Sports Desk, AnyTV, Antigua
Published by: Shaktiraj Singh
Updated Wed, 09 Mar 2022 10:40 AM IST
Summary
West Indies had a good start in the first Test against England, but Jonny Bairstow scored a century to get his team back in the match. At the end of the first day’s play, England’s score is 268 runs for the loss of six wickets.
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The first match of the three-match Test series between England and West Indies is being played in Antigua. By the end of the first day’s play, England’s team scored 268 runs for the loss of six wickets. After a poor start, Jonny Bairstow barely revived his team. He took England’s score beyond 250 by scoring the best century. Roach, Holder and Sales have taken two wickets each for the Windies.
Apart from Bairstow, England’s Stokes and Ben Focus have played useful innings to take their team to a respectable score.
England top order flop
In this match, England won the toss and decided to bat first and once again the top order of the team failed. Opener Alex Lees returned to the pavilion after scoring just four runs. At this time the team’s score was 12 runs. Four England batsmen had returned to the pavilion on the score of 48 runs. Captain Joe Root was also dismissed after scoring just 13 runs. After this, Bairstow along with Stokes handled the innings and made a half-century partnership. Stokes was dismissed after scoring 36 runs. After his departure, Ben Focus added 99 with Bairstow and took the team out with difficulty. Focus was also dismissed after scoring 42 runs.
At the end of the day’s play, England scored 268 runs for six wickets. Bairstow 109 and Chris Woakes are present on the crease after scoring 24 runs. Kemar Roach, Jayden Sales and Jason Holder have taken two wickets each for West Indies.
England would like to go beyond 300
England’s team would like to score more than 300 on the second day of the match. Ben Stokes and Chris Woakes are capable of playing long innings and both these batsmen will try to score big in the first innings. On the other hand, West Indies would like to wrap up England’s innings as soon as possible. Earlier, England’s performance in the Ashes series was very disappointing. After this, many big changes have been made in England cricket.