3rd Test Day 1 Highlights West Indies Tour Of England 26th July 2024
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00:00We're going to finish off this series between England and West Indies, England have won
00:14already.
00:15Match referee Javigal Srinath joins me out in the middle with the captains, Ben Stokes,
00:19Craig Brathwaite.
00:20Stokes, you've got the coin.
00:23Heads is the call.
00:26Heads it is.
00:28We had a bit of a long thought about that for a moment, Craig, what are you going to
00:31do?
00:32Yeah, we're going to have a bat.
00:33West Indies have had an in-force change with Gudakesh Moti coming back into the team at
00:40the expense of Sinclair who has a little fractured arm from a blow he took at Trent Bridge.
00:47And England with familiar faces, Mark Wood, Goss Atkinson, Shoaib Bashir who was excellent
00:53in the second innings at Trent Bridge and Chris Wilkes.
00:56West Indies won the toss and elected to bat.
00:59Chris Wilkes is going to start from the Birmingham end.
01:0347 and 48 for Brathwaite at Trent Bridge, he'll be hoping it represents something of
01:09a return to form play says Adrian Holstock.
01:14Can Wilkes find some swing?
01:21West Indies are off the mark and running straight away with good intensity, I thought Wilkes
01:26got back to the best version or something close to the best version of himself of a
01:31Trent Bridge.
01:32Oh, Louis, third test match averaging nearly 20, but has looked good in this series so
01:37far.
01:42That's the area where he has been battling.
01:47Gus Atkinson is much more of a wobble seam bowler with the occasional one that holds
01:52up and swings.
02:00That would have been out.
02:02Total miscommunication and dreaminess from Mikai Louis.
02:08That is not the way to get out when you win the toss and bat on a flat one.
02:14You don't want to see that from your opening batters.
02:17It did look like there was a single there, to be honest.
02:27Just using the angle, using the piece slightly too straight from Atkinson.
02:37Is the best of the day, a lovely straight drive from Greg Brathwaite.
02:47Four more wider this time and Brathwaite delivering through extra cover.
02:57Punched away.
02:58Mark Butcher was talking about the lack of back foot play from Mikai Louis.
03:11Not yet met a right hander who doesn't like them there on the first morning of a test
03:15match.
03:19Off it goes and straight over that leg slip position.
03:29Nice, nothing more than a push, but it's going to go for four.
03:37A very simple stroke brings a good reward.
03:44Edged, flashed over the top of slips for four.
03:49Oh, he's got into a right pickle there and he's got away with it.
03:57Well, we saw Pope pull off a blinder at Lords in a similar position, but that was well out
04:04of his reach.
04:10Fifty for West Indies captain.
04:12He's battled it out with the ball hooping around and nipping.
04:16He's got to that small personal milestone.
04:19He will want and his team will need him to go big.
04:24Yeah, steely determination for a West Indies captain.
04:32And with that, he's done it again.
04:37Atkinson for one.
04:38He's found the outside edge.
04:45Yes, superb bowling.
04:46Gus Atkinson moving the ball away from the bat.
04:50England have beaten the bat.
04:52He goes for 26.
04:54Little challenge here for Kirk McKenzie.
04:57One nought, 11 and one.
05:00He's run in this series, just new into his test career.
05:10Comfortably onto the front foot there is McKenzie just sort of shaking off the last four innings
05:16out in the middle for the West Indies and starting positively.
05:24Off the front foot, the ball before for a boundary, off the back foot this time for McKenzie.
05:33No stump, gone.
05:36Don't worry about the edges, go stump to stump and let them fly.
05:42Yeah, he wasn't in.
05:47It's full of length, swinging back towards middle and off.
05:53McKenzie goes for 12.
05:54It's 93 for two.
05:56Now it's Alec Athenaeus out in the middle.
06:09Straight into Ollie Pope.
06:13Just remember this delivery was 90 miles an hour and it's off the boot.
06:22Chopped on.
06:27Trying to settle themselves in before this luncheon break.
06:31Used to the pace of the surface, how it's coming out and can only just toe end it down onto off stump.
06:37The momentum can shift.
06:39Athenaeus goes for two.
06:41After a bright start were the West Indies up to 76 before the first wicket fell.
06:49Just three for 21 in 26 deliveries.
07:00He's pulled that and he's pulled that majestically.
07:03That was not that short.
07:07Slashed away and it's gone over the head of Atkinson.
07:10Aggression from West Indies captain.
07:15There again that swing and that's a thick outside edge.
07:17Controlled enough.
07:19Away for four.
07:23Wide of the crease.
07:25And he's gloved it as he held on.
07:28It's not the most convincing of catches.
07:31But eventually Jamie Smith holds on to that.
07:36Wide of the crease, breath weight, his head weight back.
07:40Just throwing his hands and gloves at the ball.
07:43Jamie Smith.
07:45Greg Brathwaite a fighting 61.
07:48But he's done for 115 for four.
07:51Brings to the crease the tall imposing figure of Jason Holder.
07:59115 for four.
08:05He left it alone.
08:07He was expecting the away movement was Hodge.
08:09There was done.
08:11West Indies in a hole.
08:12Five down.
08:14Really kind of reset yourself to what's going to happen.
08:17And when you're a batter and a bowler is bowling out swing after out swing.
08:21Gone for 13.
08:23115 for five.
08:24De Silva this is his first ball.
08:32Punched away off the back foot.
08:36A bit of a pugnacious sort of cricketer with the bats.
08:43As De Silva decides the best form of defence is attack.
08:53With and punished.
09:00Hands up and Holder's levers will get it over the head of Ben Stokes.
09:04Stokes thinks he's getting closer.
09:09Well that's gone all the way.
09:11Holder did this on more than one occasion at Trent Bridge.
09:15And given the opportunity to hit straight he will take it on.
09:19181 for five.
09:30Shot.
09:31That's a fantastic shot.
09:37Comfortably played.
09:40Excellent partnership.
09:46I think Jason Holder expected that he cleared his left side very early in the shot.
09:56More short leg.
09:58He can't ride it if there's a fielder with a helmet on right under his eyes.
10:02And that would have been pouched.
10:04Even the taking out of the leg slipped.
10:11Nice way to bring up a half century for Jason Holder.
10:18His 13th in Test match cricket.
10:24And it's a knock that was very much needed by the West Indies and the partnership with De Silva as well.
10:33Hundred partnership comes up.
10:36Excellent batting.
10:40That beats Smith down the leg side.
10:44Wokes has got that in swinger working on the breeze.
10:47And byes are signalled.
10:54Excellent.
10:55It's gone this time.
10:57Wokes.
10:59England desperately seeking a breakthrough.
11:01A very good partnership between Holder and De Silva.
11:05That has been broken by the local boy Chris Wokes.
11:12That one has just left De Silva who has followed it.
11:15It's a tentative shot to a man who has been playing with real purpose and aggression.
11:21De Silva 49, De Silva 224 for 6.
11:25Alzari Joseph come to the middle.
11:28He can bat Alzari Joseph.
11:35Just did a little too much.
11:37225 for 6.
11:42Yeah, it's too fine.
11:44It's not a good ball from Gus Atkinson.
11:50No, it hasn't carried.
11:52Short of Zach Crawley.
11:53This is a slow pitch.
11:55Crawley is very wide there.
11:56It was a thick outside edge.
12:02Got him.
12:06It was a gift in truth from Alzari Joseph.
12:12Joseph walks off for quite an entertaining 15.
12:15244 for 7.
12:17He's been starved of the strike himself.
12:18He's now got Gudakish Moti.
12:23Knocked him over.
12:24That is a rip-off.
12:25Holder can barely believe it.
12:28But it was full and it swung late.
12:31And that is a superb piece of bowling from Gus Atkinson.
12:34Might blame lack of rhythm.
12:36Superb delivery.
12:38Removes Jason Holder for 59.
12:40It's 246 for 8.
12:45Moti.
12:48Opens his shoulders and slashes one.
12:51Back with a square on the offside to bring up the 250 for the West Indies.
12:59Clears the front leg and goes over mid-arm this time.
13:06Straight up in the air.
13:07Brilliant.
13:10Joe Root with an excellent covering catch.
13:13Round behind Jamie Smith.
13:15Moti is on his way off.
13:17And Atkinson has four.
13:19Joe Root diving behind Jamie Smith, the keeper.
13:22Short ball by Gus Atkinson.
13:24Perfectly directed.
13:26Moti gets in a bit of a mess.
13:28And Jamie Smith backtracking.
13:30Almost a bit of a dummy.
13:32Moti goes for 8.
13:33259 for 9.
13:37Oh, my word.
13:39Beautifully played.
13:41Lying too straight from Bichette.
13:46And he does.
13:47And he sweeps.
13:48And he sweeps very well indeed.
13:55Cleared up and over the top.
13:57Joe Root's already taken a pretty impressive catch behind Jamie Smith.
14:01He certainly has no chance there.
14:08Dropping back.
14:09It's Crawley.
14:10He needs to call it out.
14:11And he does it.
14:13That is a fine catch indeed.
14:15The catching from England.
14:17This series has been superb.
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17:14Well stopped.
17:15What a suspicious looking shot to close play out on the opening day of this, the third
17:23and final test between England and the West Indies.
17:27A good little session of 35 minutes and eight overs for the West Indies.
17:32244 runs behind Seals and Joseph, the wicket takers.
17:37We'll be right back.
17:38We'll be right back.