England bounced again from their opening evening capitulation to set the West Indies 172 to win the second Twenty20 in Barbados.
A day after slumping to 103 all out, conjuring unwelcome recollections of the Check facet’s current batting woes towards Australia Jason Roy’s 45 from 31 balls helped England to 171 for eight on the Kensington Oval.
Greater than half his runs got here in a single over after a ponderous begin, with Roy taking down gradual left-armer Fabian Allen, turbo-charging England’s innings as they added 107 within the remaining 10 overs.
The vacationers initially struggled to persistently rating when tempo was taken off the ball however the Windies gave Moeen Ali two possibilities as he made 31 whereas Chris Jordan’s cameo 27 from 15 balls swelled England’s whole additional.
A nine-wicket defeat on Saturday within the first of 5 matches, the place England slipped to 49 for seven at one level, meant Roy and Tom Banton had been understandably cautious of taking too many dangers from the off on Sunday.
Banton linked with a sweep off gradual left-armer Akeal Hosein, the ball crusing into the stands at deep sq., whereas he and Roy – having made two off his first 9 balls – lower unfastened with reverse sweeps off Allen.
Nonetheless, the spinner made a double breakthrough within the sixth over. After a second Banton reverse sweep, a robust drive from the opener lodged into Allen’s midriff and he held on whereas James Vince was bowled later within the over, the ball beating the surface edge and simply kissing the stump to depart England on 40 for 2 after six overs.
Moeen supplied a few possibilities early into his innings, first given a reprieve on 4 when skewing excessive into the leg facet just for Darren Bravo to be unsighted by the solar because the ball landed a few metres wanting him.
Moeen ought to have been on his method on 13 after providing one other skier into the leg-side however Nicholas Pooran missed a easy alternative operating in from the boundary, failing to even get his palms to the ball, which hit his abdomen and bounced to the ground.
At 64 for 2 at midway, the runs had been trickling slightly gushing, so Roy, slightly becalmed in attending to 17 off 23 balls, forged off the shackles as Allen conceded three fours and two large sixes in his remaining overs to spoil his figures, ending with 4-0-50-2.
Roy’s surge was ended when he dragged a large supply in Romario Shepherd’s first over to long-on, discovering the dependable palms of Kieron Pollard, whose cutters had been proving one thing of an issue for England’s batters.
He was carted for his first boundary by Moeen, who thumped handsomely over midwicket for six, however then chased a really huge supply, simply getting a toe-end to brief third as England slipped to 114 for 4.
Sam Billings made a second successive single-figure rating after top-edging a sweep, however Jordan added some late impetus, swinging excessive and good-looking over the longer cowl boundary, arguably the shot of the innings.
He was certainly one of three wickets to fall within the remaining three overs – both facet of Eoin Morgan and Liam Dawson – however England’s collective efforts helped them to what seems to be a aggressive whole.
Kaynak: briturkish.com
