ST GEORGE'S, Grena­da–Skip­per De­nesh Ramdin says West In­dies have paid the price for los­ing six wick­ets in the first ses­sion of play on the fi­nal day of the sec­ond test match against Eng­land at the na­tion­al sta­di­um on Sat­ur­day.

The home­side mus­tered 84 runs in that un­lucky first ses­sion when wick­ets stum­bled and they nev­er re­cov­ered in the face of a dev­as­tat­ing new ball spell from seam­er James An­der­son.

In the end, Ramdin's men suf­fered a heavy nine wick­et de­feat to the Eng­lish­men who now lead the three match se­ries one nil.

"I be­lieve that los­ing six wick­ets in one ses­sion that is where we fell down," de­clared Ramdin in the post-game news con­fer­ence.

"I think we fought hard for the first four days. Some tough days at the of­fice but los­ing six wick­ets and this spell with the new ball re­al­ly cost us to­day".

Re­sum­ing the fi­nal day on 202 for two–a lead of 37 runs over­all–West In­dies lost their last eight wick­ets for 105 runs, to be all out for 307, short­ly af­ter lunch.

Open­er Kraigg Brath­waite, un­beat­en overnight on 101, fell for 118 and his de­par­ture in the sev­enth over of the morn­ing with the score on 224, was fol­lowed by six wick­ets tum­bling for 62 runs in quick time.

"Hav­ing part­ner­ships and go­ing on should have been very im­por­tant but they keep­ing com­ing at us," said Ramdin, a wick­et­keep­er bats­man.

"They have a good bowl­ing line­up.. but we can't take it for grant­ed but we should have just car­ry out and score more runs and not let the game get away from us".

West In­dies and Eng­land play each oth­er in the third and fi­nal test at Kens­ing­ton Oval in Bar­ba­dos start­ing May 1.

Ramdin is hop­ing the pitch at the oval will be help­ful to both bats­man and bowler.

"So far we got two good pitch­es that went right down to the last days as the test match went. Hope­ful­ly the grounds man could give us some­thing like that that could bounce and spin more or some­thing," said the Windies cap­tain.

"That's is quick and fiery and both teams will have good use of it be­cause both teams have good fast bowlers as well". (CMC)