Fidel Edwards took five for 45 as the West Indies bowled England out for 225 in the first innings of the first one-day international at Lord's on Sunday. England were 184 for four when the game was halted for an hour by rain and when play resumed with 7.2 overs left Edwards ran riot with a spell of four wickets in 13 balls.
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.
This may have unnerved the Englishman as his next ball had Broad caught behind.
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. Shah was one 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 one-day international hundred. At the non-striker's end he went for a run when Owais Shah had hit the ball straight to Chris Gayle at cover and was run out by half a pitch length as he tried to scramble back.
Kevin Pietersen played calmly, hitting just two boundaries in his 47-ball stay but perished to a superb leaping catch at cover point by Marlon Samuels off Dwayne Bravo as he tried to impose himself.
After West Indies captain Gayle had won the toss his opening bowlers Ravi Rampaul and Daren Powell kept England's batsmen under control with some disciplined bowling in helpful overhead conditions.
Matt Prior and Alastair Cook managed to edge the score up to just 26 from the first 10 overs and the normally free-scoring Prior did not manage a boundary until the 11th over when he slapped Rampaul off the back foot to the fence. The introduction of the extra pace of Edwards brought the initial breakthrough as, with his third ball of the day, he had Cook caught at backward square leg by Bravo after he misjudged a hook.
Prior's hard work was undone when he was given leg before to Dwayne Smith, as he was looking to increase the pace. He faced 65 balls for his 34, hitting two fours and his exit in the 25th over left England 96 for two which should have given England a platform to accelerate but they could not stand up to the pace of Edwards.
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