Summary

  • Career-best knock from Livingstone takes England to victory - report

  • Skipper cracks 124 off 85 balls, including nine sixes

  • Salt, Bethell & Curran also hit half-centuries

  • West Indies post 328-6

  • Hope, dropped on 60 by Salt, scores superbly-paced 117

  • Carty makes 71 before falling to Rashid googly

  • Series level at 1-1 - final match in Barbados on Wednesday

Live Reporting

by Mike Peter

  1. WI 139-2

    A couple to singles are all that comes from the first five balls of Archer's over, but Keacy Carty closes it superbly, getting his bat under the England seamer's bouncer and lifting the ball through an empty cordon.

    Four runs, he moves to 60.

  2. Daniel Norcross
    Test Match Special commentator

    Desperate to break this partnership, Livingstone turns to Archer. Notable, though, that he has yet to use Curran. Is he deployed as a specialist batter?

  3. WI 133-2

    The West Indies work five further runs off Bethell's over.

    This pair are looking very settled - England are bringing Jofra Archer back in an attempt to change that.

  4. Daniel Norcross
    Test Match Special commentator

    This is a key phase in the WI innings. Two batters well set, part time spinners Bethell and Jacks into the attack. Expect Hope especially to show intent.

  5. 50 runs

    Fifty for Keacy Carty

    WI 128-2

    Keacy Carty of West Indies batsGetty Images

    Carty joins Hope in reaching fifty!

    Bethell's first ball drifts down leg and Carty helps it on its way to the boundary with a well-timed sweep.

    It comes off 62 balls.

  6. How stat?!

    Ben Jones
    CricViz analyst

    Will Jacks into the attack against two right-handers might be an odd move with many off spinners, but Jacks is unusual - in both T20s and ODIs, his economy is actually better against right-handers than left-handers.

  7. WI 124-2

    Thanks Tim.

    Shai Hope welcomes my arrival at the keyboard (we only have one) by dropping onto the back foot and lofting Will Jacks over mid-off for four.

    This partnership is now worth 112.

  8. Sir Alastair Cook
    Ex-England captain on TNT Sports

    Maybe that'll be a crucial moment, the difference between 240 and 280.

  9. dropped catch

    Hope dropped on 60

    WI 117-2

    Jacob Bethell concedes three off his next over, but off the final delivery Phil Salt fluffs his lines.

    The keeper doesn't hold on to a regulation edge from Shai Hope, and the bowler sinks to his haunches in frustration.

    And on that cheery note, I'll hand over to Mike Peter for the second half of the West Indies innings.

  10. Ben Jones
    CricViz analyst

    Will Jacks into the attack against two righties might be an odd move with many off-spinners, but Jacks is unusual - in both T20s and ODIs, his economy is actually better against right-handers than left-handers.

  11. WI 108-2

    Liam Livingstone has a multitude of bowling options, and so now he shuffles his pack by bringing on Will Jacks. He has a Test five-fer, don't forget.

    His first ball goes for runs when Jofra Archer fumbles in the field, but he retrieves it to concede two

  12. 6 runs

    50 for Hope

    WI 105-2

    Shai Hope of West Indies celebrates his half centuryGetty Images

    Jacob Bethell is on for Adil Rashid, but a horrible drag-down is pulled high over mid-wicket to see Shai Hope past 50.

  13. Daniel Norcross
    Test Match Special commentator

    After six overs without a boundary, the pressure is just lifted a bit on that Livingstone over as Carty has started to line him up better.

  14. WI 97-2

    Sam Curran fields a hoick from Shai Hope on the point boundary - it feels like that's the first time we've seen him so far.

    Keacy Carty then looks to get on with things a bit, cutting Livingstone to the rope, then lifting him high over the covers for two more before a drive along the ground for another two.

    Livingstone responds well with a leg-break that just eludes Carty's top edge.

  15. Daniel Norcross
    Test Match Special commentator

    Keacy Carty of West Indies shouts no for a runGetty Images

    Keacy Carty is in danger of getting stuck here against the spinners. He has to find a way of rotating the strike.

  16. WI 87-2

    Look, when it comes to Salt and Pepper references, I'm not going to push it.

    See what I did there?

  17. A visual indication of the squeeze England are applying on the Windies.

    ManhattanBBC/Cricviz

  18. WI 85-2

    Ouch! Umpire Gregory Brathwaite wears a throw from the covers on his calf, that's gotta hurt.

    Phil Salt then repeats the "I'm smashing the off stump down" routine with some neat glovework, and it's another quiet over Liam Livingstone.

  19. WI 82-2

    Michael Pepper is on as a substitute, chasing a push from Carty that brings the batter the only runs of the over.

    Pepper throws to Salt - there you go, I've got the 'Salt and Pepper' reference in....

  20. WI 80-2

    Liam Livingstone turns one away past Keacy Carty's outside edge, with Phil Salt theatrically demolishing the off stump even though the batter is in his ground. Carty manages a single off the next, the only run from the England captain's second over.