Opening batsman Lendl Simmons smashed his best ever T20I score as West Indies thumped Ireland by nine wickets in the third and final T20 International at Warner Park on Sunday.
Simmons, the nephew of West Indies coach Phil Si🐲mmons, hit ten sixes and five fours in his 40-ball blitz.
Chasing a modest total of 139, Simmons won the match in style with a six over midwicket off Irish spinner Simi Singh whose three overs cost 41 runs𒐪.
Fellow opener Evin Lewis scored 46 off 25 with four boundaries and three sixes as the Men in Maroon raced to victory with 5﷽4 balls to spare.
Earlier, veteran all-rounders Kieron Pollard (3-17) and Dwayne Bravo (3-19) shared six wickets as West Indies res🍎t൲ricted Ireland to 138 all out.
Bravo also became the West Indies’ leading all-time wicket-taker in the format with 57 scalps in 69 games. That beat the previous best of 54 by leg-spinner Samuel Badree.
Congrats !👏🏽Fan𒊎tastic with both bat & ball to be the Sandals Resorts Player of the Series!!🙌🏾 🌴
— Windies Cricket (@windiescricket)
1⃣0⃣ SIXES!😱 Lendl raced to his best ever T20I score for the 🌴!
Well done Champ 👊🏽
— Windies Cricket (@windiescricket)
Lendl Simmons batting like he's late for a date 😂
— Loso (@loso_888)
Bruh lendl Simmons was wilding 91 off 40
— no one 🇬🇩 (@VincyLampPost)
Captain Pollard won the man of the series award for his brilliant all-round perfo💯rmance against Irelan♑d:
2-0-22-0
31(15)
4-0-25-4
4-0-17-3— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns)
A career best performance from se𒁏es West Indies home. Batted Simmo!
— CPL T20 (@CPL)
Pollard and Bravo. It's like entering a time warp.
— Rick Eyre on cricket (@rickeyrecricket)
Pollard T20 bowling stats by innings phase:
1-6: Avg: 40.10 – Econ: 10.47
6-14: Avg: 33.92 – Econ: 8.16
14-20: Avg: 23.31 – Econ: 9.55— The CricViz Analyst (@cricvizanalyst)
That’s it. Congratulations . 👏👏👏
— Cricket Ireland (@cricketireland)
