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Evin Lewis Hits Incredible 176 Not Out In ODI v England 2017 - Extended Highlights
Evin Lewis (born 27 December 1991) is a Trinidadian cricketer who plays internationally for the West Indies. He plays as a left-handed opening batsman. Generally a fast scoring left handed batsman, Lewis is the third batsman to score two Twenty20 International centuries.
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- Evin Lewis Hits Incredible 176 Not Out In ODI v England 2017 Extended Highlights
- Evin lewis brutal hitting 92 runs including 8 sixes vs st lucia 13 august cpl 2017
- Early career
- Domestic career
- International career
- References
Lewis made his first-class debut for the Trinidad and Tobago national team in March 2012. He had earlier represented the West Indies under-19s at the 2010 Under-19 World Cup. Lewis's senior debut for the West Indies came in March 2016, in a Twenty20 International against Afghanistan. His One Day International (ODI) debut came later in the year, against Pakistan.
Evin lewis brutal hitting 92 runs including 8 sixes vs st lucia 13 august cpl 2017
Early career
Lewis was born in Rio Claro, Trinidad. He represented the West Indies under-19s at the 2010 Under-19 World Cup in New Zealand, playing three matches. He had earlier represented the team in the 2009–10 WICB President's Cup, the domestic limited-overs competition.
Domestic career
Lewis made his first-class debut for Trinidad and Tobago in March 2012, in the 2011–12 Regional Four Day Competition. Later in the year, he represented the team in the 2012 Champions League Twenty20 in South Africa, playing a single match (against Sri Lankan team Uva Next).
At the 2013 Champions League Twenty20 in India, Lewis scored 211 runs from five innings, finished as his team's leading run-scorer (and fifth overall). His tournament included scores of 70 from 35 balls against the Titans (a South African team) and 62 from 46 balls in the semi-final against the Mumbai Indians. For the 2014 Caribbean Premier League, Lewis signed with the T&T Red Steel franchise, and scored 321 runs from eight innings (the most for his team, and seventh overall). He switched to the new St Kitts and Nevis Patriots franchise for the 2015 edition, and scored the third-most runs for his team (behind Marlon Samuels and Martin Guptill). Later in 2015, Lewis signed with the Barisal Bulls franchise for the inaugural season of the Bangladesh Premier League. In one match against the Dhaka Dynamites, he scored 101 not out from 65 balls, the tournament's only century. Lewis now represents Dhaka Dynamites in the competition after a blitzkrieg for them in his short stint in the 2016 edition.
In the 2017 Caribbean Premier League, he will for the first time open the batting with his mentor Chris Gayle for an entire season at the St. Kitts and Nevis Patriots which also includes West Indies T20 captain Carlos Brathwaite.
International career
In March 2016, Lewis was added to the West Indies squad for the 2016 ICC World Twenty20, replacing the injured Lendl Simmons. He made his Twenty20 International (T20I) debut on 27 March 2016 against Afghanistan at Nagpur
In his very second T20I, Lewis scored a blistering century against India in the first match of the series in the USA. He scored the century off 48 balls, which was the second fastest by a West Indian after Gayle and sixth fastest overall. During his innings, he hit 5 sixes off 5 balls in an over bowled by Stuart Binny. Unfortunately, he couldn't send the last ball out of the park but made 32 runs(1 run made by a wide) in that over. The West Indies scored 245 runs and finally, after a thrilling finish, won by one run. The match set a new record for the most sixes in a T20I and Lewis won man-of-the-match. .
He made his One Day International (ODI) debut for the West Indies against Pakistan on 5 October 2016. The highlight of his ODI career so far is a crunching 148 against Sri Lanka at Harare Sports Club. While wickets fell around him, he batted maturely and struck meaty blows when the opportunity came. The boundary laden knock included 15 fours and 4 maximums. The fact that he did all this while having cramps showed his mental strength and his ability to strike the ball with minimal movement. Unfortunately, he couldn't carry the West Indies to victory in what would have been a record chase. Despite the success he found in Zimbabwe, he was unable to carry his form in the series against England, Pakistan and India.
He made his second T20I hundred on 9 July 2017 against India at Sabina Park. He smashed 125*, which is recorded as the highest score in a T20I chase and also became the third and the fastest batsman to two international T20 tons after Brendon McCullum and Chris Gayle. It was also the highest score by a West Indian batsman. Lewis, in fact, set a new record for becoming the first batsman to score 2 centuries against a same opposition in T20I history as well.