West Indies vs England, 5th T20I at Gros Islet, WI vs ENG, Nov 17 2024 - Match Result

Presentations time

6.25pm Presumably there'll be some presentations shortly. Still watching highlights over here...

6.13pm It's over. All hope is lost, they've pulled the plug. England take the series 3-1.

6.08pm "They are making plans for post-match presentations, so think it's not too far away..." says Cameron... the TV crew are assembling, so this feels terminal.

RoSky: "Who would be the Player of the Series assuming this match doesn't continue?" I think it has to be Saqib Mahmood. He's been a game-breaker in the powerplay.

5.55pm Squelch. It is utterly utterly bleak out there. Standing water everywhere, yet more of it hosing down from the heavens. Futility reigns.

5.37pm Puddles forming now... uh oh. "We're done," says Cameron... that is not yet official, but it feels like only a matter of time now...

"He's just Pon-tificating," chimes in Alan Gardner, who is clearly itching to have a hit on this interminable rain-watch...

5.32pm Cameron P informs us it has got heavier, and the groundstaff have given up the ghost for now. No pretence at a clear-up at the moment...

Ed: "I'm ten minutes from the stadium and can see blue sky. But it's also hosing down. I don't see much of a chance this game restarting"

5.30pm There's no blue sky in prospect in St Lucia... but there is Bluesky over here... Might as well try to rebuild a social following while X, and this match, head down the gurgler...

5.17pm What's the latest then? Cameron Ponsonby is literally our boots on the ground. "Gone out and the outfield is actually alright, not squelchy. It's obviously just...well...wet. still grey from where the weather comes from and just a steady drizzle."

Well, there you have it. On we go. No official word yet, but the sense is that 7.56pm is the latest we can start the five-over thrash. So, a while yet. But we will be losing overs now.

Soham: "Nice little red inker for Hope and Lewis. Now the IPL teams will see slightly higher avgs for them when in the auction"

4.57pm Ram asks the hypothetical on everyone's lips: "What will be the DLS target if the match reduces to 5 Overs per side?" And our scorer Ranjith confirms it would be a tasty 69... but we have a lot of rain-stopping-and-mopping to get through before that can happen...

aidan : "Be brutally honest please. What's the likelihood of more play today?" Slim to non-existent?

4.52pm Wet. Wet. Wet. And love is not all around us.

Neil: "Is there any point, given this match gets called off, where WI can claim the moral victory? Perhaps by activating the toss loss moral compensation recredit schema?" Certainly worth a shot... yesterday's run-chase, specifically the first nine overs of it, was awesome. So it probably counts as two wins...

Tim: "Not really sure how a run chase in 19 overs is worth two wins but a run chase in 15 overs isn't" Because I am deeply arbitrary. Next!

4.37pm "That is wet rain," says Sir Alastair Cook in the TNT studio, and he's not wrong. This is quite conceivably cooked.

4.30pm Yeegads, that is minging. Properly torrential right now, and banks of cloud rolling in off the sea. We won't be back on in a hurry... and as mentioned previously, this outfield has been struggling to cope with the saturation in recent days.

mitch: "can I ask what "TFC" stands for as Mr Turner has been a bit rubbish today so far too - so just checking :)" Thanks For Coming... the standard gratitude uttered by a club captain to some randomer who has turned up to make up the numbers!

4.23pm We will have a concussion protocol, but it will be in the dressing-room because rain stops play. Bah. Those clouds have rolled across, hopefully they'll keep rolling on soon enough...

Shahid Majeed : "Where was Evin Lewis in past 3 four years he played very little international cricket?" One of the great mysteries. It's fair to suggest that Daren Sammy played a key role in luring him back to the side.

There's rain in the air...

John Turner returns with a change of ends

Rhys: "This is England's 17th T20I in 2024 - only once, in 2022, have they played more (27). By contrast they played only 8 ODIs this year - the fewest they've played in a calendar year since 1995."

Jamie Overton, a TFC yesterday, but into action in the powerplay

Deep backward square is in place for the pull