T20 World Cup 2024: The host West Indies has had a very bad start in the Super-8 round of the T20 World Cup 2024. The West Indies team suffered a crushing defeat by 8 wickets against England in their first match of the Super 8. In this match, the West Indies bowling was a complete flop. With this defeat, an embarrassing record has also been added to the name of the West Indies. It has joined an unwanted list.
Shameful record added to the name of West Indies
The West Indies team is one of the most successful teams in T20I cricket. It has also won the T20 World Cup title twice. But the last few years have not been special for West Indies cricket. Their team could not even qualify for the 2022 T20 World Cup. At the same time, the defeat against England is their 100th defeat in T20 cricket. With this, West Indies has become the third team to lose 100 matches in T20I cricket. Earlier, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka had made this shameful record.
Teams with the most losses in T20I cricket
Bangladesh – 101 losses
Sri Lanka – 100 defeats
West Indies – 100 losses
Zimbabwe – 95 losses
New Zealand – 92 runs
West Indies team suffered a crushing defeat
In this match, West Indies batted first and scored 180 runs in 20 overs. But England achieved the target in 17.3 overs only. The opening pair of Jos Butler and Phil Salt gave a great start to England’s team and shared a 67-run partnership for the first wicket. Butler was dismissed by Roston Chase on a personal score of 25. At the same time, Phil Salt played an unbeaten innings of 87 runs in 47 balls. During this, Salt scored a total of 30 runs against Romario Shepherd, who came to bowl the 16th over of the innings for West Indies. He hit a total of 7 fours and 5 sixes.
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