After losing the toss, England’s team captain Joe Root led his team to bat first. The opener of the team RJ Burns gave a good start to his team by scoring 57 runs off 147 deliveries. He smashed just four boundaries in his innings. DP Sibley has gone with duck. JE Root (c) runs out with 17 runs. BA Stokes goes with 20 this time.
After four wickets down OJ Pope and JC Buttler took charge and both of them batted the rest of the day. OJ Pope scored 91 runs with the help of eleven boundaries. JC Buttler smashed two 6s and seven 4s, he scored 67 runs. The 10th number batsmen SCJ Broad added 62 runs to his team scoreboard.
England scored 369 runs with 111.5 overs in their first innings. KAJ Roach dismissed four English batsmen, ST Gabriel and RL Chase both of them took two wickets each. The remaining one wicket was taken by the captain of the West Indies team JO Holder.
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Jason Holder won the toss and decided to field first.
England team: 1 Rory Burns, 2 Dom Sibley, 3 Joe Root (c), 4 Ben Stokes, 5 Ollie Pope, 6 Jos Buttler (wk), 7 Chris Woakes, 8 Dom Bess, 9 Jofra Archer, 10 Stuart Broad, 11 James Anderson.
West Indies team: 1 Kraigg Brathwaite, 2 John Campbell, 3 Shai Hope, 4 Shamarh Brooks, 5 Roston Chase, 6 Jermaine Blackwood, 7 Shane Dowrich (wk), 8 Jason Holder, 9 Rahkeem Cornwall, 10 Kemar Roach, 11 Shannon Gabriel.
Event: ICC World Test Championship 2019 (The Wisden Trophy)
Match Timings: 10:00 GMT | 11:00 Local
Umpires – Michael Gough, Richard Kettleborough
TV Umpires – Richard Illingworth
Match Referee – Chris Broad
Reserve Umpire – D Milns
Match number – Test no. 2390
