England and West Indies match
Sir Alastair Cook, writing in his weekly column for the Daily Mail, described the first ODI of the series(England and West Indies Compete in ODI), in which the West Indies thumped England by 124 runs, as “hardly anything but hammering for the visitors”, who come away with more questions than answers.
Batters had a tough time, none scored above run-a-ball though the bowlers did come out appearing utterly impotent at the receiving end of Evin Lewis’ brut force. Into that came the very big picture absence for England of Buttler who they seem to be missing as captain out in the middle. The visitors have only five more ODIs to come before the 2025 Champions Trophy (two vs West Indies; three vs India) and they’d probably want some of those questions answered sooner rather than later.
Playing on home soil, West Indies weiled as a unit in that first game. They started positively when the side, captained intelligently by Shai Hope in the opening match, lost to Sri Lanka 2-1 last month As wickets tumbled in almost continuous flurries, he mixed and managed his bowlers to bore England into submission and when the bowlers had made the task tedious, the batters made it painstakingly easy with minimal panic.
At this point in time, West Indies would want to continue stitching things together to have their 2023 World Cup absence labelled as an aberration.
When: Saturday, 2 November, 09:30 local time (19:00 IST)
AT: Sir Vivian Richards Stadium North Sound Antigua
Weather: 50% chance of rain, isolated — or, in this case, maybe not so isolated — T-storms near game-time The period there hasn’t been that sort of scoring ever seen in the first ODI in the past and it is a pattern likely to continue.
Team news:
England
Batting support could come at the expense of Jamie Overton who neither bowled nor scored in the first game, with Michael-Kyle Pepper well-placed to take his spot. There is also a call-up likely for Reece Topley in place of John Turner.
Likely XI: Philip Salt(wk), Michael-Kyle Pepper, Will Jacks, Jordan Cox, Jacob Bethell, Liam Livingstone(c), Dan Mousley, Sam Curran, Jofra Archer, Adil Rashid, Reece Topley.
West Indies
The hosts had the perfect plan in game 1, and West Indies would need no reason to steer clear from the XI that played the first ODI.
Possible XI: Evin Lewis, Brandon King, Shai Hope(wk), Sherfane Rutherford, Roston Chase, Shimron Hetmyer, Keacy Carty, Gudakesh Motie, Alzarri Joseph, Matthew Forde, Jayden Seales
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