England vs West Indies Score: Batting first, West Indies scored 196 runs. In this match being played at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, England won the toss and chose to bowl first. Sherfane Rutherford played a stormy half-century inning of 76 runs for the Caribbean team. Jason Holder also played a brilliant inning of 33 runs. Shimron Hetmyer, the hero of the last match, also finished the game with a cameo inning of 23 runs. West Indies lost its first 2 wickets in the first 7 balls.

Rutherford’s storm, Holder also shines

Sharfan Rutherford played a stormy innings of 76 runs in 42 balls, during which he hit 2 fours and 7 sixes. In the last overs, the bat of Jason Holder also caught fire, who was out after scoring a brisk inning of 33 runs in 17 balls. Apart from him, Shimron Hetmyer played a short but explosive inning of 23 runs in 12 balls.

66 runs scored in last 5 overs

West Indies’ score in 15 overs was 130/5, but after this there was such a storm from Rutherford and Holder that the line and length of England’s bowlers started looking spoiled. Excluding the 18th over bowled by Adil Rashid, there was not a single over in the last 5 in which the West Indies batsmen scored less than 10 runs.

Meanwhile, Jason Holder hit 3 sixes in the same over of Sam Curran. At the same time, Rutherford and Holder also beat Joffra Archer a lot. Archer proved to be the most expensive for England, who gave away 48 runs in 4 overs.

If England is able to score 197 runs, then it will make the record of the third highest successful run chase in T20 World Cup history. Currently, the third most successful run chase is in the name of USA, which had achieved the target of 195 runs against Canada in the 2024 World Cup.

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