West Indies v England Best of 5 T20s Dec 12-Dec 21 2023

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Best of 5 series kicks off tonight in Barbados.

T20 series​

1st T20I: December 12 at Kensington Oval, Barbados (10pm start)
2nd T20I: December 14 at National Cricket Stadium, Grenada (5.30pm start)
3rd T20I: December 16 at National Cricket Stadium, Grenada (5.30pm start)
4th T20I: December 19 at Brian Lara Cricket Academy, Trinidad and Tobago (8pm start)
5th T20I: December 21 at Brian Lara Cricket Academy, Trinidad and Tobago (8pm start)

All times London based time.

Squads:

West Indies Squad:
Rovman Powell (C), Shai Hope (VC), Roston Chase, Matthew Forde, Shimron Hetmyer, Jason Holder, Akeal Hosein, Alzarri Joseph, Brandon King, Kyle Mayers, Gudakesh Motie, Nicholas Pooran, Andre Russell, Sherfane Rutherford, Romario Shepherd

England Squad:
England squad for T20Is:
Jos Buttler (captain), Rehan Ahmed, Moeen Ali, Gus Atkinson, Harry Brook, Sam Curran, Ben Duckett, Will Jacks, Liam Livingstone, Tymal Mills, Adil Rashid, Phil Salt, Josh Tongue, Reece Topley, John Turner and Chris Woakes.

 

[Grand Uncle Horace]

Why is Billy Bunter Bairstow missing?

 

[NYRB]

Why is Billy Bunter Bairstow missing?

Rested ahead of upcoming test series.

 

[Grand Uncle Horace]

Rested ahead of upcoming test series.

Resting on his laurels, no doubt.

 

[NYRB]

Average score batting first here at Kensington Oval in T20I (Not including rain reduced matches)= 161.38 runs

Median score batting first here at Kensington Oval in T20I (Not including rain reduced matches)= 168 runs

Thats from 21 matches

 

[NYRB]

Game 1 teams:


England (Playing XI): Jos Buttler(w/c), Philip Salt, Will Jacks, Ben Duckett, Harry Brook, Liam Livingstone, Sam Curran, Chris Woakes, Rehan Ahmed, Adil Rashid, Tymal Mills

West Indies (Playing XI): Brandon King, Kyle Mayers, Shai Hope, Nicholas Pooran(w), Shimron Hetmyer, Rovman Powell(c), Andre Russell, Romario Shepherd, Jason Holder, Akeal Hosein, Alzarri Joseph

West Indies won toss and elected to bowl

 

[NYRB]

Game available via YouTube on West Indies Cricket

 

[Moonwatcher]

So close

 

[Moonwatcher]

Can't deny Salty

 

[NYRB]

Great Powerplay from England 77 of 6.0 overs

 

[akkaps]

England are bundle this by losing too many wickets

 

[NYRB]

West Indies have pulled this back with wickets

England 129/5 and they might be battling to post 180 ish right now.

 

[NYRB]

Thats a horror shot from Duckett, had he left that, it prob would have been a wide.

 

[NYRB]

Livingstone looks a bit out of sorts here.

 

[NYRB]

After being 77/0 after 6.0 overs you would have thought England would go on to post 200+

 

[NYRB]

Do England not care about white ball cricket anymore?

Are we going to see another wimp title defence in 2024 ? This has been another putrid effort after the Powerplay overs. Absolutely putrid!

 

[akkaps]

Dre Russ, 3/19. He’s finding England an easier opponent to the IPL

goes to show that talent that the WI have for international cricket that they don’t use

 

[NYRB]

I dont think these tailenders are any better than :Stuart Broad, Jimmy Anderson or Graeme Swann. There I said it.

 

[NYRB]

England bowled out for 171 runs

West Indies fought back well there. England scored 94 runs for 10 wickets off the next 13.3 overs.

England are worser than the Melbourne Stars - there I said it.

 

[NYRB]

For a professional team or world champion (cough cough) to be bowled out like that indicates they are all weak in mindset. They are just there for a quick tour of the Caribbean before they head back home for Christmas. In fact, I reckon they cant wait for Christmas back home in the UK.

 

[NYRB]

i Dont think West Indies bowled that 'great', it was more crappy shot selection from England.

 

[NYRB]

To be honest England played like a team that werent too familiar with these ground dimensions. Not sure how many of these guys have got experience in playing here before. Just seemed like they miscued alot of their big shots and got caught out by the fielders in deep.

 

[NYRB]

If your watching that and your England you support, you would be absolutely filthy at that batting performance.

 

[NYRB]

If your England youd be tempted to draft in possibly the BBL guys: Billings, Paul Walter and Alex Hales.

Why isnt Alex Hales in this team? He won a world cup last year in Australia.

 

[NYRB]

Kyle Mayers hits one out of the ground. Thats a biggie off Will Jacks!