West Indies should wrap it up

If West Indies can't win this series, given the way England have clearly given up, then there is something massively wrong. They should win the fourth match, to be played on Sunday, and it is amazing that they are not a shorter price.

England were nothing short of atrocious in the third match and anyone who heard the words of Kevin Pietersen would get a pretty good idea of exactly where the mindset of the England players is right now.

In simple terms, England do not want to be there and they must have been annoyed that the threatened strike by the West Indies players did not come to fruition. Instead, they have to play two more matches, weather permitting, and I would be absolutely amazed if they manage to win either, and especially not Sunday's encounter.

But bet365 make them only 4/6, which has to be worth taking. England are 6/5.

One other thing the third match proved, yet again, is that England are an even worse side when batting first. I have probably bored you by now with my musings on the subject but when you have no idea how to construct a score, you are not going to enjoy batting first.

In the past 10 years, they have lost two thirds of games when batting first - if ever there was a statistic worth following for betting purposes, that is it. Make it count.

West Indies captain Chris Gayle is favourite to top-score for his side at 11/4, a fair price especially after his butchering of the England attack in match three. Ramnaresh Sarwan and Shivnarine Chanderpaul are both 7/2 and quite frankly, one of those three should top the batting.

For England, despite his feelings on still being in the Caribbean, Pietersen is favourite at 3/1, while captain Andrew Strauss - still out of his element in one-day cricket - is 7/2, while Ravi Bopara is 4/1 and Owais Shah is 5/1.

And West Indies should also enjoy the better opening partnership, so snap up the 8/11.