{"id":56398,"date":"2019-03-04T11:23:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T11:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=56398"},"modified":"2019-03-04T11:23:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T11:23:48","slug":"gayle-blazes-wi-to-series-levelling-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/gayle-blazes-wi-to-series-levelling-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Gayle blazes WI to series-levelling win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>England\u2019s batting line-up imploded in familiar fashion before Chris Gayle inspired the West Indies to a seven-wicket triumph in the fifth and final ODI to ensure the series ended drawn at 2-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 39-year-old Gayle, playing in what may be his final home ODI, smashed 77 off just 27 balls after England had been skittled out for 113 in 28.1 overs, with Oshane Thomas doing most damage with five wickets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just three days after the visitors had posted 418 against the same bowling attack, West Indies, who won the Test series between the two sides 2-1, this time needed just 12.1 overs to race to their target at 115\/3. \u201cI thought about it walking round after the game, \u2018will this be my last innings in the Caribbean?\u2019 We\u2019ll have to wait and see for now,\u201d Gayle said after being named Player of the Series for his 424-run haul from the four completed matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eoin Morgan\u2019s side had started favourites to equal Australia\u2019s record of winning a 10th successive ODI series but subsided limply amid a series of ill-judged shots on a pitch that offered help to the pacemen. Eight of England\u2019s batsmen fell to short-pitched deliveries, with Thomas cashing in to take 5\/21 from 5.1 overs.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England\u2019s batting line-up imploded in familiar fashion before Chris Gayle inspired the West Indies to a seven-wicket triumph in the fifth and final ODI to ensure the series ended drawn at 2-2. The 39-year-old Gayle, playing in what may be his final home ODI, smashed 77 off just 27 balls after England had been skittled [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56400,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56398\/revisions\/56400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}