The last few days have been quite shocking for the cricket world. Recently New Zealand has won the Test series in India for the first time in its cricket history. Now West Indies has also achieved a historic series win against Sri Lanka. In the 3-match ODI series played between West Indies and Sri Lanka, host Sri Lanka won 2-1. But the last match of the series was in the name of West Indies. The hero of West Indies' victory in this match was a player who got a chance to play in the ODI team after 3 years.

Returned after 3 years and scored a century

The last match of this series played at Pallekele ground was disrupted by rain, due to which the fans got to enjoy T20 in the ODI match. Actually, the Sri Lankan team had scored 156 runs in 23 overs, after which due to rain, Duckworth-Lewis rule was used and West Indies got the target of 195 runs in 23 overs. West Indies team surprised everyone by achieving this target in just 22 overs. Evin Lewis had the biggest role in this spectacular victory of West Indies. He played an unbeaten century innings.

West Indies won on the strength of Evin Lewis

West Indies team won this match by 8 wickets. This match was very special for Evin Lewis. He got a chance to play ODI match for West Indies after 3 years. Taking advantage of this, he scored unbeaten 102 runs in 61 balls. Lewis also hit 9 fours and 4 sixes in his innings. With this he became the third batsman to score the fastest century in ODI for West Indies. The batsman who scored the fastest century for West Indies is Brian Lara. He scored a century in 45 balls against Bangladesh in 1999. At the same time, Chris Gayle had achieved this feat in 55 balls against England in 2019. Now Evin Lewis has joined this list.

This victory was also special for West Indies in many ways. With this victory, the West Indies team avoided a clean sweep in the series. Apart from this, he also achieved the feat of winning the ODI match in Sri Lanka after 19 years. West Indies had earlier defeated Sri Lanka in an ODI match at home in 2005. After that, this same team was waiting for ODI victory in Sri Lanka, which has now been completed.