Ben McKinney, James Rew blast England Lions to fifth-highest List A total

Ben McKinney made a career-best 145 © Gareth Copley/Getty Images

England Lions 487 for 5 (McKinney 145, J Rew 107, Lawrence 76, Mayes 58) beat West Indies A 211 (Carty 75, McKenzie 67, Jack 5‑42, Crane 3‑26) by 266 runs

England Lions blasted the fifth-highest total in List A history to set up a 266-run thrashing of West Indies A at Warner Park in St Kitts on Monday night. The result puts them 2‑0 up in a five-match 50-over series, after their 3‑0 win in the T20 leg of the tour.

The Lions' innings of 487 for 5 was bookended by quick hundreds by Durham's Ben McKinney (off 43 balls) and Somerset's James Rew (off 55 balls), with Dan Lawrence and Ben Mayes both thumping half-centuries. Hampshire fast bowler Eddie Jack then took 5 for 42 in six overs as the Lions wrapped up a crushing win.

McKinney, a tall, 22-year-old left-hander, signed an England development contract last month and is widely seen as a future Test opener. He was Durham's top-scorer with 1044 runs at 52.20 as they won Division Two of the County Championship this year and has been a Lions regular ever since he graduated from the Under-19s.

Rew, another 22-year-old left-hander, made his Test debut at The Oval earlier this year but appears to have slipped down England's pecking order in the months since, missing out on a development contract. But he still managed 803 Championship runs for Somerset this season, and has now scored back-to-back hundreds in St Kitts after leading England's chase in the first one-dayer.

James Rew has made back-to-back hundreds for the Lions © Getty Images

Thomas Rew - who along with Jack and James Coles will leave the tour after Wednesday's third one-day match to travel to Australia for England's T20Is - set the tone for the Lions by carving two fours through point then smearing a six over the leg side in Jakeem Pollard's first over of the match, but it was McKinney who did most of the early damage.

Rew was caught behind off Oshane Thomas for 22 but McKinney raced to a 27-ball half-century, taking the Lions to 107 for 1 after the first 10 overs. He took only 16 balls more to reach his second List A hundred, laying into the left-arm wristspinner Vitel Lawes whose first two overs cost 39 runs.

McKinney hit Lawes for five sixes in total, with one huge blow disappearing out of the ground and another smashing a window. He was dropped at long-on on 90 by Jyd Goolie, and then reached his hundred by punching Thomas through cover for four.

McKinney's 43-ball hundred is thought to be the second-fastest by an Englishman in List A cricket, after Graham Rose's 36-ball effort for Somerset against Devon in the 1990 NatWest Trophy.

He eventually fell for 145 off 65 balls, caught at deep square leg off Jediah Blades, who also had Rehan Ahmed caught via a leading edge to cover. Lawrence, captaining the Lions, struck 76 off 56 from No. 4, but when he and Coles fell to leave them 321 for 5 in the 35th over, the innings looked as though it might fade away somewhat.

Instead, James Rew and Hampshire's Mayes added an unbroken 166 for the sixth wicket, with Rew hitting the last two balls of the innings for six to finish 107 not out, his second century in three days.

West Indies A started reasonably well in their chase, reaching 143 for 1 after 19 overs, but McKinney took an excellent diving catch at mid-on to remove Kirk McKenzie for 67 to give Jack the first of his five wickets. The innings quickly disintegrated thereafter, with Jack running through the middle order and Mason Crane mopping up the tail.