Fifty in 3.3 – Jonny Bairstow is on fire
Notorious Guwahati’s hosting another ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023’s Warm-up match between England and Bangladesh today. The standing skipper from Bangladesh chose to bat first after winning the toss and set a total of 197 (DLS) in 37 overs. English skipper rotated his long choiced and variety of bowlers to give them all the exposure they needed before starting the CWC23 campaign.
David Malan and Johnny Bairstow started the inning for England and Mustafiz opened the bowling from bangladesh. The 2nd inning under lights prove costly for English opener as Mustafiz from Bangladesh removed David Malan in his very first over. Malan edged to the slip cordon where Tanzid didn’t do any mischief.
Bairstow was lethal right from the word go and opened his shoulders while playing all around the gound. Despite losing a wicket they got a flying start in this warm-up game of ICC Men’s ODI Worrldcup 2023. Thanks to Johnny Bairstow, England crossed the team fifty in just 3.3 overs. Jonny Bairstow’s show unsettled both of the opening bowlers as he looked in haste. Mustafiz ur Rehman’s yorker prove enough for sending him back to the pavillion.
The major performer in the 1st powerplay in this practice match were Mustafiz from Bangladesh as he took 2 crucial wickets whilst from England it was none other than Jonny Bairstow who was the man of destruction. Another destructive batter came into the middle to prolong Bairstow’s show. But he bit the dust too and reached the pavillion when the team’s total was 73. Jos Buttler decided to play the captain’s knock and started dealing in boundaries.
England Sneaked 90 in this 1st powerplay comprising of 9-overs with RR of 10.0 for the loss of 3 wickets. Most importantly, England smashed 16 boundaries in the powerplay. Hasan Mahmud proved quite costly as he gave away 38 in his 1st 4-overs spell with Brook’s wickets.
