A free-scoring England were dismissed for 416 on day one of the second Test, with Ollie Pope scoring a stylish 121
It was a day of queues at Trent Bridge. There were queues for Brian Lara’s autograph during a book signing session at lunch, queues for the ice-cream vans at tea, queues for the bars throughout – pretty standard at an English Test match, admittedly– and batters positively lining up to have a go out in the middle.
All the same, 4.7 runs an over made it a fast-scoring day and not least by Ben Duckett first thing. After the loss of Zak Crawley third ball, the left-hander responded with a flurry of boundaries – four in four off Jayden Seales’s first over – and had a shot at Gilbert Jessop’s cobwebbed record for the fastest Test century by an Englishman . That was until he drove Shamar Joseph to slip and mooched off with 71 from 59.
It was tough going for West Indies. Despite bowling well in patches and throwing some late punches to prevent a monstrous total, they did not exactly support Brathwaite’s call at the toss. The first of those lives handed to Pope, on 46, was a tricky one, the ball scorching off the middle of the bat to Alick Athanaze at backward point. But the second, shelled by Jason Holder at slip after going fingers-up to a chance at chest height, was a dolly.
Perhaps the greatest frustration for West Indies beyond the drops – four in total by the end – was Shamar Joseph walking off the field clutching his left hamstring for a second successive Test match.
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