International cricket returned after a long hiatus due to Coronavirus.
England’s newest captain Ben Stokes won the toss and gambled by batting first under overcast conditions. England managed 204 runs in the first do with Stokes making 43 and Buttler and Bess making 30 odd. Jason Holder picked career-best 6/42, while Shannon Gabriel claimed four wickets.
England also performed much better in second innings as the conditions became favorable as they piled on 318 runs with Dom Sibley making 50, Zak Crawley making 76, and Burns and Stokes contributing as well. Gabriel proved to be the hero with the ball here as he picked 5/75 and 9/137 for the match.
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West Indies had to chase 200 runs for a famous win here. But Jofra Archer reduced them to 27/3 with John Campbell retired hurt after been hit on the foot by an Archer yorker. Then Roston Chase (37) and Jermaine Blackwood added 73 runs for the fourth wicket before Chase fell to Archer.
West Indies won the match by four wickets in the end with captain Holder at the crease and celebrations started as soon as the winning runs were hit.
Twitter was also full of praise from the cricket fraternity for the West Indies team especially after such a brilliant performance from the likes of Gabriel, Blackwood, Brathwaite, and Dowrich and the way Jason Holder led the team and his own performance.
Here are some tweets: