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WI vs ENG | 1st T20I: Windies decimate the English as Holder, King shine

It was an ideal start for the hosts West Indies in their four-match T20I series against England as they mauled the visitors by nine wickets to take a 1-0 lead. More importantly, the manner of victory was important for the home team to restore its confidence after an unprecedented series loss to Ireland a week ago. 

Sent in to bat first after losing the toss, England wouldn’t have thought that they would face so much problem adjusting to the bounce of the Bridgetown wicket in Barbados. Jason Roy started well by hitting a six off the very first shot that he played, but got out in the first over as his timber were uprooted by an inswinger from Sheldon Cottrell. 

Tom Banton and Moeen Ali departed soon as well and though James Vince and skipper Eoin Morgan tried their best to put up a fight, it became a case of some bad luck as well when Vince played one straight to Darren Bravo at short cover after having hit 14 runs in that very over. At 49-7, when Morgan was removed by Romario Shepherd, it looked like a total goner for the visitors. 

However, Chris Jordan and Adil Rashid put up a 36 run stand for the eighth wicket and tried to get some semblance into the innings. But Fabian Allen had other ideas as he removed Jordan to give a jolt to already decaying English hopes. Soon Rashid departed too as the last wicket after the fall of Saqib Mahmood with the team score at 103. 

Jason Holder was the pick of the bowlers for the home team, getting four wickets for only seven runs in his spell of 3.4 overs.

Chasing the total, West Indies remained cautious throughout as after an opening stand of 52 by Brandon King and Shai Hope, Nicholas Pooran, known for his explosive boom-boom style of play also halted himself and played a patient knock to get over the line with only one wicket lost. King reached his third T20I fifty on the way to the target.

The two teams will now collide in the second T20I on January 24 at the same venue.

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AFG vs NED | The Dutch look to bounce back after failing to chase 223 in first ODI

The Netherlands, who had won two out of the four completed games of their Cricket World Cup 2023 Super League campaign, had yet another chance to add to that tally and show to the cricket world that they deserve to play the big guns regularly, when they faced Afghanistan in the first of the three-match ODI series at the West End Park International Cricket Stadium in Doha, Qatar. However, the men in orange failed to do so as they were not able to chase down even as modest a target as 223, getting all out at 186 only. It was the first time that an ODI game was played at that venue which Afghanistan is using as its home ground. Rashid Khan was the wrecker in chief with the ball for the team from the Hindukush valley. In batting, it was the knocks by skipper Hashmatullah Shahidi (73) and Rahmat Shah (70) that powered the afghan side to reach the total of 22 in its 50 overs. The Dutch started well, with the first wicket adding 32 in eight overs. The team would hope that Scott Edwards, who was going well having reached his second ODI fifty and career-best 68 before falling to Mujeeb Ur Rahman, shows his class in the second game as well. No other Netherlands batter was able to provide as much resistance to the spin of Afghanistan and hence the entire team fell for 186 even as skipper Pieter Seelaar tried the build up a rescue act with his lone hand of 32. The Dutch team is without its usual firepower of Max O’Dowd, Tom Cooper, Roelof van der Merwe and Logan van Beek and hence it would have to hope that the likes of Bas de Leede, Colin Ackermann, Philippe Boissevain and Musa Ahmed, who are the up and coming stars, would take much more responsibility in the next game.