England seamer Chris Woakes has shored up his starting spot in England’s World Cup cricket side with a five-wicket haul in a warmup match at the SCG.

Woakes took 5-19 from 7.3 overs on Monday, as West Indies were dismissed for 122 off just 29.3 overs after their captain Jason Holder elected to bat first.

England rested frontline seamers Stuart Broad and James Anderson and they missed out on bowling in conditions more like they would expect at home than in Australia.

Woakes exploited a green-tinged pitch and cloudy overhead conditions which had the floodlights flicker into use around 4pm local time.

He had Chris Gayle and Darren Bravo caught behind for first ball ducks off the third and fourth deliveries of the innings to reduce the West indies to 2-1.

Woakes had Dwayne Smith picked up in the slips by Ian Bell in the seventh over for 21, the second highest score of the innings.

Wickets continued to fall at regular intervals with only Lendl Simmons providing sustained resistance.

He hit 45 off 55 balls, with four boundaries plus the only six of the innings, over wide long on, off spinner James Tredwell.

Woakes picked up two more wickets in his second spell, with Simmons among his victims.

Smith and Simmons apart, no other batsman scored more than 12 and no partnership exceeded 34

Tredwell and paceman Chris Jordan were the two new faces in the side that was beaten by Australia in last weekend’s tri-series final in Perth.

Each of the five England bowlers employed took at least one wicket, with paceman Steve Finn snaring 2-34 off six overs.

While both teams had the option of using more than 11 players for what is not an official one-day international, England stuck with using the traditional number.