Summary

  • England race to victory with 10.2 overs to spare - report

  • Smith clobbers 64 off 28 balls to get England off to flier

  • West Indies recover from 154-7 to reach 251-9

  • Eighth-wicket partnership puts on 91 in 11.2 overs

  • Rutherford top-scores with 70 (71); Motie adds 63 (54)

  • Third ODI, The Oval, England win series 3-0

Live Reporting

by Elizabeth Botcherby, Matthew Henry, Stephan Shemilt, Mike Peter, Esha Nayar & Fazeela Munshi

  1. WI 97-4

    Justin Greaves is the new batter and he gets off the mark immediately with a nicely timed shot to deep cover.

    Rutherford then turns Rashid's final delivery square for four, moving into the forties.

  2. Carlos Brathwaite
    Former West Indies all-rounder on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    CartyGetty Images

    That was not in the plan - it's an over-pitched, extremely slow half-volley. He tried to hit it to square and got the inside edge.

  3. wicket

    WICKET

    Carty b Rashid 29 (WI 90-4)

    Played on!

    Keacy Carty falls in the third over after the rain break, going for big drive to Adil Rashid and chopping an inside edge onto the base of his stumps.

    A solid partnership of 60 comes to an end.

  4. Carlos Brathwaite
    Former West Indies all-rounder on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    It dropped short of Bethell but to highlight Harry Brook's field placings again, Bethell is an extra man in the circle there, and doesn't need to be.

  5. WI 90-3

    Is that a drop?

    No, it fell just short of Jacob Bethell - a Rutherford chip off Will Jacks landing just short of the England fielder as he dives forward.

  6. WI 87-3

    CartyPA Media

    Each batter takes a pair of singles from Rashid's first over as they ease their way back into the innings.

  7. WI 83-3

    Rutherford 33, Carty 24

    Adil Rashid gets England back under way, his first over of the day.

    Keacy Carty defends the first ball.

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    My mate used to call Lasagne 'Meat Vienetta'.

    Anon

  9. The players are back out there at The Oval after just over 90 minutes off the field, so the carbonara-based chat may well be curtailed.

    So I'll just offer one more vital comment from the inbox...

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    There’s basically no such thing as a traditional carbonara, it’sa war time cheap recipe made with powdered eggs

    Christian in Telford

    On the carbonara talk, I tend you have two camps, the people who are traditional (and arguably right) and the people who want to have an easier time cooking it. For me, it'd depend on how much I want to invest in that meal, regular evening? Cream. Nice dinner? Traditional.

    Sam

    I saw mention of spag bol. This should never be a thing. It's tagliatelle bolognese. Unless you want to get run out of Bologna and pelted with tortellini for your trouble.

    Anon

  11. More news creeping out of The Oval - as suspected, it'll be 40 overs a side with a 20 minute interval.

    Meanwhile the last bit of plastic sheeting has been removed from the ground.

  12. Seeing a narrowing window for carbonara discourse, David slams into the chat with the pro-cream view.

    I'm still thinking about Steve's flatmate's salad cream carbonara and mislabelled dishes.

    In 2012, my own housemate at the time invited the girl he'd started seeing over to our place for the first time - they'd watch the Olympics opening ceremony and he'd cook a nice meal.

    The meal he chose?

    "Spam casserole."

    Three things to consider:

    1) It wasn't even a casserole, it was basically spam on undressed iceberg lettuce.

    2) This man is actually an excellent cook.

    3) Said woman is now his wife and the mother of his child.

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    Now it depends on whether you want a traditional carbonara... or something that tastes good. Carbonara with cream tastes a lot better. If you only do what is 'traditional' then food would never evolve. A conversation I often have is that while British food has a bad reputation what we do really well is steal other cuisines and experiment.

    David, trying not to fall asleep in Bishops Itchington

  14. Play to resume at 16:20 BST

    News!

    We're going to get going again at 16:20 BST.

    The suspicion is we'll go down to 40 overs a side, but we're still waiting for confirmation on that.

  15. CoversPA Media

    Lots of plastic sheets moved to various parts of the outfield now - almost all the wickets across the square are now uncovered.

    However the fact they haven't been packed away entirely does suggest they might be put back.

    At the moment, watching on the wide-angled camera view, there's an air of a mediocre Olympic opening ceremony, with lots of people scurrying around for unclear reasons.

  16. Blimey.

    Even I have my limits.

    Your flatmate best go into hiding, Steve, lest he be identified from your message and get punched in the face by a furious Stanley Tucci.

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    My flatmate at University used to make what he called spaghetti carbonara with salad dressing. It tasted almost, but not quite, entirely unlike carbonara.

    Steve, London

  18. Matthew Henry
    BBC Sport journalist at The Oval

    The covers are coming off. I can see the pitch for the first time in an hour.

  19. It still looks incredibly gloomy at The Oval, but my colleague Matthew Henry has confirmed it's no longer raining.

    There's no hover cover at this ground, so it involves a large team of ground staff lifting big sheets of plastic away from every part of the wicket.

    Some of the sheets have been moved but not taken off entirely - maybe so the umpires can take a look?

  20. I'm not sure I've seen such a strong response to any question in all my days on the BBC Cricket live.

    But for fans of pasta dish discourse, I have some bad news - the covers over the run-ups have been taken off, while the ones are covering the outer square are in the process of being removed.

    Sir John is going to have to hurry up if he wants to get his slip on - we might have some action at The Oval yet...