Ali's stunning century gives England victory over Windies in third ODI

Moeen Ali smashed a stunning century from just 53 balls as England beat Windies by 124 runs to take a 2-0 lead in the ODI series, with two to play.

The all-rounder, whose hundred was the second fastest by an England player in ODI cricket, was eventually dismissed for 102 from 57 balls and took just 12 deliveries to go from 50 to 100, largely thanks to a run of six sixes in eight balls.

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Ali's fireworks late in the innings came after brisk half-centuries from Joe Root (84 from 79) and Ben Stokes (73 from 63) to take England up to 369-9 from their 50 overs.

The Windies briefly threatened to chase it down but when Adil Rashid ran out Chris Gayle (94 from 78) with a direct hit, leaving them 176-4, momentum was lost and the tourists were eventually bowled out for 245 - Liam Plunkett taking 5-52 for England.

Having been put into bat, England lost Jonny Bairstow (13) early. Extra bounce from Jason Holder his undoing as he got a leading edge that looped back to the bowler.

Root joined Alex Hales (36) and the pair were going along nicely before the opener fell to a nip-backer from Miguel Cummins, given out lbw on review, and Eoin Morgan's poor form continued as he edged his first ball behind to give Holder his second wicket.

With England wobbling at 74-3, Root and Stokes countered and put on 132 for the fourth wicket.

The England Test captain and vice-captain both motored to 50 and beyond before Stokes holed out, just as he appeared ready to cut loose.

Having thumped consecutive sixes off Ashley Nurse, Stokes tried to continue in the same vain in the next over but picked out Evin Lewis in the deep off Rovman Powell.

That sparked a mini-collapse as Jos Buttler (2) and Root (84 from 79 balls) were dismissed by Cummins, Buttler bowled by an excellent delivery that trimmed the off bail before Root was trapped plumb in front.

With England precariously placed at 217-6, Chris Woakes (34) joined Ali in the middle and after a few overs of rebuilding, Ali sprung into life.

Back-to-back sixes brought up his fifty from 41 balls and that was just the start. He took just seven deliveries to move from 60 to 90 and the maximums kept coming, the Windies bowlers' persistence with bowling length deliveries punished time and again.

Another pair of sixes took to Ali to his ton and although he was caught in the deep off Nurse - who almost removed him with a diving catch off his own bowling and also dropped a far simpler caught and bowled chance - soon after, the damage had been done.

The Windies chase started with Lewis (13) hitting two sixes in David Willey's first over, only to fall trying to hit a third, the ball coming off the splice of the bat and looping to Ali at mid on.

Gayle though was looking in ominous form and partnerships with, firstly, Shai Hope (20) and then Marlon Samuels (11) began positively but were stopped in their tracks by Plunkett.

The England quick had both Hope and Samuels caught behind, although Samuels was not impressed with the decision of the third umpire to overturn a not out decision based on the smallest of ripples on UltraEdge.

Gayle remained though and raced past 50, clearing the boundary with great ease and regularity. His running between the wickets has never been a strong point though and it proved costly on this occasion.

He nudged the ball into the onside, Rashid collected the ball and threw down the stumps with the opener just short of his ground and six short of a century.

From there the Windies innings slowly crumbled. Rashid came into the attack and picked up three wickets and Plunkett returned to add another three to his tally, including the wicket of Holder (34) to seal the win.