T20 World Cup 2024, WI vs ENG: ‘Worried’ Rovman Powell hopeful of Brandon King to recover for USA clash

Rovman Powell said that he is worried about Brandon King after the West Indies opener suffered a side strain during the T20 World Cup 2024 Super 8 match against England on Thursday at the Daren Sammy National Cricket Stadium in Gros Islet, St Lucia. In the fifth over of the Caribbean innings, King pulled a muscle and had to retire hurt after scoring 23 runs off 13 balls with 3 fours and a six.

Later, CWI released a statement, saying that King would not be taking further part in the game. The extent of his injury is not known and it remains to be seen if King gets fit before the clash against the United States on Friday, June 21 at the Kensington Oval in Bridgetown, Barbados.

“Just a bit worried, but hopefully he can pull through for the next game,” Powell said in the post-match presentation ceremony.

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After winning 4 games in a row in the group stage, West Indies lost to the Three Lions by 8 wickets. The co-hosts failed to defend 180 and Powell said that they were around 20 runs short of where they would have liked to finish.

“When you look from the batting perspective, we were 15-20 runs short. We could have given a better display with the ball as a bowling group. We couldn’t capitalise in the last five overs but credit to the English bowlers, they executed their plans very well,” Powell said.

‘Phil Salt hurts us’

Powell also talked about Phil Salt’s consistency against the West Indies bowlers. Salt scored an unbeaten 87 off 47 balls with 7 fours and 5 sixes, helping England chase down the target with 15 balls left in their innings.

“It is always difficult, every time he plays against WI, he hurts us. We couldn’t execute our plans against Phil. Our destiny is in our own hands and we need to win well, we need to continue playing good cricket,” Powell added.

In 9 innings for the West Indies, Salt has scored 478 runs at an average of 68.28 and a strike-rate of 186.71 with 2 hundreds and 2 fifties to his name.