When Kraigg Brathwaite received the toss and elected to bat first simply after 10.30am on the morning of day one of many third Take a look at at Edgbaston, the overall consensus was it had been a straightforward determination for the West Indies captain.
Eight hours and 13 wickets within the day’s play later, with West Indies being bowled out for 282 and England stumbling to 38-3 on the shut in Birmingham, these early expectations had been properly and actually confounded.
Gus Atkinson did a lot of the injury for the hosts with the ball, taking 4-67 to proceed his spectacular begin to his Take a look at profession, and fellow seamer Chris Woakes, who chipped in with 3-69 on his dwelling floor, was relieved England have been capable of profit from when the ball was swinging.
“When we bowled them out, I was really happy,” Warwickshire bowler Woakes advised Sky Sports activities. “Obviously to lose three in the evening session is not ideal, not the perfect end to the day.
“We have got to be blissful for what we did, having misplaced the toss and being requested to bowl first, and bowling them out on what was a very good pitch was a very good day, I suppose.
It turned out to be a day for the bowlers on day one of many third Take a look at between England and West Indies
“Dukes balls take some time to get the lacquer off earlier than they swing, but it surely did swing from the beginning and there was a giant wind coming from throughout the bottom which helped the away swing from the far finish to right-handed batters.
“Other than the ploy through the middle when we went short for a little while, once we got the ball back it was still in a good condition and moved in the air a little bit all day. If that hadn’t been the case, it would have been a harder day.”
Though there have been so many wickets to go down on day one, they tended to return in clusters in remoted durations when there was some swing for the seam bowlers slightly than steadily all through the day, with West Indies pair Jason Holder and Joshua Da Silva dominating a lot of the afternoon by placing on 109 for the sixth wicket.
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Joe Root took a surprise catch to take away Gudakesh Motie and transfer England one wicket away from bowling out West Indies of their first innings
Brathwaite and Mikyle Louis had made a gap stand of 76 too earlier than Ben Stokes’ facet took wickets both facet of lunch to depart the vacationers 115-5 earlier than Holder and Da Silva got here collectively, and former England seamer Stuart Broad felt there have been a number of components at play throughout that interval.
“Mark Wood bowled a jaffa to Kirk McKenzie, the rest are just batter error and mental switch-offs – that’s very frustrating when you’re in a changing room where that happens,” Broad advised Sky Sports activities.
Gus Atkinson claimed 4 wickets for England on day one at Edgbaston
“Ultimately, you have to give credit to the bowling unit for applying pressure. It’s not all about bowling balls to take wickets, it’s sometimes the lead-up into getting that wicket which gets you there.
“It is a 350 minimal [pitch] so that you can profit from profitable the toss.”
Any hopes England had of having fun with a greater time with the bat have been shortly checked as they misplaced three wickets inside the ultimate 35 minutes of day one after bowling West Indies out, with Jayden Seales accounting for Zak Crawley and nightwatchman Mark Wooden, and Alzarri Joseph getting Ben Duckett out coming across the wicket to the left-hander.
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West Indies shocked England by dismissing openers Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett early on
It means vice-captain Ollie Pope and former skipper Joe Root have one thing of a rebuilding job on their fingers firstly of day two after surviving to the shut, though Woakes stays assured the situations nonetheless favour the batting group regardless of an odd first day.
“You want to get, bare minimum, up to the same as them,” Woakes stated. “We still feel it’s a good batting surface.
“You wish to get overs within the legs of the opposition bowlers and hopefully there is a interval the place you possibly can actually money in, construct a giant partnership with a few of our middle-order gamers, after which runs down the order are key.
“Obviously we’re still looking to get ahead of them.”
England’s Take a look at collection vs West Indies
Watch the second day of the third Take a look at between England and West Indies, from Edgbaston, reside on Sky Sports activities Cricket from 10.15am on Saturday (first ball to be bowled at 11am).
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