West Indies v England: Danni Wyatt leads tourists to comfortable eight-wicket win in first T20

Danni Wyatt's unbeaten 59 led England to a comfy triumph successful the archetypal of 5 T20s v West Indies

England strolled to a comfy eight-wicket triumph implicit West Indies successful the archetypal Twenty20 successful Antigua.

Seamer Lauren Bell starred with 3-26 and spinner Sophie Ecclestone conceded conscionable six runs from 4 overs.

Opener Danni Wyatt deed an unbeaten 59 disconnected 34 balls arsenic England reached their people with 7.2 overs to spare to instrumentality a 1-0 pb successful the five-match series.

England continued to predominate West Indies connected this white-ball tour, having completed a 3-0 one-day planetary bid cleanable expanse with easiness connected Friday.

West Indies batters struggled passim the 50-over encounters and the inclination continued successful the shorter format, with Rashada Williams' 23 and Chinelle Henry's 21 the lone contributions of note.

Wyatt past took power of the chase, supported by opening spouse Sophia Dunkley's 25, and capitalised connected immoderate escaped bowling from a deflated West Indies attack.

The 2nd T20 takes spot connected Wednesday astatine 22:00 GMT successful Barbados.

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Bell continues to impress

Bell's instauration to planetary cricket was alternatively inconsistent, arsenic expected from a young accelerated bowler, with moments of brilliance combined with a deficiency of control.

But a devastating spell of 4-33 successful the 2nd ODI showed her imaginable with the caller shot and she backed it up with a good show successful conscionable her 3rd T20.

Aaliyah Alleyne was bowled for 2 successful her archetypal implicit arsenic Bell handed England the cleanable start.

The gangly accelerated bowler complemented Ecclestone's left-arm rotation perfectly arsenic batters were incapable to settle, and with Nat Sciver, Heather Knight and Katherine Brunt chipping successful with a wicket each, West Indies simply had nary answers to the consistency and variation.

When Shemaine Campbelle holed retired to mid-off from Bell's 3rd over, they had slipped to 60-6 and lone done immoderate late-hitting from Henry were they capable to walk the 100 mark.

With Issy Wong and Freya Davies connected the sidelines, England look precise well-equipped successful the gait bowling department, which is going to beryllium important arsenic the coaches proceed to negociate the workload of Brunt and Sciver.

Wyatt shows her people

It is unsurprising that England oozed assurance aft 3 crushing wins, and arsenic unsurprising that West Indies lacked it.

Wyatt's innings was reflective of that, playing with a swagger and scoring each astir the ground.

She had to hold until halfway done the 3rd implicit to look her archetypal shot arsenic West Indies started positively, keeping her distant from the strike, but she was determined to marque it number erstwhile she got there.

And aft Dunkley was frustratingly tally retired successful the 5th over, Wyatt took complaint successful a basal of 45 with Lauren Winfield-Hill, who was playing her archetypal T20 for England since February 2020.

Winfield-Hill's recall, disconnected the backmost of awesome home performances during the summer, is symbolic of England's expanding spot successful depth, a cardinal origin successful the gulf successful modular betwixt these 2 teams.

That extent besides allowed England to callback skipper Heather Knight aft resting her for the last ODI, though she was not required with the bat, and all-time starring wicket-taker Brunt featured for the archetypal clip connected the circuit to fortify the bowling attack.

West Indies' reliance connected skipper Hayley Matthews is becoming an expanding concern, arsenic a illness inevitably follows astir each clip she is dismissed early. But for England, determination is assurance that if Wyatt oregon Dunkley bash not onslaught first, idiosyncratic other surely will.