England hold on for draw

Stumps: West Indies 751-5 dec. drew with England 285 & 422-5 (following-on)

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England suffered some middle-order jitters but did enough to claim a draw in Antigua, largely through the batting of their captain Michael Vaughan.

Windies spinners Ryan Hinds and Ramnaresh Sarwan each claimed two wickets but Vaughan hit 140.

That, together with fifties from Marcus Trescothick, Mark Butcher and Nasser Hussain took England to 422-5, at which point Brian Lara offered a draw.

The series ends 3-0 to England and the two teams now contest a one-day series.

Photo gallery: Pictures from St John's

Match report: England gain draw

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Latest action (all times BST):

STUMPS

2145: Lara decides to call it a day, surprising England with his decision.

2140: Jones plays a leg-glance off Edwards for four.

2136: Thorpe plays Hinds behind point for a couple.

2134: A series of in-swinging yorkers are kept out by Jones, though not without a slight struggle.

2130: Lara elects to switch to pace with Jones on strike, Edwards coming back for a final spell.

2127: Jones gets off the mark with a couple of runs off Sarwan.

2120: West Indies strike again as Flintoff brainlessly smashes a full toss from Sarwan straight to midwicket.
England 408-5 (Flintoff 14)

2112: The first over of the final hour is completed, Flintoff defending a Hinds maiden.

2100: Flintoff cuts Sarwan for two more to take England up to the 400-mark.

2053: Thorpe cuts Powell for four.

2052: Flintoff gets off the mark with a cover drive for four.

2047: Hinds bowls Hussain round his legs as the former captain misses with a sweep shot.
England 387-4 (Hussain 56)

2045: Hussain gets out of a rout by cutting Powell for two.

2041: Thorpe cuts Powell for four.

2035: Thorpe plays Powell out to deep point to get off the mark.

2023: West Indies claim another wicket as Butcher edges a slog-sweep to first slip to give Hinds his first wicket of the innings.
England 366-3 (Butcher 61)

2018: Hussain sweeps Hinds for two to reach his 33rd Test fifty.

2015: Butcher plays a leg-glance off Collymore for four.

2010: Hussain drives Hinds for four.

2006: The first ball after tea, Collymore to Butcher, is placed through the covers for three.

TEA

1935: Hussain twice cuts Edwards for easy boundaries.

1922: A single on the leg side gives Butcher his fourth half-century in the Test series.

1916: Butcher plays a cunning little late cut off Best to collect four runs.

1907: Hussain gets the square drive out to drive Best for four.

1902: Collymore doprs short, Butcher cutting him for three.

1845: Butcher leans back to lash a cut shot off Best for four.

1837: Hussain tucks into an off-drive off Edwards, bringing him four more runs.

1832: Butcher takes a leaf out of Thorpe's book, with a swivel-pull for four.

1830: Collins takes the new ball, and the first delivery with it, bowled at Hussain is turned for four runs through square leg.

1827: Hussain plays an ungainly pull shot off Sarwan for a single.

1820: Hussain cuts Sarwan for four.

1816: Sarwan bowls a perfect leg-break to Vaughan who edges the ball straight into Jacobs's gloves.
England 274-2 (Vaughan 140)

1807: Some truly shocking fielding by Best at extra cover gifts Vaughan four more runs off Hinds.

1803: A little sashay down the track gets Vaughan nicely to the pitch of the ball as he drives Hinds for another boundary.

1759: Vaughan skips down the track to Hinds, driving the bowler wide of mid-on for four.

1757: A much better shot from Butcher, sweeping Gayle for four.

1751: There's spin at both ends as West Indies bide time ahead of the second new ball, but Butcher manages to get into some awkward positions.

LUNCH

1702: Gayle strays onto leg stump and Butcher tucks him away square for a single. Vaughan follows suit, but this time with an off-drive.

1658: Lara turns to the off-spin of Gayle as West Indies probe for another breakthrough before lunch.

1653: Best serves up a leg stump full toss which Vaughan has no difficulty in swatting away for another boundary.

1648: Vaughan plays one of his best shots of the series, a perfect off-drive for the fourth that takes him to his 11th Test century. He repeats the shot for the same result later in the over, Collins the bowler to suffer.

1643: After some really loose cricket, Vaughan plays a perfect leg-glance off Best for four.

1635: Vaughan drives Best in the air just wide of the slips for four.

1632: With just eight overs to go before the second new ball is due, Lara brings Best on for his first spell of the day.

1630: The runs have really dried up, but England should not worry a jot about that.

1616: Vaughan plays a terrific cover-drive but the sweeper is out and keeps it to one.

1607: Vaughan collects a single off new bowler Sarwan to move to 85 before drinks are called at St John's.

1603: Collins is finding reverse swing in both directions now - this is potentially a dangerous period for England.

1557: Having survived a tight shout for lbw in Collins's first over of the day, Vaughan drives Edwards loosley for three. The England captain must buckle down now.

1545: West Indies finally have a breakthrough as Trescothick contrives to hit a slow full-length ball from Edwards to Sarwan at cover.
England 182-1 (Trescothick 88)

1544: Trescothick moves his feet well to drive Edwards past point for four more.

1540: Collymore has Vaughan fencing at a short ball, but it flies just wide of Powell in the gully for four.

1535: Trescothick digs out another Edwards yorker.

1531: Vaughan plays Collymore down to the vacant third man for four with a controlled deflection.

1529: Edwards, trying to york Trescothick, appeals vociferously for lbw but Hair correctly declines the appeal.

1524: Collymore over-pitches and is driven straight by Vaughan for another boundary.

1512: Vaughan gets moving with a sweetly-timed cover-drive off Collymore for four.

1507: First runs from the bat - Trescothick driving Edwards smoothly for two. A flowing cover-drive two balls later hits the boundary boards hard.

1505: Edwards begins with a very wide no-ball to Trescothick. Collins is on the field but will not be eligible to play until much later in the day.

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West Indies: C Gayle, D Ganga, R Sarwan, B Lara (Capt), R Powell, Dwayne Smith, R Hinds, R Jacobs (Wkt), T Best, P Collins, C Collymore, F Edwards.

England: M Trescothick, M Vaughan (Capt), M Butcher, N Hussain, G Thorpe, A Flintoff, G Jones (Wkt), G Batty, M Hoggard, S Jones, S Harmison.