Get Ball by Ball Commentary of England vs West Indies Only T20I 2012

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Reaction to today's game from Andrew McGlashan reporting on England's record chase and George Dobell will be analysing this victory shortly too.

So that ends West Indies tour of 2012. They're off back home and then heading out to Florida to take on New Zealand in two T20s, the first of them on Saturday, before an ODI series back in the Caribbean and three Tests to follow too. England have a brief break before they take on Australia in a five-match ODI series starting on Friday. The South Africa tour coming up later on this year too of course...

Alex Hales is, predictably, man of the match for his 99 and here the winning skipper: "We did some really good things today," Stuart Broad, the birthday boy, says. "Having not played T20 for a while we maybe didn't react to things as well as we could. Steve Finn, once again, was fantastic."

"With the team we have we should be winning games but we haven't been able to achieve success and we haven't been consistently good," Darren Sammy says. "Probably we need to fight even harder. The guys are trying really hard."

And so ends West Indies tour of England. And it has ended in defeat. They're endured a pretty torrid time and go home winless. Today, they though they had a great chance of finally notching up a victory as they posted 172 for 4 with a counterattack led by Dwayne Smith's 70 and Dwayne Bravo and Kieron Pollard smashing them to a good total. But they didn't have enough with the ball...

What a chase from England, that is very impressive, their highest successful chase in T20s...they've won here by seven wickets...it was a fabulous chase, managed by the highest T20 partnership for England between Alex Hales and Ravi Bopara. Neither man could see the side home and agonisingly Hales fell one short of the first T20 hundred by an England player but it was his career-best T20 score and he controlled the knock very well indeed...

19.4

Samuels to Morgan, 2 runs, full toss outside off, slapped to mid off, oh there's a misfield! And they're coming back, and England win!!

England still need two from three balls...drama here...

And another superb knock ends before the finish...

19.3

Samuels to Bopara, OUT, slapped down the ground and caught at long off! Went to finish it in one hit, it's off the toe of the bat down the throat of the fielder. He didn't catch it at all and it was a simple catch

RS Bopara c Edwards b Samuels 59 (75m 44b 4x4 1x6) SR: 134.09

Two to win...

19.2

Samuels to Bopara, 2 runs, slugged away through midwicket, they take two behind deep midwicket

19.1

Samuels to Bopara, no run, full and carved to cover

Still a game to win for England, four needed, can Samuels pull of something special for West Indies...

END OF OVER:
19 | 13 Runs 1 Wkt | ENG: 169/2 (4 runs required from 6 balls, RR: 8.89, RRR: 4.00)

Ravi Bopara57 (41b)

Ravi Rampaul4-0-37-2
Sunil Narine4-0-28-0

But what an innings that is from Hales, outstanding knock, KP who?!?

18.6

Rampaul to Hales, OUT, gone! And Hales is denied a hundred, bowled middle stump. It's a great delivery, full and straight and cleans up the timbers as Hales looked to go leg side

AD Hales b Rampaul 99 (84m 68b 6x4 4x6) SR: 145.58

99 to Hales...

18.5

Rampaul to Hales, 2 runs, full toss outside off, craved out to deep point

18.4

Rampaul to Hales, 2 runs, full toss and a chip down the ground lands well in front of long on, they take two

18.3

Rampaul to Bopara, 1 run, full and an inside edge to the 45, they take one

And that should be a match-winner...

18.2

Rampaul to Bopara, FOUR, he was stood outside off stump to give him room to swing to leg and he does so, behind square and gets four to backward square leg, poor bowling but great thinking from Bopara

That is a settler...

50 from 39 balls for Bopara...

18.1

Rampaul to Bopara, FOUR, slugged through leg side from a full ball outside off, and it runs for four! Great placement

Still work for England, 17 to win from 12 balls...finish it off...couple of boundaries to settle things...now Rampaul with probably Bravo to bowl the last over...Ravi to Ravi, around the wicket...

END OF OVER:
18 | 6 Runs | ENG: 156/1 (17 runs required from 12 balls, RR: 8.66, RRR: 8.50)

Alex Hales95 (65b)
Ravi Bopara48 (38b)

Sunil Narine4-0-28-0
Fidel Edwards4-0-33-0

17.6

Narine to Hales, no run, fired down the leg side, is that a wide? Must have clipped the pad

17.5

Narine to Bopara, 1 run, lifted down the ground for a single only to long off

17.4

Narine to Bopara, 2 runs, flick of the wrists wide of deep cover so two this time

17.3

Narine to Hales, 1 run, cut out through point again, just for one

17.2

Narine to Bopara, 1 run, pulled and a drop at midwicket, it was a very tough high chance but he mistimed the jump and put it down

17.1

Narine to Hales, 1 run, tucked out to deep point

23 from 18 balls...could be crucial this over from Narine...

END OF OVER:
17 | 12 Runs | ENG: 150/1 (23 runs required from 18 balls, RR: 8.82, RRR: 7.66)

Ravi Bopara44 (35b)
Alex Hales93 (62b)

Fidel Edwards4-0-33-0
Marlon Samuels1-0-11-0

16.6

Edwards to Bopara, 2 runs, leg side, clipped down to long leg where there is a lovely save by the fielder with one hand

16.5

Edwards to Bopara, no run, a swing from outside off stump and missed

16.4

Edwards to Bopara, 2 runs, clipped out through square leg and they run really well for two more

16.3

Edwards to Hales, 1 run, full again, dug into the on side and Gayle just about saves two

16.2

Edwards to Bopara, 1 run, yorker length ball, angled to short third man

16.1

Edwards to Hales, 1 run, length outside off and clipped to midwicket

England INNINGS		R	B
C Kieswetter	caught	3	7
AD Hales	bowled	99	68
RS Bopara	caught	59	44
EJG Morgan	not out	2	1
JC Buttler	not out	0	0
JM Bairstow
SR Patel
GP Swann
SCJ Broad
JW Dernbach
ST Finn
EXTRAS	(lb 2, w 2, nb 6)
TOTAL	173 (3 wkts; 19.4 ovs)

West Indies BOWLING	O	R	W	Econ
R Rampaul	4.0	37	2	9.25	(2w)
FH Edwards	4.0	33	0	8.25	(2nb)
SP Narine	4.0	28	0	7.00
DJ Bravo	2.0	21	0	10.50
DJG Sammy	3.0	22	0	7.33
KA Pollard	1.0	15	0	15.00
MN Samuels	1.4	15	1	9.00

Wkt	Runs	Players
1st	10	C Kieswetter	AD Hales
2nd	159	RS Bopara	AD Hales
3rd	2	RS Bopara	EJG Morgan
4th	2	EJG Morgan	JC Buttler

END OF OVER:
19 | 13 Runs 1 Wkt | ENG: 169/2 (4 runs required from 6 balls, RR: 8.89, RRR: 4.00)

END OF OVER:
18 | 6 Runs | ENG: 156/1 (17 runs required from 12 balls, RR: 8.66, RRR: 8.50)

END OF OVER:
17 | 12 Runs | ENG: 150/1 (23 runs required from 18 balls, RR: 8.82, RRR: 7.66)

Match Coverage

England tick off each new challenge

Hales falls short, Bairstow clings on

Hales leads England to record-breaking win

Callow England forced to build again

West Indies eye farewell victory

England 2nd innings Partnerships

END OF OVER:19 | 13 Runs 1 Wkt | ENG: 169/2 (4 runs required from 6 balls, RR: 8.89, RRR: 4.00)

END OF OVER:18 | 6 Runs | ENG: 156/1 (17 runs required from 12 balls, RR: 8.66, RRR: 8.50)

END OF OVER:17 | 12 Runs | ENG: 150/1 (23 runs required from 18 balls, RR: 8.82, RRR: 7.66)

England tick off each new challenge

Hales falls short, Bairstow clings on

Hales leads England to record-breaking win

Callow England forced to build again

West Indies eye farewell victory

END OF OVER:
19 | 13 Runs 1 Wkt | ENG: 169/2 (4 runs required from 6 balls, RR: 8.89, RRR: 4.00)

END OF OVER:
18 | 6 Runs | ENG: 156/1 (17 runs required from 12 balls, RR: 8.66, RRR: 8.50)

END OF OVER:
17 | 12 Runs | ENG: 150/1 (23 runs required from 18 balls, RR: 8.82, RRR: 7.66)