Alastair Cook and Matt Prior struggle to score freely as England lose the toss and are put in to bat at Lord's Ravi Rampaul and Daren Powell frustrate England's openers before Fidel Edwards provides the first wicket - Cook for 29 England accelerate slightly after Ian Bell arrives at the crease but then lose Prior lbw to Devon Smith with the score on 96-2 Pietersen works his way to a careful 33 but attempts to up the run rate and falls to a fine catch by Marlon Samuels A mix-up with Owais Shah then sees Bell run out for 56 just before rain interrupts play with England 181-4 after 42 overs Play resumes but England continue to find boundaries hard to come by and Edwards keeps picking up England wickets Edwards is on target again to remove Dimitri Mascarenhas and finsihes with figures of 5-45 as England slump to 225 all out Shah contributes a vital 42 but is run out on the second-last ball of the 50 overs, leaving West Indies a target of 226 England's defence of their modest total gets off to the perfect start when Liam Plunkett accounts for Chris Gayle It keeps getting better for England when James Anderson cleans up Runako Morton to have West Indies reeling at 12-2 Anderson is on the brink of a hat-trick - and West Indies are in trouble at 12-3 - when Marlon Samuels is caught behind West Indies survive the hat-trick but England can hardly contain themselves when Devon Smith's run out makes it 13-4 Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Dwayne Bravo manage to stage some sort of recovery, nursing West Indies to 74-4 But Stuart Broad comes on and removes Bravo and Denesh Ramdin in the same over to turn up the heat on Chanderpaul Broad also dismisses Dwayne Smith as West Indies lurch to 93-7 and Chanderpaul once again runs out of partners Monty Panesar winkles out Daren Powell to make it 100-8 but Chanderpaul continues to dig in at the other end Rampaul is removed for 24 before England wrap up the 79-run win as Edwards is run out leaving Chanderpaul stranded on 53
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