After the thrashing the WI received in tests can they come back in the ODI’s and restore some honour.
Ist ODI underway. 30 overs match due to rain.
WI batted first and scored 156/5 off 30 overs.
**21 runs needed in 12 ball with three wicket remaining and this is what Chris Reed did. 1 . 6 4 6 1 **
28.6 Collymore to Read, one run, played down to the fine leg region,
just three more run need now, just one over changes the fortune!
28.5 Collymore to Read, SIX, oh dear! Read on the rampage here! swing
and gets it on the middle, ball goes over the mid wicket fence,
wrong line from Collymore and Read takes full toll of it
28.4 Collymore to Read, FOUR, makes room and flashes hard and gets it
wide of the short third man fielder, bit of edge involved, crowd
goes bit silent !
28.3 Collymore to Read, SIX, slower delivery, on the pad, Read makes
room and lofts it over the fielder at mid off, much needed six for
England
28.2 Collymore to Read, no run, wild swing but misses the target, crowd
greats it with huge cheers
28.1 Collymore to Gough, one run, pitched up on the middle and off,
played straight to Sarwan at mid on, quick single taken, Sarwan
misses the stumps and Gough is safely home
:k:
29.3 Gayle to Gough, two runs, all over! England have won by 2 wicket!
dives and gets a thick edge over the short third man fielder, runs
hard and comes back for the second
Crowd is silent
just the music playing
The misery for WI continues.
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*Originally posted by ehsan: *
29.3 Gayle to Gough, two runs, all over! England have won by 2 wicket!
dives and gets a thick edge over the short third man fielder, runs
hard and comes back for the second
Crowd is silent
just the music playing
The misery for WI continues.
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Ehsan Bhai England wins by 2 wickets. thats what we call the fighting spirit.
I saw the whole match yesterday and was pretty dissappointed with Windies start but then Chanderpaul batted extremely well:k: with debutant Bravo. I thought Windies are going to win this match before Collymore’s over but he messed everything up. Gayle, Bravo and Rampaul bowled superbly but in the end it was Chris Read who showed his talent with the bat.
I wish they can win the next match.
COME ON! 
can England boot out Rikkie Clarke? what a mediocre player!
during the 1st ODI Holding and Bifi were commentating in Tandem … While WI was scoring a mere 2 runs an over during the early Overs Bifi couldn’t hold himself citing quite cynically “Well this Ground/Pitch is known as the BATTING-PARADISE of the Caribbean (did i spell it right?)” Holding on the other hand a proud West Indian was forced to reply citing **“Well Bifi all u’ve to do is to look at the 100’s scoreboard at the Pavillion which nearly takes the whole Pavillion” ** 
Well for the next few moments it was like Holding is the only one present in the commentators cabin …
West Indies win thriller](BBC SPORT | Cricket | WI v Eng | West Indies win thriller)
Fifth one-day international, St Lucia:
West Indies 284-5 (48 overs) beat England 281-8 (50 overs) by five wickets
Seven-match series tied 1-1
A thrilling rally from Ramnaresh Sarwan and Dwayne Smith saw West Indies fight back to beat England by five wickets in the fifth one-day international.
Sarwan (73 not out) and Smith, with a 28-ball 44, added 80 in nine overs to turn the match for the home side.
England’s 281-8, the highest ever total at St Lucia’s two-year-old stadium, was topped with 12 balls to spare.
Marcus Trescothick hit 130 and Andrew Flintoff 59 in a 110-run fourth-wicket partnership for the tourists.
After three washed-out matches, the series was left tied at 1-1 with two games remaining, the next at the same venue on Sunday.
England appeared to have more than enough runs to play with after running wild with the bat and then regaining control with the ball after a difficult start on a good pitch with a fast outfield.
When home captain Brian Lara edged Steve Harmison behind for 37, spirits were flagging with 91 runs needed off the last 12 overs.
But Sarwan and Smith made the maths a formality with an astonishing onslaught.
Ian Blackwell, James Anderson and Harmison each conceded two sixes in an over, Smith crashing the last four over the off-side field.
Flintoff bowled him through the gate but by that time the equation was 11 from 20.
Dwayne Bravo lofted Darren Gough over the covers for six to finish the job.
Lara’s decision to bowl first looked had looked ill-judged as Trescothick and captain Michael Vaughan shared a brisk opening stand of 43.
Debutant Ian Bradshaw, who replaced Corey Collymore in the side, dismissed Vaughan for 25, gaining an edge behind with some extra bounce.
Flintoff was patient for 46 deliveries, when he hit his second boundary, a booming six over midwicket off Bravo and spinner Ricardo Powell suffered similar punishment
The ball that brought his dismissal could easily have been a third six as long-on fielder Dillon was knocked off his feet by a flat, fizzing drive, but the ball fell on his prone body and he completed the catch.
Trescothick’s fortune-filled 130 was in vain
Trescothick’s innings was brought to an end in the 46th over when Chris Read took an ill-advised single, and Shivnarine Chanderpaul knocked off the bails with a throw from point.
Read at least kept the tempo up through the closing stages, with a run-a-ball 24.
The runs continued to flow as the West Indian reply began, with opening bowlers Gough and Harmison both taking heavy punishment.
Outstanding catches brought Chris Gayle’s downfall for 36 and saw Chanderpaul fall for 40.
Flintoff’s first eight unerringly accurate overs cost just 26 runs and although he did not take a wicket in two spells he was key in stifling the home innings.
Flintoff could not bowl from both ends, though. As his star bowler’s quota came to an end, Vaughan was left at a loss for bowling options as Sarwan and Smith took off.
Sarwan set the stage for the fireworks that followed, his 77-ball innings including just four fours and those two sixes off Blackwell.
^ i saw the final overs of this match and whoaaa.. Sarwan and specially Dwayne Smith just went berzerk at the end and Smith hitting some incredbile sixes :k: they needed 77 in 9 overs and hey scored incredible 48 runs in next 3.
Dwayne smith sure is a find for WI.
yu… what a match!:k:
I thought West Indies is gonna loose but then one small mistake from Micheal Vaughan from which Sarwan took full advantage . The mistake was giving the 45th over to Ian Blackwell and then Dwayne Smith took the charge and showed some great fireworks. Dwayne Bravo ended up with a six on mid-off boundary:k:
… a good win and will surely give them confidence for the series:k:
...England posted 280-8 in 50 overs.
And WI replied with 282/6 off 47.1 overs.
They lead the series 2/1 with one to play.
…West Indies lead the series 2-1
great batting performance from Chanderpaul and in the end from Dwayne Bravo.:k:
England square series](BBC SPORT | Cricket | England square series)
One-day international, Barbados:
West Indies 261-6 lost to England 264-5 by five wickets
Seven-match series tied 2-2
Marcus Trescothick struck a brutal 82 as England levelled the one-day series 2-2 with a five-wicket win in the final match against West Indies in Barbados.
Trescothick hit 12 fours in his 57-ball knock, overshadowing Ramnaresh Sarwan’s unbeaten 104 in the hosts’ 261-6.
England won with 16 balls to spare with Andy Strauss (66) and Paul Collingwood (46 not out) also starring.
It is the first time England have held the Windies to a draw in a limited-overs series in the Caribbean.
And it provided a fitting end to their tour after they had become the first England side to win a Test series there for 36 years.
Unsurprisingly, perhaps, skipper Michael Vaughan chose to field first after England failed to defend decent totals in St Lucia at the weekend.
Steve Harmison’s early removal of Shivnarine Chanderpaul heralded a period of consolidation with the Windies struggling to score at four-per-over inside the first 15.
It was no fault of Chris Gayle, who raced past 40 at almost a run-a-ball before Ricardo Powell fell for nine to a tracer-bullet direct hit from Andrew Flintoff.
We’ve played a hard-fought series and I’m delighted to have come back after a tough weekend in St Lucia
Gayle followed 10 balls later for 41 when yorked by James Anderson, reducing the Windies from the relative safety of 57-1 to the peril of 57-3.
Things got worse for the hosts, who fell to 90-4 in the 23rd over when Rikki Clarke and Chris Read combined to send Brian Lara packing for eight.
Sarwan and Dwayne Smith then added 69 in a vital fifth-wicket stand.
Smith’s knock of 39 came to an end when he was bowled by Gough, but Sarwan found another willing partner in Ridley Jacobs in the thrash to the death.
The pair put on 68 in the final 10 overs, with the Windies keeper contributing an unbeaten 32 off 28 balls and Sarwan striking 13 fours in his 105-ball knock.
Trescothick ignited the reply from the outset, England racing to 36 in the sixth over before Vaughan perished to the faintest of inside edges that even the bowler Ravi Rampaul failed to spot.
The dismissal did nothing to quell his opening partner, Trescothick treating the seaming ball with horrific disdain.
Merv Dillon went for 67 runs in nine overs and Rampaul 32 in four as the riotous left-hander sped England to 66-1 after 10 overs and 111-1 after 15.
The Somerset man was unafraid to advance the pacemen, cutting and driving at will - and it was only when Lara opted for slow bowling from both ends that things changed.
Trescothick eventually fell to a soft dismissal, stumped down the leg-side in canny all-rounder Gayle’s first over.
An eighth one-day century would have been a nice way for Trescothick to end his up-and-down tour, but in leaving England on 123-2 in the 18th over his job was done.
England wobbled with his dismissal, losing Rikki Clarke to Ian Bradshaw and Andrew Flintoff to Sarwan in the space of 25 runs.
But from 169-4 Strauss redressed the balance, gradually opening up en route to his second one-day fifty.
He pulled Bradshaw over mid-wicket for one of four boundaries but perished in the same over when playing on one run short of his personal best.
The strike gave West Indies some hope, but Paul Collingwood and Read (23 not out) held their nerve to end England’s tour on a winning note.
…Best of Luck to Windies against Bangladesh:k:
Marcus Baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! he made it so simple.
