PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: England endured a fruitless toil before lunch, as Brendan Nash scored his maiden Test hundred for West Indies and Shivnarine Chanderpaul started to eye his 21st in the fifth and final Test yesterday.

Nash was undefeated on 109 and Chanderpaul was unbeaten on 86, as West Indies, replying to England's first innings total of 546 for six declared, reached 433 for four at the interval on the penultimate day of the Test at Queen's Parl Oval.

England began to see signs of their bid for a series-leveling victory ebb away when Nash and Chanderpaul held firm throughout the morning period to post 230 - unbroken - to establish a new ground record for the fifth wicket. All of the England bowlers put their best efforts forward, but the Australia-born Nash, whose parents hail from the island of Jamaica, withstood and reached his hundred from 234 balls, when he flicked Monty Panesar through backward square leg for two.

Chanderpaul, hobbled by a minor groin strain, continued to prove why he earned the World No.1 batting ranking and the ICC World Cricketer-of-the-Year award last year, and looks set to carry the tally of hundreds in the match to six, and the series to 16 after lunch.

England trail in the five-Test series 0-1, following an innings and 23-run defeat in the opening Test at Sabina Park in Jamaica, where they were dismissed for their third-lowest total of 51 in the second innings.

PCB lodges complaint to ICC over Broad’s comments

In Islamabad, the Pakistan Cricket Board has lodged an official complaint to the ICC over match referee Chris Broad’s remarks complaining about insufficient security for officials during last week’s terror attack in Lahore.

PCB Chairman Ijaz Butt told The Associated Press yesterday: “Broad’s comments are totally unfair and we have sent a letter to the International Cricket Council in which we have lodged a strong protest.” Broad was traveling in a van in the same convoy as the Sri Lankan team when the attackers opened fire with automatic weapons, grenades and at least one rocket launcher, killing his driver, six police officers, wounding seven players and critically wounding a fellow official.

Broad reacted by saying: “There was not a sign of a policeman anywhere. They had clearly left the scene and left us to be sitting ducks.”