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Rutherford crashes a full ball from Livingstone through extra cover for four more. He’s a dangerous player who is starting to open his shoulders, and moments later he blazes Livingstone down the ground for another boundary.

England could do with a wicket here.

Rutherford launches into a teasing legbreak from Rehan and drags the ball not far wide of leg stump; then he fails to connect properly with a roundarm googly from wide on the crease. 

After five dot balls, Rehan drops short and is pulled easily for six by Rutherford. That brings up a mature half-century, his first in ODIs, from 71 balls.

Liam Livingstone comes on for Brydon Carse and is milked for five runs. West Indies are trying to take the innings as deep as possible, knowing the damage they could do with a decent platform. That’s precisely what they are building: a misfield brings up the hundred partnership from 116 balls.

Rehan’s fifth over is milked for four singles. England will take that all day/night on a pitch where 300 feels like the bare minimum.

Hope forces Carse for two to bring up the usual half-century, this time from 44 balls. It’s been a superb innings, rich in style and authority. England should get rid of him at their earliest convenience.

Meanwhile, Carse’s day has been a tale of two spells: 3-0-24-0 and now 3-0-10-0.

Rutherford glides/edges wide of Buttler for four, the first boundary off Rehan Ahmed today. It’s another fine over from Rehan, though, ending with a quicker googly that beats Rutherford’s attempted violence over midwicket.

Rutherford slaps Carse towards backward point, where Salt saves three runs (probably) with a diving stop. West Indies haven’t scored a boundary since the 18th over so this is a decent test of their patience. You’d expect Hope to be fine; Rutherford is playing only his second ODI so his brain will be more restless. He tries to take a dodgy single off Carse - whose second spell has been good - and is wisely sent back.

Rutherford feels for a legbreak from Rehan and is beaten. Buttler goes up for caught behind but nobody else is interested.

Later in the over Rutherford scuffs a drive wide of leg stump. It feels like he is starting to lose patience against Rehan, having scored only four off 12 deliveries so far.

Carse replaces Jacks, whose four overs went for 27. A middle-overs wickettaker feels more important than ever, given the oldfangled trend for keeping wickets in hand so that you can explode at the death. Carse hasn’t looked particularly likely so far, though the pitch is extremely flat. A single brings up the West Indies hundred, which constitutes a pretty good recover from 23/4 after seven overs.

Rehan is mixing it up, particularly to the left-handed Rutherford. One leg-break turns sharply and almost surprises Rutherford, and there are four singles from the over.

A loose ball from Jacks is flicked past short fine leg for four by Hope, who is going at more than a run a ball without breaking sweat. He has 42 from 35, Rutherford 28 from 35. It’s been an impressive demonstration of how to regroup at a good rate without taking significant risks.

Right, sit up straight: Rehan Ahmed is coming on to bowl. He bowled beautifully on Sunday, taking 2/40, and his first over today is played with noticeable respect. Just two runs from it.

On a flat pitch, those new-ball wickets look more valuable with every over. Rutherford pulls Jacks over short midwicket for four to bring up a calm fifty partnership, then makes it back-to-back boundaries by dragging a full toss round the corner. Really good batting. 

West Indies have scored 34 from the last four overs, and it’s time for drinks.

Brydon Carse is fairly new to international cricket, so it’s easy to forget he’s already 28. He still has time on his side, though - Liam Plunkett, the man England would love him to belatedly replace, only became a regular in his thirties.

A length ball from Carse is clouted over mid-on for six by Hope, who looks in serious nick. That shot unsettles Carse, who bowls a no-ball and then a wide, though he does well to restrict Hope to a single from the free hit.

Hope cuffs one back towards Jacks, who dives to his right to make a good stop and probably save four runs. 

That aside it’s a quiet over of dot balls and low-risk accumulation. West Indies have recovered well from 23/4, aided by a slightly defensive approach from England.

Hope drags a short ball from Carse to backward square leg, where Jacks scampers round the boundary to keep him to a single. 

Later in the over Hope plays another stylish drive through mid-on for four. Livingstone made the ground up but then dived over the ball; he’s angry with himself.

Will Jacks, who was surprisingly ignored on Sunday, comes on to bowl some offspin. A tidy first over ends with Hope getting a leading edge into the covers for a couple of runs.

Brydon Carse replaces Sam Curran, who will feel infinitely better about life and 50-over cricket. His first over is a mixed bag: two half-volleys, one of which is clipped for four by Rutherford, and a cracking yorker that Rutherford digs out. Mind you, Ian Bishop and Curtly Ambrose, commentating on TNT Sports, are discussing whether the yorker was deliberate or he just missed his length.

Rutherford edges Atkinson fractionally short of Crawley at first slip, and the ball bounces through for four runs. Atkinson has bowled forensically to the left-handers; figures of 5-0-21-1 are a little unflattering.

Curran teases the new batsman Sherfane Rutherford with a couple of wide slower balls. Rutherford politely declines the invitation. Eventually he cuts the last ball for a single to get off the mark. Curran has restorative figures of 5-0-19-3, including a spell of 3/2 in 14 balls.

Shai Hope shows his class with two beautiful push-drives for four off Atkinson, both down the ground. He got West Indies out of a hole on Sunday; they’re in an even bigger one now.

A thumping cover drive from Hope is superbly stopped by Jacks, diving to his right. That’s the third boundary-saving stop already in this innings.

And that’s the third boundary of the over, another classy push-drive from Hope. Curran at mid-on got a hand on this onet but could only help it on its way.

It’s probably time to add “Never write Sam Curran off” to the huge book of cricket cliches. He is such an admirable cricketer: resourceful, resilient, intelligent and with an unashamed addiction to competitive conflict.

Hetmyer LBW c Curran 0

Curran may have a third wicket here - Jos Buttler has reviewed an LBW appeal against Shimron Hetmyer. It looks close, probably umpire’s call and therefore not out. 

Oh no it’s not: Hetmyer is out! He walked across, missed a flick to leg and was hit on the pad in front of leg stump. I thought the ball would go with the angle but there was enough shape for it to hit leg stump on the full. Sam Curran has taken three wickets in eight balls! FOW: 23/4

King c Crawley b Curran 17 Sam Curran roars with his delight after taking his second wicket. It was a really good delivery, which zipped across King from just back of a length. He edged it towards slip and Crawley, the safest pair of hands England have had for a long time, did the rest. FOW: 23/3. 

Atkinson has a really nice rhythm. Another challenging over ends with an inducker that almost gets through King. He has the welcome figures of 3-0-4-1.

That was Curran’s first ODI wicket in 16.4 overs, from which he conceded a startling 161 runs.

Carty c Crawley b Curran 0

A much-needed wicket for Sam Curran. Carty threw his hands outside off and edged to slip, where the immaculate Zak Crawley took a very sharp two-handed catch above his head. Carty goes for a second-ball duck. FOW: 20/2

Keacy Carty is the new batsman.

Athanaze c Buttler b Atkinson 3

Gus Atkinson strikes with a vicious nipbacker. Athanaze shaped to cut, but the ball roared back at him and ended up in the hands of Buttler. He went up for caught behind and then doubled down by reviewing. 

It was a good decision: there was a clear spike - not sure whether it was bottom edge or glove, though I don’t suppose it matters - and Athanaze goes for a 14-ball 4. Larry David would have enjoyed that. FOW: 15/1

Athanaze’s back cut is superbly stopped by the diving Salt, who will thus start his moral innings on 4 not out.

Curran continues to pitch it up - “that is the swinger’s length, if you’ll pardon the expression,” says David Gower - and King thumps a no-nonsense drive to the left of mid-off for four more. Adam Ant would have approved.

Gus Atkinson’s first ball is a snorter that lifts and seams to beat the left-handed Alick Athanaze. A couple of thumping drives go straight to fielders and there’s just one run from the over.

Curran pitches the ball up in pursuit of swing. He gets some encouraging movement, but Brandon King’s first ball goes gunbarrel straight and is lashed to the cover boundary.

Sam Curran, straight back on the horse, will bowl the first over of the innings. If he is to crack ODI cricket, he needs to become a David Willey-sized new-ball threat.

Good afternoon from Antigua. England are unchanged, which is in keeping with Jos Buttler’s mood after the defeat in the opening game. It’s a fresh pitch; the last one took us all by surprise, when we had envisaged a scrappy 250-par type game. England choose to chase, which they have struggled with lately.

It came out nicely [on Sunday]. I could bowl not as well and get more wickets; I was quite happy with the way I bowled. I’ve been working on my legspinner quite a bit – I only bowled five or six googlies in the last game which is unlike me. There’s a little bit of sidespin now so hopefully I can keep going with that.

I’m very proud [of his 15-year-old brother Farhan, who has just been picked in England’s Under-19s World Cup squad], we all are. He doesn’t hit sixes yet though, he’s a bit boring.

West Indies Athanaze, King, Carty, Hope (c/wk), Hetmyer, Rutherford, Shepherd, Joseph, Cariah, Motie, Thomas.

England Salt, Jacks, Crawley, Duckett, Brook, Buttler (c/wk), Livingstone, Curran, Carse, Ahmed, Atkinson.

“It looks a good pitch,” says Jos Buttler, “and we fancy a chase today.” 

Shai Hope says he would have bowled as well: “The pitch isn’t going to change much.”

Hello and welcome to Telegraph Sport’s live, over-by-over coverage of the second ODI between West Indies and England in Antigua. Technically this is a must-win game for England, who are 1-0 down with two to play in the series. But like Mark Renton’s final hits, there are must-win games and must-win games. Sri Lanka in Bengaluru in October was a true MWG, and we know what happened then.

This series is more about the future than the present. England would love to win, especially as it would quieten the noise around Matthew Mott, but it’s not the be-all and end-all. Even in Sunday’s frustrating defeat there were actual positives to take in the performances of Phil Salt, Harry Brook and especially Rehan Ahmed.

Brook, who made 71 from 72 balls, is still learning how to play 50-over cricket. “I’ve struggled a little bit in this format at the start of my ODI career,” said Brook yesterday. “I haven’t quite found the tempo of how I wanted to play. I feel like I’ve got some things I need to work on.”

England’s focus on this tour is the next generation – and yet, paradoxically, the top item on their wishlist today is probably a return to form for a 33-year-old. The captain Jos Buttler is having his leanest spell in over a decade: 13 ODI innings without a half-century, and an average of 14 since the start of the World Cup.

There’s surely nothing to worry about in the medium-term, but a return to form will allow the young batsmen to express themselves even more, safe in the knowledge England’s greatest white-ball batter is still to come. It’s been a desperate winter for Buttler, the toughest of his career. When he does find a bit of rhythm, some innocent bowlers are going to suffer.