England tour of West Indies

[Pies4shaw]

The West Indies won the first ODI on 3 December, running down England's 325 all out to reach 6/326 with 7 balls remaining. Shai Hope was POTM with 109 from 83 balls. Salt and Crawley each made 40s for England.

The WIndies are 4/100 batting first in the 2nd game. 20 overs gone. Hope (45* from 38 balls) and Rutherford (31* from 44) are doing their best to steady a ship that was sinking fast at 4/23.

[Pies4shaw]

Hope 68, Rutherford 63. WIndies recovered to 4/152 but then collapsed to lose their last 6 wickets for 50. All out for 202 in 39.4 overs. England, chasing the target in an adjusted 46.1 overs, is presently 0/27 from 4 overs.

I had hoped that the first match might be the start of a resurgence of West Indian cricket (for which the cricketing world would be a better - and much more fun - place) but it looks like it might have been just an isolated swallow, rather than the start of a West Indian summer. Gee, I hope I'm wrong.

[Donny]

Third match.

Poms 9/206 (20 overs). Were 5/49. Duckett 71, Matthew Forde 3/29.

[Donny]

Windies 2/89 after 16 overs.

[Donny]

6/191 after 32 overs. Will Jacks 3/22, Romario Shepherd 41*.

[Donny]

Windies won by 4 wickets.

[Donny]

"Keacy Carty hit a half-century and Matthew Forde took three wickets as West Indies claimed a four-wicket win to clinch their first home one-day international series victory over England since 1998.

Chasing a Duckworth-Lewis-Stern (DLS) par score of 188 in 34 overs to win the three-match series at a rain-lashed Kensington Oval in Bridgetown, Carty (50) combined with Alick Athanaze (45) for a 76-run partnership, before Romario Shepherd hit an unbeaten 41 from 28 balls to help West Indies get over the line with 14 balls to spare.

Earlier on Saturday, outstanding pace-bowling debutant Forde (3-29) took the wickets of top-order batters Phil Salt (four), Will Jacks (17) and Zak Crawley (zero) to leave England 5-49 inside 10 overs."

CA.

[Donny]

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