West Indies tail wags to earn slender lead over England

The West Indies tail wagged in a similar way that England's did on the first evening as the hosts earned themselves a 28-run advantage when closing day two of the third Test in Grenada on 232-8.

England had reduced the West Indies to 95-6 after a three-wicket burst from Chris Woakes (3-48) after lunch, but as the pitch began to flatten out, Joshua Da Silva (54no) first added 49 for the eighth wicket with Alzarri Joseph (28) and then an unbroken 55 for the ninth with Kemar Roach (25no) to see the home side beyond England's score.

In the final flourishes of the day, the visitors claimed the second new ball but with their pace attack flagging, Da Silva brought up a fourth Test fifty with a terrific whipped four through midwicket as the runs flowed late in the day.

The tourists, having been bowled out for 204 to close out day one - Jack Leach (41no) and Saqib Mahmood (49) sharing in a 90-run last-wicket stand after they'd suffered their own middle-order collapse - started the day poorly as Kraigg Brathwaite (17) and John Campbell (35) safely negotiated the threat of the new ball putting on a fifty partnership.

England's seamers failed to carry the same threat as the West Indies quicks from the day before, guilty of bowling too wide and not finding the right length on the livelier surface prepared for the series decider. But Ben Stokes (2-40), as is so often the case, stepped up and bagged the first wicket, getting one to keep low and pin Brathwaite in front.

The visitors, buoyed by the breakthrough, suddenly sparked into life and struck twice more in as many overs before the lunch interval, Shamarh Brooks (13) falling to Mahmood (1-39) in much the same manner as Brathwaite, and Campbell gloving a Craig Overton (2-71)