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England men's final white-ball assignment of 2024 ends on a bit of a damp squib, albeit with a 3-1 series win.

There were five overs of cricket which are neatly summarised by my colleague Ffion Wynne here before the heavens opened.

Thanks to those of you who stuck with us to the bitter end.

Our next cricket live text commentary will be a week today - 24 November - when England women's side begin their tour of South Africa with the first of three T20 internationals.

We'll see you then.

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England captain Jos Buttler: "We're delighted with the series win. We've played some brilliant cricket.

"I've been happy with how we've started games, setting the tone with the powerplay wickets as we've seen from Saqib being named player of the series. We've had lots of different guys chipping in at various times so I'm really pleased for everybody.

"The fast bowling department is looking good, and they all bring something different with their variety so it's exciting for English cricket to have that.

"I enjoyed it [being captain without keeping], I felt like I had a bit more time and it was nice to be out there running around and closer to the bowlers. I got everything I wanted to out of doing that.

"It's great to have the winning habit back."

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West Indies skipper Rovman Powell: "It's been a tough series and credit Jos Buttler and his team who came to these conditions and dominated. Having said that we played good cricket in patches but not in long enough periods.

"I think we always as a batting group use a template but that didn't work in our first few games. As a team we need to assess faster. It took us two or three games. The bowling group needs to sharpen up in a few areas."

On players not being together frequently: "It's always a problem with the Caribbean cricketers, we always wander off when we are not playing for West Indies. It's a treadmill and we don't spend time together. We have to keep our communication with players and ensure they are ready to go."

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Player of the series, England bowler Saqib Mahmood: "As a group we've spoken a lot about what we want to do and our mindset of taking wickets in the powerplay, so it's nice to get the rewards for that.

"For me, it's been good to work my way back into the team and to stand up with some performances. It's something I'm very happy about.

"There's a lot of wind to contend with in the Caribbean so I knew I'd have to work on my away-swinger. It's something I worked hard on and it's nice to see it come off in a game.

"We've got a nice stock of fast bowlers now, hopefully we can all stay fit and healthy - long may it continue."

Right, player of the series is England fast bowler Saqib Mahmood who we will hear from shortly.

A brief summary of the results during this series, then, while the agonising wait for the presentation to start continues.

1st T20I: England won by eight wickets

2nd T2OI: England won by seven wickets

3rd T20I: England won by three wickets

4th T20I: West Indies won by five wickets

5th T20I: No result

ENGLAND WIN THE SERIESpublished at 22:22 Greenwich Mean Time 17 November

22:22 GMT 17 November

Not sure it quite constitutes a champagne moment, but the abandonment in St Lucia means England have won the five-match T20 series against the West Indies 3-1.

We'll have the presentations to decide the player of the series coming up shortly so stick with us for a little while longer.

Match abandonedpublished at 22:14 Greenwich Mean Time 17 November

22:14 GMT 17 November

In fact we've just had the official call.

Match abandoned due to the weather.

It's dark, dank and rather grim at the Daren Sammy Cricket Ground now. Most of the spectators, quite wisely, have got themselves off.

We await what now feels like an inevitable decision to call this one off.

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Marcus Trescothick has expressed his interest in becoming England head coach in the future.

The former England batter has been the Test side's assistant coach and became interim white-ball coach after Matthew Mott’s departure in July.

Trescothick has since coached the limited-overs side in the series against Australia and the tour of West Indies, with Brendon McCullum assuming charge across all formats from January.

Read the full story here.

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Sir Alastair Cook, on TNT Sports, has just said "we're not getting back on".

Hard to disagree with that prediction based on current pictures from St Lucia.

Thanks for the message, Mike. It is a tennis term originally, of course.

One of a similar nature I actually quite like is "rain check". The etymology of that phrase is from baseball when a ticket is issued to spectators which allows them entry to a ballgame at a later date at no additional cost.

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Standing water on top of the covers at the Daren Sammy Cricket Ground with the rain still coming down.

Incidentally, the latest time we can resume this match is 23:48 GMT as a five-overs-a-side contest. England would likely have to chase a DLS target of 69.

However, the umpires may well call it off before that time if there's no chance of play.

Kevin McDonnell, of St Annes Cricket Club, has been in touch on WhatsApp. He's worked out how to get Evin Lewis out...

Unfortunately, the picture in Gros Islet is still pretty bleak I'm afraid. As soon as we have an update we will, of course, bring it to you.

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While I largely agree with you, Russ, I think it's to do with conditioning for workloads over a longer period of time. There's all sorts of analysis done by the sports science teams which include various factors that determine the chances of injury etc.

The upshot is you have to handle fast bowlers with care.