Forget Jofra Archer; another Barbados-born bowler in Chris Jordan has surely put himself on England’s radar for this summer’s World Cup after a spell-binding display of fast bowling helped rout West Indies for 45 in this second T20 international.

The victory not only sealed the series for England, who are 2-0 up ahead of Sunday’s finale at the same venue, but it was their biggest win in this format in terms of runs.

For West Indies, who crumbled after half-centuries from Sam Billings and Joe Root set them a target of 183, this was a chastening experience as the T20 world champions were dismissed for the second-lowest score in the format’s history. Only the Netherlands, bundled out for 39 by Sri Lanka in 2014, have had a worse batting performance.

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It was Jordan’s brilliance during a spell of four wickets in eight balls that did the damage, taking a barely-believable career-best haul of four for six. Jordan has not played a one-day international in two and a half years. Yet talk that he cannot transfer this form across formats seems wide of the mark.

There has been much excitement in recent weeks about Archer, Jordan’s fellow Bajan, who qualifies for England next week. But Ed Smith, the national selector, could do worse than pick both when England’s final World Cup squad is submitted in May.

Jordan admitted that would be a perfect scenario. “It would be a dream for sure,” he said. “I spend a lot of time with him, we do a lot of work together and, if we do make it, hopefully we can go all the way and win the World Cup. I’m sure Ed’s seen this – he’s chairman of selectors. But this was a good team performance.”

England, unchanged from their four-wicket win in the opening match of the series in St Lucia on Tuesday, were thankful to an 82-run stand between Billings and Root after they had slipped to 32 for four in the sixth over of their innings.

It followed the early losses of Jonny Bairstow, Alex Hales, Morgan and Joe Denly. But Billings, whose 87 from 47 balls was his highest international score, took the match by the scruff of the neck. Root, too, was impressive as he posted his first half-century in this format since the 2016 World T20 final against West Indies in Kolkata.

Both innings were important for each player – Billings producing the standout performance of his four-year international career and Root, not a regular in England’s T20 team, making his case for further inclusion once Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler, Jason Roy and Moeen Ali, key players rested for this series, return.

Like Jordan, Billings might also be in the selectors’ thoughts when they consider standby options for the final World Cup squad. The Kent wicketkeeper-batsman was caught behind from the final ball of the innings, bowled by Obed McCoy, but not before smashing the 22-year-old fast bowler’s final over for 22 runs.

Jordan then took over after two early wickets for David Willey – removing Darren Bravo and Jason Holder in successive deliveries before Fabian Allen and Carlos Brathwaite fell in his next over. West Indies were 22 for six at that stage and the game was gone. England, for whom Liam Plunkett sealed victory in the 12th over of the West Indies chase, can now leave this tour on Monday with positivity after losing the Test series and drawing the ODIs 2-2.

Meanwhile Mark Ramprakash has lost his job as the England batting coach and is expected to be replaced by Graham Thorpe ahead of this summer’s Ashes series against Australia.

Ramprakash has paid the price for the Test team’s poor batting of late. The former England batsman revealed he had been relieved of his job on Twitter, saying: “I’ve just been informed that I will not be involved in the Ashes series. It’s been a huge privilege to support the team over the last five years. I’d like to wish all the staff & players the very best of luck for the future.”

England officially confirmed the news shortly afterwards. Thorpe, who in his current role as lead batting coach is responsible for England’s white-ball teams, is the favourite to replace Ramprakash.