Statistical Amazers (Stamazers) – Sri Lanka Vs West Indies First T20 International at Pallakele March 4 2020

Simmons comeback, Malinga’s captaincy woes and much more…

Lendl Simmons (67*) has now scored three unbeaten half centuries since his come back to T20 internationals in November 2019 after a two- year hiatus. He has now scored 273 runs in 8 innings in his T20 comeback trail at an average of 54.6 and a strike rate of 130.3. He has also scored his career highest T20 score of 91* in this timeframe.

The last time Andre Russel didn’t hit a single sixer in a T20 International was in 2016. In 7 matches since then till date he has scored 190 runs with 21 sixes that accounts for 66% of his runs. His four sixes in this game is also the third instance in his 40 inning T20 career in which he has hit 4 or more of them. His career average batting position number is 6.

Oshane Thomas (5-28) has already overtaken his total T20 International wickets tally for the entire 2019 (4) in his first game for the year. He has now played against three teams from the Subcontinent in his 11 match T20 international career so far as well.

Lasith Malinga has now lost 6 consecutive T20 internationals as a captain (excluding one no result game). He has also won just 2 of his last 14 T20 internationals as a captain, unfortunately.





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