West Indies v England: third Test, day one – as it happened!

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It’s been a day of two halves. First West Indies’ seamers walked all over England’s top and middle order, with only Alex Lees resisting for more than about five minutes. Then the fightback began – first through Chris Woakes, now a batter who bowls rather than the other way round, and then Jack Leach and Saqib Mahmood. Leach passed 26 in a Test for the first time when not opening the batting, and Mahmood passed 26 for the first time in his first-class career. They showed grit and gumption, they had some luck but they also played some fine shots. Tail-end runs count double, and the momentum is now with England – though, if the pitch flattens out, their total of 204 could still be made to look small, much as the West Indies’ fast bowlers were this evening.

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On the all-time list of Test scores by England No.11s, Saqib Mahmood’s 49 stands third-equal, with Andy Caddick of all people. Second, with 59, is John Snow, in his rom-com with Ken Higgs. And top of the tree is Jimmy Anderson, with 81 against India in 2014. Whatever happened to him?

Apparently this is the first time since the 1890s that the two top scores in a Test innings have come from the No.10 and 11.

“Interesting performance by Saq Mahmood, top-scoring on his debut,” says Martin Crookall. “Reminds me of another Lancashire fast-medium bowler who made a fifty on his Test debut on his home ground against the Aussies in 1981, Paul Allott.