Lucknow: Super-8 matches are being played in the ICC T20 World Cup 2024. In this episode, a match was played between England and West Indies on Thursday. In this match, the host Windies had to face a crushing defeat and with this their winning campaign in the World Cup ended. Let us tell you that in this World Cup, the Caribbean team is being considered a strong contender to win the World Cup, but the way they faced defeat against the English team has raised many questions.

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West Indies batsmen played a total of 51 dot balls in this match and seeing this, former West Indies great player Ian Bishop looked very angry. Let us tell you that in this match, the England team dominated the hosts and they easily achieved the big score of 181. In such a situation, questions are now being raised on this team because the batsmen could not bat on a good batting wicket and seeing this, Bishop also looked very angry. To express his displeasure, the former legendary player took the help of social media platform X.

He wrote, “51 dot balls are not tolerable on a good batting wicket.”

In this match, England won the toss and decided to bowl first and after that, batting first, scored 180 runs for the loss of 4 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. For them, captain Rovman Powell played a good innings and scored 36 runs with the help of 5 sixes in 17 balls. However, during this time he scored 30 runs with the help of sixes and played a lot of dot balls and this proved costly for him.

Chasing the target of 181 runs, the English team achieved it in 17.3 overs at the loss of 2 wickets and won the match by 8 wickets. England's opening batsman Philip Salt played an unbeaten innings of 87 runs in 47 balls and gave his team a glorious victory.

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