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Matthew Forde bought West Indies off to an excellent begin with three wickets on debut
| West Indies v England: Third ODI, Barbados |
| England 206-9 (40 overs): Duckett 71 (73), Livingstone 45 (56); Forde 3-29 |
| West Indies 191-6 (31.4 overs): Carty 50 (58), Athanaze 45 (51); Jacks 3-22 |
| West Indies received by 4 wickets (DLS methodology) |
West Indies bought over the road in a nervy chase to beat England by 4 wickets on the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern methodology in a rain-shortened third one-day worldwide in Barbados.
When play started two hours later than scheduled, seamer Matthew Forde shortly took three wickets on his worldwide debut as England collapsed to 49-5.
Ben Duckett made 71 to assist England recuperate and publish 206-9 from 40 overs after one other rain delay.
An additional downpour left West Indies with a revised goal of 188 from 34 overs and so they seemed on course for a snug victory because of a composed half-century from Keacy Carty.
However, England hit again to arrange a tense finale with Will Jacks taking 3-22 as the spinners did the injury.
The recreation appeared to be taking place to the wire however one costly over from the beforehand spectacular Gus Atkinson swung the sport decisively in West Indies’ favour and Romario Shepherd, who completed unbeaten on 41 from 28 balls, sealed the win with 14 balls to spare.
West Indies took the ODI series 2-1 and might have fun a primary residence series win over England within the format since 1998.
The two sides will now put together for the five-match T20 series that begins on Tuesday, additionally in Barbados.
Duckett makes case to grow to be ODI mainstay
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Ben Duckett averages virtually 40 in his 11 one-day appearances for England
England went into this series with a much-changed aspect following their World Cup disappointment and with Jos Buttler’s group not scheduled to play one other 50-over match till September 2024, this was the final probability for lots of the new-look group to impress for fairly a while.
But whereas the remainder of the highest order got here unstuck as West Indies made essentially the most of pleasant bowling circumstances early on, Duckett made his pitch for a daily berth within the one-day group.
The left-hander gritted it out early on as the wickets fell round him, seeing off Forde and co with the brand new ball earlier than going about constructing a much-needed partnership with Liam Livingstone.
Duckett bought his tempo excellent, even holding again on enjoying his favoured sweep photographs towards the spinners to get rid of as a lot danger as doable with England in a precarious place.
When the ball was there to be hit, he did so, and the one frustration was that having executed all of the exhausting work, he fell in comparatively tame style simply when he might need hoped to kick on.
A series defeat shouldn’t be the best way England wished to begin their new period in ODI cricket and so they nonetheless have loads of work to do to get again to the heights of 2019, however in Duckett they’ve a participant able to shifting them in the appropriate path once more.
Young West Indies group provides hope for the longer term
While England need to bounce again after a dreadful World Cup, West Indies’ rebuild is ranging from a fair decrease base after they didn’t even qualify for the event in India.
They have seemed to a brand new technology of gamers and a primary ODI series win over England since 2007 – and a primary at residence this century – is a really promising begin.
Forde will take the plaudits and the 21-year-old was spectacular on debut, shifting the ball by the air and off the seam whereas constantly hitting a probing line and size to unsettle the England batters.
With the bat, opener Alick Athanaze performed with nice fluency for his 45 whereas Carty grew into his innings and confirmed some exceptional timing as soon as he bought into his stride.
It was left to Shepherd, now one of many elder statesmen of the group, to complete the job and safe West Indies’ first ODI series win over a full member nation since March 2021.
That statistic in itself reveals the work that also must be executed and there have been loads of false dawns earlier than for West Indies cricket however the early indicators are encouraging for this new aspect.
‘Build round Salt and Brook’ – what they stated
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Harry Brook was run-out for simply 1 on Saturday
Ex-England captain Sir Alastair Cook on TNT Sports: “I believe there are plenty of positives. Phil Salt wants a run within the white-ball set-up. He has a strike-rate of 140 on the high of the order.
“I like the very fact you might have somebody who’s that dynamic. How good can he be? It’s going to intriguing to see if he can do it towards top-quality bowlers.
“Harry Brook, after a strange World Cup, where he was in the squad then wasn’t, he should just bat at number five and get experience in the team of leading the reboot. Players like that are potential match-winners and World Cup winners. They have that much talent.”
England captain Jos Buttler: “This is the start of a long journey for this side. There are some young guys who have got their first taste of ODI cricket and have hopefully learned a lot and we can build something for the future.”
Player of the match, West Indies bowler Matthew Forde: “Obviously getting a victory is a dream come true on debut. It was special for me. I am 21 and I’m living the dream.”
