SOUTHAMP­TON – West In­dies pro­duced an­oth­er in­ept per­for­mance and were du­ly thrashed by Eng­land by 37 runs in the third and fi­nal T20I in Eng­land on Tues­day.

The home side took ad­van­tage of a way­ward bowl­ing ef­fort by the West In­dies af­ter be­ing sent in to bat at the Utili­ta Bowl, to pile up 248 for three from their 20 overs – their sec­ond-high­est T20I score and high­est at home.

Need­ing to pro­duce a record chase to end their dis­ap­point­ing tour of the UK in win­ning fash­ion, the West In­dies nev­er se­ri­ous­ly threat­ened the mam­moth to­tal, end­ing on 211 for eight from their 20 overs.

It brought an end to a mis­er­able tour for the vis­i­tors, who failed to win a sin­gle match in ei­ther the three-match ODI or T20 se­ries.

Once again, the West In­dies got very lit­tle from open­ers Evin Lewis and John­son Charles, who scored nine runs apiece.

Skip­per Shai Hope sparkled in his 45 off 27 balls with three six­es and three fours and along with Shim­ron Het­my­er, who lashed 26 from eight balls, tried to keep up with the sky­rock­et­ing run rate.

But once Het­my­er was dis­missed by spin­ner Ja­cob Bethell to make it 69 for three in the sev­enth over, West In­dies lost reg­u­lar wick­ets and by the 13th over the con­test was over as they crashed to 120 for six.

For­mer cap­tain Rov­man Pow­ell en­ter­tained the crowd with a bound­ary-laden un­beat­en knock of 79 from 45 balls, in­clu­sive of nine fours and four six­es and Ja­son Hold­er hit 25 from 12 with the match long de­cid­ed.

Luke Wood was Eng­land’s best bowler with 3-31 and Adil Rashid took 2-30.

Ear­li­er, Eng­land’s open­ers Jamie Smith and Ben Duck­ett blast­ed the West In­dies’ bowlers all over the ground in a mag­nif­i­cent open­ing stand of 120 in­side nine overs.

Af­ter muscling just nine runs from the open­ing two overs, Play­er-of-the-Match Duck­ett hit left-arm spin­ner Akeal Ho­sein for a six and two fours in the fol­low­ing over and Smith did the same to medi­um pac­er Ro­mario Shep­herd in the fourth over.

Duck­ett then belt­ed pac­er Alzarri Joseph for a six and three bound­aries in the en­su­ing over that cost 18 runs as Eng­land raced to 69 with­out loss af­ter five overs.

Spin­ner Gu­dakesh Motie broke the part­ner­ship by dis­miss­ing Smith for 60 off just 26 balls with five six­es and four fours, but Jos But­tler, who made 22 from 10 balls, main­tained the mo­men­tum.

But­tler’s dis­missal was quick­ly fol­lowed by Duck­ett los­ing his stumps to Ho­sein for a well-played 84 off 46 balls that in­clud­ed 10 fours and two six­es, as Eng­land slipped to 178 for three in the 15th over.

How­ev­er, there was no re­prieve for the West In­dies’ bowlers as cap­tain Har­ry Brook and Ja­cob Bethell added 70 runs in the last five overs in an un­bro­ken part­ner­ship for the fourth wick­et.

Bethell end­ed on 36 not out off just 16 balls with four six­es and one four, while Brook fin­ished un­beat­en on 35 from 22 balls with two six­es and two fours.

CMC

Brief scores

ENG­LAND 248-3 in 20 overs (Ben Duck­ett 84, Jamie Smith 60, Ja­cob Bethell 36 not out, Har­ry Brook 35 not out, Jos But­tler 22).

WEST IN­DIES 211-8 in 20 overs (Rov­man Pow­ell 79 not out, Shai Hope 45, Shim­ron Het­my­er 26, Ja­son Hold­er 25; Luke Wood 3-31, Adil Rashid 2-30).

Eng­land won by 37 runs.