CHENNAI – Patchy England survived their exit from World Cup after a thriller against West Indies. West Indies fell short of 18 runs towards their target of 244; despite a brilliant knock of 49 by Andre Russell in a quite quick time, after a superb bowling in the first half of the match claiming 4 wickets.
James Tredwell and Graeme Swann led England to quarterfinals and keep their hope alive for the first ever title. Tredwell picked up four wickets, including three of the top four West Indies batsmen; while Graeme swann picked up three, including two in his last over which was 44th over of the West Indies inning. Ravi Bopara also had a handy bowling spell to claim his two important wickets of Darren Sammy and Devon Thomas.
Earlier, England won the toss and elected to bat first. England openers, Andrew Strauss and Mat Prior, couldn’t last long but Strauss showed his class in a brief innings of 31 runs off 39 balls. Jonathan Trott also played more-than-run-a-ball innings of 47 runs off 38 balls. Top four batsmen of England got the start but unable to convert it into big innings.
Andre Russell and Sulieman Benn bowled superbly and claimed 4 and 3 wickets respectively.
James Tredwell was named man of the match for his brilliant bowling and timely four wickets.
Now England is placed at the number three spot of the Group B points table followed by West Indies. Now all depends upon the two important matches of the Group B i.e. between Bangladesh & South Africa and India and West Indies. Anyone of four teams involved, except South Africa, can be out of the World Cup subject to the results of the matches ahead.
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