- Jos Buttler smashed 96 off 59 as England compiled 188 for six of their 20 overs
- Liam Dawson claimed 4 for 20 on his recall after three years out of the crew
Harry Brook’s Midas contact as England captain continued as predecessor Jos Buttler’s highest Twenty20 worldwide rating on dwelling soil and a career-best comeback from Liam Dawson led to victory over West Indies by 21 runs.
Buttler’s 96 off 59 balls supplied the heft in a rating of 188 for six and Dawson celebrated a recall following a three-year exile by claiming 4 for 20 together with his gradual left arm.
England’s techniques of their first outing on this format below Brook had been extra Chennai than Chester-le-Avenue: 4 spinners chosen partly because of the dimensions of the bottom, as one of many nation’s greater taking part in areas, and partly as a result of subsequent 12 months’s World Cup is in India and Sri Lanka.
And with runs on the board, Dawson’s misleading brilliance ensured England made it 4 wins out of 4 below the Yorkshireman following the one-day whitewash.
Briefly, when Jacob Bethell conceded 24 within the tenth over, it appeared West Indies had been going to take the competition a lot deeper, however England pounced on their alternative when Evin Lewis holed out to its closing supply.
Having lured Johnson Charles out of the crease in his second over with the brand new ball, Dawson then returned to scale back West Indies to 115 for six: two mishits down the bottom adopted by a faster one which knocked again Rovman Powell’s off-stump.
Harry Brook celebrates as his Midas contact as England’s white-ball captain continues
Jos Buttler’s 96 off 59 balls supplied the heft in a rating of 188 for six for the hosts
Liam Dawson celebrates a wicket on his option to claiming 4 for 20 following a three-year exile
Earlier, England developed momentum in the direction of the again finish of the facility play as Buttler and Jamie Smith, a late call-up with Phil Salt granted paternity depart, pummelled the brand new ball.
Once they took 22 off the fifth over, despatched down by Andre Russell, after which trumped it by taking 23 off the subsequent from Alzarri Joseph, it appeared as if a rating in extra of 200 was on the playing cards.
On the finish of the fielding restrictions, England had been 78 for one and three figures got here up when Roston Chase started the tenth over of the innings with a large.
Nonetheless, Chase’s change of angle to around the wicket noticed him spear one by Brook’s defences moments later, constructing on the work of Indian Premier League winner Romario Shepherd, who continued his good week by suckering Smith as his second sufferer of the innings.
These successes got here on the different finish from Gudakesh Motie, whose frugal mid-innings spell of 4-0-21-0 gave his captain Shai Hope some management again.
How Hope would have favored Motie’s fellow gradual left-armer Akeal Hosein accessible to function from the opposite finish.
Sadly, nevertheless, the world’s quantity two-ranked Twenty20 bowler remained grounded in Trinidad, a sufferer of current visa adjustments for journey to the UK and is struggling to get by the crimson tape in time for Sunday’s second match of the sequence in Bristol.
All however Buttler had been neutered within the second half of the innings as West Indies profited from lowering tempo on the ball and adopting a full and vast line, however despite the fact that the ex-England captain made it seem like a unique sport, he was denied a second hundred at this degree when Joseph pinned him leg earlier than within the penultimate over.
