Bridgetown (Barbados): West Indies captain Chris Gayle smashed an impressive 80 runs from 43 balls on their way to an eight-wicket win in the third one-day international against England here on Friday.

West Indies now lead the five-match series 2-1.

England were humiliatingly bowled out for just 117 off 41.3 overs with Dimitri Mascarenhas top scoring for England with 36.

An audacious and skilfull innings by Gayle, including eight sixes, completely devastated England, who only bowled 14.4 of their 44 allotted overs, calculated on the Duckworth-Lewis system.

The visitors now trail in the five-match series 1-2 with the fourth match to be staged at the same venue on Sunday.

Dwayne Bravo was the pick of the West Indies bowlers with four for 19 from seven overs, Fidel Edwards took three for 28 from 8.3 overs, and Kieron Pollard bagged two for 16 from six overs.

England were then rocked, when they lost Kevin Pietersen, Owais Shah, and Andrew Flintoff in three successive overs. < /p>