England beat West Indies by 29 runs in a very high scoring fourth ODI in Grenada and took a 2-1 lead in the series with one match to go. Earlier, West Indies asked England to bat first and openers Jonny Bairstow and Alex Hales gave a great start of 100 runs in just 14 overs and set the platform for a big score. Both Jonny Bairstow and Alex Hales got out after completing their fifties. Joe Root also perished cheaply and England were reduced to 165/3. Captain Eoin Morgan and Jos Buttler took the charge and rebuilt the innings to take the score to 264/3 in the 40th over and after that they went on to smash all the Windies bowlers all over the park and brought up their respective hundreds. Jos Buttler was dealing only in boundaries and scored 150 runs off just 77 balls and in the end England finished at 418/6.
In reply, West Indies also started hitting strongly from the first over but John Campbell and Shai Hope couldn't contribute much and West Indies were reduced to 44/2. Chris Gayle was rock solid at his end and was hitting sixes for fun and alongwith Darren Bravo he added 176 runs in the next 18 overs and also brought up his hundred in just 55 balls and at 220/2 in 23 overs West Indies were looking good to chase down the target but in the span of three balls they lost Darren Bravo and Shimron Hetmyer. Later, Chris Gayle and Jason Holder rebuilt the innings and Gayle also completed his 150 but he couldn't convert this into a double hundred and Ben Stokes sent him back to pavilion and in next over Holder also got out. Carlos Brathwaite and Ashley Nurse's 88 runs partnership pulled things back and West Indies needed 30 runs in the last 3 overs but spinner Adil Rashid picked up 4 wickets in one over and West Indies got bowled out for 389 runs.
Standout Performers -
Chris Gayle - 162 runs off 97 balls (11 fours, 14 sixes)
Jos Buttler - 150 runs off 77 balls (13 fours, 12 sixes)
Eoin Morgan - 103 runs off 88 balls (8 fours, 6 sixes)
All the major stats and facts from the fourth ODI between West Indies and England in Grenada :
14 - Chris Gayle became the 2nd West Indies batsman after Brian Lara and overall 14th batsman to achieve the milestone of 10,000 ODI runs.
14 - Number of sixes Chris Gayle hit in his 162 runs knock - the joint fifth most in an ODI innings.
Most sixes in an ODI innings -
16 - AB de Villiers vs WI at Johannesburg, 2015
16 - Rohit Sharma vs AUS at Bangalore, 2013
16 - Chris Gayle vs ZIM at Canberra, 2015
15 - Shane Watson vs BAN at Dhaka, 2011
14 - Corey Anderson vs WI at Queenstown, 2014
14 - Chris Gayle vs ENG at Grenada, 2019
Chris Gayle has hit 10 or more sixes in an ODI innings on 4 occasions.
46 - Sixes hit by both West Indies and England in this ODI - the most in an ODI match. The previous most were 38 sixes in the India - Australia Bangalore ODI in 2013.
55 - Chris Gayle brought up his hundred in just 55 balls - the second fastest for West Indies in ODIs after Brian Lara's 45 balls hundred against Bangladesh at Dhaka way back in 1999.
70 - Jos Buttler has now scored 4 hundreds in fewer than 70 balls and only AB de Villiers has more hundreds (6) in fewer than 70 balls.
Most ODI hundreds coming in fewer than 70 balls -
6 - AB de Villiers
4 - Jos Buttler
4 - Virender Sehwag
4 - Shahid Afridi
76 - Jos Buttler brought up his 150 in just 76 balls - the second fastest ODI 150 after AB de Villiers' 64 balls 150 which also came against West Indies at Sydney during World Cup 2015.
500 - Chris Gayle became the first batsman to hit 500 sixes in international cricket and he also completed 300 sixes in ODI cricket.
Most sixes in international cricket -
506 - Chris Gayle
476 - Shahid Afridi
398 - Brendon McCullum
352 - MS Dhoni / Sanath Jayasuriya
349 - Rohit Sharma
Most sixes in ODI cricket -
351 - Shahid Afridi
305 - Chris Gayle
270 - Sanath Jayasuriya
222 - MS Dhoni
532 - Runs scored in this ODI via boundaries (64 fours, 46 sixes) - the most in an ODI match. The previous most were 504 runs during the South Africa - Australia 2006 ODI at The Wanderers in Johannesburg.
6051 - Runs Eoin Morgan has scored for England in ODI cricket - the first batsman to score 6000 ODI runs for England.
