New Delhi: The match between West Indies and England team (West Indies vs England T20 WC). England won his second title by hitting West Indies. With this victory, West Indies set their record of unbeaten victory against England in the T20 World Cup.
When these two teams came to the field on the opening day of Super-12, then crores of cricket lovers once again expected to see the last over thriller. But, on the night of Saturday, 23 October, this did not happen. Chasing a very small score, the England team won the match by 6 wickets and started their journey with a win in the ICC T20 World Cup, 2021, and changed the losing record in the history of the World Cup.
England won this match and secured their first victory in the T20 World Cup against the West Indies, and continued the series of defeats. Batting first, the West Indies team was reduced to just 55 runs on Saturday. Chasing this, the wickets of 4 strong players of England fell due to very slow deadly bowling and tight fielding. But, England crossed the target in just 8.2 overs and defeated West Indies by a huge margin. England secured their first win in the history of the T20 World Cup against the West Indies by winning by 6 wickets.
West Indies battered in front of Adil Rashid’s deadly bowling
England won the toss in this match and decided to bowl first. The entire team of West Indies, who came to the field to bat, was settled on the score of 55 runs. West Indies team could play only 14.2 overs and were all out. Chris Gayle (Chris Gayle Universe Boss) scored the highest 13 runs. None of his batsmen could cross the double-digit mark. Adil Rashid bowled the best of the T20 World Cup for England and took 4 wickets for just 2 runs in his spell of 2.2 overs. Apart from Adil, Moeen Ali and Tymal Mills also took 2-2 wickets. Chris Woakes and Chris Jordan also got one wicket each.
Embarrassing record of West Indies
With this innings, the West Indies made a shameful record in the history of the T20 World Cup and broke the disappointing record of making the lowest World Cup score among Test-playing nations. History tells that the record for the minimum score in an innings of a T20 World Cup is held by the Netherlands, who scored 39 runs (T20 World Cup 2014) and 44 runs (T20 World Cup, 2021) against Sri Lanka. is out. Now West Indies is also seen standing in this line.
England’s biggest win of T20 World Cup
After the very embarrassing batting of the West Indies, it seemed as if England would easily achieve this very small and easy target. But, it was not that easy either. Chasing a target of 56 runs for victory, Jason Roy 21 runs and Jos Buttler 24 not out, shared a 21-run partnership for England. But Ravi Rampaul gave the first big blow to England by taking the wicket of Jason Roy.
At the same time, Akeel Hussain bowled brilliantly, dismissing Jonny Bairstow and Liam Livingston on a personal score of 9 runs and put England’s very easy victory in a bit of difficulty. England won the match by 6 wickets in 8.2 overs thanks to Jos Butler’s unbeaten 24 runs.
Significantly, with this fresh win, England has registered their biggest win so far in terms of balls in the T20 World Cup. England won the match in this match with 70 balls to spare. History tells that, before this, England’s record for the biggest win in terms of the ball was 67 wins.
