On Tuesday, the West Indies completed a clean sweep in the T20 International series with a final score of standing at 72 with 4 not out against South Africa on Tuesday. The victory came as no shock given the West Indies were already leading into the series 2-0 t20 International series.
There were contributions from a number of players, most notably Shai Hope who made an insubstantial 42 runs from only 24 balls while Nicholas Pooran also came in quick as he was able to get to 35 runs from 13 deliveries. Having been originally set a target of 153 runs in 20 overs, and due to the change of its reduced quota by the Overs by D/L rule 50, the team attained 116 without loss in 92 balls.
The South African women’s cricket team scored first in the rain affected game within 108 for 4 in their batting fixture of 13 overs. It was Shepherd’s controlled bowling that perfectly executed its responsibilities to reduce the South African team’s total score of 14.
The revised target was achieved rather easily as the West Indies ran out of the innings with aggressive batting hitting 9 sixes and 7 fours, 82 runs being because of boundaries. The Man of the Match Romario Shepherd was pretty impressed with his good performance, earning praises for his economical bowling from the team especially given that they lost to South Africa in the T20 World Cup.
Shephard was understandably pleased to have managed to achieve clean sweeps of the worlds’ T20 ranking nbs number 1 team after being stunned b y them in world cup quarter finals. “To come and clean sweep the team which knocked us out of the World Cup was great,” to which Shepherd was Montefiore, as quoted by AFP.
West Indies captain Roston Chase has lauded his players’ approach in the one-day format.
“Our target was to complete the series 3-0. In a shortened game, we want somebody going out and trying to play his normal game. The guys came out and played fantastically well,” Chase Stated
That is, their captain Aiden Horn Markram accepts that such is the case sometimes and that they are still looking for better days.
“Tough one today. Markram said. “Probably got the tougher of the conditions. With that being said then, we still have so much room to grow as a team. This is going to take a little bit of time; there is some bit that we can take from it, but there is never a great feeling after a loss.”
This series victory is a new beginning to the West Indies since they came back very strong to outplay South Africa and made sure that the clean sweep was done on their soil.
