Providence (Guyana), March 21: 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 were 244/7 in the 47th over when their coach John Dyson called in his batsmen Daren Sammy and Nikita Miller, who had been offered the light, believing his side were ahead on the run-rate required under the D/L method. However, the home side were a run short of the target after Dyson had forgotten to factor in the seventh wicket fall of Denesh Ramdin which complicated calculations. — AFP