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…to Telegraph Sport’s live blog of the third T20 between West Indies and England in Barbados.

Game one saw England play a different format but succumb to a familiar failing – a batting collapse. So familiar during the Ashes the quick flurry of wickets wasn’t suppose to happen when the world No.1 ranked T20 side went out to the middle, but that’s exactly what happened on the way to Eoin Morgan side’s nine-wicket defeat on Saturday.

Playing game two the very next day England were given the chance of an immediate redemption and it’s one they grasped – but not without a few questions being thrown their way. The tourists were coasting to a win with the Windies 98 for eight chasing 172 for victory. But with fewer than five overs to go Romario Shepherd and Akeal Hosein took on the England attack and thrashed the bowlers to all parts of the Kensington Oval and got to within two runs of victory.

What was a victory for some may well have felt like a defeat and posed serious questions about England’s death bowling – for so long a strength of Morgan’s men.

One such bowler who the Windies pair took a liking to was Chris Jordan who went for 39 off his three overs. Jordan is renowned as one of the world’s best fielders and his batting in the first two T20s against the West Indies has been a fillip bowl in the Caribbean, although he has seemed to go off the boil whileing at the death.

For so long England’s go-to as the game reaches a crescendo, Jordan was pummelled by Jimmy Neesham in England’s T20 World Cup loss against New Zealand in November, leaking 23 in the over that shifted the momentum of the semi-final.

He was flyed for three sixes in four balls towards the end of Sunday’s second T20 against the Windies, who came within two runs of pulling off a terrific heist, although England prevailed to square the five-match series.

Paul Collingwood refused to single out any individuals, preferring to highlight the overall contributions of England’s all-time leading T20 wicket-taker, but he acknowledged they must improve their bowling in the pressure scenarios.

The fielding coach said: “CJ gives you a lot in other parts of the game, of course. He’s the perfect kind of T20 cricketer. But in the end that death bowling is something we need to improve on.

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