England vs West Indies, Very 8 T20 World Cup 2024: Reigning champs England dismissed their battles in the initial period of the Twenty20 World Cup with an eight-wicket triumph over the already unbeaten West Indies in their Very Eight opener in St Lucia on Wednesday.
England's bowlers limited West Indies to 180-4 on similar pitch where the co-has had scored 218 against Afghanistan on Monday before opener Phil Salt drove the way with 87 from 47 balls as the hitters took care of business inside 18 overs.
Having squeaked into the subsequent stage on net run rate, England will take a gigantic increase in certainty from overtaking one of the in-structure groups at the competition to finish off Gathering 2 with South Africa, who they meet at a similar ground on Friday.
The gathering of the main two groups to have won the T20 World Cup two times was supposed to be a run-fest and a large part of the credit for the success should go to the England bowlers for keeping the huge hitting local people from releasing.
Having won the throw and chose for field, they presented 51 spot balls and took normal wickets in the final part of the innings to forestall any of the West Indies hitters from arriving at 50 years.
A crotch injury finished opener Brandon Lord's night on 23 yet West Indies would in any case have been certain of a major score when they arrived at the midpoint of their innings on 82 without misfortune.
At the point when they would have been hoping to speed up, in any case, the other opener, Johnson Charles, fell into a snare and holed out in the profound for 38 off the bowling of Moeen Ali.
Peril man Nicholas Pooran and captain Rovman Powell both scored 36 preceding being excused in progressive overs and Andre Russell followed for one in the following over to leave West Indies on 143-4 in the seventeenth over.
Sherfane Rutherford (28 not out) and Romario Shepherd put on another 37 runs yet England will have been certain that it was a reachable objective, especially after Salt and Jos Buttler put on 67 for the primary wicket.
Buttler was caught in front by Roston Pursue's off-turn for 25 yet Salt kept the runs ticking over before he was joined by Jonny Bairstow.
Salt let Bairstow (48 not out) take the strike at first but rather clubbed 30 off Shepherd in the sixteenth over with three sixes and three fours to everything except finish the pursuit.
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