CRICKET: England ended their long wait for a major victory this winter after a farcical mix-up sealed a one-run victory over West Indies in today's opening one-day international.
Having played 13 matches without success this winter, England finally triumphed after West Indies coach John Dyson called his side in for bad light when they were still behind on the Duckworth Lewis method used for calculating interrupted matches.
West Indies had been ahead on what proved the penultimate ball of the match, but Dinesh Ramdin was given lbw to Stuart Broad from the next delivery to put England ahead once again.
But new batsman Nikita Miller did not have the chance to face the next ball because Dyson misread the charts and called his players in while needing just four runs off the remaining four balls in the over to secure victory.
It was a farcical way to end the tourists’ long run without a win and will not have helped Dyson in his application to become the next full-time England coach, a position he is believed to be interested in securing.