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Yuvraj Singh made up for the absence of key players with an explosive century and led his team to a hard-fought win

Through two Tests, three one-day internationals and a Twenty20 practice match, West Indies had played the role of Peter McNeeley to England's Mike Tyson

Andrew Miller offers the plays of the day between England and West Indies at The Oval

The experience of Ramnaresh Sarwan and Shivnarine Chanderpaul guided West Indies into the semi-finals

Despite their poor show in England, expectations will be high that West Indies can lift for the World Twenty20

England's batsmen took their turn to set up an emphatic victory as the home side wrapped up the one-day series with a thumping 58-run success at Edgbaston

Andrew Miller presents West Indies' marks out of 10 following their 2-0 series defeat against England

On his eighth day as a Test cricketer, Tim Bresnan finally picked up his maiden Test wickets, while James Anderson took his match tally to eight in perfect swinging conditions

Andrew Miller's plays of the day from Lord's

The West Indians suffered another humbling batting collapse against England Lions, as they crashed to 179 in their second innings, leaving the Lions a target of just 72 which was knocked off in double quick time

With just nine days until the first Test against England, John Dyson, the West Indies coach, has rued his side's poor performance after their match against Essex was washed out due to rain. Essex closed the second day on 175 for 3, leading by 292, but not

Chris Gayle, the West Indies captain, has hit out at Kevin Pietersen for making critical comments about Shivnarine Chanderpaul

Shivanarine Chanderpaul rounded off a week of personal honours and awards with his 10th one-day international hundred to lead West Indies to a series-levelling 21-run victory

An amazing miscalculation from West Indies coach John Dyson handed England an extraordinary victory in the opening one-day international at the Providence Stadium when he misread the Duckworth-Lewis chart

Shivnarine Chanderpaul, the West Indies and Guyana batsman, will receive the Cacique Crown of Honour, Guyana's third-highest national award, from his country's government

For a short passage of play leading up the close of the fourth day at the Queen's Park Oval the series came to life in a way that hasn't happened since Jerome Taylor's spell at Sabina Park a month ago

West Indies have nearly made it and the series is almost in the bag. Before this Test Chris Gayle said his team had one hand on the Wisden Trophy, but now they have one hand and four fingers. Barring a single-session collapse the home side are secure and

Shivnarine Chanderpaul produced an unflinchingly obdurate innings of 147 not out, and Brendan Nash chipped in with his maiden Test century, as West Indies stood firm against a frustrated England bowling attack to manoeuvre themselves ever closer to their

England huffed and puffed and still couldn't blow the West Indies house down. They haven't quite run out of time, but things now have to happen at increasing speed over the next six sessions if the visitors are going to level the series. And speed hasn't

Andrew McGlashan presents the plays from the third day in Trinidad