Holder blames rain for latest loss

Jason Holder was wondering how his side lost in the fourth One-Day International against England in London on Thursday after two brilliant individual efforts with both bat and ball.

Evin Lewis played a superb innings of 176, a career-best for the opener, and was on course for a maiden double hundred when he deflected a Jake Ball delivery on to his ankle and had to retire hurt. Alzarri Joseph took his maiden five-wicket haul in ODIs with figures of 5-56.

But despite Windies dominating for most of the match, England was rescued by an unbeaten 77-run partnership between Moeen Ali and Jos Buttler that helped the host stay ahead of the required DLS target of 258/5 when rain arrived to halt play in the 30th over. The six-run victory for England was Windies's 16th loss in 17 completed ODIs.

"It's really hard to take... I thought, had the rain not come, it would have been a really close finish -- and we were backing ourselves to win it," lamented Holder, who scored 77 in a 168-run partnership with Lewis.

"It's hard when a guy scores 170 and another guy takes five wickets, and you end up losing the game," he added.

To compound the visitor's woes, Lewis will not be available for the final match on Friday in Southampton while Holder himself will fly back home for his uncle's funeral. Carlos Brathwaite has been drafted in as a replacement while Jason Mohammed is set to assume the captaincy.

On the other side, Eoin Morgan complimented Lewis's batting and was thankful for another special knock from Moeen that pushed it over the line.

"Evin Lewis played well. We were up against it, but it was an extremely confident innings (from Ali)."

Morgan also confirmed the return of Alex Hales after the opener was dropped for the fourth ODI.

"For the moment, Alex will come straight back in (at Southampton)."