Keacy Carty and Brandon King's centuries secure the series for the West Indies

Hosts took the match in control after England managed to post a low score after having lost 4 wickets at only 24 runs. West Indies: ( Carty 128*, King 102) england 263 8 (Salt 79, Mousley 57, Forde 3-35) eight wickets win West Indies West Indies had an easy time pursuing their target under the lights at Kensington Oval, chasing down the 263 with the help of centuries by Keacy Carty and Brandon King, winning the match by 8 wickets, thus winning the series 2-1. This was a historic innings for Carty, as he became the first cricketer from St Maarten to complete a century for West Indies, batting with extreme hostility, reaching the landmark in 97 balls. King was the next player to reach 3 figures in an inning for the first time since July 2023 world cup qualifiers and did get dropped two times, which did help him get to 50. Their double century partnership worth 209 runs was the most successful partnership involving West Indies and England in ODIs. After losing four wickets in their first powerplay, England was left in a dreadful scenario at twenty-four runs. However, they managed to recover and reach a target that could have been moderately sufficient. Salt then managed to score his longest international innings, and Mousley managed to score his first ODI fifty. As a side note, a back injury sustained by Romario Shepherd prompted Shai Hope to call upon Sherfane Rutherford, but it proved to be of little use as Rutherford cost his team 57 runs in three overs. There was a huge change that was said to have happened after only one ball when King Lawson managed to fend off Archer’s opening throw while telling everyone that batting conditions had changed. Archer went for a much better approach on King’s second ball but hit him for twenty-four runs in three overs as Jamie managed to get thirty straight balls while chasing after Lewis, who gave up after eighteen runs. At this point, the West Indies were already ahead of the chase. During the powerplay, King went after the pace off Reece Topley and hit him for two fours in three balls to midwicket, helping the West Indies reach 65 for 1 in ten overs, and the West Indies were on top of the required run rate. While Carty, who scored his first four by steering Topley behind square during the same over, had a couple of nervous moments while facing legspinners Adil Rashid and Liam Livingstone, the second-wicket stands were well on course for their target when things settled down. The first three overs of Rashid had yielded only seven runs, but King changed the mood by hitting him for six down the ground. King had to wait for an edge in a Salt glove while King was at 44 but then turned that around and acquired fifty in sixty balls against Rashid when the latter hit concisely down the mid-wicket boundary in the next over. Carty had been given out LBW to a livingstone first delivery but reviewed since there was bat participation. He appropriately took the first ball and scooped a boundary same over left, and Rashid was shot over the deep midwicket boundary, as the West Indies gradually decreased the needed rate over England’s seven bowling elixirs. While collecting a 61 ball fifty, he cut back to back fours off Livingstone back to back, and then Sam Curran got a taste of it too. A six-to-deep midwicket from Topley was not expected after Carty's struggle to hold hands smashing a flat-batted four. He took out the stark of his helmet and raised his hands as the audience cheered when he got a boundary off Jacob Bethell’s spin, securing his century and surpassing his ODI best of 88. Archer’s baller cutoff got the attention of Jordan, who had followed him with Usman Khawaja. The over had ended while King managed to squeeze out another six—his third to raise the century. It was evident that Topley’s bowling managed to strike King before he picked up four more vital runs to leave them with only thirteen needed. The first ball proved the winning point for the captains, which they keenly sought looking at the toss. The Windsor captain’s seamers made sure they wrapped off England in no time during the first powerplay, which allowed them to dominate the game. Hope being blunt about the ground grew up at Kensington Oval “not sure what we’re going to get,” but he was able to stand tall at the end. The key point of distress for the West Indies early in the match stemmed from an astonishing exchange in the field, more specifically, an altercation that took place between Alzarri Joseph and Hope, who is a fast bowler who wished to change the field set for England’s No. 3 batsman, Cox. On many occasions, it was commonplace for Joseph to argue with the captain just before commencing his run-up. He simply got his way by shattering the ego of the batsman, Cox, who didn’t even see a 148 kph lifter targeting the glove go by him. For some reason, Joseph chose not to celebrate and left the field at the end of the over, making the number of players on the West Indian side 10 for a while.

Early in the second over of the match, Matthew Forde made some great plays, including a wide run to catch a ball that Jacks struck, which got the edge of Jacks. Soon after this moment, Shepherd managed to replace Joseph, and in turn, he blissfully caught the ball that Bethell slashed out toward him at point. The web session of the match saw England suffering their fourth consecutive loss, thanks to Livingstone’s catching attempt to intercept the drive from Shepherd and failing to hit the target. Salt was one of the remaining England batters who stood tall. His half-century in the second ODI was the first time he stood through the powerplay ever since he made his appearance in the game back in June of 2022, but he backed it up with the effort in Barbados as well, albeit 11 runs not out in 26 balls, which shows how tough England had to work for it. He found Mukesh and Curran useful, with the bat scoring 70 runs for the fifth and sixth wickets. Curran, who was batting at No. 6, once again was aggressive from the start but was eventually dismissed off a ball trying to tackle Chase’s off spin. Mousley then joined forces with Salt, who slowly but surely battled out and settled with a fifty, which he scored off the last 79 balls. This was by far the slowest fifty scored in five of his ODI innings. However, Salt was dismissed in the subsequent over, which brought the score down to England to 163 with the loss of five wickets at the forty-over mark.Midway through Deep, King’s athleticism compensated for a slapdash throw As a result, Joseph comfortably lunged and cupped a catch Jones. Again, when the tide was beginning to change, Shepherd came in, got his studscaught in the turf, fell down and required help to get off the field. Mousley was able to get past the fifty mark, but his optimism shortlived, and he quickly got dismissed. However, Overton, who batted at the lower order, finished with a quick 32 runs while Archer’s scoring rate of 38 from just 17 balls swung the game in favour of their team before Rutherford could break a walloping hundred off the last ten overs, which also went into King’s and Carty’s saving accounts.