ENGLAND faltered alarmingly to spin on the way to a 27-run defeat in the first Twenty20 international at Kensington Oval.

Samuel Badree’s careerbest three for 17 was the highlight of a collateral six for 46 in 10 overs from West Indies’ spinners as England fell badly short.

Marlon Samuels hit an unbeaten 69 in the hosts’ 170 for three, and for good measure then made his off-breaks count too in an England total of 143 for nine which could give little encouragement about their ability to deal with some of the wall-to-wall spin sure to come their way in Bangladesh at the ICC World Twenty20.

Number three Samuels took late advantage of being dropped by James Tredwell on 43, the off-spinner therefore spoiling much of his earlier good work.

England, who selected only Tredwell as a spin option here, appeared to have feasible prospects of a successful chase on a good pitch.

They made things especially hard for themselves, however, after Alex Hales and then Luke Wright were stumped from successive Badree deliveries to put the leg-spinner on an unlikely hat-trick.

Soon afterwards, Michael Lumb pulled Badree to deep square-leg, and Jos Buttler was equally compliant when he reverse-swept Sunil Narine straight to point for a duck. It might have been even worse had Badree held on to a fierce straight-drive from Morgan.

Yet it made little difference, with Narine off the field having hurt his knee sliding in the outfield, Samuels duly had Morgan well-held on the midwicket boundary.

Ben Stokes was the third England batsman to go stumped, to Samuels.

Despite some assured strokeplay from Ravi Bopara, West Indies captain Darren Sammy could even afford to put down a glaring chance at point – Tim Bresnan escaping on three off Ravi Rampaul – and still have plenty of leeway.

When Bopara mistimed a slower ball to be caught-andbowled by Dwayne Bravo, following through into the legside, realistic hope was spent for England in only the 15th over – although Bresnan’s career- best, unbeaten 47 from number eight made some of the statistics a little less embarrassing.

Stuart Broad will miss the rest of England’s Twenty20 series with West Indies due to ongoing knee troubles.

England’s captain in the shortest form of the game appeared to be struggling throughout the defeat in Barbados and confirmed he was suffering with patellar tendonitis, commonly referred to as jumper’s knee.

With the World Twenty20 just around the corner, the seamer will sit out the next two matches against the Windies in order to lead his side in Bangladesh.

‘‘I’ve had tendonitis for a while now, throughout the winter, with the workload,’’ Broad admitted.