Postpublished at 22:49 GMT 6 November 2024
West Indies' game to lose?

West Indies win by eight wickets with seven overs to spare - report
Hosts take ODI series 2-1 - five T20s follow
Carty & King both score centuries in Windies' run-chase
Late hitting drags England to 263-8, having been 24-4
Archer's 38 off 17 balls helps tourists score 100 in last 10 overs
Mousley's half-century holds middle order together
Salt bats well for 74 as wickets fall around him
by Sam Drury & Matthew Henry
West Indies' game to lose?
Need 228 more runs from 44 overs
Brandon King takes on a risky single after pushing the ball to mid-off.
Yep.
Had Sam Curran's throw hit the opener would have been out.
Daniel Norcross
Test Match Special commentator
West Indies scored three more runs in the first three overs than England managed in their entire powerplay. And they haven’t lost four wickets getting there, either.
Target 264
Evin Lewis is a problem for England. Jofra Archer's latest over is going pretty well until the burly left-handed over plonks Archer back down the ground as if he's facing a club trundler.
Again it was too full from Archer.
Daniel Norcross
Test Match Special commentator
Worrying signs for England here. There is a reason teams like to chase under lights in Barbados, and it’s because the ball comes onto (and off) the bat just a little quicker.
Target 264
Better from Reece Topley, who concedes only a couple from his second over.
Still you feel England will need early wickets to have a chance.
King 13, Lewis 9
Stand-in skipper Liam Livingstone has his hands on his hips as he watches Archer's complete his over. The England fielders look quiet.
Archer's final ball brings an lbw appeal but Livingstone immediately suggests it's too high.
Jofra Archer is getting the treatment!
Evin Lewis cracks the ball back over the paceman's head.
Second slip is dispensed with.
Jofra Archer continues...
Target 264
Wicketkeeper Phil Salt fails to take one which flicks Brandon King's pads on its way down the leg side, resulting in four leg-byes.
An iffy start by England is added to when right-hander King crashes a boundary later in the over.
Reece Topley, who has not played since the T20s against Australia in September, will share the new ball.
Required run-rate: 5.16
England's top order played some poor shots earlier but they also had to deal with movement and some tennis-ball bounce.
There's little evidence of either of those things now with the floodlights on.
And again!
Same shot. Same result.
It's probably too full from Jofra Archer. It was the back-of-a-length deliveries that hurt England's top-order.
Target 264
Ominous.
Brandon King emphatically drives Jofra Archer's first ball through the covers for four.
My fear for England is this ball might skid on under the lights if there's dew around.
That would hamper Adil Rashid and England's other spinners.
It looks like Jofra Archer is going to start with the new ball.
Sir Alastair Cook
Ex-England captain on TNT Sports
England have definitely got a chance. After half an hour I didn't think we would be here.
Credit to way England fought. Phil Salt played such an unusual Phil Salt innings. He had my strike-rate from an ODI innings.
He learned from the first ODI. That is all you can ask of players.
The bad news for England is that nine of the past 11 ODIs on this ground have been won by the chasing team.
The better news is that only one of those successful chases was higher than this target of 264.
Earlier today, Ellyse Perry hit her third half-century in four games as Sydney Sixers edged past Hobart Hurricanes by six runs in the Women's Big Bash.
Perry smashed 11 fours and two sixes in her 86 off 62 balls, before she was dismissed off the final ball of the innings as Sixers posted 155-7.
The 34-year-old is the leading run-scorer in the tournament with 252, ahead of Australia team-mate Beth Mooney on 144.
Perry was ably supported by England's Hollie Armitage, who made 30 off 25 balls.
Hurricanes made a strong start to their chase but lost England's Danni Wyatt-Hodge (30) with the first ball after the powerplay.
Number one ranked T20 bowler Sophie Ecclestone (2-22) combined with 15-year-old Caoimhe Bray (2-13) to restrict Hurricanes through the middle overs.
They needed 20 off the final over and managed to take 13 off Ash Gardner but fell short to suffer a third defeat in their opening five games.
Sixers' win is their second in four matches and they join six other teams on four points.
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Sir Alastair Cook
Ex-England captain on TNT Sports
Dan Mousley played nicely. He showed a cool head.
Him and Jacob Bethell, the one thing you would say is they haven't looked overawed by international cricket. That is a big tick. Both of those two guys look like they are happy in that environment.