Adil Rashid picked four wickets in five balls as England resisted a determined West Indies effort to claim a 29-run victory in a high-scoring fourth ODI at the National Stadium in Grenada on Wednesday.
In reply to England’s mammoth total of 418/6, the highest ever in an ODI in the Caribbean, the home side were set on course by a rampaging 162 off 97 balls by swashbuckling opening batsman Chris Gayle.
They remain൩ed in the hunt until the 48th over when leg-spinner Rashid, who had taken a fearful hammering in his first four overs, broke an 88-run seventh-wicket partnership between Carlos Brathwaite and Ashley Nurse.
He t🅘hen wrapped up the Windies tail –- taking the last three wickets in the next four balls –- to finish with figures of five for 85 in his full quota ten overs.
Earlier, wicketkeeper-batsman Jos Buttler made career-best 150 off 77 balls, blazing his last hundred runs in just 31 deliveries as England posted a mountainous total on the sco⛄reboa♊rd.
Here’s how Twitter reacted to the match:
BUTTLER !!!!!!!!!!!!
— Michael Vaughan (@MichaelVaughan)
UNIVERSE BOSS !!!!!!!!!
— Michael Vaughan (@MichaelVaughan)
This is ridiculous striking from 🔥👏🏼
— Ben Duckett (@BenDuckett1)
Jos Buttler 🔥👊🏾👌🏾
— Tino95 (@tinobest)
Amazing knoc♎k but 🤦🏾💎♂️ painfully short great effort Boyz lucky lucky England
— Tino95 (@tinobest)
Just got home to watch the highlights of 🔜the cricket. Jos Buttler wow!!! Incredible knock 👏🏻
— Rikki Clarke (@RikkiClarke81)
Two absolutely fantastic inni🐼ngs from Buttler and Maxwell today. Maxwell’s one of the best T20I innings seen in India. 👏👏👏🙏🙏
— Sanjay Manjrekar (@sanjaymanjrekar)
Chris Gayle has🎃 become the first cricketer to smash 500 sixes in inte𓆉rnational cricket :
— betvisa69.com (@CricketTimesHQ)
Great work . and wow serious batting guys.
— Samit Patel 🏏 (@Samitpatel21)
This is insane batting by . He's gone berserk.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan)
Jos & Morgs 🔥😍
— Stuart Broad (@StuartBroad8)
2-W-W-0-W-W!
Adil Rashid! Hell of a way to make a five-for.
Hurray for cricket.
— @mrchrisaddison@dizl.d♕e (@mrchrisaddison)
Now that’s not smart at all ♈especially when Gayle is going along soooo well at the other end !!!
— Russel Arnold (@RusselArnold69)
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What an unbeliev𒁃able game of cricket!! Some absolutely phenomenal individual performances!! Great to watch! 👏🙌🔥
— James Taylor (@jamestaylor20)
What an incredible 24 hrs of cricket, 1st & then in the 🔯Caribbean & hitting 26 sixes between them. Bowlers under siege, tough assignment 𝓡these days!
— Tom Moody (@TomMoodyCricket)
10000 ODI runs👏 👏👏👏👏
Universal Boss is still unstoppable at this age. Who said age is a factor in this game. Just look at the way he hit those 14 humongous sixes൩.
— Dimuth Karunarathna (@IamDimuth)
The fourth ODI was absolutely bonkers.
Scorecard ➡️— betvisa69.com (@CricketTimesHQ)
