Opening batsman Lendl Simmons smashed his best ever T20I score as West Indies thumped Ireland by nine wickets in the third and final T20 International at Warner Park on Sunday.
Simmons, the nephew of West Indies coach Phil Simmons, hit ten sixes and five fours in his 40-ball blitz.
Chasing a modest total of 139, Simmons won the match in style with a six over midwicket off Irish spinner Simi Singh whose three overs cost 41 runs.
Fellow opener Evin Lewis scored 46 off 25 with four boundaries and three sixes as the Men in Maroon raced to victory with 54 balls to spare.
Earlier, veteran all-rounders Kieron Pollard (3-17) and Dwayne Bravo (3-19) shared six wickets as West Indies restricted Ireland to 138 all out.
Bravo also became the West Indies’ leading all-time wicket-taker in the format with 57 scalps in 69 games. That beat the previous best of 54 by leg-spinner Samuel Badree.
#WIvIRE Congrats @KieronPollard55 !👏🏽Fantastic with both bat & ball to be the Sandals Resorts Player of the Series!!🙌🏾 #MenInMaroon🌴 #ItsOurGame pic.twitter.com/3kxfGd32BC
— Windies Cricket (@windiescricket) January 20, 2020
1⃣0⃣ SIXES!😱 Lendl raced to his best ever T20I score for the #MenInMaroon🌴!
Well done Champ 👊🏽
#ItsOurGame #WIvIRE pic.twitter.com/QzmPq5Godd— Windies Cricket (@windiescricket) January 20, 2020
Lendl Simmons batting like he's late for a date 😂 @windiescricket
— Loso (@loso_888) January 20, 2020
Bruh lendl Simmons was wilding 91 off 40
— no one 🇬🇩 (@VincyLampPost) January 20, 2020
Captain Pollard won the man of the series award for his brilliant all-round performance against Ireland:
2-0-22-0
31(15)
4-0-25-4
4-0-17-3#WIvIRE— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) January 20, 2020
A career best performance from @54simmo sees West Indies home. Batted Simmo! #WIvIRE pic.twitter.com/OMr33ljhO4
— CPL T20 (@CPL) January 20, 2020
Pollard and Bravo. It's like entering a time warp. #WIvIre https://t.co/WXkkP0M8QX
— Rick Eyre on cricket (@rickeyrecricket) January 20, 2020
Pollard T20 bowling stats by innings phase:
1-6: Avg: 40.10 – Econ: 10.47
6-14: Avg: 33.92 – Econ: 8.16
14-20: Avg: 23.31 – Econ: 9.55#WIvIRE— The CricViz Analyst (@cricvizanalyst) January 19, 2020
That’s it. Congratulations @windiescricket. 👏👏👏 pic.twitter.com/dLATLREZ6e
— Cricket Ireland (@cricketireland) January 20, 2020
