England post record chase to beat Windies
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Contrasting centuries by Jason Roy and Joe Root paced England to a comfortable six-wicket victory over the West Indies with their record One-day International run chase in a high-scoring opening game of a five-match series in Barbados on Wednesday.Set what looked a daunting target after Chris Gayle’s 24th ODI hundred anchored the home side to 360-8, Roy blazed 123 off 85 balls at the top of the order while Root cruised to a comparatively sedate 102 off 97 deliveries to take help the tourists reach their target with eight balls to spare.Roy set the pace in racing to a hundred off just 65 balls — the fastest-ever in ODIs in the Caribbean — and dominated an opening stand of 91 with Jonny Bairstow.He maintained the charge through a 114-run second-wicket partnership with Root and by the time he fell in the 27th over to leg-spinner Devendra Bishoo, England were well on course.Root, the Test captain who finally came good with a hundred in the last innings of the three-match series in St Lucia just over a week earlier, also got to three figures against the University of the West Indies Vice-Chancellor’s XI last Sunday and tapped into that rich vein of form once more.He put on 116 for the third wicket in 16 overs with Eoin Morgan and although the ODI skipper departed to fast bowler Oshane Thomas with victory in sight, there would be no serious alarms for England on the way to victory, although Root fell with the scores level attempting the winning hit off West Indies captain Jason Holder.Earlier, Gayle lit up the Kensington Oval with another display of power-hitting.Playing his first ODI since the home series against Bangladesh last July and having announced that the upcoming World Cup will be his international farewell in the format, the big-hitting left-hander signalled his intentions for a lengthy grand finale with an innings of 135 off 129 balls with 12 sixes and three fours.West Indies won tossWest IndiesC Gayle b Stokes 135J Campbell c Ali b Woakes 30†S Hope c Rashid b Stokes 64S Hetmyer c Roy b Woakes 20N Pooran c Roy b Rashid 0D Bravo c Woakes b Rashid 40*J Holder st Buttler b Rashid 16C Brathwaite c Buttler b Stokes 3A Nurse not out 25D Bishoo not out 9Extras (b-1, lb-1, nb-1, w-15) 18Total (8 wickets, 50 overs) 360Fall: 1-38, 2-169, 3-229, 4-230, 5-294, 6-317, 7-322, 8-343Did not bat: O ThomasBowling: Woakes 10-0-59-2, Wood 7-0-49-0, Ali 10-0-85-0, Plunkett 6-0-54-0, Stokes 8-0-37-3, Rashid 9-0-74-3EnglandJ Roy c Bravo b Bishoo 123J Bairstow c Hope b Holder 34J Root c Pooran b Holder 102*E Morgan c Holder b Thomas 65B Stokes not out 20†J Buttler not out 4Extras (lb-3, w-13) 16Total (4 wickets, 48.4 overs) 364Fall: 1-91, 2-205, 3-321, 4-360Did not bat: M Ali, C Woakes, L Plunkett, A Rashid, M WoodBowling: Bishoo 10-0-78-1, Thomas 9-0-72-1, Holder 9.4-0-63-2, Brathwaite 9-0-66-0, Nurse 10-0-69-0, Campbell 1-0-13-0Result: England won by 6 wicketsMan of the Match: Jason Roy (England)Umpires: Paul Wilson (Australia) and Leslie Reifer (West Indies). Match Referee: Andy Pycroft (Zimbabwe)
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Contrasting centuries by Jason Roy and Joe Root paced England to a comfortable six-wicket victory over the West Indies with their record One-day International run chase in a high-scoring opening game of a five-match series in Barbados on Wednesday.Set what looked a daunting target after Chris Gayle’s 24th ODI hundred anchored the home side to 360-8, Roy blazed 123 off 85 balls at the top of the order while Root cruised to a comparatively sedate 102 off 97 deliveries to take help the tourists reach their target with eight balls to spare.Roy set the pace in racing to a hundred off just 65 balls — the fastest-ever in ODIs in the Caribbean — and dominated an opening stand of 91 with Jonny Bairstow.He maintained the charge through a 114-run second-wicket partnership with Root and by the time he fell in the 27th over to leg-spinner Devendra Bishoo, England were well on course.Root, the Test captain who finally came good with a hundred in the last innings of the three-match series in St Lucia just over a week earlier, also got to three figures against the University of the West Indies Vice-Chancellor’s XI last Sunday and tapped into that rich vein of form once more.He put on 116 for the third wicket in 16 overs with Eoin Morgan and although the ODI skipper departed to fast bowler Oshane Thomas with victory in sight, there would be no serious alarms for England on the way to victory, although Root fell with the scores level attempting the winning hit off West Indies captain Jason Holder.Earlier, Gayle lit up the Kensington Oval with another display of power-hitting.Playing his first ODI since the home series against Bangladesh last July and having announced that the upcoming World Cup will be his international farewell in the format, the big-hitting left-hander signalled his intentions for a lengthy grand finale with an innings of 135 off 129 balls with 12 sixes and three fours.West Indies won tossWest IndiesC Gayle b Stokes 135J Campbell c Ali b Woakes 30†S Hope c Rashid b Stokes 64S Hetmyer c Roy b Woakes 20N Pooran c Roy b Rashid 0D Bravo c Woakes b Rashid 40*J Holder st Buttler b Rashid 16C Brathwaite c Buttler b Stokes 3A Nurse not out 25D Bishoo not out 9Extras (b-1, lb-1, nb-1, w-15) 18Total (8 wickets, 50 overs) 360Fall: 1-38, 2-169, 3-229, 4-230, 5-294, 6-317, 7-322, 8-343Did not bat: O ThomasBowling: Woakes 10-0-59-2, Wood 7-0-49-0, Ali 10-0-85-0, Plunkett 6-0-54-0, Stokes 8-0-37-3, Rashid 9-0-74-3EnglandJ Roy c Bravo b Bishoo 123J Bairstow c Hope b Holder 34J Root c Pooran b Holder 102*E Morgan c Holder b Thomas 65B Stokes not out 20†J Buttler not out 4Extras (lb-3, w-13) 16Total (4 wickets, 48.4 overs) 364Fall: 1-91, 2-205, 3-321, 4-360Did not bat: M Ali, C Woakes, L Plunkett, A Rashid, M WoodBowling: Bishoo 10-0-78-1, Thomas 9-0-72-1, Holder 9.4-0-63-2, Brathwaite 9-0-66-0, Nurse 10-0-69-0, Campbell 1-0-13-0Result: England won by 6 wicketsMan of the Match: Jason Roy (England)Umpires: Paul Wilson (Australia) and Leslie Reifer (West Indies). Match Referee: Andy Pycroft (Zimbabwe)
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