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England 243 all out; West Indies 225 all out England win by 18 runs England are still alive in the World Cup, after a flurry of late wickets rescued victory from the jaws of defeat against West Indies at the MA Chindambaram Stadium in Chennai. Graeme Swann took two wickets in his final over and Suliemen Benn was then run out to decide the Group B match. Swann took three wickets in the innings and another spinner, James Tredwell, took four. England are not definitely through to the quarter-finals, but to deny them Bangladesh must beat South Africa and West Indies must take at least a point against India this weekend. Ramnaresh Sarwan and Andre Russell had seemed to be guiding West Indies home, with a seventh-wicket partnership of 72. Russell survived a contentious decision when he was caught by Jonathan Trott on the boundary, only for the England fielder to be adjudged, by the third umpire, to have brushed the boundary marker as he fell backwards. The batsman was thus awarded a six instead. Russell was eventually lbw to Tredwell for 49 and Benn then survived a close lbw call, on review, again off the bowling of Tredwell. Sarwan was the next man out, off the first ball of Swann’s final over, caught at short leg by Ian Bell. Kemar Roach joined Benn at the crease with 21 needed for victory off 41 balls – he was dismissed on his second delivery, caught by Chris Tremlett at mid-off. The leg-spinner Devandra Bishoo was last man in for West Indies, on his international debut. After Andrew Strauss won the toss and chose to bat, the captain and Trott got off to a flying start. But the scoring rate stagnated as wickets began to fall and it fell to a man playing his first World Cup match, Luke Wright, to salvage a competitive total in an innings that did not feature a half-century or a 50 stand. Bishoo and Russell shared seven wickets and Roach bowled economically. England appeared assured of a big total after they had raced to 94 for two from 15 overs. But they lost momentum and then wickets – four men falling for 30 runs at one stage. No fours came between the 21st and 35th overs, with the pace off the ball, and Bishoo took three for 34 by using the conditions well. Russell dismissed both openers, an unsuspecting Matt Prior bowled through the gate on the back foot and Strauss mis-pulling the medium-pacer to go to a very good running catch by Chris Gayle. Trott announced himself with six fours from his first nine balls and a total in excess of 250 was on. But Trott then went tamely, three runs short of a half-century, when he chipped a Bishoo leg-break straight to Gayle at mid-wicket. Bell played himself in, only to be done for pace by the first ball of Roach’s second spell. Then Eoin Morgan’s renowned innovation backfired with an unorthodox deflection into the wicketkeeper’s gloves off Bishoo. Ravi Bopara was the third batsman to be bowled by pace and a suspicion of low bounce but Wright batted with skill and sense. His seventh-wicket partner, Tredwell, went in a run-out mix-up and Wright eventually holed out on the slog-sweep in Bishoo’s final over. England knew they would need to get Gayle early. He was gone by the end of the seventh over, but the West Indies captain still did significant damage. Gayle smashed 18 in four blows from one Tremlett over, only to be trapped lbw pushing forward to Tredwell, giving the off-spinner his first one-day international wicket. Tredwell had a second when Prior got the bails off to stump Devon Smith down the leg-side. Darren Bravo was well caught at slip by Strauss to give Tredwell his third wicket. Bopara dismissed Darren Sammy and Devon Thomas and Swann trapped Kieron Pollard lbw. Cricket World Cup 2011 England cricket team West Indies Cricket Team Cricket guardian.co.uk