England out for paltry 99

Although England captain Kevin Pietersen opted to bat first in Sir Allen Stanford's 20/20 for 20 showdown, only three men reached double figures amid a regular tumbling of wickets.

And on the same surface that the Stanford Superstars cracked 14 sixes two nights ago, England did not manage any.

England openers Ian Bell and Matt Prior both paid the price for moving around in their crease in the same Jerome Taylor over, the fourth of the innings.

Bell attempted to give himself room and only succeeded in jabbing a yorker into leg-stump while Prior walked across his stumps two deliveries later and was spectacularly bowled.

Such was the dominance of the Superstars' attack in the powerplay period, in fact, that only two boundaries were struck, both by Prior, a flowing extra-cover drive off Taylor and a pull over mid-on off Daren Powell.

With uneven bounce a feature of this week at the Coolidge ground, cross-batted shots were potentially perilous as Owais Shah discovered.

In an attempt to haul the ball from outside off-stump, Shah skied a steepler to deepish square-leg where Dave Mohammed judged the catch perfectly despite team-mate Kieron Pollard almost causing a nasty collision.

England were deep in trouble when star man Pietersen missed an attempted sweep shot off medium-pacer Darren Sammy, which exposed and knocked over his leg-stump.

It triggered one of a number of joyous celebrations from the West Indian players - Sammy lying on his back with arms aloft in an outpouring of emotion. When Andrew Flintoff and Paul Collingwood perished in consecutive overs, England were 54 for six and struggling to set a three-figure target.