WI vs ENG / England won due to stormy innings of Salt and Bairstow, defeated them one-sidedly

ENG vs WI: With the start of the Super 8 matches in the ICC T20 World Cup 2024, a match was played on the ground of St. Lucia on 20 June between the two most powerful teams of this tournament, West Indies and England. The defending champion England team won this match by a one-sided 8 wickets, in which the opening batsman of the English team, Phil Salt, played an important role with the bat and returned to win the team with an unbeaten innings of 87 runs in 47 balls. In this match, the England team got a target of 181 runs, which they achieved in just 17.3 overs.

Salt gave a good start along with Butler and then finished the match

In this match, the West Indies team gave the England team a target of 181 runs in 20 overs. England's opening pair of Jos Buttler and Phil Salt, who came out to chase this, gave a great start and shared a 67-run partnership for the first wicket. Butler was caught by Roston Chase on a personal score of 25. After this, Moeen Ali, who came to bat at number 3, could not show any special feat with the bat and returned to the pavilion after playing an innings of just 13 runs in 10 balls. The England team lost its second wicket at a score of 84.

From here, Salt got the support of Jonny Bairstow and both of them started scoring runs at a fast pace, in which a partnership of 97 runs in just 44 balls was seen between the two players for the third wicket. At the same time, Salt scored a total of 30 runs against Romario Shepherd, who came to bowl the 16th over of the innings for West Indies. Phil Salt hit a total of 7 fours and 5 sixes during his unbeaten innings of 87 runs, while Jonny Bairstow also saw an unbeaten innings of 48 runs in 26 balls from the bat.

West Indies' continuous winning streak ends

After losing the toss in this match, West Indies came to bat first and at one point their score looked like crossing 200 but due to losing wickets in the last overs and not getting quick runs, the team was able to score only 180 runs in 20 overs. Johnson Charles scored the highest 38 runs in West Indies' innings. With this defeat against England, West Indies' continuous winning streak of 8 times in T20 Internationals also came to an end. West Indies now has to play its next match against America on 22 June and then against South Africa on 24 June.