U19 World Cup: West Indies beat England, Australia crush Nigeria
Cricket | January 20, 2020 22:32 ISTWest Indies defeated England by 71 runs via DL method while Australia got the better of Nigeria by 10 wickets in their respective U19 World Cup.
West Indies defeated England by 71 runs via DL method while Australia got the better of Nigeria by 10 wickets in their respective U19 World Cup.
Opening for the first time in 28 matches Bairstow broke the back of a 161-run target, which owed much to Rashid's miserly return of 1-15.
Dwayne Bravo said in Dubai that he was very impressed with the way the young West Indies team was developing and its performance against England in the one-day series in the Caribbean was proof of that.
Gayle struck a brutal 77 as West Indies crushed England to win the fifth and final one-day international by seven wickets to clinch a 2-2 draw in the series.
Ten days after Gayle announced his intention to retire after the World Cup, the West Indies cricketer smashed 162 off 97 balls.
Gayle ticked off a shopping list of targets — 50 up in 32 balls, a 10,000th one-day run and then his hundred in 55 balls.
Gayle is one of a handful of players who would not shirk from chasing 419 and the 39-year-old Jamaican picked up Buttler's baton with a ton of his own.
England's Test captain Joe Root has played only 28 T20 matches for his country since making his debut in the format in 2012.
Andre Russell will replace Kemar Roach in the side as the latter has been ruled out of the series owing to a stress reaction in the back.
The five-match ODI series between West Indies and England is tied 1-1.
Veteran opener Chris Gayle also chipped in with 50 from 63 deliveries, while Shai Hope made 33.
Jason Roy, Ben Stokes and Jos Buttler were left out of the squad for the three-match T20I series.
Windies surpassed the previous record of 22 set by New Zealand against them in January 2014.
The tourists were given a target of 361 in the first ODI after Gayle ended his six-month exile from the team by hitting 12 sixes in a knock of 135.
Chris Gayle overtook Shahid Afridi in the list of most sixes hit in international cricket across all the formats.
England and West Indies will play five ODIs between February 20 and March 2.
Chris Gayle has hit 23 centuries in ODIs -- the most by any West Indian in one-day internationals.
The duo is likely to strengthen West Indies’ pace attack in the absence of injured Rovman Powell and Keemo Paul.
While England managed to avoid themselves from a whitewash, West Indies won the series 2-1 in brilliant style, and despite losing on Tuesday it finished with smiles.
Wood registered around 150 kph on the speed gun as he wrapped up his first Test five-wicket haul.
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