The Teams

ENGLAND (from): AJ Strauss (Middlesex, capt), RS Bopara (Essex), KP Pietersen (Hampshire), IR Bell (Warwickshire), OA Shah (Middlesex), PD Collingwood (Durham), MJ Prior (Sussex, wkt), AD Mascarenhas (Hampshire), SJ Broad (Nottinghamshire), GJ Batty (Worcestershire), SJ Harmison (Durham), JM Anderson (Lancashire), SM Davies (Worcestershire), Amjad Khan (Kent), A Rashid (Yorkshire).

WEST INDIES (from): Chris Gayle (capt), Denesh Ramdin (wkt), Lionel Baker, Dwayne Bravo, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Fidel Edwards, Nikita Miller, Keiron Pollard, Daren Powell, Darren Sammy, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Lendl Simmons, Devon Smith.

Hopefully, Rashid will get a chance. Despite the farcical circumstances of the last match, England should have lost. Why not change it up, or we'll be going home from this Tour without a bonafide win in the Tests, the T20 or the ODI.

We'll never know but I firmly believe England would have won that last game had it been played out.

Broad had just taken a wicket, they had two new 'batsmen' in, the light was fading and we were ahead on DL.

Perahsp, the expected result. Lets face it England should be 2 down in this series.

by the same argument Gilzean you might say England should have won the test series 2-1 in view of the 2 close finishes when we were well on top.

A win is a win and there was no guarantee that even if the Windies had stayed on that they would have scored 2 runs off the next ball - what if the next ball had been another wicket and then the D/L total would have gone up again?

Even if the game had gone the full 50 overs we may still have won.

They couldn't possibly have stayed on for one more ball. Not even the most biast umpires in the world would have allowed that to happen. What I find amazing is that had Dyson realised they were a run behind it would have been light enough to play! Dark's dark and light is light, one run shouldn't make the sky light up. They must play to a finish, even in the twilight zone.

Must admit that one good thing that's happened in recent years is that in domectic cricket the umpires now decide on the light rather than the batsmen. Yes they sometimes go off when some of us think we should play but at least we dont have the "should we/shouldn't we" conversations from the batsmen

Surely the biggest irony of the whole farcical situation was that the ground actually has floodlights which couldn't be used because the captains hadn't agreed in advance that they could be used. (Unless I'm mistaken - but I think the lights were used for the second ODI at the same ground).
I suspect no-one had thought to ask the captains - can't imagine they would have refused for any reason...

Andrew Flintoff has been passed fit to play in the third one-day international with the West Indies in Barbados. It probably means that Rashid won't get in the match.