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England v West Indies ODI Series 2012 – 1st ODI
England v West Indies
Sat 16 Jun 2012, 10:45am BST, 10:45am local
England win by 114 runs (D/L method)
| England | 288-6 (50 ovs) |
|---|---|
| West Indies | 172 (33.4 ovs) |
commentary
Over 34. no runs. Bowler: Tim Bresnan. West Indies: 172/10(rr 5.06)
OUT! Caught. Bresnan to Narine. Reverse swinging length ball, outside off stump on the back foot driving, outside edge in the air uncontrolled to wicketkeeper, fielded by Kieswetter. England won with ease in the end. Their policy of playing top line bowlers and batsmen rather than opting for several allrounders worked well especially in these conditions. The pitch was good but the cold and wet conditions didn't help the West Indians especially with the added spice the rain gave the pitch when England were bowling. Ian Bell was the star of the show today and will hope to take that form into the next game. This is a short series so the visitors will have to find their form soon if they are to avoid another series defeat.
Bresnan to Narine. Length ball, outside off stump on the back foot pushing, to cover for no runs, fielded by Trott.
Bresnan to Narine. Length ball, outside off stump on the back foot pushing, to cover for no runs, fielded by Bopara.
Bresnan to Narine. Reverse swinging length ball, outside off stump on the front foot, shoulders arms to wicketkeeper for no runs, fielded by Kieswetter.
Over 33. 2 runs. Bowler: Graeme Swann. West Indies: 172/9(rr 5.21)
Swann to Bravo. Off break length ball, outside off stump on the front foot defending, to backward point for no runs.
Swann to Bravo. Quicker length ball, off stump on the front foot defending, to cover for no runs, fielded by Bopara.
Swann to Bravo. Off break length ball, outside off stump on the front foot defending, missed to wicketkeeper for no runs, fielded by Kieswetter.
OUT! Caught. Swann to Rampaul. Off break length ball, outside off stump on the front foot slog sweeping, mis-timed in the air uncontrolled to deep mid wicket, fielded by Trott. With Bravo injured and a high run-rate, they have to go for big hits. That went a decent distance, but the ropes are all the way back on this big ground so Trott had no worries in taking a regulation catch.
Swann to Rampaul. Off break length ball, outside off stump on the front foot Steer, well timed to third man for 2 runs, fielded by Morgan.
Swann to Rampaul. Off break length ball, outside off stump on the front foot defending, back to bowler for no runs, fielded by Swann.
Over 32. 6 runs. Bowler: Tim Bresnan. West Indies: 170/8(rr 5.31)
Bresnan to Bravo. Length ball, outside off stump on the front foot defending, to mid off for no runs, fielded by Trott.
FOUR! Bresnan to Bravo. Length ball, outside off stump on the front foot driving, well timed in the air under control past deep extra cover for 4 runs.
Bresnan to Bravo. Short, outside off stump on the back foot Steer, missed to wicketkeeper for no runs, fielded by Kieswetter.
Bresnan to Rampaul. Length ball, outside off stump on the front foot driving, thick edge in the air uncontrolled to third man for 1 run, fielded by Broad.
Bresnan to Bravo. Length ball, middle stump on the back foot working, well timed to deep square leg for 1 run, fielded by Broad.
Bresnan to Bravo. Length ball, off stump on the back foot pushing, to backward point for no runs, fielded by Morgan.
Over 31. 7 runs. Bowler: Graeme Swann. West Indies: 164/8(rr 5.29)
Swann to Rampaul. Off break length ball, off stump on the front foot defending, back to bowler for no runs, fielded by Swann.
Swann to Rampaul. Off break length ball, off stump down the track driving, well timed in the air under control to long on for 2 runs, fielded by Bell.
FOUR! Swann to Rampaul. Off break length ball, off stump down the track driving, well timed in the air under control past deep mid wicket for 4 runs.
Swann to Rampaul. Off break length ball, middle stump on the front foot pushing, to mid on for no runs, direct hit by Broad.
Swann to Rampaul. Off break length ball, outside off stump on the front foot, shoulders arms to wicketkeeper for no runs, fielded by Kieswetter.
Swann to Bravo. Off break length ball, middle stump on the front foot pushing, well timed to mid wicket for 1 run, fielded by Broad.
Over 30. 1 run. Bowler: Tim Bresnan. West Indies: 157/8(rr 5.23)
Bresnan to Rampaul. Back of a length, outside off stump on the back foot, shoulders arms to wicketkeeper for no runs, fielded by Kieswetter.
OUT! Caught. Bresnan to Russell. Short, off stump on the back foot pulling, top edge in the air uncontrolled to backward point, fielded by Morgan. Another simple wicket as Morgan takes the easiest of catches off that top edge. Darren Bravo is injured and can hardly move and shouldn't be out there with no chance of winning this game now.
Bresnan to Russell. Length ball, outside off stump on the front foot pushing, to slips for no runs, fielded by Swann.
Bresnan to Bravo. Length ball, outside off stump on the front foot driving, well timed to deep cover for 1 run, fielded by Trott.
Bresnan to Bravo. Length ball, outside off stump on the back foot driving, well timed to point for no runs, fielded by Morgan.
Bresnan to Bravo. Seaming away length ball, outside off stump on the front foot, shoulders arms to wicketkeeper for no runs, fielded by Kieswetter.
Over 29. 5 runs. Bowler: Graeme Swann. West Indies: 156/7(rr 5.38)
Swann to Bravo. Off break length ball, outside off stump on the front foot driving, well timed to deep cover for 1 run, fielded by Morgan.
OUT! Caught. Swann to Sammy. Off break length ball, outside off stump on the back foot pushing, mis-timed in the air uncontrolled to short extra cover, fielded by Bopara. That was extraordinary. It bounced a bit more than is normal, but Sammy just popped it up to Bopara and seemed to have no time to change his shot, almost as though facing a pace bowler. That could be the final nail in the coffin.
Swann to Sammy. Off break length ball, outside off stump on the front foot defending, to silly mid on for no runs, fielded by Anderson.
Swann to Sammy. Off break length ball, outside off stump on the back foot cutting, well timed to deep backward point for 2 runs, fielded by Trott.
Swann to Russell. Off break length ball, off stump on the front foot driving, well timed to long on for 1 run, fielded by Bell.
Swann to Sammy. Off break length ball, outside off stump on the front foot driving, well timed to long on for 1 run, fielded by Bell.
Over 28. 11 runs. Bowler: James Anderson. West Indies: 151/6(rr 5.39)
Anderson to Sammy. Length ball, middle stump on the back foot driving, well timed to long on for 1 run.
Anderson to Russell. Length ball, outside off stump on the back foot Steer, well timed to third man for 1 run, fielded by Broad.
Anderson to Russell. Length ball, off stump on the front foot defending, back to bowler for no runs, fielded by Anderson.
FOUR! Anderson to Russell. Length ball, middle stump on the front foot driving, well timed in the air under control past deep mid wicket for 4 runs.
Anderson to Sammy. Length ball, middle stump on the front foot working, well timed to fine leg for 1 run, fielded by Bresnan.
FOUR! Anderson to Sammy. Length ball, middle stump on the front foot flick, well timed in the air under control past deep backward square leg for 4 runs.
Over 27. 1 run. Bowler: Stuart Broad. West Indies: 140/6(rr 5.19)
Broad to Russell. Length ball, outside off stump no foot movement Slog, missed to wicketkeeper for no runs, fielded by Kieswetter.
Broad to Russell. Length ball, outside off stump on the front foot defending, to point for no runs, fielded by Morgan.
Broad to Russell. Length ball, outside off stump on the back foot defending, missed to wicketkeeper for no runs, fielded by Kieswetter.
Broad to Russell. Back of a length, outside off stump on the back foot defending, missed to wicketkeeper for no runs, fielded by Kieswetter.
Broad to Sammy. Length ball, outside off stump on the front foot pushing, mis-timed to extra cover for 1 run, fielded by Cook.
APPEAL! Broad to Sammy. Seaming in back of a length, off stump on the back foot working, hit pad to silly point for no runs, appeal made for L.B.W.
Over 26. 2 runs. Bowler: James Anderson. West Indies: 139/6(rr 5.35)
Anderson to Sammy. Length ball, middle stump on the back foot working, well timed to mid wicket for 1 run, fielded by Swann.
Anderson to Sammy. Length ball, outside off stump on the front foot defending, back to bowler for no runs, fielded by Anderson.
Anderson to Russell. Reverse swinging length ball, middle stump on the back foot working, well timed to deep mid wicket for 1 run, fielded by Swann. Russell has hurt himself here after slipping on the damp surface.
Anderson to Russell. Length ball, outside off stump on the back foot defending, to point for no runs, fielded by Morgan.
Anderson to Russell. Out-swinging length ball, outside off stump on the front foot pushing, to short extra cover for no runs, fielded by Bopara.
OUT! Caught. Anderson to Samuels. Length ball, middle stump on the front foot flick, mis-timed in the air uncontrolled to mid wicket, fielded by Swann. Samuels couldn't quite time that ansd Swann took a fairly easy catch although had to leap a touch. England's game to lose now.
Over 25. 5 runs. Bowler: Stuart Broad. West Indies: 137/5(rr 5.48)
Broad to Samuels. Length ball, outside off stump moves in front Steer, well timed to third man for 1 run, fielded by Bresnan.
Broad to Samuels. Seaming in length ball, outside off stump on the back foot dropped, to wicketkeeper for no runs, fielded by Kieswetter.
Broad to Samuels. Length ball, off stump on the front foot defending, back to bowler for no runs, fielded by Broad.
Broad to Samuels. Length ball, outside off stump on the front foot pushing, to backward point for no runs, fielded by Morgan.
Broad to Samuels. Bouncer, middle stump ducked, left to wicketkeeper for no runs, fielded by Kieswetter.
FOUR! Broad to Samuels. Back of a length, outside off stump on the back foot cutting, well timed past deep backward point for 4 runs.
England v West Indies ODI Series 2012 – 1st ODI
England v West Indies
Sat 16 Jun 2012, 10:45am BST, 10:45am local
England win by 114 runs (D/L method)
| England | 288-6 (50 ovs) |
|---|---|
| West Indies | 172 (33.4 ovs) |
match report
Ian Bell's second one-day international hundred underpinned England's 114-run win over West Indies on the Duckworth/Lewis method.
Bell defied a broken jaw, and rose to the challenge of replacing Kevin Pietersen, as he scored a sublime 126 for the hosts.
Bell made the same score - unbeaten last time - as in his only previous hundred, on this same ground five years ago, in a total of 288 for six in the first NatWest Series match at the Ageas Bowl.
West Indies' own substitute opener Dwayne Smith (56) then gave England plenty to think about - pulling his second six, off Stuart Broad, to go with six fours and bring up his 50 in only 38 balls - but his power-packed team-mates failed to deliver, bowled out for 172 with more than 14 overs unused.
Bell, opening for the first time since last year's World Cup, produced a chanceless innings of trademark timing and placement - with 12 fours and one six from 117 balls - after England were put in under cloudy skies.
On a very good batting surface, by the time Bell mistimed an attempted 'paddle' at a slow full-toss from Dwayne Bravo, to loop a simple catch and become wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin's fourth victim of the day, England were in prime position to attack the last 10 overs.
The only complicating factor was that five wickets were down already, but Craig Kieswetter and the tail made sure that dwindling resource did not compromise the addition of 68 more runs.
Bell was passed fit, for his first assignment as the retired Pietersen's successor at the top of the order, having yesterday edged a pull into his face in indoor practice - a mishap which resulted in 10 stitches and an x-ray on his jawbone.
He showed no ill-effects, in a match minus West Indies' destructive opener Chris Gayle - a shock absentee with a shin injury.
England were almost instantly without their captain and Bell's opening partner Alastair Cook, but a second-wicket stand of 108 in 20 overs put them in good shape.
Cook departed to the third ball of the match, from Ravi Rampaul, pushing forward and edging a modicum of movement behind.
Number three Jonathan Trott was first to find the boundary, clipping Andre Russell handsomely off his toes from the final ball of the fourth over. Then in Russell's next, Bell was ready to put his stamp on proceedings.
A memorable six, struck high over long-off from a length ball, was followed by three fours in five balls - a cut, a pull and another drive on the up wide of mid-off.
Bell therefore went from four to 22 in an over, and Darren Sammy had to start swapping and changing his many bowling options.
Bell eased past his 50, on this huge playing area, with a high-class four off the back foot through the off-side off Sunil Narine - before doubling his tally of career ODI hundreds, in his 109th match.
He lost Trott and Ravi Bopara in near identical fashion, both edging behind as they tried to cut the off-spin of Narine and then Marlon Samuels.
Bell ensured an opener reached three figures in each of England's last five ODI innings, only to lose Eoin Morgan - playing on to Samuels at the start of the batting powerplay - and then go himself at the end of it.
West Indies opener Lendl Simmons chopped James Anderson down on to his stumps. But Smith, in place of Gayle, took a huge pulled six and two fours from one Steve Finn over to give the tourists' run chase early momentum in a half-century stand with Ramdin.
After Tim Bresnan (four for 34) eliminated the second-wicket pair in the space of five balls, however, Smith edging a very short ball behind as he aimed to pull again and Ramdin lbw to one that nipped in slightly off the seam, Finn hit Bravo in front too.
Kieron Pollard cut Stuart Broad hard to point - where Morgan took a flying catch away to his left - and in the absence of specialist batsman Darren Bravo, who injured his groin in the field, from 127 for five the West Indies' remaining power hitters had far too much to do.
They returned from an hour-long rain break, with a revised target of 287 in 25 overs still available - and after Samuels fell to a chip to midwicket, West Indies' miserable day was soon complete as they lost their last nine wickets for 77 runs.
England v West Indies ODI Series 2012 – 1st ODI
England v West Indies
Sat 16 Jun 2012, 10:45am BST, 10:45am local
England win by 114 runs (D/L method)
England innings
| runs | balls | 4s | 6s | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AN Cook | c D Ramdin b R Rampaul | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| IR Bell | c D Ramdin b DJ Bravo | 126 | 117 | 12 | 1 |
| IJL Trott | c D Ramdin b SP Narine | 42 | 66 | 3 | 0 |
| RS Bopara | c D Ramdin b MN Samuels | 8 | 15 | 0 | 0 |
| EJG Morgan | b MN Samuels | 21 | 25 | 2 | 0 |
| C Kieswetter | not out | 38 | 39 | 3 | 0 |
| TT Bresnan | run out (DR Smith) | 21 | 21 | 2 | 0 |
| SCJ Broad | not out | 22 | 15 | 1 | 1 |
| Extras | 9w, 1nb | 10 | |||
| Total | (50 ovs) | 288 | for 6 | ||
did not bat: GP Swann, ST Finn, JM Anderson
fow: 1-0 (AN Cook, 0.3 ov), 2-108 (IJL Trott, 20.3 ov), 3-136 (RS Bopara, 26.3 ov), 4-187 (EJG Morgan, 34.6 ov), 5-216 (IR Bell, 39.2 ov), 6-245 (TT Bresnan, 44.2 ov)
| ovs | mdns | runs | wkts | econ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R Rampaul | 10.0 | 0 | 68 | 1 | 6.80 |
| AD Russell | 6.0 | 0 | 43 | 0 | 7.17 |
| SP Narine | 10.0 | 0 | 47 | 1 | 4.70 |
| DJG Sammy | 6.0 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 5.33 |
| DJ Bravo | 9.0 | 0 | 55 | 1 | 6.11 |
| MN Samuels | 9.0 | 0 | 43 | 2 | 4.78 |
West Indies innings
| runs | balls | 4s | 6s | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LMP Simmons | b JM Anderson | 15 | 16 | 2 | 0 |
| DR Smith | c C Kieswetter b TT Bresnan | 56 | 44 | 6 | 2 |
| D Ramdin | lbw TT Bresnan | 22 | 38 | 0 | 0 |
| MN Samuels | c GP Swann b JM Anderson | 30 | 30 | 3 | 0 |
| DJ Bravo | lbw ST Finn | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 |
| KA Pollard | c EJG Morgan b SCJ Broad | 3 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| DJG Sammy | c RS Bopara b GP Swann | 11 | 16 | 1 | 0 |
| AD Russell | c EJG Morgan b TT Bresnan | 7 | 13 | 1 | 0 |
| DM Bravo | not out | 8 | 13 | 1 | 0 |
| R Rampaul | c IJL Trott b GP Swann | 9 | 10 | 1 | 0 |
| SP Narine | c C Kieswetter b TT Bresnan | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Extras | 3w | 3 | |||
| Total | (33.4 ovs) | 172 | all out | ||
fow: 1-25 (LMP Simmons, 4.5 ov), 2-95 (DR Smith, 15.4 ov), 3-102 (D Ramdin, 17.2 ov), 4-118 (DJ Bravo, 19.4 ov), 5-127 (KA Pollard, 22.2 ov), 6-137 (MN Samuels, 25.1 ov), 7-155 (DJG Sammy, 28.5 ov), 8-157 (AD Russell, 29.5 ov), 9-172 (R Rampaul, 32.3 ov), 10-172 (SP Narine, 33.4 ov)
| ovs | mdns | runs | wkts | econ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JM Anderson | 8.0 | 0 | 48 | 2 | 6.00 |
| ST Finn | 6.0 | 0 | 29 | 1 | 4.83 |
| TT Bresnan | 7.4 | 0 | 34 | 4 | 4.43 |
| SCJ Broad | 8.0 | 0 | 40 | 1 | 5.00 |
| GP Swann | 4.0 | 0 | 21 | 2 | 5.25 |
match details
toss: West Indies won the toss and elected to bowl.
venue: The Ageas Bowl, Southampton
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