England vs West Indies: James Anderson farewell match highlights
Highlights: England won by 114 runs
James Anderson farewell match highlights: In an interesting turn of events, the game was completely dominated by the England side as they clinched the victory on day 3. The home side gave no chance to the West Indies team, where they started the onslaught with the bat and then continued with the ball.
The home team won the toss and opted to Field first, Gus Atkinson was the game-changer for the England team, as he rattled the West Indies batters with his pace and took 7 wickets in the first innings and then picked up 5 wickets to close the West Indies game. For his wonderful bowling performance, Gus Atkinson received Player of the Match.
England started batting well and put up 371 runs on the board in their first innings, where Zak Crawley and Jamie Smith were the highest scores for the England team. Zak Crawley scored 76 of 89 balls with SR 85.39 and Jamie Smith scored 70 of 119 with SR 58.82. Meanwhile, Root, Ollie Pope, and Harry Brook added some valued runs to the innings by scoring their half-centuries.
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England Dominate West Indies Completely
It was the complete downfall of the West Indies team as they failed to gain control of the game. In a game where batters had to show up the West Indies team had 6 players with a single-digit score. While Mikyle Louis was the highest scorer for West Indies with just 27 runs from 58 balls. This inning downfall led to the follow-on, where West Indies was forced to bat again.
In the second innings, no one stood up to the mark against England’s bowlers as they failed once again, in 2nd innings West Indies scored just 136 runs in 47 overs, where Moti was the highest scorer for the West Indies remained not out, and scored 31 of 35 balls.
Conclusion: Anderson’s career is on a high note.
James Anderson gives farewell to his international cricket career with his 704 test wickets for England, he picked up 4 wickets in this test match to conclude his record-breaking test career. What better way to end his career as the legend who has played many match-winning performances for England hangs his boots after playing his final game for England?
In this 3-match test series, England won the 1st match with a dominating performance, now 2 more test matches to go West Indies still have a chance to comeback while England just needs to win 1 more game to seal the series. The next game starts on 18th July where West Indies will be looking to bounce back and make a mark.
