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James Wallace
Righto, Taha’s report has landed which is my cue to get out of here. Thanks for your company, goodnight!
The captains shave their say:
West Indies captain Shai Hope:
For us it comes down to crucial moments in the game, with bat or ball. We haven’t put a complete game together, we have to find ways and just keep chipping away. We have to find our way, of how we’re going to score and keep dot balls down as much as possible. If we can marry the two together, keep scoring consistently and marry power and finesse. We’ve got to improve everywhere.”
England captain Harry Brook:
Very pleased, the lads have done well and played exceptional cricket. To top off the series as we have tonight has been pleasing.
It’s been a challenge (captaincy) but really good. I like the depth in the batting, it gives the lads at the top permission to go out and get us off to a flyer.”
Ben Duckett (84 off 46) is Player of the Match
It was great pitch to bat on. The ball didn’t do a great deal up top and we looked to put pressure on right from the start. [On batting with Jamie Smith partnership] It’s good, in Tests we haven’t batted loads together, he hits the ball in a completely different area to me, so far so good. I keep it pretty simple, keep to my strengths.”
Jos Buttler (165 runs) is named Player of the Series:
Really enjoyed it, there’s a lot of confidence in the group, we played some good cricket and have the results to match. I’m enjoying my game and finding ways to improve… it’s a new role for me and there’s plenty of motivation to score runs.”
That was a pretty nuts game, 459 runs (and eleven wickets).
That’s the most runs ever in a T20I in England. I’m off to quickly ice my knuckles before bringing you some post match reaction.
Spare a thought for Taha Hashim, our man in Southampton has to de-tangle that run fest and file a match report any moment now.
England win by 37 runs and take the series 3-0
Brydon Carse oversteps twice in the final over, including after yorking Powell and lighting up the stumps. It’s a strange end to the match as Powell flays the final over for multiple boundaries and there are 23 runs scored off the final over.
Still, England win comfortably and that’s six from six for Harry Brook’s whiteball side.
20th over: West Indies 211-8 (Powell 79, Hosein 1)
19th over: West Indies 188-8 (Powell 58, Hosein 1) Adil Rashid with the penultimate over, game in the bag for England. Powell gets two to take him to fifty off 34 balls. SIX! Powell hits the next ball over Banton on the deep midwicket fence. Hosein leaves, yes leaves the final ball of Rashid’s spell. Don’t give ‘em an inch Akeal! Rashid finishes with 2-30 off his four overs.
18th over: West Indies 176-8 (Powell 48, Hosein 0) Excellent from Luke Wood, on a night of batting carnage in Southampton he finishes with 3-31 from his four overs.
WICKET! Gudakesh Motie c Jacks b Wood 1 (West Indies 174-8)
Wood has two in the over! Motie hits a short ball in the air and Jacks takes a tumbling catch at mid on. England’s catching and fielding has been impressive this evening.
WICKET! Jason Holder c Carse b Wood 25 (West Indies 172-7)
Luke Wood returns for his final over… he snares Jason Holder with a slower ball and Carse takes a comfortable catch in the deep.
17th over: West Indies 172-6 (Powell 46, Holder 25) Dawson is back for his final over, presumably after raiding the arnica stores in the medical bag. Holder uses his long levers to swipe down the ground for SIX. A single brings Powell on strike and he smashes the next ball right into Holder’s box at the non striker’s end! Klunk. All smiles after a few deep breaths.
16th over: West Indies 164-6 (Powell 45, Holder 18) Powell flays Brydon Carse through the off side for consecutive fours to start the next over. Carse drags his length back and gets a dot ball. Powell aims a massive moose at the next and connects with nowt. Gets the next one, shorter from Carse and pulled into the stands for SIX! Fifteen off the over.
15th over: West Indies 149-6 (Powell 30, Holder 18) West Indies need twenty off every over from here… Holder prangs Bethell down the ground for SIX and is then dropped next ball as Jacks can’t cling on in the deep diving forward across the turf. Powell picks up four with a dink to fine leg and Holder finishes the over with another brutal SIX down the ground. Twenty taken off the over…
14th over: West Indies 129-6 (Powell 25, Holder 3) Dawson wears two vicious blows on the body as Holder and Powell smack the ball back at him! His thumb is bleeding and his knee must be screaming, he goes off at the end of the over for running repairs.
13th over: West Indies 121-6 (Powell 24, Holder 1) Jason Holder the new man, he drives his first for a single. Rashid has 2-19 off his three overs. Insert superlatives here.
WICKET! Romario Shepherd c Brook b Rashid 0 (West Indies 120-6)
Top catch by Harry Brook at short cover as Shepherd defensively plinks a length ball off Rashid, he should have had a swipe! Brook dives forward at full stretch and gets his fingers underneath the ball.
12th over: West Indies 119-5 (Powell 23, Shepherd 0) Romario Shepherd is the new man, he won’t hang around…
WICKET! Shai Hope c Buttler b Carse 45 (West Indies 119-5)
Hope scoops Carse for SIX and then repeats the shot next ball for a one bounce four! Hope leans back and larrups a slower ball through the off side for four. Carse has the last laugh as a short ball is tamely top edged through to Jos Buttler! That could well be that (if it wasn’t already).
11th over: West Indies 105-4 (Hope 31, Powell 23) Liam Dawson back into the attack, Brydon Carse saves a couple of runs with some excellent work in the deep. Impressive from Dawson, fluctuating his speeds and keeping the batters guessing. Hope creams a four through cover but one boundary an over is nowhere near enough, the run rate is up over fifteen per over.
10th over: West Indies 97-4 (Hope 24, Powell 22) Rovman Powell takes Rashid to task! A four and SIX over long on and then a rapier cut for four to take West Indies to drinks needing 152 from 60 balls.
9th over: West Indies 82-4 (Hope 24, Powell 7) Bethell rattles through a quick over, four singles but Powell nails a cut shot for four to just about keep West Indies alive.
8th over: West Indies 74-4 (Hope 22, Powell 1) Rovman Powell the new man, excellent from Rashid – just four runs and the wicket off his first over. Game slipping out of sight for West Indies.
WICKET! Sherfane Rutherford c Wood b Rashid 1 (West Indies 70-4)
Adil Rashid picks up Rutherford with his first ball! Another flay into the deep that doesn’t have the legs to clear the man on the boundary!
7th over: West Indies 70-3 (Hope 21, Rutherford 1) Brilliant over from Bethell, just four runs and the wicket off it.
WICKET! Shimron Hetmyer c Duckett b Bethell 26 (West Indies 69-3)
Bethell into the attack and gets the big kahuna! Hetmyer tries to launch down the ground but can’t clear Duckett in the deep.
6th over: West Indies 66-2 (Hope 18, Hetmyer 26) Luke Wood into his third over, Hetmyer gets his lid on and Wood slams down a bouncer that flies off the top edge for four over Buttler’s head behind the sticks. Wood cramps him up and a single is clipped into the leg side. Wood follows Hope down the leg side and spears one into his pads way down the leg side. Hetmyer onto a length ball in a flash and whacks away for SIX! Same again next ball! Hetmyer on the charge for West Indies.
5th over: West Indies 47-2 (Hope 16, Hetmyer 9) Dawson nearly has two in the over as the helmet-less Hetmyer plinks in the air but the ball land safe between Smith and Brook in the covers. Hetmyer gets hold of the final ball though, southpaw sweeping away powerfully for SIX!
WICKET! Evin Lewis c Duckett b Dawson 9 (West Indies 37-2)
Spin from both ends as local boy Liam Dawson comes on for a tweak and a twirl. Lewis slaps a length ball at just 53 mph up in the air and Duckett takes the catch in the deep!
4th over: West Indies 36-1 (Lewis 9, Hope 16) Will Jacks introduced… Shai Hope skips back into his crease and punches off the back foot for SIX. That could well be the shot of the night, which is saying something. It was that good. Hope then sweeps for SIX more as Jacks is targeted. That sounded incredible off the bat, a real whipcrackin’ noise off the blade. Jacks then beats him outside off next ball. Eventful over, fifteen off it.
3rd over: West Indies 21-1 (Lewis 8, Hope 2) Shai Hope arrives in the middle. His side need something epic from him today. Wood cramps him up, Hope nudges a couple of singles. Run rate rising like an inquisitive cobra.
WICKET! Johnson Charles c Smith b Wood 9 (West Indies 18-1)
Flicked straight to Jamie Smith at square leg. Sharp catch staring into the setting sun, England and Luke Wood have their first.
2nd over: West Indies 18-0 (Lewis 7, Charles 9) Brydon Carse starts the second over as England start with pace from both ends for the first time in the series. Charles latches onto a short ball and pulls for four before he benefits from a strange call of No Ball even though Carse’s bouncer wasn’t over head height? Curious, if this was the IPL you could send that upstairs to be reviewed. Carse is ticking and the ensuing Free Hit goes for four to rub salt in the wound.
1st over: West Indies 7-0 (Lewis 6, Charles 0) Wood on the hip with his first ball and Evin Lewis swats away easy as you like for SIX! That’s a decent retort to his first-baller from Wood down in Bristol. Wood responds well, four dots with a mixture of full and short balls at a slippery pace. Plenty of swings and misses from the batters. They need to give it some serious humpty.
Righto, here come West Indies for the chase – Johnson Charles and Evin Lewis stride out to the middle. The Left arm of Luke Wood is going to get things underway with the ball for England. Play!