England after playing 4test and 1T20 have still no win in the tour of the Caribbean till know.England won the toss and chose to bat first.Strauss and Bopara were the two openers for the England.They had the opening stand of 28.Peterson dint played big inning too.Bapara played a good hand and scored 43.Shah and Collingwood had a good partnership and were also the two highest scorers of the innings.They shared the partnership of 98.Shah made 62 and Collingwood made 69.In the last over Matt Prior played a fast little inning scoring 26 of 21.England made 270 in their 50 overs with the loss of 7 wickets.For West Indies Bravo and Pollard both took 2 wickets.
Chasing the target West Indies lost their Captain Gayle in the third over then Sarwan and Simmons had a very good 2nd wicket partnership They shared the partnership of 125.Simmons made 62 and Sarwan made 57.ChanderPaul and Pollard both scoring 40s in a fast time but their wickets cost the West Indies team the match because West Indies lost the match by 1 run by D/L method as match was stopped 22 balls before and West Indies were 1 runs behind.They were 244 in their 46.2 overs and they needed to be on 245 , so England won the match.For England Broad took three wickets and Anderson took 2.Collingwood got the man if the match.
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