Butler scored a century by 4 runs, but England won the West Indies and won the match

Cricket News Desk. After defeating the West Indies in the ODI series 3-0, England made the T20 series debut. The West Indies team faced a defeat due to wicketkeeper Jose Butler’s brilliant half-century bowls and the deadly bowling of Liam Dawn, with 21 runs in the first T20 match played in Chester-Le Street. Jose Butler missed a century by just 4 runs, but his team continued their victory. Earlier, in the three -game ODI series, the hosts cleaned the West Indies and now started well with a win in T20. Butler played a brilliant turn against the West Indies, English captain Harry Brook won the first T20 match. He then decided to bat first. However, his decision was wrong for some time when Ben Docket returned to the pavilion in the second of the innings. After this, Jamie Smith and Jose Butler handled England’s innings and both added 79 runs from 39 balls for the second wicket. Butler scored 96 runs off 59 balls with the help of 6 fours and 4 sixes. However, he could not complete his century with just 4 runs and became a victim of Joseph. Apart from Butler, opener Jamie Smith scored 38 runs from 20 balls. While Jacob Bethel scored 23 runs off 23 balls. In this way, England scored 188 runs for 6 wickets in 20 overs. Rumario Shepherd took the highest two wickets from the West Indies. The defeat of the West Indies against Liam Dawson, who chased the target of 189 runs, made a good start to the West Indies. Evin Lewis and Johnson Charles added 27 runs off 20 balls for the first wicket, but after that the turn of the West Indies began to fall. His wickets began to fall regularly. Except for Evin Lewis, no batsman could stand on the wicket and the team was able to score 167 runs for 9 wickets in 20 overs and lost by 21 runs. Lewis scored 39 runs in 23 balls. Liam Dawson bowled brilliantly for England. He took 4 wickets for only 20 runs in 4 overs. Matthew Pots and Jacob Bethel each received two wickets. Liam Dawson was judged as Player of the Match for his excellent bowling. Share this story -tags