ICC World Cup 2019 | Day 16 |ENG v WI| 14th Jun 2019 | Match Thread

Today it's the tournament favorites England v the mercurial West Indies side. Lets see who comes on top in this clash. They need to keep one eye on the weather too.

For Pakistan it's better that England win this.

 

England won the toss and bowling first.

 

England: 1 Jason Roy, 2 Jonny Bairstow, 3 Joe Root, 4 Eoin Morgan (capt), 5 Ben Stokes, 6 Jos Buttler (wk), 7 Chris Woakes, 8 Adil Rashid, 9 Liam Plunkett, 10 Jofra Archer, 11 Mark Wood.

 

West Indies: 1 Chris Gayle, 2 Evin Lewis, Shai Hope (wk), 4 Nicholas Pooran, 5 Shimron Hetmeyer, 6 Jason Holder (capt), 7 Andre Russell, 8 Carlos Brathwaite, 9 Shannon Gabriel, 10 Sheldon Cottrell, 11 Oshane Thomas.

 

Gayle v Archer. Young v Old.

 

Woakes started with a maiden.

 

OUT Lewis is cleaned up by Woakes.

 

Gayle had warmed up.

 

wood drop of gayle may hurt england.

 

WI 41/1 after 10 overs

 

OUT! Gayle.

Nice set up by Plunkett.

 

OUT! Hope.

WI falling apart

 

need around 250 to have any hope. even that won't be enough

 

Over all, very intelligent cricket by England.

They are not scared of big names like Gayle and Russell.
They used their brains and negated the WI’s batting line.

 

Easy win coming up for England.

 

Roots is nearing his second 100 of this WC.

 

100 for Root

 

What a batsman Root is. Excellent innings

 

England won by 8 wickets with 17 overs to spare

 

Clinical performance by England today.

 

Commanding win. Good result for Pak.