Evin Lewis scored 122 in the final of the West Indies Championship, making his first first-class hundred in over a decade.
Evin Lewis makes first first-class hundred in 10 years
Lewis is one of the West Indies’ most explosive white-ball openers, striking at 152.07 in 67 T20Is and scoring five ODI hundreds in 70 50-over games. He made his international debut in March 2016, and recently represented the side against Afghanistan at the start of the year. He briefly announced his international retirement after being left out of the T20 World Cup squad, only to reverse it a few days later.
However, he has not yet been given an opportunity in the longer format, with his first-class appearances also being limited.
Lewis made his red-ball debut for Trinidad and Tobago in 2012, but has played just 27 matches since then, scoring eight fifties and two hundreds. The latest of those came in the second innings of the West Indies Championship final against Guyana. Batting first, T&T made 260 in the first innings, with Lewis recording an eight-ball duck. Jayden Seales, batting at No.11, made an unbeaten 70 to help his side cross the 200-run mark.
Seales also starred with the ball, picking up 4-56 in Guyana’s first innings, where Jonathan van Lange scored a fifty. T&T took a slender 13-run lead and needed a strong second-innings performance to gain the upper hand.
Lewis was the star this time. Opening the innings alongside Cephas Cooper, he made 122 in the team's total of 265. Guyana were set a target of 280 to chase on day four of the game.
It was Lewis’ second first-class hundred, with his previous century coming in February 2016, before he had made his international debut.
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