England in the West Indies

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and there's the confirmation eventually.

 

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West Indies certainly making a better fist of things than they did on Friday currently 192-3 after 38 overs, should well surpass England's 270 total on Friday.

 

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No play so far due to rain, West Indies have won the toss and will field once they do get underway

 

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underway in Barbados with the match being reduced to 45 overs following the rain delay. England will be quite relieved to have Flintoff back in the side following his injury.

 

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first wicket for the West Indies with Strauss out for 2 caught Gayle off Edwards.

 

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Edwards picks up another with Bopara slicing one to Sarwan.

Eng 17-2

 

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gets worse for England with Pietersen mistiming one to Pollard in the deep.

41-3 now.

 

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think at 90-8 it's safe to say the Windies are in the driving seat, weather is probably the only chance of England saving their bacon in this one.

 

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this tour goes from bad to worse for England with this 8 wicket defeat adding insult to further injury, Pietersen's sentiments no doubt being echoed by everyone in the squad.

 

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better performance today from England by the looks of it, currently the West Indies are 184-7 as they're about to take their power play. Mascarenhas the pick of the bowlers picking up 3 wickets so far, how England would love to see his batting form though as well, if he's needed.

 

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West Indies certainly making the most of the power play moving from 184-7 to 224-7.

 

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2 wickets at the death stem the flow of runs for the Windies.

 

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still raining in Barbados so England's innings is still to get underway, might not even come to that.

Talk on the BBC that Friday's match could be cancelled over the West Indies' players' argument with the board.

 

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so 135 off 20 overs needed for England with 8 overs of power play as opposed to 6 that we normally get in Twenty20, should be able to chase this down but with so much power play overs and England's tendency to screw them up it could be an interesting session should the weather hold.

 

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Strauss taking the attack to Baker hitting 4 boundaries in the over.

 

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end of the first power play and for a change England take advantage of it with 41 runs.

 

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marginal call there but Strauss stays, thought it bounced but could have hit the glove at the same time, Ramdin was always going to appeal, nothing wrong with that.

 

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England stuttering along now, still picking up the singles but boundaries have dried up and were England to lose a wicket now that would bring a few more dot balls into the equation.

 

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Chanderpaul making Pietersen look rather foolish with some quality fielding.

 

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Bopara doesn't quite get enough on that and Miller takes a routine catch, too little too late though for the Windies.

England 108-1, needing only 27 runs off the remaining 5 overs