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England Lions in West Indies

Beamer

International Vice-Captain
Windies A beat Lions by 5 runs in 1st 50-over game

Lions debutant Sam Hain with 144 off 121 but amazingly was involved in a 102 run 10th wicket partnership before being caught on the boundary.
It was a pretty awesome game to be honest. It swayed from one side to the next. There were 4 standout contributions really.

Sam Hain played a stunning innings. He batted intelligently against Warrican and Cornwall to score at 4/5 per over and was extremely harsh on the medium pace of Riefer. The most impressive thing was the intelligence he showed in building that innings when the match was getting away from the Lions.

Jermaine Blackwood gave an uncharacteristically solid hand too. Coming in as a makeshift opener he scored 99 very patient runs to help solidfy the Windies A innings and allow Cornwall to come in and score quickly.

Speaking of Rakheem Cornwall, he continues to boss List A cricket no matter who he plays again. A quick fire 40 odd and a stingy 2 wicket spell were vital. He has to be in our World Cup squad if we qualify.

Finally, the best pacer on either side was Keemo Paul, which is impressive as England always have solid seamers on a tour like this. He got 5 wickets bowling a perfect line and length and swinging to both ways as well as through clever yorkers at the death. He also must play ODIs, I can't believe he is currently being kept out by the likes of Kesrick Williams.
 

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