Jose Butler played a brilliant half -century innings. (Photo- Stu Forster/Getty Images)
After defeating West Indies 3–0 in the ODI series, England also started with a win in the T20 series. The West Indies team was defeated by wicketkeeper batsman Jose Butler’s brilliant half -century innings and Liam Dawn’s deadly bowling and lost by 21 runs in the first T20 match played at Chester Lee Street. Joss Butler missed out on a century by only 4 runs, but his team has continued his victory. Earlier, in the three -match ODI series, the hosts have cleaned the West Indies soup and now have made a great start with a win in T20.
Butler played a brilliant innings
England captain Harry Brook won the toss in the first T20 match against the West Indies. After this, he decided to bat first. However, his decision was proved wrong for some time when Ben Docket returned to the pavilion in the second over of the innings. After this, Jamie Smith and Jos Buttler took over England’s innings and both added 79 runs in 39 balls for the second wicket.
Butler scored 96 runs in 59 balls with the help of 6 fours and 4 sixes. However, he could not complete his century by only 4 runs and became a victim of Joseph. Apart from Butler, opener Jamie Smith scored 38 runs in 20 balls. While Jacob Bethel scored 23 runs in 23 balls. In this way, England scored 188 runs for 6 wickets in 20 overs. Romio Shepherd took the most two wickets from the West Indies.
West Indies defeated in front of Liam Dawson
The West Indies team started chasing a target of 189 runs. Evin Lewis and Johnson Charles added 27 runs in 20 balls for the first wicket, but after that the innings of West Indies started to falter. His wickets started falling in regular intervals. Except Evin Lewis, no batsman could play on the wicket and the team could only score 167 runs for 9 wickets in 20 overs and lost the match by 21 runs.
Lewis scored 39 runs in 23 balls. Liam Dawson bowled brilliantly for England. He took 4 wickets for only 20 runs in 4 overs. Matthew Pots and Jacob Bethel got two wickets each. Liam Dawson was adjudged Player of the Match for his superb bowling.