[Archive 2007-07-01] West Indies cricket team in England 2007 - 1st ODI

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England have beaten West Indies by 79 runs in the first One-Day International of the West Indies tour of England at Lord's, London, England, giving Paul Collingwood victory in his first match as England's one-day captain.

England started their innings slowly, scoring just 26 runs off the first 10 overs. Although Ian Bell hit 56 runs, the England batsmen struggled, restricted to 255 by the West Indies bowling attack with just 12 boundaries being scored and Fidel Edwards taking five wickets.

In reply, West Indies had a disastrous start losing four wickets for just thirteen runs. Shivnarine Chanderpaul scored 53 not out, and shared a 61 run partnership with Dwayne Bravo (29). However James Anderson, taking two wickets in two balls, and wickets from Stuart Broad (3-20) and Liam Plunkett (2-38) reduced West Indies to 146 all out.

Play was suspended for about fifty minutes after 42.4 overs of the England innings due to rain, with England at 181-4.

This is the first ODI in a three match series, with the others due to take place at Edgbaston on 4th July and Trent Bridge on 7th July. England lead the series 1-0.

Previously on the tour, England won a four match Test series 3-0 and drew the two match Twenty20 series 1-1.

Fall of wickets: 1-47 (Cook, 13.3 ov), 2-96 (Prior, 24.2 ov), 3-148 (Pietersen, 36.6 ov), 4-177 (Bell, 41.6 ov), 5-186 (Collingwood, 43.6 ov), 6-199 (Mascarenhas, 45.6 ov), 7-209 (Plunkett, 47.2 ov), 8-210 (Broad, 47.4 ov), 9-216 (Panesar, 48.6 ov), 10-225 (Shah, 49.5 ov)

Fall of wickets: 1-9 (Gayle, 3.1 ov), 2-12 (Morton, 4.3 ov), 3-12 (Samuels, 4.4 ov), 4-13 (DS Smith, 5.1 ov), 5-74 (Bravo, 16.2 ov), 6-74 (Ramdin, 16.4 ov), 7-93 (DR Smith, 20.5 ov), 8-100 (Powell, 23.2 ov), 9-135 (Rampaul, 34.3 ov), 10-146 (Edwards, 39.5 ov)

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