England Wins The ODI Series With A Low-Scoring Second ODI

The 3 match’s One Day International series between West Indies and England ultimately favored the guests as expected. After the scintillating victory in the first ODI, England went on to grab the second ODI as well, which they won by a margin of 4 wickets. Through this, they also won the series 2-0, with one match yet to be played.

Prior to this, West Indies won the toss and elected to bat first. However, their commencement to the series was not as expected by the host team. In spite of regular falling of wickets at the other end, opener Kraigg Brathwaite kept holding one of the ends with his inning of 42 runs off 70 balls.

Apart from him, middle order batsman Jason Mohammed (50 runs off 73 balls, 2 fours and 2 sixes) and Jonathan Carter (39 runs off 36 balls, 2 fours and a six) showed some patience on the crease with their handy knocks.

However, the lack of support from the other batsman forced the team to surrender before the English team in just 47.5 overs at a score of 225 runs.

Liam Plunkett was the pick of the bowlers who captured 3 West Indies wickets, while Steven Finn and Adil Rashid too grabbed a couple of wickets each to contain the innings on a low note.

Following this, England lost its opener Sam Billings only on the second ball of their innings, but was steadied with the innings from opener Jason Roy and middle order batsman Joe Root.

Jason Roy grabbed his 9^th ODI fifty (52 runs) in 48 balls, hitting 7 fours and a six in the same.

Joe Root, the ‘Mr. Dependable’ of the side went one to get an unbeaten inning of 90 runs, which he got in 127 deliveries and hit only 3 boundaries in the same.

At one point of time, England lost few quick wickets to offer some hope to the West Indies team. However, the brilliant innings from all-rounder Chris Woakes down the order shattered all their hopes. Woakes smashed 68 runs in 83 deliveries, where he hit 5 fours and 2 sixes.

As a result, England was easily able to conquer the target of 226 runs in 48.2 overs, with the loss of 6 wickets.

Among the West Indies bowlers, Ashley Nurse grabbed 3 wickets, while Devendra Bishoo got 2 of them.

West Indies, thus lost the second One Day International against England by a margin of 4 wickets, trailing with an unbeatable margin of 2-0 in the series.

Joe Root was awarded with the ‘Player of the Match’ award for his spectacular inning of unbeaten 90 runs, which was enough to win the match.

The third and final ODI between the two teams would be played on Thursday, 9^th of March at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados. On account of already have won the series, England would like to clean sweep the West Indies on their home turf to win the series 3-0.  Subscribe us for latest sports news.