England beat West Indies by one run in the first One-Day International here on Friday in a game which ended in farce when the home side suffered an embarrassing Duckworth-Lewis mix-up. The West Indies was 244-7 in the 47th over when its Australian coach John Dyson called in his batsmen Daren Sammy and Nikita Miller, who had been offered the light, believing his side was ahead on the run-rate required under the D/L method. However, the home side was a run short of the target after Dyson had apparently forgotten to factor in the seventh wicket fall of Denesh Ramdin which had complicated the calculations. After lengthy discussions, and with both teams having celebrated victory, England, without a win all winter, was declared the winner of the first of a five-match series. “We looked at the (Duckworth-Lewis) sheet and it seemed to suggest we were one run ahead,” England captain Andrew Strauss told Sky Sports television. “When the batsmen walked off we were pretty confident we had won. Everyone in our support staff was 100 percent certain we had won and there were some pretty good celebrations in the changing room,” added a grinning Strauss. Dyson said: “I was on the wrong column ... I thought we were ahead of the Duckworth-Lewis but in fact we were behind by one run. “There was a lot of noise going on and it was my responsibility so that was it. I accept responsibility for it and I've apologized to the team and that's all I can do. It was my mistake. “It was getting dark and it would have been nice to have been ahead by one run.” West Indies had been ahead before what proved to be the final ball of the match, but Ramdin was then given lbw to Stuart Broad to put England ahead once again. Dyson called his players in while needing just four runs off the remaining four balls of the 47th over to secure victory. Earlier, England had made 270-7 off their 50 overs with Paul Collingwood and Owais Shah both making half
