Ire vs Wi: West Indies made T20 second highest score of international cricket

Samira Vishwas

Tezzbuzz|16-06-2025

Delhi: On Sunday, the West Indies team in Brady performed brilliantly in the third T20 international match of the series against Ireland and scored 256 runs for 5 wickets in 20 overs. This is the second highest score in the History of T20I’s T20I.

In this match, the West Indies batsmen took an aggressive stand from the beginning and attacked the bowlers of Ireland fiercely. For the entire 20 overs, the batsmen maintained the runway and scored at a run rate of 12.80.

Earlier, West Indies’s highest T20 I score was 258/5, which he made against South Africa on 26 March 2023 in Centurion. However, that match was defeated by the West Indies.

The third largest T20 score of the West Indies team, which won the T20 World Cup’s two -time T20 World Cup, came on 27 August 2016, when he scored 245/6 runs in Loderhill and won the match.

Which batsmen contributed?

Many batsmen made useful contribution in this banging innings of the team, while the bowlers of Ireland could not get special success. West Indies started explosive, where opener Evin Lewis played a stormy innings of 91 runs, including 8 sixes. His partner and captain Shai Hope scored 51 runs and gave the team a strong platform.

Rowman Powell was dismissed early after scoring just 2 runs, but Shimran Hetmyer contributed 15 runs. After this, KC Carty played an unbeaten 49 -run restrained, but aggressive innings. All -rounder Jason Holder scored 18 runs, while Romario Shepherd finally added a faster 19 runs (unbeaten) to a big score of 256. The Windies hit 20 sixes in their innings.

Ireland bowlers performance

Matthew Humphrees bowled the most successful and took 2 wickets. Apart from him, Mark Adair, Barry Macarthi and Ben White got 1-1 wickets, while Liam Macarthi could not get any success.

Liam Macarthi named embarrassing record

Ireland fast bowler Liam Macarthi has made an unwanted record in T20I cricket. In the match played against the West Indies in Bridi, Macarthi spent 81 runs in 4 overs without taking any wickets. With this performance, he has become the second most expensive bowler in T20 international history. His economy rate was 20.25, which is considered extremely bad for any bowler.

Earlier, the record for the most expensive spell is named after M. Joberteh of Gambia, who gave 93 runs in 4 overs in Nairobi against Zimbabwe on 23 October 2024. Now Macarthi has come second in this list. At the same time, Kasun Rajita of Sri Lanka has slipped to third place, who scored 75 runs against Australia in 2019. Macarthi has now left Rajita’s record behind.

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