July 02, 2007	Monday	Jamadi-us-Sani 16, 1428

LONDON, July 1: Three wickets for Stuart Broad helped England to a 79-run win in the first One-day International of the three-match series against the West Indies at Lord's on Sunday.

Set 226 to win the West Indies got off to the worse possible start, they were lost four wickets in the first six overs before Broad snuffed out any chance of a recovery by the middle order and finishing with figures of three for 20.

Broad's effort and that of Plunkett (two for 38) and Jimmy Anderson (two for 23) cancelled out a superb spell of pace bowling from West Indian Fidel Edwards, who finished with five for 45.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Dwayne Bravo had steadied the West Indian ship slightly with a stand of 61 for the fifth wicket but Broad induced an edge behind from Bravo before bowling Denesh Ramdin two balls later.

Dwayne Smith got an inside edge and the West Indies were 93 for seven.

Liam Plunkett and Anderson had done the early damage with Plunkett removing the dangerous West Indian captain Chris Gayle, caught hooking by Broad.

Anderson then removed Runako Morton and Marlon Samuels in the same over before running out Devon Smith with a superb throw from the deep.

Chanderpaul plodded on, as he did in the recent Test series between the two sides, making 53 not out but received little or no support from his team-mates apart from Bravo and Ravi Rampaul (24).

Edwards' burst of four wickets in 13 balls after a 60 minute rain interruption knocked the wind of England's sails and helped to reduce them from 181 for four, before the rain to 225 all out in 7.1 overs.

Bowling with pace and ferocity the Bajan started the collapse when he bowled England captain Paul Collingwood for five before dismissing Dimitri Mascarenhas in similar fashion.

After trapping Liam Plunkett caught behind hooking he bowled a bouncer at young Stuart Broad following up to the batsman's end of the pitch and exchanging words.

Owais Shah made 42 whilst all this was going on at the other end but was run out in the last over as he tried to steal the strike.

He was on of five of England's early batsmen who got a start and did not convert it into a significant score.The most culpable was Ian Bell who made 56, from 75 balls with two fours, but managed to run himself out when set for a maiden ODI hundred.

Scoreboard

ENGLAND:

A.N. Cook c Bravo b Edwards 29

M.J. Prior lbw b D.R. Smith 34

I.R. Bell run out 56

K.P. Pietersen c Samuels b Bravo 33

O.A. Shah run out 42

P.D. Collingwood b Edwards 5

A.D. Mascarenhas b Edwards 2

L.E. Plunkett c Ramdin b Edwards 4

S.C.J. Broad c Ramdin b Edwards 0

M.S. Panesar lbw Rampaul 1

J.M. Anderson not out 0

EXTRAS (B-4, LB-6, W-8, NB-1) 19

TOTAL (all out, 49.5 overs) 225

FALL OF WKTS: 1-47, 2-96, 3-148, 4-177, 5-186, 6-191, 7-209, 8-210, 9-216.

BOWLING: Rampaul 9-1-36-1 (3w); Powell 10-1-46-0; Edwards 10-0-45-5 (1nb, 3w); D.R. Smith 10-0-42-1 (2w); Samuels 5-0-18-0; Bravo 5.5-0-28-1.

WEST INDIES:

C.H. Gayle c Broad b Plunkett 6

D.S. Smith run out 4

R.S. Morton b Anderson 0

M.N. Samuels c Prior b Anderson 0

S. Chanderpaul not out 53

D.J. Bravo c Prior b Broad 29

D. Ramdin b Broad 0

D.R. Smith c Prior b Broad 6

D.B.L. Powell lbw b Panesar 1

R. Rampaul c Broad b Plunkett 24

F.H. Edwards run out 2

EXTRAS (LB-16, W-4, NB-1) 21

TOTAL (all out, 39.5 overs) 146

FALL OF WKTS: 1-9, 2-12, 3-12, 4-13, 5-74, 6-74, 7-93, 8-100, 9-135.

BOWLING: Anderson 8-2-23-2 (1w); Plunkett 10-1-38-2 (1nb, 2w); Broad 9-0-20-3 (1w); Mascarenhas 4-0-18-0; Panesar 8-0-29-1; Collingwood 0.5-0-2-0.

RESULT: England won by 79 runs.

UMPIRES: N.J. Llong (England) and B.G. Jerling (South Africa).

TV UMPIRE: P.J. Hartley (England).

MATCH REFEREE: M.J. Procter (South Africa).

MAN-OF-THE-MATCH: Fidel Edwards.

SECOND MATCH: At Edgbaston on Wednesday.

THIRD MATCH: At Trent Bridge on Saturday.—Agencies