2024-07-29 06:46:52
England captain Ben Stokes suddenly surprised everyone by coming down to the opening. England needed just 82 runs to whitewash the West Indies in Birmingham. Stokes joined Ben Duckett for 22 yards.
Stokes had only opened once before. Four years ago against West Indies in Manchester. Sebar played an innings of 176 runs with the bat. Even today there were plans for something like that. Or 24 ball fifty picked up how! Luckily the goal wasn’t too big. Otherwise West Indies pacers would have burned their foreheads.
He also recorded the fastest fifty for England in a 24-ball fifty with 9 fours and 1 six. Which is joint third overall. Earlier, Misbah-ul-Haq got 21, David Warner 23 and Jacques Kallis got Test fifties from 24 balls.
England whitewashed the West Indies by 3-0 with a 10-wicket win. Earlier, the Test Championship contenders won the two Tests easily. Even in the last match, they maintained their dominance against the visitors. Stokes remained unbeaten on 57 off 28 balls. 25 runs from 16 balls came from his partner Duckett’s bat. The two left-handed batsmen reached the target in just 7.2 overs.
West Indies started the third day’s play on Sunday with 2 wickets for 33 runs. The innings of the Caribbean ended on 175 runs by Mark Wood’s Fifer. Another pacer Attickson got 2 wickets. Marco Lewis scored maximum 57 runs in batting. Besides, Kavem Hodge has seen fifty. The rest came to the wicket and returned.
Mark Wood was man of the match with 7 wickets. Apart from this, Attickson took 22 wickets in the inaugural series and became the best in the series.