Windies’ biggest run chase at home: Beat England by 5 wickets in the fourth T20, Lewis and Hope scored half-centuries

West Indies has chased the highest score of T-20 International on its home ground. The team defeated England by 5 wickets in the fourth T-20 match. However, the host team is trailing 1-3 in the 5-match series. The last match will be played on Sunday night.

Windies captain Shai Hope won the toss and decided to bowl on Saturday night in Gros Islet, St. Lucia. The English team, who came to bat first, scored 218 runs with the help of fifties by Phil Salt (55 runs) and Jacob Bithell (62 runs). In reply, West Indies batsmen chased the target of 219 runs for 5 wickets in 19 overs.

Shai Hope was chosen player of the match. He played a half-century inning of 54 runs. Also made an opening partnership of 136 runs on 55 balls with Ewen Lewis.

important fact

West Indies are back, have lost the series With this victory, West Indies have made a comeback in the 5-match T20 series. However, the team is still lagging 1-3. Before this, England has taken an unassailable lead in the series by winning the first 3 matches. Even in the last match, Windies will be able to reduce the margin of defeat.

Windies chased the target of 200+ at home for the first time The West Indies team has chased a target of more than 200 runs for the first time on its home ground. Earlier, the team’s best run chase was 194 runs, which was done by the West Indies team against India in Kingston in 2017.

Match report from here…

Fifty partnership of openers, Karen Bithel crossed 200 Batting after losing the toss, England opener Phil Salt made a great start with Will Jacques. He scored 54 runs on 35 balls and made an opening partnership of 54 runs with Jacques. This partnership was broken by Alzarri Joseph. He got Will Jacques caught by wicketkeeper Puran.

Captain Jos Buttler contributed 38 runs. Then Jacob Bithel scored 62 runs on 32 balls. He made a partnership of 63 runs on 30 balls with Sam Curran (24 runs). On the basis of this partnership, the team managed to score 218 runs.

Lewis-Hope’s century partnership, the team lost 3 wickets at the score of 136. West Indies team made a strong start to chase the target of 219 runs. Ewen Lewis and Shai Hope gave the team a fast start by making an opening partnership of 136 runs. But, Ryan Ahmed, who came in the 10th over, got Lewis caught by Musli on the first ball. Shai Hope was run out on the very next ball. Then on the third ball of the over, Ryan Ahmed bowled Nicholas Pooran. Now both the openers had returned to the pavilion.

In such a situation, captain Rovman Powell made important partnerships with Shimoran Hetmyer (7 runs) and Sherfane Rutherford. Then Rutherford and Roston Chase added 25 runs on 15 balls to take the team to the target.

Powell scored 38 runs in 23 balls, while Rutherfort scored 29 runs in 17 balls. Before these two, Lewis scored 68 runs on 31 balls and Shai Hope scored 54 runs on 24 balls. Ryan Ahmed took 3 wickets for England.

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