WI vs ENG: England beat West Indies by 8 wickets..!!

Sowmiya Sriram
WI vs ENG: england beat west indies by 8 wickets..!!
England vs west indies Super 8 match was held today. Batting first in this match, west indies scored 180 runs. The total score was 180 even though not a single player in the team scored a half-century. brandon king scored 23 runs off 13 balls before taking the position. Another opener Johnson Charles added 38 runs off 34 balls. Action player Nicholas Pooran played a bit more calmly. He scored 36 runs off 32 balls. Captain Rovman Pavel played an action game. He scored 36 off 17 balls. Notably, he hit three sixes in an over bowled by Liam Livingston. Andre Russell was disappointing as he lost the game by one run. Serfan Rutherford, who was last in the field, added 28 runs off 15 balls to help the team's score go up. After this, west indies added 180 runs for the loss of 4 wickets in 20 overs.
Next, the england team started chasing the target of 181 runs. The team's opener Jos Buttler lost the game with 25 runs off 22 balls. Moeen Ali, who dropped to the third row, got out with 13 runs off 10 balls. Another opener, Phillip Salt, and fourth rower Jonny Bairstow came into action. west indies were stumped as they failed to take wickets. At one stage, the england team was in a position to win if they reached 42 and added 70 runs. Then west indies had a fair chance to win.
Romario Shepherd bowled the 16th over. He had bowled one over before conceding only 11 runs. So everyone expected him to bowl this over. But Phillip Salt, who data-faced the over, was at the other end. He hit three fours and three sixes in that over. england added 30 runs in that one over. The defeat of the west indies team was confirmed in that over. After that over, if they scored 10 runs in 4 overs, england went to the stage of victory. After this, england won by 8 wickets after reaching the target in 17.3 overs. With this, the england team is in first place in the second division of the Super 8 round by getting two points.
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