Colly wobbles Windies

Second one-day international

Preview

West Indies lost the one-day series in the Caribbean only because John Dyson, their coach, could not read the run chart. You may laugh; prepare to laugh again. You can count on the fingers of one foot the number of cricketers who have a knowledge of the laws, how scoring works or why it takes an umpire almost one second to give an lbw decision. They may be physically impressive but their knowledge of the rules and regulations is limited. Equally, do not be surprised if West Indies win. They relish one-day cricket; I am not sure England players have the same enthusiasm.

To lunch

If the West Indies don't show more serious effort they will leave labelled the worst tour side in years. Chris Gayle led with another six-hit-and-miss innings, the first two wickets fell for seven and after a rescue bid by Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Dwayne Bravo the middle order collapsed to the nip-around medium pace of Paul Collingwood. They were all out for 160 in 38.3 overs and England almost had almost won by lunch. Surely Chris Broad should be man of the match.

To close

Collingwood saw his opportunity to be man of the match when he went in after a dreary stand by Ravi Bopara and Owais Shah and finished the game with a run a ball innings that made the victory seem brightly polished. As for the West Indies their effort was minimal; noevidence for my suggestion they relished odis more than England. It was a poor match in front of a full house in brilliant sunshine.