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Not for the first time, England claimed victory in a white-ball game by the barest of margins.
It should never have been this tight as 24 hours after producing a collapse that would not have looked out of place in the Ashes, the world's number-one Twenty20 team played to their ranking - for 90 per cent of the contest at least.
But in what was an extraordinary ending, in which West Indies required 61 off the final three overs with ninth-wicket pair Romario Shepherd and Akeal Hosein at the crease, they had just one run left in the bank following an extraordinary blitz of strokes.
England players celebrate after claiming a dramatic win over West Indies to level the series
Akeal Hosein is consoled after the West Indies couldn't quite complete the comeback
Eoin Morgan's side might even have hit complete disaster had umpire Nigel Duguid called the second delivery of the final over sent down by Saqib Mahmood a wide, as he might.
West Indies began that with 30 needed and their never-say-die attitude took them to within a single from a position of 65 for seven when Hosein smoked the final three deliveries over the ropes.
At the other end, Shepherd made the ground look like a postage stamp towards the death and having selected a team with plenty of firepower, the Windies put down a marker for the rest of the series.
Romario Shepherd and Hosein required 61 off the final three overs of the match which they nearly pulled off
Each of the tail enders struck career-best scores of 44 but the game was ultimately placed out of reach by Reece Topley's penultimate over.
Topley conceded just eight runs before Hosein got the locals in the home crowd dancing despite England squaring the series at 1-1.
Eoin Morgan
