Recent Match
West Indies tour of England, 2024, 2nd Test, Nottingham, Jul 18th, 2024

England

(88.3 ov) 416/10 (92.2 ov) 425/10

West Indies

(111.5 ov) 457/10 (36.1 ov) 143/10

Complete England won by 241 runs

The sun is basking in all its glory at Trent Bridge - perfect conditions for playing cricket. Woakes to steam in with the new ball. Three slips and a gully in place...
Brathwaite and Mikyle Louis are at the crease. Brathwaite is on strike. Woakes will open the attack
Day 2: So England went at nearly 5 runs an over yesterday to amass 416 runs in their first innings, thanks largely to an Ollie Pope century and Ben Duckett’s 71. West Indies were sloppy in the field, letting down a few catches along with plenty of misfields to egg on England’s scoring rate. So the home team’s batters have done their job, over to the bowlers now. West Indies were tepid in the first Test with bat, and skipper Kraigg Brathwaite called for greater grit and application from his players. Let’s see what the visitors can do on this bright morning in Nottingham. Stick around for the start of the game…
18:33 Local Time, 17:33 GMT, 23:03 IST: A gripping day of Test cricket and it sees England walk back the happier side. Them scoring 400 in a single day isn't anything new under the Bazball regime but it doesn't make it any less entertaining. The day started off with some breathaking batting from Ben Duckett and that really set the tone for England. He was eventually dismissed for 71 and it was actually Pope with the headlining knock as he made 121. Contributions came through the order as well with Stokes making 69 while both Smith and Woakes made valuable thirties. The West Indies were rattled by the initial onslaught but were pretty decent thereafter. In the field though, they did grass more catches than they would've liked. Surpsingly, the spinners did more damage than they were expected to and England lost a few cheap wickets in that last session allowing the West Indies to wrap the innings up without letting it spill over into tomorrow. Long task ahead though for the West Indies batters, their real test comes tomorrow against a primed English attack. We'll pick things up there.
88.3
Alzarri Joseph to Shoaib Bashir, out Caught by Holder!! Edged and straight into the hands this time! Length delivery on off-stump, Shoaib Bashir blocked from his crease and got a thick outside edge, went straight into the waiting hands of Jason Holder once more at 2nd slip. The West Indies manage to wrap things up today. Shoaib Bashir c Holder b Alzarri Joseph 5(4) [4s-1]
Alzarri Joseph to Shoaib Bashir, THATS OUT!! Caught!!
88.2
Alzarri Joseph to Shoaib Bashir, FOUR, edge flies into the gap! Length delivery angling into the stumps, straightened off the deck and caught the leading edge as he closed the face of the bat, flew well clear of gully
88.2
Alzarri Joseph to Mark Wood, no ball, 1 run, very full and outside off, Mark Wood steers it out towards deep point, Alzarri Joseph oversteps
88.1
Alzarri Joseph to Mark Wood, no run, banged in short and well outside off, he's not troubling anyone with that
This will be the last over of the day
87.6
Jayden Seales to Mark Wood, 1 run, banged in short on middle, Mark Wood wasn't expecting that, the pull was an afterthought as he ducked instictively, went towards backward square leg off the splice
87.5
Jayden Seales to Mark Wood, no run, big swing and a miss, full and sliding down leg-stump, Mark Wood cleared his front leg and missed his slog
87.4
Jayden Seales to Shoaib Bashir, 1 run, back of a length outside off, Shoaib Bashir was more ready for this, heaved it away across and dragged it to deep mid-wicket
87.3
Jayden Seales to Shoaib Bashir, no run, tests him with a bouncer first up, nearly strangles him down leg as he looks to pull, got some glove and it died on its way to the keeper
Shoaib Bashir, right handed bat, comes to the crease
87.2
Jayden Seales to Woakes, out Caught by Holder!! Edged and taken! That's another sharp catch in the slips, Holder at 2nd this time. Full and just outside off, angled in and just seemed to straighten a touch, Woakes' feet didn't move as he looked to defend. There was enough to find a thick outside edge and it went low to Holder's left, he lunged forward and took it quite nicely. A wicket late in the day and a chance for the West Indies to wrap things up. Woakes c Holder b Jayden Seales 37(48) [4s-3]
Jayden Seales to Woakes, THATS OUT!! Caught!!
87.1
Jayden Seales to Woakes, FOUR, now Jayden Seales is greeted with a boundary too, full and straight on middle, easy pickings for Woakes as he whips it through mid-wicket
Jayden Seales [14.0-1-84-1] is back into the attack
86.6
Alzarri Joseph to Mark Wood, no run, full on middle-leg, pushed to mid-on