T20 WC 2024, Super Eight: Hope keeps West Indies in race with an NRR boost - Cricket Winner

The Super Eight match of Group 2 of the ongoing ICC T20 World Cup 2024 took place between USA vs West Indies at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown in Barbados on Jun 21, 08:30 PM local. Roston Chase and Andre Russell claimed 3 wickets each and Shai Hope’s swashbuckling knock helped West Indies beat USA by 9 wickets.

Andre Russell and Roston Chase claim 3 wickets each

Put into bat first, the USA opener Steven Taylor got out for a mere 2 off 7. However, Andries Gous and Nitish Kumar built the partnership, adding 48 runs before the latter got out for 20 runs when Gudakesh Motie trapped him before the stumps. Soon Gous also got out for a quick 29 off 16. Meanwhile, Captain Aaron Jones and Anderson couldn’t contribute much.

However, Milind Kumar and Shadley van Schalkwyk later tried their best. But, they could score only 19 and 18 respectively as well. Wickets at regular intervals hampered their scoring. Ali Khan, however, tried to score quickly towards the end as he scored a quick 14 off 6 with a four and a six. But he didn’t get much support from the other end.

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West Indies bowlers did pretty well. Andre Russell and Roston Chase scalped 3 wickets each as well. Alzarri Joseph also claimed 2 wickets as well. However, with this, Andre Russell claimed the most wickets (27) for West Indies in the T20 World Cup.

On the other hand, Alzarri Joseph claimed the most wickets for West Indies in a T20 World Cup edition (11) as well. Meanwhile, 3/19 is Roston Chase’s best bowling spell in his return to T20Is at a venue where he achieved his best bowling figures in Tests: 8/60 vs England in January 2019 as well.

Shai Hope shines with the bat

While chasing, West Indies had a flying start as their openers Shai Hope and J Charles played aggressively since the beginning of the innings. They have set the platform and added a 67-run stand within 6.6 overs before Charles got out for 15. His dismissal brought Nicholas Pooran in the middle and they started resurrecting the innings also.

Shai Hope played a swashbuckling knock of 82* which came off 39 balls with 4 fours and 8 sixes as well. Alongside him, Pooran too played a quickfire knock of 27* off 12 with a boundary and 3 sixes as well. Their onslaught saw West Indies reach the target within 10.5 overs, winning the match by 9 wickets as well.

However, Nicholas Pooran hit the most sixes (17) in a T20 World Cup edition. Meanwhile, Hope and Pooran batted with the second-highest run rate (16.43 – 63*(23)) for a 50-plus partnership for WI in T20Is as well. Moreover, West Indies placed second in the most balls remaining in a successful 100-plus chase in T20 World Cup – 55.

Player of the match

Roston Chase said: “My best figures, to do it at home is a great feeling with all my friends and family watching. We spoke about it in the team meeting that it’s our job as spinners to restrict them if they go well in the powerplay. Today I wasn’t having the best of days, I almost missed the bus. Great place to play cricket here, it’s a great stadium and the fans are always around. Our is to go and win this World Cup, we need to beat anyone in front of us.”