in about eight minutes. I imagine that 10.10pm native time is the lower off for the match – that’ll be 2.10am right here in London city.
Excuse me while I head to the kitchen to microdose some Kenco.
Promising information – the rain appears to be tailing off and a rope is being dragged across the outfield to take off any extra water. I’ll carry information as quickly because it wafts over from Barbados to my couch.
Rain stops play (West Indies 108-4 and require 64 runs off 44 balls)
What’s all this then? Out of nowhere the heavens crack like an inky brûlée and rain begins to pour. The gamers scurry off because the covers are hauled on. Crucially – West Indies are six runs forward of the Duckworth Lewis Stern price. IF the rain doesn’t abate – and it appears heavy for the time being – then the house aspect will take the spoils.
12.4 overs: West Indies 108-4 (Hope 27, Powell 6)
twelfth over: West Indies 102-4 (Hope 26, Hetmyer 1) Just a single and the wicket off the over, Shai Hope can’t break the legspin shackles. Windies skipper Rovman Powell is the brand new man and Buttler cranks the stress by inserting a slip.
WICKET! Hetmyer c Duckett b Rashid 1 (West Indies 101-4)
Adil Rashid takes his a hundredth T20I wicket! An important one in the context of the sport too – the harmful Hetmyer is shipped on his approach for only a single as England look to ramp up the stress heading into the nub finish of this match. Hetmyer danced out of his crease and acquired a great piece of the size ball but it surely flew flat and laborious to Duckett on the midwicket sponge.
WICKET! Pooran c & b Rehan Ahmed 13 (West Indies 100-3)
Rehan again into the assault after his first over was minced for n n n n nineteen. Got him! Pooran flicks again a full ball and Rehan takes a nifty catch tumbling away to his left. Shimron Hetymer is the brand new batter and he tucks a single into the leg aspect to open his account. The wicket has given Ahmed a confidence increase and he will get out of the over with three dots.
eleventh over: West Indies 101-3 (Hope 25, Hetmyer 1)
tenth over: West Indies 99-2 (Hope 25, Pooran 13) Rashid is given one other after his wonderful first over. The googly is noticed by Pooran and pushed down the bottom handsomely for SIX! A glide behind level carry a single, Hope returns the favour with a flick into the leg aspect. A brief ball is panned into the deep by Pooran for a pair to finish the over. Bon Jovi O’clock – West Indies want 73 from 60. Time for a fast slurp for the gamers and a knuckle stretch for me.
Is there anyone alive on the market?!
ninth over: West Indies 87-2 (Hope 23, Pooran 3) Will the wickets gradual the Windies as they did England? Rehan is changed by Tymal Mills who begins with one other extensive. Rusty stuff so removed from the southpaw seamer. That’s higher – a sequence of slower balls and again of the hand trickery restricts Pooran and Hope earlier than the ultimate ball is prime edged over Buttler’s head for a one bounce 4. West Indies want 85 from 66 balls.
WICKET! Kyle Mayers c Brook b Rashid 35 (West Indies 79-3)
The sorcerer follows his apprentice and luggage a wicket first ball! That’s Rashid’s 99th T20I wicket – in reality it was a little bit of a drag down however from the entrance of the hand so it skidded onto Mayers who didn’t time it and was caught by Brook in the deep. England wanted that BIG TIME. A masterclass from Rashid in the remainder of the over, Nicholas Pooran is the brand new man and his clip for one is the one run from the over.
eighth over: West Indies 79-2 (Hope 19, Pooran 1)
seventh over: West Indies 78-1 (Mayers 35, Hope 19) Rehan to Kyle Mayers. First ball is dragged down and launched over the midwicket boundary for SIX. Pressure on the younger leggie. What a shot! Mayers holds the pose as he lofts a supreme drive down the bottom for SIX extra. Brutal class. Rehan comes again properly with two sharply turning leggies. Bosh! Shai Hope will get in on the act and smears a size ball over mid on for the third six of the over. It’s a studying curve for the tyro spinner however that doesn’t make it any much less bruising.
sixth over: West Indies 59-1 (Mayers 22, Hope 13) Curran is named again, Mills granted simply the one over in the interim. Two slower balls carry two soothing dots for England. A single every to Mayers and Hope. Curran does very properly to get out of the over with simply three runs conceded. Powerplay full. How lengthy until we see some spin from Rehan? Not lengthy in any respect, he’s on for the following over.
fifth over: West Indies 56-1 (Mayers 20, Hope 12) Woakes continues, after 5 balls he’s gone for simply three runs. Can he get out of the over cheaply? No – A size ball is clubbed down the bottom for SIX with a minimal of fuss by Shai Hope. West Indies have come out of the traps in addition to England did, one over of the Powerplay left.
4th over: West Indies 47-1 (Mayers 18, Hope 5) Tymal Mills comes onto bowl for England for the first time in eighteen months, he has loads of T20 expertise up his sleeve, can he showcase them right here? Hmmm, a few wides slanted down the leg aspect isn’t the most effective of begins. Mills lets out a hearty groan on the second. Two full balls are labored for singles… Kablammo! Mills to Mayers – brief ball – pulled onto the roof for SIX! What a shot, new ball please!
DROP! And it’s Ben Duckett who shells it! It would have been even higher than the first seize however the ball smashes into his palm as he leaps to his proper and comes straight out. They stick or they don’t. It’s all occurring.
third over: West Indies 36-1 (Mayers 10, Hope 4) Shai Hope is the brand new man and digs out a Woakes yorker and one way or the other manages to crunch it away down the bottom for 4. The replay of the Duckett catch is extraordinarily gratifying, Woakes owes him one for that because it was a poor ball outdoors off stump.
WICKET! Brandon King c Duckett b Woakes 22 (West Indies 32-1)
Chris Woakes into the assault to exchange the beleaguered Sam Curran. OH. MY. LORDY. Ben Duckett flies to his left at backward level to drag off a spectacular diving catch off a full blooded lower shot from King. Stunner!
2nd over: West Indies 30-0 (King 21, Mayers 9) Will Jacks to bowl his workmanlike spin on the different finish. Uh-Oh! He drops brief and Kyle Mayers murders it, the ball lands on the roof of the stadium. That deserved the whole lot it acquired. Mayers cuts for 3 behind level after which King skips jauntily out of his crease to skim the ball for 4 down the bottom!
1st over: West Indies 16-0 (King 16, Mayers) Brandon King will get the house aspect off to a blistering begin, sending Sam Curran down the bottom for 4 and swiping a brace of SIXES over mid-wicket. Game on!
No sooner have I sploshed some water on me teabag… the gamers emerge. West Indies want 172 to win!
An innings of two halves for England
From 77 for no loss to 171 all out with three balls to spare. England’s latest white ball strategy is a variable one yielding blended…typically irritating outcomes #WIvENG
— Aatif Nawaz (@AatifNawaz) December 12, 2023
Time to stay the kettle on and raid the fridge earlier than West Indies begin their chase.
3-19 for Andre Russell on his comeback for West Indies, balancing the assault completely.
Russell at his finest provides a lot to West Indies’s aspect. With him at 7, and Holder, Shepherd and Hosein to observe, West Indies bat extremely deep
— Tim Wigmore (@timwig) December 12, 2023
England all out 171!
Tymal Mills will get a gossamer skinny edge via to Pooran and England are all out with three deliveries to spare! What a turnaround for West Indies who had been staring down the barrel with England flying 77-0 after six overs.
WICKET! Rashid b Joseph 0 (England 170-9)
Rashid goes to swipe Joseph in the ultimate over and hacks the ball onto his timbers. England 9 down…
WICKET! Ahmed c Powell b Russell 1 (England 169-8)
Rehan Ahmed follows shortly after, attempting to smear a size ball down the bottom he can solely discover Powell lurking ten yards in from the sponge. Russell will get two in the over and finishes his spell and his first T20I in two years with figures of 3-19. Nicely achieved.
nineteenth over: England 169-8 (Woakes 2, Rashid 0)
WICKET! Livingstone b Russell 27 (England 167-7)
Livingstone chops a cutter from Russell onto his stumps!
18th over: England 167-6 (Livingstone 27, Woakes 1) Chris Woakes enters the fray. Romario Shepherd mixes up his speeds and his size to limit England to simply two runs off the over. He ought to have had one other wicket too however for Jason Holder fumbling a comparatively easy catch off a Woakes vanguard. Two overs to go…
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