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Holder's 4 for 19 and last-ball heroics keep series alive
He took four wickets across phases, took two catches and finished things off with a last-ball boundary to end West Indies' losing streak
Danyal Rasool
02-Aug-2025 • Updated 4 hrs ago
West Indies 135 for 8 (Motie 28, Hope 21, Mohammad Nawaz 3-14) beat Pakistan 133 for 9 (Hasan Nawaz 40, Agha 38, Holder 4-19) by two wickets
This was not so much a game as an exhibition to showcase the brilliance of Jason Holder. The allrounder opened the bowling, took four wickets across phases of the Pakistan innings, walked in to bat when the equation was steepest, and won West Indies the second T20I with a boundary off the final delivery from Shaheen Shah Afridi. The two-wicket win sees the hosts level the series following a pulsating contest, one that ended with a savage Holder swipe past fine leg when they needed three off one, and a yell of unadulterated joy that ripped through Florida.
West Indies had won just two of their last 19 completed T20Is before this, but began the better of the two sides, puncturing Pakistan with early wickets that left them trying to catch up through the middle overs. They accomplished this to a point thanks to a counter-attacking 60-run fifth-wicket partnership between Salman Agha and Hasan Nawaz, only for Holder's double-strike to peg them back again. The hosts dominated the final five overs which saw Pakistan produce just 23 runs, setting Shai Hope's side an eminently manageable 134 for victory.
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England 247 and 50 for 1 (Duckett 34*) need 324 more runs to beat India 224 and 396 (Jaiswal 118, Akash Deep 66, Jadeja 53, Washington 53, Tongue 5-125, Atkinson 3-127)
The fate of this Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy will be sealed at The Oval on Sunday. England need another 324 runs to pull off the second-biggest chase in their history and win 3-1; India need eight wickets - or nine, in the improbable event that Chris Woakes walks out to bat one-handed - to square the series. The draw is no longer on the table.
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That it was day two of this fifth and final Test added to the spectacle. The jeopardy of it all felt keenly, a slalom through angst and nerves. Gus Atkinson's fourth five-wicket haul after two months out closed India's first innings for 224. And the same man delivered the final meaningful act, removing B Sai Sudharsan lbw, the last of Friday's 15 wickets to fall.
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Hampshire 293 (Middleton 79, Weatherley 62, Taylor 5-55) and 313 for 7 dec (Gubbins 84, Organ 45*) drew with Worcestershire 249 (Libby 100*, Hose 82, Baker 5-72) and 303 for 8 (Libby 106, Kashif 65)
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Chasing a daunting target of 358 in just 53 overs after Hampshire's enterprising post-lunch declaration on 313 for 7, the home side carried hope of completing one of the Championship's most dramatic final-day turnarounds.
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Ben Compton hit a career-best 221 and Harry Finch made 54 not out, while Rehan Ahmed three for 134, but the chances of a positive result were effectively neutered on day three, when a mere 9.5 overs were bowled.
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Sussex started the final day of this 11th-round clash on 115 for three in their second innings, trailing by 208.
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