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Match Details
SA vs WI 1st Matchth Match, RSA vs WI 2021
WI
161-215.0
West Indies won by 8 wickets
SA
20.0160-6
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Player of the Match
Evin Lewis
71(35)
P'ship : 37(19)
Last Wkt : Evin Lewis 71(35)
BowlerL Ngidi
| W-R | Overs | Econ |
|---|---|---|
| 0-46 | 3.0 | 15.33 |
WI - 2nd Innings| Session | Open | PASS | 6 Over | 49 | 73 | 10 Over | 107 | 93 | 15 Over | 153 | 161 |
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SA - 1st Innings| Session | Open | PASS | 6 Over | 50 | 53 | 10 Over | 86 | 86 | 15 Over | 129 | 114 | 20 Over | 167 | 160 |
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Keiron Pollard : We spoke about trying to hit the first punch. They got off to a pretty good start. Credit to the bowlers how they came back in the middle overs and in the back end. 160, I think that's on par. The way we went out and chased it, guys playing to their strenghts, it was well done. Talented cricketer, we want to more from Evin. (Regarding the Test team) Think we have to cut some slack. We have got a young team and they wouldn't have faced Nortje and Rabada before. We hope that the consistency continues. Winning the game with overs to spare and wickets in hand is a start for us. We can't get too much ahead of ourselves. We'll try to get better.
Temba Bavuma : Obviously disappointed. That's not the way we wanted to start. As a team, we have a lot to talk. We have to come with a better plan tomorrow. We thought it was a decent score, but below par. We were leaning on our bowling attack. As i said, we got to have those conversations. We didn't capitalise in the second half of our batting. We knew they'd come hard. They played well, Lewis and Fletcher got them off to a flier and they never gave us a chance after that. It's a mindset thing, you can't change your skills in a day or couple of hours. Our tactics have to be more sound. We'll have to come with a better attitude.
Evin Lewis: I was very confident, I knew I could back my game. Was an excellent pitch, once you were in, you could play your shots. I just tried to hit them when they bowled in my area. I thought they were around 30-40 runs short, it did cross my mind (about a possible century), but at the same time, if we win with me scoring 70 odd, it's very satisfying. It's important that we keep backing ourselves and go on to win the series.
Evin Lewis has been named as the 'Player of the Match' for his outstanding knock.
The world-class pair of Gayle and Andre Russell made easy work of the remainder of the chase as they scored 37 runs off 19 balls. In the end, SA's attack turned to be too straight-forward to attack with the exception of Shamsi and Nortje
Fletcher was eventually run-out in the 8th over after which the duo of Tabraiz Shamsi and Anrich Nortje managed to string some dots against Chris Gayle. However, the move to bowl Reeza Hendricks backfired as Gayle and Lewis combined to take 21 runs of the over. Lewis' breezy 71 off 35 balls came to an end off Shamsi's bowling in the 12th over as the southpaw decided to die by the sword he used to attack the SA bowlers till then.
What an emphatic eight-wicket win for the Windies!! They have started this bumper T20 season in style. There are 14 more matches against South Africa, Australia and Pakistan. South Africa were always going to be short of the par total after posting just 160 but the duo of Andre Fletcher and Evin Lewis came all guns blazing. Their aggressive batting helped the Windies race onto 73/0 after the Powerplay to make SA's total look 70-80 runs short
OVER 15.0
West Indies
161/2
Andre Russell
23(12)
Chris Gayle
32(24)
Lungi Ngidi
0-46(3.0)
14.6 L Ngidi to A Russell
6 SIXXX!! Russell finishes off things in style. What a statement after losing the Test series!! Length delivery angling into Russell who smacks this from the meat of the bat over the mid wicket fence for a maximum.
14.5 L Ngidi to A Russell
0 Another slower one. Bowls at a length from wide off the crease and Russell is well beaten by the lack of pace and fails to make any contact.
14.4 L Ngidi to C Gayle
1 Change of pace from Ngidi. Bangs in a short one to the Universe Boss who mistimes the pull down the ground for a single.
14.3 L Ngidi to A Russell
1 Single taken off this delivery. Bangs in short and Russell pulls this to deep mid-wicket region for a single
14.2 L Ngidi to A Russell
6 SIXX!! Mammoth blow from Russell. Ngidi has been thrashed today. Low full toss on the pads of Russell who flicks this effortlessly off his hips into the second tier towards the deep square leg region. 99m it is.
14.1 L Ngidi to C Gayle
1 Low full toss on the pads to Gayle who works this off his pads to the leg side for a single.
Arjun: It's raining boundaries here at Grenada. The West Indies need 15 more runs. Can they chase it down in this over itself, could South Africa push it further? My bets are on the batting side.
OVER 14.0
West Indies
146/2
Andre Russell
10(8)
Chris Gayle
30(22)
George Linde
0-24(2.0)
13.6 G Linde to A Russell
4 Full and down leg, Russell swipes it wide of deep square-leg for a boundary
13.5 G Linde to A Russell
0 Short of a length delivery, Russell punches it to extra-cover. No run
13.4 G Linde to C Gayle
1 Short delivery, Gayle rocks back but he mis-times the pull shot to deep square-leg. Single taken
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