North Sound , Antigua : Ravi Bopara hit unbeaten 38 and shared a match-winning stand with captain Stuart Broad to lead England to a tense three wicket victory over West Indies in their second International Day on Sunday .
The pair added an unbroken 58 off 80 balls – the biggest partnership of the match – England lift the uncertainty of a total of 105-7 to 163-7 off gain of 44.5 overs.
Earlier Sir Vivian Richards Stadium , Lendl Simmons hit a top score of 70 enterprising , but spinners of England attracted by the West Indies for 159 of 44.2 overs.
The 28-year -old Bopara struck with quiet confidence and hit fours. Broad lived a charmed life from the beginning, but ended 28 not out off 46 balls with three fours .
Left-arm spinner Stephen Parry captured 3-32 on his debut and won the man of the match award while off spinners Joe roots (2-15 ), James Tredwell (2-39) and Moeen Ali (1-11 ) also impressed.
Antilles, fresh off a win in the opening match on Friday , had been in jeopardy soon after England won the toss and sent them in for the second straight game .
Root by Dwayne Smith (5) a decision to midwicket and suppressed Kirk Edwards ( 9) for making high slip Tredwell .
Between the two , the left Kieran Powell ( 16) chipped taking back to Ali.
Simmons shared successive half-century stands with Bravo, Darren and captain Dwayne brothers , to help revive the 30-3 sleeves.
The right-hander Simmons compiled his second straight half-century and dominated a fourth wicket with Darren 51 , which eventually dragged to try to lead off the third man to 81-4 in the 23rd over .
Simmons , who hit four fours and two sixes , then added 52 with Dwayne Congratulations .
Dwayne Bravo hit a four in 20 off 38 balls before a controversial stumping off Tredwell triggered a decline that saw the last six wickets fall for 26 tracks .
Bravo was on his land , but the wicket-keeper Jos Buttler seems to break the stem with his glove as the ball came off his grip .
After that , the tail gently soothed with the 28-year -old Parry Simmons claiming a decision in depth and adding the scalps of Darren Sammy and Sunil Narine .
The continued implementation of England hit trouble early when Ravi Rampaul Ali pulled pacemaker walk instead of depth and spinner Narine bamboozled and Luke Wright bowled for a duck to 30-2 .
Michael Lumb , who hit a century on his debut last Friday , added 49 for the third wicket with root to England at the head .
But the West Indies responded strongly to claim four wickets England for ten races.
Left-arm spinner Nikita Miller , who took 2-28 , began the slide claiming Lumb (39) leg before and also removed Ben Stokes taking the wicket-keeper Denesh Ramdin ‘s score dropped to 89-6 .
Between the two , Congratulations Dwayne took two wickets in two balls as Root ( 23) earned a return decision and Jos Buttler a gloved elevator Ramdin .
When setting athletics department Bravo missed Tim Bresnan 10 , West Indies were favorites with England still needed 55 to win with three wickets in hand.
Broad lived a charmed life from the beginning. He was given caught behind – but overturned on review, was abandoned by Bravo slip off Rampaul and twice just deleted fielders as tension mounted between a crowd of 8,000 , many of them English fans on tour .
But the skipper left and eventually settled with Bopara compound, the more experienced pair of the other saw the house on their side to level the three-match series 1-1
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