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England vs West Indies, Only T20I at Nottingham, , Jun 24 2012 - Match Result

RESULT
Only T20I, Nottingham, June 24, 2012, West Indies tour of England
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(19.4/20 ov, T:173) 173/3

England won by 7 wickets (with 2 balls remaining)

Player Of The Match
99 (68)
alex-hales
Match centre 
Scores: Sanjay Murari | Comms: Alex Winter
Scorecard summary
West Indies 172/4(20 overs)
70 (54)
2/22 (4)
54* (36)
1/32 (4)
England 173/3(19.4 overs)
99 (68)
2/37 (4)
59 (44)
1/15 (1.4)

But that's all from me today, my thanks to Monty as well. Plenty of cricket coming up and all the best live coverage here on ESPNcricinfo. International, county, women's cricket, we've got it all in the coming months. I'll be back on Friday, see you then and goodbye for now...



Reaction to today's game from Andrew McGlashan reporting on England's record chase and George Dobell will be analysing this victory shortly too.



So that ends West Indies tour of 2012. They're off back home and then heading out to Florida to take on New Zealand in two T20s, the first of them on Saturday, before an ODI series back in the Caribbean and three Tests to follow too. England have a brief break before they take on Australia in a five-match ODI series starting on Friday. The South Africa tour coming up later on this year too of course...



Alex Hales is, predictably, man of the match for his 99 and here the winning skipper: "We did some really good things today," Stuart Broad, the birthday boy, says. "Having not played T20 for a while we maybe didn't react to things as well as we could. Steve Finn, once again, was fantastic."



"With the team we have we should be winning games but we haven't been able to achieve success and we haven't been consistently good," Darren Sammy says. "Probably we need to fight even harder. The guys are trying really hard."



And so ends West Indies tour of England. And it has ended in defeat. They're endured a pretty torrid time and go home winless. Today, they though they had a great chance of finally notching up a victory as they posted 172 for 4 with a counterattack led by Dwayne Smith's 70 and Dwayne Bravo and Kieron Pollard smashing them to a good total. But they didn't have enough with the ball...



What a chase from England, that is very impressive, their highest successful chase in T20s...they've won here by seven wickets...it was a fabulous chase, managed by the highest T20 partnership for England between Alex Hales and Ravi Bopara. Neither man could see the side home and agonisingly Hales fell one short of the first T20 hundred by an England player but it was his career-best T20 score and he controlled the knock very well indeed...

19.4
2
Samuels to Morgan, 2 runs

full toss outside off, slapped to mid off, oh there's a misfield! And they're coming back, and England win!!

England still need two from three balls...drama here...

And another superb knock ends before the finish...

19.3
W
Samuels to Bopara, OUT

slapped down the ground and caught at long off! Went to finish it in one hit, it's off the toe of the bat down the throat of the fielder. He didn't catch it at all and it was a simple catch

Ravi Bopara c Edwards b Samuels 59 (44b 4x4 1x6 75m) SR: 134.09

Two to win...

19.2
2
Samuels to Bopara, 2 runs

slugged away through midwicket, they take two behind deep midwicket

19.1
Samuels to Bopara, no run

full and carved to cover

Still a game to win for England, four needed, can Samuels pull of something special for West Indies...

end of over 1913 runs • 1 wicket
ENG: 169/2CRR: 8.89 RRR: 4.00
Ravi Bopara57 (41b 4x4 1x6)
Ravi Rampaul 4-0-37-2
Sunil Narine 4-0-28-0

But what an innings that is from Hales, outstanding knock, KP who?!?

18.6
W
Rampaul to Hales, OUT

gone! And Hales is denied a hundred, bowled middle stump. It's a great delivery, full and straight and cleans up the timbers as Hales looked to go leg side

Alex Hales b Rampaul 99 (68b 6x4 4x6 84m) SR: 145.58

99 to Hales...

18.5
2
Rampaul to Hales, 2 runs

full toss outside off, craved out to deep point

18.4
2
Rampaul to Hales, 2 runs

full toss and a chip down the ground lands well in front of long on, they take two

18.3
1
Rampaul to Bopara, 1 run

full and an inside edge to the 45, they take one

And that should be a match-winner...

18.2
4
Rampaul to Bopara, FOUR runs

he was stood outside off stump to give him room to swing to leg and he does so, behind square and gets four to backward square leg, poor bowling but great thinking from Bopara

That is a settler...

50 from 39 balls for Bopara...

18.1
4
Rampaul to Bopara, FOUR runs

slugged through leg side from a full ball outside off, and it runs for four! Great placement

Still work for England, 17 to win from 12 balls...finish it off...couple of boundaries to settle things...now Rampaul with probably Bravo to bowl the last over...Ravi to Ravi, around the wicket...

end of over 186 runs
ENG: 156/1CRR: 8.66 RRR: 8.50
Alex Hales95 (65b 6x4 4x6)
Ravi Bopara48 (38b 2x4 1x6)
Sunil Narine 4-0-28-0
Fidel Edwards 4-0-33-0
17.6
Narine to Hales, no run

fired down the leg side, is that a wide? Must have clipped the pad

17.5
1
Narine to Bopara, 1 run

lifted down the ground for a single only to long off

17.4
2
Narine to Bopara, 2 runs

flick of the wrists wide of deep cover so two this time

17.3
1
Narine to Hales, 1 run

cut out through point again, just for one

17.2
1
Narine to Bopara, 1 run

pulled and a drop at midwicket, it was a very tough high chance but he mistimed the jump and put it down

17.1
1
Narine to Hales, 1 run

tucked out to deep point

23 from 18 balls...could be crucial this over from Narine...

end of over 1712 runs
ENG: 150/1CRR: 8.82 RRR: 7.66
Ravi Bopara44 (35b 2x4 1x6)
Alex Hales93 (62b 6x4 4x6)
Fidel Edwards 4-0-33-0
Marlon Samuels 1-0-11-0
16.6
2
Edwards to Bopara, 2 runs

leg side, clipped down to long leg where there is a lovely save by the fielder with one hand

16.5
Edwards to Bopara, no run

a swing from outside off stump and missed

16.4
2
Edwards to Bopara, 2 runs

clipped out through square leg and they run really well for two more

16.3
1
Edwards to Hales, 1 run

full again, dug into the on side and Gayle just about saves two

Best performances - batters
Spike Graph
Wagon Zone
AD Hales
99 runs (68)
6 fours4 sixes
Productive shot
leg glance
33 runs
2 fours0 six
Control
69%
DR Smith
70 runs (54)
5 fours5 sixes
Productive shot
pull/hook on back foot
23 runs
2 fours2 sixes
Control
69%
Best performances - bowlers
ST Finn
O
4
M
0
R
22
W
2
ECO
5.5
R Rampaul
O
4
M
0
R
37
W
2
ECO
9.25
Match details
Trent Bridge, Nottingham
TossWest Indies, elected to bat first
Series
Season2012
Player Of The Match
Match numberT20I no. 246
Hours of play (local time)14.30 start, First Session 14.30-15.50, Interval 15.50-16.10, Second Session 16.10-17.30
Match days24 June 2012 - day (20-over match)
Umpires
TV Umpire
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee