West Indies’ dashing batsman Evin Lewis played a brilliant innings of 94 runs. West Indies won the first ODI played against England based on Evin Lewis’s innings.
In the rain-affected ODI, the Windies team crushed England by 8 wickets and took a 1-0 lead in the series. This match was played in Antigua on Thursday, October 31, in which Lewis continued his excellent form from the tour of Sri Lanka
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England Struggles with the Bat
West Indies defeated England in the first match of the ODI series. England’s batsmen failed and scored 209 runs while playing first. The West Indies team could score only 157 runs. In this way, with the help of Evin Lewis’s 94 runs, West Indies easily won the match by Duckworth Lewis rule.
All the batsmen of the England team did not get a good start. No batsman was able to play a big innings. 6 batsmen crossed the score of 15, but no one scored a half-century. Captain Liam Livingstone faced 49 balls and scored 48 runs with the help of 3 fours and 2 sixes. Gudakesh Moti dismissed four batsmen.
Evin Lewis’s bat roared fiercely for Sri Lanka in the first ODI against England. He maintained his form from the ODI series against Sri Lanka played cautiously from the beginning and scored 94 runs. Rain also came in the match, but Lewis still left no stone unturned in scoring runs.
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Rain-affected Match
When the rain came, West Indies’ score was 81 runs and Lewis had scored a half-century. After this, when the game resumed after the rain stopped, Lewis almost ensured West Indies’ victory by scoring 43 runs in the next 21 balls.
However, he missed out on scoring a century by 6 runs. 5 fours and 8 sixes came off his bat. Apart from Lewis, Brandon scored 30 runs from the Windies team. There was a partnership of 118 runs between King and Lewis for the first wicket.
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