Scorecard

Dwayne Bravo and Chris Gayle struck fluent centuries as title-holders the West Indies maintained their rollicking form to pile an intimidating 272 for 4 against a hapless England in the ICC Champions Trophy Group 'A' match in Ahmedabad on Saturday.

Having already sealed a place in the semi-finals, the West Indies showed no let up in their aggression as Bravo (112 not out) and Gayle (101) set the Sardar Patel Gujarat stadium ablaze with some scintillating batting.

Their performances left England, who are out of the tournament having suffered two defeats in as many matches, with an asking rate of 5.46.

England yet again gave a poor account of themselves; their catching was sloppy and bowling pedestrian bowling.

Twenty-three-year old Bravo got to his maiden ODI hundred off 117 balls while Gayle completed his second century of the tournament as the duo put on 174 runs for the second wicket to set a perfect launching pad for a late assault.

Ramnaresh Sarwan scored a quickfire 29 off 19 balls and added 50 runs for the third wicket with Bravo.

Gayle began in his customary aggressive manner, dispatching Jon Lewis to the mid-on ropes in the bowler's opening over.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul delighted the sparse crowd with majestically executed back-to-back fours of James Anderson.

The West Indies openers seemed in no difficulty against the English seamers, who delivered some rank bad balls that found their way to the fence.

However, the stand was cut short as Chanderpaul, dropped by Ian Bell at short mid wicket on 11, departed in the sixth over.

Lewis, who came into the team in place of an off-colour Stephen Harmison, got the first breakthrough with a delivery that moved in after pitching on the off-stump and found Chanderpaul (13) plumb in front of middle stump.

There was some excitement among the crowd in the 11^th over as England captain Andrew Flintoff decided to have a go with the ball -- for the first time since June following an ankle injury -- but failed to cut much ice in his first spell of three overs.

Bravo, who came at one down, took little time before opening up and gained in confidence as the innings progressed.

The Trinidadian soon overshadowed his senior partner and began playing shots off his legs, before bringing up the 100 of the innings in the 23rd over with a lofted boundary of left arm spinner Michael Yardy.

Yardy, however, could have extracted revenge on the youngster, but failed to latch on to a caught and bowled chance with Bravo on 44.

The right-handed batsman got to his half-century by rocketing Yardy to the fine leg fence, while Gayle reached the same landmark in the very next over with a single of Jamie Dalrymple.