In the second T20I match of England vs West Indies, where brandon king‘s innings helped West Indies defeat England by 10 runs and named second match on their side and now leading the series with , 2-0. England tour to West Indies for three ODI and five T20I matches series and England has already lost his ODI series. england’s weak performances in white ball still continues and it seems that england will lose T20I series as well because West Indies has just increased the lead to 2-0 and this team is showing no signs of stopping now.
The second T20 match of West Indies vs England was played on National Cricket Stadium, St George’s, Grenada in which West Indies, batting first, scored 176 runs at the loss of 7 wickets, whereas England could not achieve this target and lost by 10 runs, England scored 166 runs in 20 over and they Make this and that too at the loss of 7 wickets.
Brandon king’s top notch innings , West Indies vs England, 2nd T20I.
Batting first, West Indies opener Brandon King and k. Mayers had a good partnership where they created runs at a good pace. The first wicket of the match fell for West Indies where k.Mayers got catch out. He got out after scoring 17 runs in 16 balls. After that, the middle order of West Indies did’t done much, after Mayers, pooran, shai Hope and shimron hetmyer could only scored 5, 1 and 2 runs.
Meanwhile, Brandon King was holding the innings from one side, wickets were falling rapidly from the other side, then West Indies’ explosive batsman and captain Roman Powell came to bat, who played an innings of 50 runs in 28 balls which included 3 fours and 5 sixes. Powell and King together took over the West Indies innings and reached a respectable score, West Indies At the end of the west indies innings , andre russsell also came and scored 14 runs in 10 balls and hit 2 sixes, after that he was bowled out on the ball of tymal Mills, opener King scored 82 runs in 52 balls, hit 8 fours and hit 5 sixes,Batted explosively and did not leave West Indies side till end.
Brandon King | Player of the Match: It was important, having lost so may wickets, to bat deep as possible. That was the objective, worked out well. Over the past few years, I have been more consistent. (Structuring the innings) It’s not the same everyday, had to play the situation. Had to build the partnership. We’ve prepared well, everyone is playing with confidence.
On the other hand, England’s bowlers bowled well, where Adil Rashid and tymal Mills took 2 wickets each, and Chris Woakes and Rehan Ahmed took one wicket each. Out of all these bowlers, Rehan Ahmed was the most expensive and took 1 wicket for 47 runs in 4 overs.
Sluggish batting performance by england’s players.
On the other hand, to chase the target, England’s batting did not do anything special, where the opening batsman Phillips Salt and Jos Buttler could not give a good start and they lost the first wicket in just a few runs. akeal hosein took it, after will Jack came to the crease and he took control of the innings a bit, he scored 24 runs and that too in 21 balls, with the help of 4 fours in his turn scored at a strike rate of 114.
then Phillips Salt lost his wicket , he lose his wicket in the bowling of Alzarri Joseph, as soon as he got out, Sam Curran came in and played an innings of 50 runs in 32 balls where he hit 4 fours and 3 sixes. And took over the England innings.
Jacks and Curran took over the England innings, after some time will Jack became a victim of Alzarri Joseph’s bowling and lost his wicket, after that wicket’s had been falling on multiple intervals, the next batsman who was taken down was Livingstone, then Brooks and woakes they lost their wickets , then Sam Curran got out and the entire work fell on the shoulders of Moeen Ali, Ali scored 22 runs, with the help of one four and two sixes and tried to make England win, but failed in doing this task.
Joseph and Motie’s match defining spells,West Indies vs England, 2nd T20I.
West Indies had a very good day yesterday, where they batted well and gave a good target and to save the target, they also bowled very well. The most successful bowler from West Indies was Alzarri Joseph, Joseph took four wickets in his innings.
While bowling the spell, he gave 39 runs and also took 3 wickets. Akeal hosein took two wickets in his four-over spell, Jason Holder and Gudakesh Moti took one wicket each, Moti gave only 9 runs in his four-over spell and took one wicket. Bowled at an economy rate of 2.2 and due to his economical bowling, England’s batting could not do much and their wickets kept falling from one side continuously.
Jos Buttler: Few many more than what we could have restricted them to. Plenty of ways we could have found those 10 runs. Motie was operating in the middle and we sent Sam up the order. But Motie bowled really well. Sam did well and took it deep. Two different leg-spinners. Nice having them operate in tandem. They played well in the back end and a couple of big overs helped them.
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