Ben Stokes’ twofold blow with hardly a pause in between featured the second session of Day 1 at the Kensington Oval and put England to finish everything.
Continuing on 89 for 1, Kraigg Brathwaite and Shai Hope proceeded with their obstinate way to deal with fasten 50 years stand. With little endeavor to play far from the body, the pair didn’t offer a ton of opportunities to the English bowlers who had tuned to a progressively restrained channel after the Lunch break.
Be that as it may, it was Stokes who had the batsmen sufficiently agitated before striking twice. First up, he got Brathwaite squared up to a conveyance that came in marginally and prompted the outside edge, finishing his cautious remain on 40.
Darren Bravo, who came back to Test cricket after over two years, did little to have an effect. Stirs’ difference in pace had him stuck in an unfortunate situation before he was in the end ahead of schedule to his shot off a full conveyance to be caught leg-before-wicket, decreasing the hosts from 126 for 1 to 128 for 3 of every a space of nine balls.
Windies moved to 132 with no further misfortune before rain conveyed an early end to the second session.
Prior in the day, Windies won the hurl and chose to bat. The opening team – Brathwaite and debutant John Campbell – did well to see off the primary hour with no inconvenience even as England’s new ball match of James Anderson and Sam Curran took care of business the ball to swing, and put on 50 years association.
Campbell, after a wary begin, went on the assault. He utilized the breadth shot to great impact before trying too hard and getting caught LBW by Moeen Ali’s off break. In any case, that ended up being the main snapshot of progress for the guests in the first part of the day.
Brief Scores: Windies 132/3 (John Campbell 44; Ben Stokes 2-33) versus England.