West Indies (191/6) defeat England (206/9) by 4 wickets (DLS method) - Win series 2-1

[BouncerGuy]

West Indies will take on England in the third and final ODI match of the three-game ODI series in Barbados today on Saturday (December 9) at The Kensington Oval in Barbados.

England have bounced back in the series by defeating West Indies with a 6-wicket margin in the second ODI. West Indies batted first and they were bowled out for a small total of 202. The start was terrible, as West Indies lost 4 wickets for just 23 runs. Post this phase, Shai Hope and Sherfane Rutherford revived the innings by scoring 68 and 63 runs respectively. After their dismissals, the rest of the batters failed to play a significant role for their team as West Indies were bowled out for a paltry 202. Sam Curran picked up 3 wickets for 33 runs.

During the chase, Phil Salt and Will Jacks gave their team a fabulous start. Jacks went on to score a match-winning 73 off 72 balls. Harry Brook and Jos Buttler provided the finishing touch by scoring 43 and 58 runs respectively and taking England home in the 33rd over with 6 wickets in hand.

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Squads:

England squad: Jos Buttler (captain), Rehan Ahmed, Gus Atkinson, Harry Brook, Brydon Carse, Zak Crawley, Sam Curran, Ben Duckett, Tom Hartley, Will Jacks, Liam Livingstone, Ollie Pope, Phil Salt, Josh Tongue, John Turner.

West Indies squad: Shai Hope (capt, wk), Alzarri Joseph (vice-capt), Alick Athanaze, Yannic Cariah, Keacy Carty, Roston Chase, Matthew Forde, Shimron Hetmyer, Brandon King, Gudakesh Motie, Kjorn Ottley, Sherfane Rutherford, Romario Shepherd, Oshane Thomas.

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[BouncerGuy]

Series decider today as England will be looking to seal this series. It will be good for English team as they have been down-under since that disastrous world cup campaign.

 

[The Bald Eagle]

It's raining at the moment. Match toss has been delayed.

 

[The Bald Eagle]

Wi vs Eng. Rain stopped. Match toss to happen soon.

 

[Kianig89]

Strange cricket being played in Caribbean at this time of year, earlier WI home season used to start in late Feb to July but these micky mouse leagues and lack of cricket has made a hodge podge if itinerary

 

[hassan918]

Toss is set to happen at 3.10pm and the match is going to start at 3.30pm. The match will be reduced to 43 overs per side.

 

[hassan918]

West Indies have won the toss and opted to field first.

West Indies Playing XI: Alick Athanaze, Brandon King, Keacy Carty, Shai Hope(c/wk), Shimron Hetmyer, Sherfane Rutherford, Romario Shepherd, Yannic Cariah, Alzarri Joseph, Gudakesh Motie, Matthew Forde

England Playing XI: Philip Salt, Will Jacks, Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Harry Brook, Jos Buttler(c/wk), Liam Livingstone, Sam Curran, Rehan Ahmed, Gus Atkinson, Matthew Potts

 

[Markhor]

Matthew Forde is making a very good case to edge out Jason Holder in white-ball cricket going forward.

 

[Markhor]

ENG 48-4. Sharp throw from Alzarri Joseph and Harry Brook is run out.

 

[Nikhil_cric]

Romario Shepherd is as bad as a Pakistani bowler with the new ball. Windies need to replace him with a proper bowler with new ball.

 

[Markhor]

And another - Buttler gone. Well directed short delivery. 49-5.

 

[Devadwal]

Who is Forde? Never heard about him .

 

[The Bald Eagle]

After 12 overs England are at 55/5.

 

[The Bald Eagle]

After 12 overs England are at 55/5.

What a good looking score

 

[Markhor]

Who is Forde? Never heard about him .

He's had two strong CPLs and an okay domestic 50 over tournament this year. Jason Holder was unavailable for this ODI series so been given an opportunity.

 

[Nikhil_cric]

Yannic Cariah in to lose the game now. Why do Windies play 2 spinners? Cariah averages 60 + at an Eco of 7.2 against opponents not named UAE.

 

[The Bald Eagle]

A steady recovery by England. 84/5 now after 17 overs.

 

[Devadwal]

Good partnership building for England .they need 230 + to challenge westindies

 

[The Bald Eagle]

Well it's getting difficult to distinguish now, which side is playing much worse cricket in this series.

 

[boomboomcheema]

WI Cricket is still not dead. Still lots of potential they have.

 

[Devadwal]

Well it's getting difficult to distinguish now, which side is playing much worse cricket in this series.

One thing is clear England need totally flats Wickets to score runs .

 

[Devadwal]

WI Cricket is still not dead. Still lots of potential they have.

They need quality Batsman who are giving importance to westindies cricket rather than t20 League. T20 cricket is killing the real cricket .

 

[Devadwal]

ENG - 100/5 (20.5)
Partnership: 51(68)*

 

[Markhor]

Keacy Carty has had a horrid time with the bat and now he drops a simple catch.

 

[Devadwal]

Duckett gone . big wicket for Romario Shepherd and westindies

 

[The Bald Eagle]

Eng 137/6 after passage of 25 overs.

 

[Cricket Warrior]

England is in deep trouble now, 142/7 in 28 overs.

I don't think they can recover from this position now.

 

[The Bald Eagle]

Rain delays match proceedings. Eng 161/7 after 33 overs

 

[The Bald Eagle]

Not sure, where this match is heading. But kudos to England for a decent comeback

 

[boomboomcheema]

WI have bowled well today so their batters may not bat well tonite..

 

[Cricket Warrior]

Match will resume at 6.45pm local time the game now 40 overs a side.

 

[Cricket Warrior]

England scored 207/9 in 40 Overs

Now we have to wait and see what DLS has to say about the target after that break for rain at 33 overs.

 

[sweep_shot]

I don't remember the last time Windies won an ODI series against England.

Great opportunity for them today.

 

[Buffet]

I don't remember the last time Windies won an ODI series against England.

Great opportunity for them today.

Twice WI had drawn ODI series against Eng in the last 10 years otherwise pretty ordinary record against Eng. It will be first win in the last 10 years.

 

[boomboomcheema]

Carty and Athanaze playing too good here. WI on the verge of a series victory.

 

[Firebat]

If Shai Hope stays for a while this will be a cakewalk

 

[Sher Khan]

Why do people always say that DLS or a rain affected match favours the team batting second?

I've always felt that the target becomes ridiculous and inflated for the team batting second.

 

[boomboomcheema]

Hope throws it away

 

[Justcrazy]

West Indies need 89 runs from 17.1 overs.

 

[Justcrazy]

WI need sensible batting from here onwards

 

[Suleiman]

West indies can’t qualify for ICC events but it seems they still have a better bowling attack overall than Pakistan…

Their batsmen still have the same flair they’ve always had historically but with less ability to pace long innings.

 

[Justcrazy]

15 runs partnership so far , WI need this to go on for next 8 - 10 overs

 

[Justcrazy]

West indies can’t qualify for ICC events but it seems they still have a better bowling attack overall than Pakistan…

Their batsmen still have the same flair they’ve always had historically but with less ability to pace long innings.

The problem is lack of longer format cricket.

 

[boomboomcheema]

Windies choking

 

[batandballbattle]

making jacks look like murli here, what a choke

 

[batandballbattle]

Windies turn the tables again to win
Great innings from shepherd but some very ordinary freebies doled out from atkinson too

 

[sweep_shot]

West Indies have done it.

They have beaten England 2-1 in an ODI series.

Congratulations.

 

[Nikhil_cric]

Windies' white ball revival is truly underway.

Miles Basscombe and co. have a vision for 2027 and it's off to a great start with a series win over England.

This is is a very good result.

 

[jnaveen1980]

Windies' white ball revival is truly underway.

Miles Basscombe and co. have a vision for 2027 and it's off to a great start with a series win over England.

This is is a very good result.

If the qualifier happened in countries like India or West Indies or even England, West Indies would have been in the world cup. Zimbabwe pitches are not suitable for them.

 

[Champ_Pal]

England sinking to new lows.

 

[BouncerGuy]

Why do people always say that DLS or a rain affected match favours the team batting second?

I've always felt that the target becomes ridiculous and inflated for the team batting second.

Batting 2nd in a rain affected match did help west indies in the end, although it was a nervous chase but eventually the won the match and the series as well against the 2019 world cup winners.

 

[BouncerGuy]

West Indies vs England: Matthew Forde stars on debut as hosts win series

West Indies got over the line in a nervy chase to beat England by four wickets on the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method in a rain-shortened third one-day international in Barbados.

When play began two hours later than scheduled, seamer Matthew Forde quickly took three wickets on his international debut as England collapsed to 49-5.

Ben Duckett made 71 to help England recover and post 206-9 from 40 overs after another rain delay.

A further downpour left West Indies with a revised target of 188 from 34 overs and they looked on course for a comfortable victory thanks to a composed half-century from Keacy Carty.

However, England hit back to set up a tense finale with Will Jacks taking 3-22 as the spinners did the damage.

The game looked to be going down to the wire but one expensive over from the previously impressive Gus Atkinson swung the game decisively in West Indies' favour and Romario Shepherd, who finished unbeaten on 41 from 28 balls, sealed the win with 14 balls to spare.

West Indies took the ODI series 2-1 and can celebrate a first home series win over England in the format since 1998.

The two sides will now prepare for the five-match T20 series that begins on Tuesday, also in Barbados.

Duckett makes case to become ODI mainstay

England went into this series with a much-changed side following their World Cup disappointment and with Jos Buttler's team not scheduled to play another 50-over match until September 2024, this was the last chance for many of the new-look team to impress for quite some time.

But while the rest of the top order came unstuck as West Indies made the most of friendly bowling conditions early on, Duckett made his pitch for a regular berth in the one-day team.

The left-hander gritted it out early on as the wickets fell around him, seeing off Forde and co with the new ball before going about building a much-needed partnership with Liam Livingstone.

Duckett got his tempo just right, even holding back on playing his favoured sweep shots against the spinners to eliminate as much risk as possible with England in a precarious position.

When the ball was there to be hit, he did so, and the only frustration was that having done all the hard work, he fell in relatively tame fashion just when he might have hoped to kick on.

A series defeat is not the way England wanted to start their new era in ODI cricket and they still have plenty of work to do to get back to the heights of 2019, but in Duckett they have a player capable of moving them in the right direction again.

Young West Indies team gives hope for the future

While England are looking to bounce back after a dreadful World Cup, West Indies' rebuild is starting from an even lower base after they failed to even qualify for the tournament in India.

They have looked to a new generation of players and a first ODI series win over England since 2007 - and a first at home this century - is a very promising start.

Forde will take the plaudits and the 21-year-old was impressive on debut, moving the ball through the air and off the seam while consistently hitting a probing line and length to unsettle the England batters.

With the bat, opener Alick Athanaze played with great fluency for his 45 while Carty grew into his innings and showed some remarkable timing once he got into his stride.

It was left to Shepherd, now one of the elder statesmen of the team, to finish the job and secure West Indies' first ODI series win over a full member nation since March 2021.

That statistic in itself shows the work that still needs to be done and there have been plenty of false dawns before for West Indies cricket but the early signs are encouraging for this new side.

'Build around Salt and Brook' - what they said

Ex-England captain Sir Alastair Cook on TNT Sports: "I think there are a lot of positives. Phil Salt needs a run in the white-ball set-up. He has a strike-rate of 140 at the top of the order.

"I like the fact you have someone who is that dynamic. How good can he be? It's going to intriguing to see if he can do it against top-quality bowlers.

"Harry Brook, after a strange World Cup, where he was in the squad then wasn't, he should just bat at number five and get experience in the team of leading the reboot. Players like that are potential match-winners and World Cup winners. They have that much talent."

England captain Jos Buttler: "This is the start of a long journey for this side. There are some young guys who have got their first taste of ODI cricket and have hopefully learned a lot and we can build something for the future."

Player of the match, West Indies bowler Matthew Forde: "Obviously getting a victory is a dream come true on debut. It was special for me. I am 21 and I'm living the dream."
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SOURCE: BBC