Brandon King scored an unbeaten 82 and skipper Rovman Powell blasted a quickfire 50 as West Indies defeated England by 10 runs to take a commanding 2-0 lead of their best-of-five T20 worldwide collection in Grenada on Thursday. West Indies opener King produced an outstanding knock which included eight fours and 5 sixes from 52 balls because the hosts recovered from a deadly 54-4 to complete on 176-7 on the Nationwide Stadium in St. George’s. England, who received the toss and opted to bowl first, had been restricted to 166-7 in response after a disciplined bowling efficiency by the hosts.
Sam Curran top-scored for the vacationers with 50 off 32 balls, however England had been all the time struggling to succeed in the required run price towards the West Indies bowling.
Alzarri Joseph completed with figures of 3-39 off 4 overs, whereas spinner Gudakesh Motie annoyed England’s batsmen with a cheap 1-9 from 4 overs.
“I feel it was vital having misplaced so many early wickets that I stayed as deep as doable into the innings,” man-of-the-match King mentioned afterwards.
“It was essential for me to remain there and construct partnerships. We’re enjoying properly and everybody’s enjoying with confidence. They may not have gotten runs immediately however one other day it is going to be one other man.”
England captain Jos Buttler, in the meantime, was left to rue the explosive latter a part of the West Indies innings after a optimistic begin by the vacationers bowlers.
“It was just a few many runs greater than we may have restricted them to,” Buttler mentioned. “They’d a few massive overs on the again finish which pushed the rating up, however solely dropping by 10 — there’s loads of methods we are able to discover these 10 runs.”
Earlier, King’s unbeaten knock obtained help from Powell, who caught the attention with a swashbuckling cameo that helped West Indies submit a aggressive complete.
The West Indies captain’s half century got here off simply 28 balls and included 5 sixes and three fours.
The spotlight of Powell’s knock got here within the sixteenth over, with Powell mauling Curran for 30 runs which included 4 sixes.
Adil Rashid was the choose of the England bowlers with figures of 2-11 off 4 overs.
West Indies lead the five-match collection 1-0 after beating England by 4 wickets within the opening T20 in Barbados on Tuesday.
The third match of the collection takes place in Grenada on Saturday.
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