England beat the co-hosts by eight wickets as Phil Salt hit an unbeaten 87 to steer the reigning champions to victory in St Lucia
Phil Salt and Jonny Bairstow saw England to an eight-wicket victory over the West Indies to kick off their Super Eights campaign at the T20 World Cup with a win in Saint Lucia.Phil Salt and Jonny Bairstow saw England to an eight-wicket victory over the West Indies to kick off their Super Eights campaign at the T20 World Cup with a win in Saint Lucia.Sharefinally kicked into life, with a clinical run chase against the highly-fancied West Indies delivering the ideal start to the Super Eight stage.
Bairstow had even threatened to overtake Salt at one stage, getting to within one hit of a half-century by smoking the 15th over from Akeal Hosein for 16 runs to leave 40 more required. But bar a couple more singles that was pretty much it from Bairstow, as Salt, then on 49, responded by taking Romario Shepherd’s follow-up over for a staggering 30 runs. That promise was broken by a telling intervention from Jofra Archer in the 16th over.
One of them was the mighty Andre Russell, who immediately failed to fully connect with a googly and swept to Salt in the deep. On a day when England sent down 10 wides, and Mark Wood suffered a 19-run over at the hands of Sherfane Rutherford late on, England were grateful for Rashid’s four-over spell of 1-21, similarly Moeen Ali snuffing out hometown favourite Johnson Charles when the opener holed out on 38.
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