West Indies will be playing for pride against England in the 3rd and final ODI on Friday. On the other hand, England are leading the series 2-0 and will be looking for a whitewash. There is not much left in the ODI series with England already having won it comfortably. The match will be a question of pride for the West Indies camp because they promised a lot when the series began, but failed to deliver. Even Chris Gayle's return was not enough to give them a win. Despite Chris Gayle providing a brilliant start to them in the 2nd ODI, the West Indies middle order failed once again and could not even get to 250. West Indies will certainly look to get their record straight and get a win under their belt today.
England are looking very confident with two easy wins in the series and the more disappointing fact for West Indies would be that they could not even push England for a victory in any of the 2 games. England will once again be hoping that their top order fires with the bat and gets them to a big score because they have got a very strong bowling line up, which could destroy even the strongest of batting line ups. Stuart Broad and James Anderson have been bowling pretty well with the new ball and they are also hard to score of in the death overs with the kind of variety that they have got. Graeme Swann is certainly the answer for Chris Gayle and we might even see him opening the bowling today.
West Indies have got a number of questions to answer, right from their batting order to their bowling line-up. The players have not performed to their full potential. Once again their hopes will be on Chris Gayle to provide them a quick start. It will also be important for Gayle to carry on from there. Dwayne Bravo showed some form in the last match and he too can prove to be the trump car for West Indies. The biggest disappointment so far has been Sunil Narine. He was the talking point at the start of the series, but has not performed as he would have liked. He has got another opportunity in the 3rd ODI and he would hope to make it count.
THE MATCH IS SCHEDULED TO START AT 9.45 GMT.
PROBABLE XI
ENGLAND- Cook, Bell, Trott, Bopara, Morgan, Kieswetter, Bresnan, Broad, Swann, Anderson, Finn.
WEST INDIES-Gayle, Smith, Darren Bravo, Samuels, Dwayne Bravo, Pollard, Russell, Ramdin, Narine, Rampaul, Best.
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