WI VS ENG - 5th T20I, England tour of West Indies, 2024

West Indies vs England

No result due to rain

WI -44/0 (4.6)

Batter

R
B
4s
6s
SR
14
10
3
0
140
29
20
3
2
145

Bowler

O
M
R
W
ECO
1
0
5
0
5

Buttler collects the trophy and joins his team-mates as they pose for the photographs. ODI series win for West Indies, T20I series win for England. Although a bit predictable with all the matches being won by the chasing team, it was an exciting series. West Indies' home season will continue as they face-off against Bangladesh - 2 Tests followed by 3 ODIs and 3 T20Is. England, on the other hand, will be touring New Zealand for a three-match Test series. It's going to be a cricket-packed season and we'll bring you all the action. For now, it's goodbye!

Jos Buttler | England captain: We are delighted. We've had a few close calls out here as well, really good series against the West Indies. Thought we played some brilliant cricket early on and we are delighted with the win. We started all the games well, those powerplay wickets, Player of the Series Saqib Mahmood just set the tone in all those games which was great and a lot of different guys chipping in, really pleased for everybody. All the formats, there's a nice stock of fast bowlers with their own different variations and varieties, really exciting times for England men's cricket. (On not keeping) I enjoyed it, I felt like I had more time to think and run around, be a bit closer to the bowlers, got everything I wanted. (Favourite moment) Series win, different guys standing up in different moments.

Rovman Powell | West Indies captain: It's been a tough series. A lot of credit has to be given to Jos and his team, they came to our conditions and dominated. We played good cricket in patches, just that we didn't play good cricket for long enough periods. We always as a batting group have a template that we try to work with, unfortunately the template didn't work in the first few games. As a team, we need to assess a little bit faster. As a bowling unit, we need to sharpen up on a few areas. It's always a problem with the Caribbean cricketers, we always wander off. When we are not playing for West Indies, we play for different leagues around the world. It's been a trend where we haven't spent a lot of time together. That is something that we have to keep working on, we have to keep the communication with the players and ensure that when the players come back for West Indies, they are ready to go. The way we played the last game, we showed that we can play really good cricket. If we had assessed a little bit earlier in the series possibly, it could have been a different series. A lot of credit has to be given to Jos and his team, congratulations to them.

Saqib Mahmood | Player of the Series: As a group, we spoke beforehand to have that mindset of looking to take wickets the whole time. To come in with plans, to be able to back that up and get the rewards, it's been nice. From my side, it's obviously nice to work my way back into the England team. And to perform in this series, I am really happy. One thing that I noticed being here previously is the crosswinds at most grounds. I sort of felt that if I wanted to take the new ball, I had to work on my away-swinger a little bit just because Reece Topley and Jofra would swing the ball back in. That's something I worked on and to perform and show that in the games is nice. We have got a lot of fast bowlers. There's a few guys away with the Test team as well. At the moment, everyone is fit and healthy which is nice. Hopefully that'll continue. (Favourite moment) Winning the third game which was a tight game, and to win the series, it was nice.

18:18 Local Time, 22:18 GMT, 03:48 IST: Here's the inevitable update. The match has been called off. So, the final scoreline is West Indies 1 - 3 England. We witnessed just five overs of play today before torrential rain played spoilsport. The visitors wrapped up the series with two games remaining, WI picked up a consolation win yesterday in a high-scoring encounter and unfortunately there was hardly any action today.

17:50 Local Time, 21:50 GMT, 03:20 IST: "The rain has intensified," says Nikhil Uttamchandani. 19:48 local is the cut-off time for a 5-over contest.

17:40 Local Time, 21:40 GMT, 03:10 IST: It's absolutely bucketing down now at the Daren Sammy National Cricket Stadium.

17:00 Local Time, 21:00 GMT, 02:30 IST: It's still raining in Gros Islet! Things looking bleak at the moment.

16:23 Local Time, 20:23 GMT, 01:53 IST: Concussion test for Lewis and the groundstaff bring the covers as it has started to rain. Steady rain now. There's wind as well, let's hope that it blows those angry clouds away.

END OF OVER 5

16 Runs

WI: 44 - 0

1 4 1 6 4 0

Evin Lewis

29 (20)

Shai Hope

14 (10)

John Turner

2-0-22-0

4.6

John Turner to Lewis, no run, 136.7kph, sharp bouncer, Lewis backs away to pull, misses and the ball hits the side of the helmet before going towards backward point

4.5

4

John Turner to Lewis, FOUR, fuller than a length, Lewis gets forward and moves leg-side to thump it over mid-on. Not middled but that's been muscled

4.4

6

John Turner to Lewis, SIX, short ball with no venom, Lewis slightly moves leg-side and hammers the pull over midwicket. There's a man in the deep but he can only watch the ball sail over the ropes

4.3

John Turner to Shai Hope, 1 run, punched wide of cover

4.2

4

John Turner to Shai Hope, FOUR, 133.9kph, good shot! Mid-on was pushed to long-on prior to this ball and he's placed this perfectly. Waits for this in-angler and drags it over midwicket

4.1

John Turner to Lewis, 1 run, Lewis goes hard on the pull and it hits him high on the bat. Fortunately for Lewis, the ball falls wide of the midwicket fielder

John Turner [1.0-0-6-0] is back into the attack

END OF OVER 4

5 Runs

WI: 28 - 0

0 0 4 0 1 0

Shai Hope

9 (8)

Evin Lewis

18 (16)

Jamie Overton

1-0-5-0

3.6

Jamie Overton to Shai Hope, no run, push-driven towards cover

3.5

Jamie Overton to Lewis, 1 run, back of a length, pulled over midwicket. Two fielders - deep square leg and deep backward square leg - converge. Sam Curran runs to his left and parries it to Bethell and the batters only take a single. Lewis probably thought that it wouldn't be stopped

3.4

Jamie Overton to Lewis, no run, pitched up outside off, driven well but straight to cover

3.3

4

Jamie Overton to Lewis, FOUR, 125.1kph, short of length, Lewis goes back to pull. Goes hard and probably wanted to hit it much squarer. Hits him high on the bat and goes over wide mid-on for a one-bounce four