(Reuters) – England picked up two morning wickets on day three of the second check against West Indies on Friday in a session highlighted by a number of extraordinarily shut lbw calls in Barbados, because the hosts reached 114 for three at lunch in their first innings.
West Indies performed with warning, including solely 43 runs to their in a single day rating, shedding Shamarh Brooks (39) and Nkrumah Bonner (9) in the method.
They are nonetheless 393 runs behind England.
Left-arm spinner Jack Leach and tempo bowler Ben Stokes had been England’s wicket-takers.
Leach had Brooks caught at backward level by a mis-hit reduce, whereas Stokes trapped the harmful Bonner lbw, the on-field resolution standing when a evaluate confirmed that the ball would have clipped the highest of center stump.
Stokes ought to have despatched Jermaine Blackwood on his means for a duck shortly afterwards, however England had been left to rue what may need been when captain Joe Root determined to not evaluate an lbw resolution that had been given not out on-field.
Ball-tracking confirmed the ball would have hit center of leg stump.
Blackwood later survived one other shut lbw resolution and was little question completely happy to see lunch roll round, not out on seven, whereas captain Brathwaite was on 44.
It was an actual captain’s innings by Brathwaite, who took few pointless dangers and scored solely 16 runs in the morning session, painfully sluggish progress however precisely what was required beneath the circumstances.
The first check in Antigua final week ended in a draw.
The last check in the collection begins in Grenada subsequent Thursday.
(Reporting by Andrew Both in Cary, North Carolina; Editing by Christian Radnedge)
