Record breaking start for the windies
|| Desk Report ||
The two West Indian opener John Campbell and Shai Hope have broke all the previous records of opening partnership today against Ireland.They have scored 365 runs between themselves and the partnership finally broke at the 47th over.
In this partnership Campbell scored 179 runs from 137 balls and Hope scored 170 from 152 balls. Before this the record of highest opening partnership belonged to Fakhan Jaman and Imam Ul Haq of Pakistan. They scored 304 runs against Zimbabwe,
This is also the first time in ODI cricket that both openers have reached 150-mark. This can be considered as a great day for the Windies cricket.
West indies have scored 381 runs in their 50 overs, it's a mammoth target for Irish. They will have to do something special to win against West Indies now. All of the irish bowlers were taken out of the park today. Murtagh,Adoir and Little all of them were very expensive. Mark Adair was most expensive among them he gave 84 runs in his 10 overs.
