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New skipper Brook starts reign with a bang against West Indies
The Journal
|May 30, 2025
ODI TOURISTS OUT-GUNNED
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ENGLAND'S latest white-ball reboot under new captain Harry Brook started in stunning fashion as they thrashed the West Indies by 238 runs at Edgbaston.
A decade on from posting a 400-plus total in ODIs for the first time in Birmingham to kick-start Eoin Morgan’s revival of the limited-overs sides, England piled up 400 for eight in this Metro Bank ODI series opener despite no one reaching three figures.
Brook was one of four batters to pass fifty - all of the top-seven made at least 37 - as he recorded 58 off 45 balls, but Jacob Bethell stole some of his thunder by top-scoring with 82 off 53 deliveries.
Ollie Pope and Zak Crawley may have quietened their critics with centuries against Zimbabwe last week but calls for Bethell to return to the Test side against India this summer are only likely to grow.
This was a classy innings which included five sixes and eight fours but was also paced perfectly before the Windies were skittled for 162 in 26.2 overs as England snapped a seven-match losing run in style.
This story is from the May 30, 2025 edition of The Journal.
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