Jos Buttler’s side has had little batting time before Super Eight clash with hosts who won all four group matches
may be kinder to British newspaper deadlines and, they claim more importantly, the television audience in India. But Twenty20 cricket in the Caribbean is really all about the bacchanal after dark; those sultry, steamy evenings under lights, where the white ball flies into stands that are already pulsing to a soca beat.
Instead, it was the uber‑talented Nicholas Pooran, a mere slip in comparison, who helped to post a tournament high of 218 for five through an incendiary 53-ball 98. Amid the carnage was a World Cup record powerplay worth 92 runs, a fourth over that shipped a record‑equalling 36, and Rashid Khan, T20’s great prestidigitator, being taken for 24 in his final set of six. In a low‑scoring tournament, the green-tinged pitch at the old Beausejour is finally one for batters.
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