England continued their disappointing Caribbean tour by slumping to a humiliating six-wicket defeat in Sunday's Twenty20 international after yet another stunning batting collapse.

Dismissed for a lowly 99 during last October's Stanford match in Antigua and for 51 to lose the first Test in Jamaica, England completed their hat-trick of batting collapses by being dismissed for just 121 in 19.1 overs at the Queen's Park Oval.

It provided a West Indies side without injured captain Chris Gayle, arguably their best one-day player, with a timely victory before the start of the one-day series in Georgetown next Friday after they cruised to their target with two overs remaining.

Newly-installed captain Andrew Strauss had called on England's new-look line-up, which included three players making their Twenty20 international debuts, to play aggressive cricket and "without fear".

Instead of being roused by Strauss' instructions, the tourists seemed intimidated and once the opening partnership of Steven Davies and Ravi Bopara - England's 11th different combination at the top of the order in 15 Twenty20 internationals - was broken the innings folded alarmingly quickly.

England lost nine wickets for 66 runs in just 12 overs and hit only 11 boundaries in their innings. For the first time in 15 Twenty20 internationals they failed to hit a single six.

The convincing defeat also extends England's wait for their first victory in an international match this winter while all they have to show for seven weeks in the Caribbean is a solitary triumph in the opening warm-up match in St Kitts.

England had begun brightly with Worcestershire wicketkeeper-batsman Davies, preferred to Matt Prior, looking impressive on his international debut and dominated stands with Bopara and Kevin Pietersen, hitting five boundaries to top score with 27 off 21 balls.

Picked largely because of an impressive Pro40 season for Worcestershire, Davies got off the mark with a superbly-timed cover drive for four and even after losing Bopara - bowled by seamer Lionel Baker stepping away from his stumps - he continued to set the pace.

Just four runs away from recording his highest ever Twenty20 score of 30, which he scored against Somerset at Taunton two years ago, Davies was bowled by all-rounder Dwayne Bravo stepping away from his stumps to make room for an expansive shot.

Davies' demise was compounded by a poor umpiring decision to remove key man Pietersen, who was adjudged lbw to left-arm spinner Sulieman Benn with a ball which turned past leg stump by local official Norman Malcolm.

Benn, who finished with impressive figures of three for 24 from his four overs, followed that by tempting Owais Shah into hitting over long off only to pick out the fielder on the boundary.

Once Paul Collingwood fell in similar circumstances, caught at deep mid-wicket off Daren Sammy attempting to increase England's scoring rate, England were reliant on Strauss and big-hitting Dimitri Mascarenhas to lift them to anything like a competitive total.

Needing one or both to bat out the remaining seven overs, they fell in quick succession to run outs with Mascarenhas hesitating after he hit the ball to Ramnaresh Sarwan at point while Strauss narrowly lost out to a TV umpire decision after impressive work from Shivnarine Chanderpaul at wide mid-on.

Further evidence of West Indies' impressive performance in the field was delivered by Sarwan, this time at mid-off, who threw down the stumps after Gareth Batty called for a quick single and was run out with several yards to spare.

England's demise was swift after that with Benn bowling Amjad Khan with a turning delivery which clipped his off-stump before Stuart Broad clipped tamely to cover to end the innings in fitting fashion.

Chasing a modest target, West Indies were given a helping hand with two wides in Jimmy Anderson's opening over of the innings, although Broad gave England hope by removing dangerous opener Andre Fletcher with his second ball when he picked out Mascarenhas at backward square leg.

Anderson followed up by forcing a false shot out of Chanderpaul, who scooped the ball high in the air to allow Collingwood to take the catch at point.

Not content with a major contribution in two run outs, Sarwan continued his rich vein of form from the Test series - when he hit two centuries and a double hundred - to hit a superb 59 off 46 balls to guide West Indies to the brink of victory.

Sarwan hammered four fours and two sixes having been dropped on 38 by Amjad running in from the long-on boundary but was bowled by the same bowler attempting to finish the game with just 17 runs needed for victory.