At present, the West Indies cricket team is on a tour of England for the White Ball Cricket Series. At the same time, a three-match ODI series is being played between England and the West Indies. Meanwhile, the England cricket team has announced the team for the second ODI match against the West Indies.
It is worth noting that this match between England and the West Indies will be played at the Sophia Gardens ground in Cardiff. For this match, the England cricket team management has included Matthew Potts in the playing eleven in place of Jamie Overton.
Let us tell you that Overton is completely out of the remaining series due to injury. Whereas, Matthew Potts will be seen playing the 10th match of his ODI career against the West Indies.
England’s playing XI for the 2nd ODI against the West Indies
Ben Duckett, Jamie Smith, Joe Root, Harry Brooke (c), Jos Buttler (wk), Jacob Bethell, Will Jacks, Brydon Carse, Matthew Potts, Adil Rashid, Saqib Mahmood
England maintains a 1-0 lead in the ODI series
On the other hand, if we give you information about this ODI series, then one match of the ongoing series was played between the two teams on 29 May at Edgbaston, Birmingham. Let us tell you that in this match, England won a big victory by 238 runs in a one-sided manner.
In the match, all the batsmen performed brilliantly for England and set a target of 401 runs for the West Indies team to win. But when they came out to chase this target, their innings was reduced to just 162 runs in 26.2 overs.
Also, in this second ODI, England will be missing fast bowler Jamie Overton, because in the first ODI, she bowled brilliantly against the Caribbean team and took 3 wickets in 5.2 overs, giving away just 22 runs.
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