West Indies frustrate England after clatter of wickets

West Indies' Jason Holder and Nkrumah Bonner dug in to frustrate England on day two of the first Test after Joe Root's side followed a wayward start with the ball with a quick four-wicket burst.

Loose bowling, particularly from Chris Woakes (1-54), who was handed the new ball in the controversial absences of James Anderson and Stuart Broad from this tour, saw West Indies race to 83-0 inside 20 overs in reply to England's Jonny Bairstow-inspired 311 all out in Antigua.

The hosts subsequently slipped to 127-4 with Woakes taking a confidence-boosting wicket after fellow seamers Mark Wood, Ben Stokes and Craig Overton had also struck on a day of brief rain showers.

However, Holder (43no off 104 balls) and Bonner (34no off 103) battled their way to an unbroken fifth-wicket stand of 75 from 190 balls as West Indies closed on 202-4 to trail by 109 and leave the game evenly poised.

Bonner and Holder saw off a tricky spell of reverse swing from Wood (1-24), Stokes (1-20) and Overton (1-58) as well as some probing deliveries from left-arm spinner Jack Leach (0-29), who bowled seven successive maidens on an unresponsive surface at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium.

England, led by Bairstow's 140 from 259 deliveries, had earlier passed 300 for the first time in 13 Test innings - it was their best total since hitting 428 in an innings victory over India at Headingley in August - but they added just 43 runs to their overnight 268-6.

West Indies piled on 44 runs from their 10 overs before lunch with the omissions of Anderson and Broad, England's two highest Test wicket-takers of all time with a combined 1,177 scalps, looking keenly felt by the tourists as Woakes leaked runs.

The 33-year-old's initial spell of three overs went for an