West Indies coach John Dyson has accepted full responsibility for the dreadful miscalculation that cost the regional side a chance to win the opening One-Day International against England yesterday.

The former Australian opening batsman misread West Indies to be ahead of the 'par' score under the Duckworth/Lewis method after umpires offered the regional side light late in the evening at 244 for seven in the 47th over, in pursuit of 271.

He signalled the West Indies players off, only to discover that England were actually one run ahead and had in fact won the game.

My responsibility

"It's my responsibility, I accept responsibility. I've apologised to the team, that's all I can do. It's a bad mistake," said Dyson.

"Obviously at that stage, it is extremely disappointing. It was getting dark as you know and it would have been nice to be ahead by one run."

The events spoiled a potentially exciting end to the contest, with West Indies requiring 28 runs from 22 balls to win the game at the National Stadium at Providence.

Captain Chris Gayle said while the team was disappointed by the missed opportunity to take the lead in the five-match series, they were already trying to look ahead.

"What happened is that we got a ball-to-ball sheet and we were going off of that and then the coach decided it was in our favour so we decided to call the guys in," he explained.

"I think it was the fall of the wicket that confused (the issue) ... . In the end it's just one of those things. We still have another game on Sunday, so hopefully, we can just put this behind us as quickly as possible and just focus on Sunday.

Nothing you can do

"It's hard ... . There's nothing you can do at this point in time, we just have to accept it and move on but at the same time we are very disappointed in the way things went, but it's a learning process."

Dyson said the events would not mar the remainder of matches for West Indies as they could still win the series once they maintained their quality of cricket.

"We just need to continue playing some good cricket and we played some good cricket this afternoon," he pointed out.

"In fact, Shiv (Shivnarine Chanderpaul) played a couple of overs of exceptional cricket and it is just a matter that we have to continue doing that."

Chanderpaul turned the game in the Windies' favour with a superb 46 from 30 balls, including 26 in one over off fast bowler Steve Harmison.