betvisa888 cricket betENG vs WI: Dom Sibley becomes first centurion after the resumption of international cricket

The international cricket returned in style after England and West Indies played the first Test in 𓆏Southampton post coronavirus outbreak. The visitors ended up winning the match by four wickets. However, no centurion emerged from the Ageas Bowl Test. But the story changed in the ongoing second Test at the Old Trafford in Manchester.

England opening batsman Dom Sibley became the first cricketer to score a century in Test cricket since the COVID-19 impact which stopped all the cricketing action. On Day 2 of the secꦜond Test, Sibley began the proceedings with an overnight score of 59 runs along with Ben Stokes (59).

West Indies bowlers, who looked completely out of touch in the second and third session on Day 1, continued their poor run on Day 2 as well. Alth🐻ough, there were some movements but the lack of consistency shown by the pacers couldn’t really put pressure on either Stokes or Sibley.

During the 106th over of England’s innings, Sibley sent the second ball of Alzarri Joseph’s over into mid-on and ran three runs to register his second Test hundred. Also, Sibley scored just four boundaries during his century. The last English batsman to make a ton with fewer boundaries was Graham Thorpe who did it against Pakistan back in 2000 wi𒉰th just one four.

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— England Cricket (@englandcricket)

Sibley played proper old-school cricket. It was indeed an innings which was full of concentration and determination. As soon ꦓas Sibley raised his bat in joy, the entire England team was seen on the balcony to applaud a special knock. S𒐪tokes too came over to congratulate him.

Here is the video:

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— England Cricket (@englandcricket)

Not just the teammates, the cricketing fraternity too showered praiseworthy cꦰomments for the Surrey cricketer for his extraordinary effort.

Here is how Twitter reacted:

Proper Test 100 …. Well played 👍
— Michael Vaughan (@MichaelVaughan)

Dom Sibley's first Test century took 269 deliveries, and was England's seventh slowest this century.
Only two En🍬gland batsman since 2000 have taken 300 balls to reach a ꧅century: Nasser Hussain once, and Michael Atherton twice.
— The CricViz Analyst (@cricvizanalyst)

Dom Sibley is now the 15th England batsman to register two or more centuries as an opener inside their first 8 Test matches.
The last one was: Nick Compton at Wellington in Mar2013 (2 100s in 6 Tests).
Sutcliffe had 4 100s, while Hutton, Luckhuꦚrst &; ♑Strauss had 3
— Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman)

A patient and determined effort saw rea🅘ch his second Test century before Lunch 💪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
How impressed have you been by his knock? 🤔
— England's Barmy Army 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🎺 (@TheBarmyArmy)