England has already secured the series by winning the first three T20Is. So the fourth match was a dead rubber. Chasing a target of 219 runs in that match, West Indies got the first win of the series by 5 wickets.
Despite being a dead rubber match, the Darren Sammy Cricket Ground was not lacking in crowd interest. Batters also tried to entertain. In a high scoring match, the Caribbean team set the precedent of their second highest run chase.
The West Indies top order was struggling in the series. On this day, openers Shai Hope and Evin Lewis went up from the start. They made a pair of 136 runs in 9 overs. Hope got his half-century off 23 balls. Lewis was no less. Livingstone hit 3 sixes in the eighth over! He scored a half-century off 26 balls. Rehan Ahmed broke the pair by dismissing Lewis. Lewis made 68 off 31 balls with 4 fours and 7 sixes before returning. The rhythm fell in the innings. Three consecutive balls left three! Rehan took the wickets of Lewis and Nicholas Pooran in the first and third balls. Hope was run out in the second ball. England got a chance to return to the match when Hope was out for 54 runs off 24 balls, 7 fours and 3 sixes. But captain Rovman Powell's 23-ball 38 brought the match back to the hands of the hosts. In the 17th over, England got some control in Powell's dismissal, but in the 19th over, Rutherford's back-to-back sixes in the 19th over left the West Indies with 6 balls in hand and won the match by 5 wickets. Rehan Ahmed took three wickets for 43 runs.
In the beginning, England lost the toss and scored 218 for 5 wickets. The stage was built by Phil Salt. After an explosive partnership of 54 runs with Will Jacks, he added 48 runs with Josh Buttler. Salt scored 55 runs off 35 balls with 5 fours and 4 sixes before returning. Buttler's return to 38 runs off 23 balls was followed by an eye-catching innings helped by Jacob Bethel to get to the high-scoring scoreboard. Fifty off 22 balls. In the end, he remained unbeaten on 62 runs with 4 fours and 5 sixes.
Gudakesh Moti took two wickets for 40 runs for West Indies. Algeri Joseph and Roston Chase took one each. Man of the match Shai Hope.
