England denied by last-wicket pair

Andrew Strauss' team remain 1-0 behind in the Test series after West Indies' last pair Daren Powell and Fidel Edwards saw out the final 10 overs.

West Indies closed on 370 for nine, with four scheduled overs remaining, when the offer of bad light by umpires Daryl Harper and Rudi Koertzen was taken.

After setting their hosts an improbable 503-run target, England entered the final day requiring seven wickets. Despite dominating this hastily-arranged match, however, they could not finish the job.

Held up for what seemed an eternity by overnight pair Ramnaresh Sarwan and Shivnarine Chanderpaul, and hampered by early morning rain, which snipped one-and-a-quarter hours off the start of the fifth day, England toiled away on what remained a good surface despite limited preparation.

Two successes apiece for pace bowler James Anderson and spinner Graeme Swann post tea raised hopes. But England lacked the cutting edge to finish the job as Powell and Edwards displayed tremendous powers of defiance.

Stuart Broad had struck twice in quick succession with the second new ball to enhance England's victory bid during the afternoon session.

Fast bowler Broad removed overnight pair Sarwan and Chanderpaul inside a 20-minute spell after breaking the marathon 37-over wait for an inroad.

But desperation was setting in when, with the light fading, Strauss asked injury-hampered Andrew Flintoff to send down a third spell of the day.

There was no fairytale ending, however, and after failing to separate the 10th-wicket duo in six balls from the pavilion end, Flintoff was forced to give way to Kevin Pietersen's off-spin after a ruling by the umpires that facing the fast men in murky light was unfair.