Twitter Reactions: Evin Lewis keeps series alive for West Indies

West Indies clawed their way back in the 4 match series after winning the 3^rd T20I against Pakistan by 7 wickets to reduce Pakistan’s lead to 2-1 in the series. Batting first Pakistan never got going and kept losing wickets at regular intervals. Eventually, their score of 137 was easily chased down by the Caribbeans as they won the match by 5 wickets and with 5 overs to spare.

Pakistan got off to a disastrous start and lost their opening two wickets in the very first over itself. Kamran Akmal and Babar Azam started the repair work after the early loss. Akmal looked in good touch and began with a couple of boundaries. Babar Azam too started gaining in confidence and played some delightful shots. The first six of the match came from his bat in the 6th over.

After sharing an 88 runs partnership for the 3rd wicket, Kamran Akmal was eventually dismissed by Marlon Samuels in the 13th over. The dismissal of Akmal opened the floodgates for West Indies and they cashed in big time. Wickets at regular intervals halted their progress as they managed to score only 137 in their allotted 20 overs. Samuel Badree bagged 2/22 in his 4 overs.

Chasing a modest target, West Indies were jolted early as Chadwick Walton gave away his wicket in the 2nd over to SohailTanvir. It was an Evin Lewis show from there on as the southpaw smashed the listless Pakistan bowlers all around Queens Park Oval at Port of Spain. It was a scintillating innings by the left-hander which contained 9 maximums and 5 fours.

There was hardly any support from the other end as the next highest score was just 18. Lewis kept on smashing them all around the park and remained unbeaten on 91 of 51 deliveries. Courtesy their win, West Indies managed to keep the series alive with one much still to go.

Twitteratti was pretty active throughout the game and there were some tweets which described the proceedings in the best possible way.

This win of windies makes the series interesting as now windies will try to level and #Pakistan will try to win#WIvPAK #cricket

— NiSa (@NisaChudhary) April 2, 2017

#wivpak finially streek is conqured as westindies beat Pakistan by 7 wickets. hope them to do same to make Caribbean fans proud

— Sohaib Ahmed (@WIFAN1) April 2, 2017

Still no Batsman has scored Century against PAK in T20
Evin Lewis (91) highest#PakvsWI #WIvPAK

— SAMRAAT (@ImSamraat) April 2, 2017

Number of instances WI beat PAK
21 Apr 2011
1 Apr 2014
1 Apr 2017
Next win on _Apr 2020?#PakvsWI #WIvPAK

— SAMRAAT (@ImSamraat) April 2, 2017

Shadab Khan bowling figures

Before this game: 8 – 1 – 21 – 7

Today: 3.5 – 0 – 38 – 1#WIvPAK

— AHSAN SHEHZAD (@ahsanshehzad63) April 2, 2017

Kumar Sangakkara, Misbah-ul-Haq and Sarfraz Ahmed – All lost their first T20I match as captain after winning 6 consecutive matches. #Stats

— Faisal Shahzad (@PAKSportsInfo) April 2, 2017

West Indies Beat Pakistan By 7 Wkts. With 5.1 Overs Left In T20.

And PAK Says India Is Scared Of Them? BC Pehle Indies Se To Jeeto. #WIvPAK pic.twitter.com/2t6ySR2NpU

— Sir Ravindra Jadeja (@SirJadeja) April 1, 2017

Today it was just 3rd time in 23 T20s that Sarfraz Ahmed opted to bat after winning the toss. Normally, he prefers to chase target. #WIvPak

— Mazher Arshad (@MazherArshad) April 1, 2017

Batting first after winning toss and then sending Imad ahead of Zaman, Riaz & Tanvir ahead of Shadab. Can't see any logic in this strategy.

— Mazher Arshad (@MazherArshad) April 1, 2017

Evin Lewis hit 9 sixes today, which is same number of 6s hit by all Pak batsmen jointly in 3 matches of this series. #WIvPAK #CricketStats

— Shahzad Tirmizi Syed (@shahzadtirmizi) April 1, 2017

Shadab Khan's T20I career:

First 2 matches – 8 overs, 21 runs, 7 wkts
Third match – 3.5 overs, 38 runs, 1 wkt#PakvsWI

— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath) April 1, 2017

Evin Lewis – 91 runs, 9 sixes.

– highest score v Pak in T20Is (Prev: Guptill 87*)
– most sixes v Pak in T20Is (Prev: Yuvraj 7)#PakvsWI

— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath) April 1, 2017

Most wins by a Captain since T20I captaincy debut
6 Kumar Sangakkara, Misbah-ul-Haq and Sarfraz Ahmed#WIvPAK

— Israr Ahmed Hashmi (@IamIsrarHashmi) April 1, 2017

Pakistan:
8 fours
4 sixes
Evin Lewis:
5 fours
9 sixes#Cricket #WIvPak

— Saj Sadiq (@Saj_PakPassion) April 1, 2017

Gayle and Evin Lewis are the only players to hit 9 or more 6s in a T20I inns on 2 occasions. 7 others once each. #WIvPAK

— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath) April 1, 2017

Evin Lewis 91 – 9th batsman to be dismissed in the 90s in T20Is. Chris Gayle & Alex Hales have been dismissed twice in 90s #WIvPAK

— Israr Ahmed Hashmi (@IamIsrarHashmi) April 1, 2017

Highest T20i innings vs Pakistan:

91 Evin Lewis today,
87* @Martyguptill ,
84 Shakib Al Hasan,
84 Kusal Perera,#WIvPAK #CricketStats

— Shahzad Tirmizi Syed (@shahzadtirmizi) April 1, 2017

Ramiz Raja "Pakistan has not used Shadab Khan's batting potential at all in this series so far" #Cricket #WIvPak

— Saj Sadiq (@Saj_PakPassion) April 1, 2017