- England went larger with the bat after which defended tigerishly with the ball
- All-rounder Moeen Ali hit a fast 63 with the bat after which took two wickets
- England despatched down 10 overs of spin to push up West Indies' required price
- Chris Jordan and Reece Topley have been each excellent as dying bowlers
Moeen Ali produced an excellent captain's show to ship England right into a series-decider towards West Indies in Bridgetown this night.
Worcestershire all-rounder Moeen hit a fast 63 off 28 balls and adopted up with two wickets along with his off spin as, on the identical pitch used for final Sunday's win for England by which they held off a late West Indies surge by the barest of margins, a workforce with out its traditional chief Eoin Morgan resulting from damage went larger with the bat after which defended tigerishly with the ball.
'Within the final recreation I did nothing - I bought hit, I bought nought, you have to settle for that typically,' he stated following the 34-run win that squared issues at 2-2.
'At this time, I am actually blissful I might contribute to holding the sequence alive. If you're captain you are likely to under-bowl your self and I believed it was a very good scenario for me to have a bowl.'
The decisive juncture of the competition proved to be the 18th over of England's innings when, utilizing the crease and second-guessing Jason Holder's each transfer, left-hander Moeen crunched and caressed 4 successive sixes. In all, 28 runs got here from it.
Launching the second and third balls aerially down the bottom, the fourth was surgically positioned over the rope at further cowl and when Holder switched to around the wicket, a flick off the stumps sailed over the dugouts.
Moeen took his private six tally to seven with two within the subsequent over off Romario Shepherd earlier than choosing out long-off making an attempt an eighth.
Momentum was then maintained into the defence of 193 for six when Sam Billings marked his return to the workforce by taking England's most depend to fifteen with two in as many deliveries on the finish of the innings to remodel Holder's figures from 2-0-3-1 to 4-0-44-3.
England invested closely in spin to surge up the required price and it stood at 110 off seven overs when Adil Rashid, whose opening 15 overs of the sequence went at lower than a run a ball, returned to the assault.
Holder twice used his lengthy levers to haul the Yorkshire leg-spinner, who accounted for Wednesday's centurion Roman Powell in his first burst, into the brief leg aspect boundary throughout a cameo of 36.
However England had the final snigger when, with the equation whittled right down to 50 off 16, he holed out off the excellent Reece Topley.
And in contrast to seven days earlier after they conceded 59 off the ultimate three overs, the dying bowling usually was effectively executed.
It seemed like England have been heading for under a second sequence defeat in 12 when Kyle Mayers entered the marketing campaign in a lot the identical method as Powell had 72 hours earlier however Moeen lured him right into a mishit down the bottom and from 64 with out loss, Windies have been quickly 78 for 3.
Earlier, after England have been inserted, Jason Roy survived a leg earlier than DRS on nought off and was additionally dropped by Holder in his observe by way of on his technique to 52 off 41 balls earlier than Moeen pressed the accelerator late on.