Players of the West Indies women cricket team celebrate while posing for a photograph with the winning trophy
at National stadium in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019. West Indies won the three-match series by 2-1.
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win the third and final Test at the
Darren Sammy Stadium in St Lucia
on Tuesday.
England was certain of victory
after day two when Mark Wood
took 5-41 to earn a first innings
lead of 123. After making the target
unreachable on Monday, Captain
Joe Root declared as soon as he was
out on 123. They had a massive lead
of 484 runs.
The West Indies team was without
its captain Jason Holder who
was banned for the final Test
because of a slow over rate in the
second Test.
England fast bowler James
Anderson reduced the home side
to l0 for 3.
By then Roston Chase was at the
crease showing against the grit
England generally lacked in the
series.
He was on the crease when
Alzarri Joseph went out blazing 34
off 30 balls and was joined by No 10
Shannon Gabriel, who was out for
3 runs, throwing his wicket away
when Chase was on 98.
Then the drama unfolded when
a limping Keemo Paul came out
to the middle to help Chase get
his century. He blocked one ball
and gave Chase the strike, who
clobbered Joe Denely for his 12th
boundary.
Chase celebrated his fifth Test
century and saw out the over on
l02 not out off 191 balls. Paul made
12 before being caught and bowl by
Ben Stokes.
Man-of-the Match was Mark
Wood, while Man-of-the Series was
Kemar Roach.
cricketers, fans can look forward
to the top international players the
sport has to offer descending on the
region for 34 matches of high-intensity
cricket.
“The Biggest Party in Sport” is
coming back and the plan is for it to
be even bigger,” CPL said.
Speaking about the tournament,
Pete Russell, CEO of Hero CPL said:
“We are very pleased to be playing
the tournament in August and September
for the third successive year.
We have now agreed that this will
be the time of the year CPL takes
place for the next five seasons. Fans
now associate this time of the year
with Hero CPL and we have started
already to work on bringing the party
to life in 2019. Having the best cricketers
and the world’s best Caribbean
cricketers and the world’s best overseas
players is what the tournament
is all about.”
Their run chase got off to a horrible
start with Kyrica Knight being stumped
off the second ball of the innings bowled
by Amin, without a run on the board.
However, once Amin got rid of Dottin
to make it 68 for 3, the rest of the batters
failed, as they lost their final four wickets
for 21 runs.
Amin was the pick of the bowlers,
finishing with 3 for 34, while Sana Mir
supported with 2 for 21.
In the first match, Dottin narrowly
missed out on a record-breaking Twenty20
International century as West
Indies Women launched their historic
three-match tour with a convincing
71-run victory.
In the second match West Indies won
in a Super Over.
West Indies Women was playing for
the first time on Pakistan soil in 15
years.
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WOMEN TWENTY20 CHAMPIONS
CPL tourney
By Azad Ali
Defending champions West Indies
will open the defense of their title
against New Zealand, in the highly
anticipated edition of next year’s
men’s Twenty20 World Cup in Australia.
In the fixtures released recently
by the International Cricket Council
(ICC), the Caribbean side was placed
in a tough group 1 alongside the likes
of world number one side Pakistan,
powerhouse Australia and two yet-tobe
determined qualifying teams.
Group 2 is headed by powerful
India and includes England, South
Africa and Afghanistan, along with
two other teams from the qualifiers.
Twelve teams will contest the Super
12 first round, with eight automatic
qualifiers joined by four teams from
the qualifiers which will be contested
from Oct. 18-23 in Group A and B.
The tournament will run from Oct.
24 to Nov. 15, 2020 in eight cities
and 13 venues, with Sydney Cricket
Ground hosting the opener between
Australia and Pakistan on Oct. 24,
and the Melbourne Cricket Ground
staging the grand finals.
West Indies will round out their
campaign on Nov. 7 against another
team from the qualifiers.
Under former captain Darren
Sammy, the Windies won the first
of their titles in 2012 when the team
beat hosts Sri Lanka in 2012 in the
final in Colombo.
Their second triumph came in
2016 in Kolkata when they won a
dramatic final in the last over against
England.
West Indies’ all-rounder Darren
Sammy.
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