Shai Hope’s unbeaten 43 guided the West Indies to a tense four-wicket win over England in the ultimate T20 worldwide and a 3-2 series victory.
England’s innings by no means actually received going after they had been inserted to bat after shedding the toss, with sluggish left-armer Gudakesh Motie taking career-best T20I figures of 3-24 because the tourists had been skittled out for 132 with three balls of their 20 overs remaining.
Phil Salt once more led the way in which for England, however even he might solely handle 38 following his match-winning centuries in the third and fourth matches of the series which had confirmed pivotal in establishing a decider in the final sport of the tour.
Impressive four-over spells from seamer Reece Topley (2-17) and spinner Adil Rashid (2-21) stored England in the hunt through the West Indies’ reply, as did Sam Curran’s beautiful penultimate over, however a six from Hope with 4 balls of the sport left sealed the match and a series victory in spectacular model.
England stumble batting first
England made an honest begin after being made to bat first, however Rovman Powell’s determination to rotate his bowlers early on yielded an early breakthrough in the fourth over as Buttler’s tried scoop off Jason Holder noticed the England skipper caught by Oshane Thomas at quick high-quality leg for a run-a-ball 11.
Will Jacks adopted him again to the pavilion for simply seven in the next over, being bowled by Akeal Hosein only one ball after putting the primary six of the innings with a hefty shot again down the bottom which evaded the leaping Andre Russell on the boundary.
Opener Salt was decided to lead the rebuilding job for England, but the back-to-back centurion was on his manner in the seventh over after smiting 38 from simply 22 balls as he was bowled by an excellent supply from Gudakesh Motie which spun previous the surface fringe of his bat.
West Indies bowler Jason Holder and Akeal Hosein had been among the many wickets early in England’s innings
The left-armer accounted for Harry Brook for simply seven two overs later as nicely, being top-edged to wicketkeeper Nicholas Pooran, whereas fellow sluggish bowler Hosein claimed his second wicket in the fifteenth over after Andre Russell and Powell mixed on the boundary for the latter to make the catch off Moeen Ali, who departed after a brisk 23 from 21 balls.
England’s final 5 wickets fell for simply 22 runs. Livingstone (28) turned Motie’s third scalp of the innings when he airily prodded one again to the bowler in the seventeenth over, and then two wickets in as many balls from seamer Russell put the hosts firmly in cost.
First, he bowled Chris Woakes for seven with an excellent yorker coming across the wicket to the right-hander and then had Rehan Ahmed on his manner for a golden duck with a wonderful caught and bowled.
Adil Rashid being run out for one in search of a second run and Curran (12) hitting Holder to Sherfane Rutherford in the deep noticed England’s innings come to an in depth in the ultimate over, leaving the West Indies chasing 133 for victory.
Bowlers shine, however Hope springs everlasting
Chris Woakes celebrates taking the wicket of West Indies’ Nicholas Pooran as England made a very good begin with the ball
Seemingly up in opposition to it in their efforts to snatch a series win, Topley made a breakthrough for England in the third over of the reply as opener Brandon King skied one up to Buttler to depart for simply three.
New batter Pooran, who was maybe lucky not turn out to be one other Topley wicket when he was given not out for a caught behind and England opted not to evaluation regardless of later TV replays displaying they might have had a case, made 10 earlier than being bowled by the Chris Woakes the next over.
The world’s No 1 T20I bowler Rashid received in on the act too, putting with the ultimate ball of his first over as Johnson Charles chased a large full toss and slapped it straight to Buttler at mid-off, and picked up a second in his last over when Rutherford was caught at further cowl by Curran for 30.
Topley returned to get residence skipper Powell out for simply eight, caught low by Rashid in the seventeenth over and then Curran got here to the fore with an excellent six balls two overs later which noticed him take away the big-hitting Russell for eight, caught in the deep by Livingstone and go for simply two runs from it.
Adil Rashid took two wickets to assist hold England in with an opportunity
That left the West Indies needing 9 from the ultimate over, however England’s hopes had been snuffed out when Hope received after a wider supply from Woakes and hammered all of it the way in which for six to deny Buttler’s facet an unbelievable series victory after recovering from 2-0 down to pressure a decider.
What they stated
Player of the series Phil Salt:
“It is disappointing to come out on the wrong end of the series. We took it as deep as we could but Shai [Hope] played a good knock. I think we will be better off for the experiences we have had here.
“I’m having fun with the conversations I’ve had with Jos [Buttler] and studying off him. International cricket has been a studying curve for me to date and I’m going to hold attempting to take in as a lot as I can.”
England captain Jos Buttler:
“The circumstances had been totally different [to Tuesday], used wicket, and we in all probability did not fairly handle to adapt shortly sufficient. I believed 160 would have been a very good rating to defend.
“I thought it was a fantastic effort. We needed wickets to win the game and we did well to hang on in as long as we did. If we had had more runs to play with it would have allowed us to put more pressure on the opposition.”
What’s subsequent?
England’s Test workforce return to motion subsequent month once they head to India for a five-match series, beginning with the primary Test in Hyderabad on January 25. The subsequent motion for the white-ball facet is on residence soil in May when Pakistan head to England for a four-match T20I series forward of subsequent yr’s World Cup.
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