England win after Dyson blunders

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Having played 13 matches without success this winter, England finally triumphed after West Indies coach John Dyson called his side in for bad light when they were still behind on the Duckworth Lewis method used for calculating interrupted matches.

West Indies had been ahead on what proved the penultimate ball of the match, but Dinesh Ramdin was given lbw to Stuart Broad from the next delivery to put England ahead once again. But new batsman Nikita Miller did not have the chance to face the next ball because Dyson misread the charts and called his players in while needing just four runs off the remaining four balls in the over to secure victory.

It was a farcical way to end the tourists' long run without a win and will not have helped Dyson in his application to become the next full-time England coach, a position he is believed to be interested in securing.

Local hero Shivnarine Chanderpaul had earlier put West Indies on course for victory after hitting 26 off one Steve Harmison over.

Chasing England's competitive total of 270 for seven, Chanderpaul transformed West Indies' reply by hammering 46 off 30 balls after they had fallen behind on the rate required.

Harmison also dropped Kieron Pollard, who finished with 42 off 36 balls, on 31 in the deep but the loss of four wickets in six overs slowed West Indies' progress until Dyson's amazing blunder.

England had batted as well as they could have hoped, particularly without a major contribution from leading batsman Kevin Pietersen, to reach their total on a slow pitch.

Desperate to atone for Sunday's woeful Twenty20 display, when they were dismissed for just 121, England had spent the last week talking things through and emphasising the need to assess conditions and tactics out in the middle.

They did that superbly and accurately concluded it was not a wicket to play aggressive shots from the start, instead setting out to steadily build a total, which they achieved through determined half-centuries from Collingwood and Owais Shah.