Second Test: Stuart Broad Raises England’s Bet On Victory Against West Indies In Manchester | Cricket News

MANCHESTER: Stuart broad revived England’s hopes for a series-level victory in the Second Test with a trio of new ball wickets, even as the West Indies avoided follow-up on Old Trafford on Sunday.
The veteran pacemaker took three wickets for a 14-ball run, as the West Indies were sacked by 287 on the fourth day in response to England’s first declared 469-9 innings.
England, looking to tie at a 1-1 level in a three-game competition despite Saturday’s total washout, was 37-2 on stumps, an overall lead of 219.
They opened their second entry with Ben stokes, who was not 16 years old after scoring with 176 in the first innings, and Jos Buttler hoping for quick runs like regular first-wicket duo Rory Burns and Dom Sibley remained in the locker room.

Sibley made 120 in the first innings but took nearly eight hours to reach three figures.
Buttler, however, fell into the nowhere on the third ball after playing. Kemar Roach.
Zak Crawley, in a pair of kings, was knocked down by Roach by 11, with the England captain. Joe Root eight not at closing.
Previously, the West Indies watched the first Kraigg Brathwaite game made 75 and Shamarh Brooks 68.
Roston Chase’s 51 off-roader, which followed the spinner’s 5-172 in England’s first innings, then led them to the 270 they needed to avoid follow-up in the second game of a world-marking campaign CricketThe return of the coronavirus blockade.
The game resumed on Sunday in full sun with the holders of the Wisden West Indies Trophy, looking for their first series victory in England since 1988.

Brathwaite and Brooks foiled England in an attractive 76th wicket fourth booth.
But Braithwaite’s hopes of following his 134 against England at Headingley three years ago with a hundred others ended when Stokes caught and injured him.
It had taken Root up to 51 of the innings to launch his all-terrain star.
Stokes kept hitting the ball before he was rewarded with the Brathwaite wicket for his 10th straight time.
Worryingly for England, the pacemaker left the field but returned without suffering anything more serious than indigestion.
The West Indies, which had been 242-4, lost their last six wickets during 45 runs in 16.4 overs.
Spacious, controversially rested from the West Indies’ four-wicket victory in the first Test at Southampton last week, it did most of the damage.
Broad caused Brooks to drop weight before bowling with Jermaine Blackwood, who managed a 95 game at Southampton, for a duck with one who stayed low.
Shane Dowrich also fell into nowhere, lbw to Broad.
England entered this match with a renewed rhythm attack.
After having rested James Anderson and Mark Wood, they had to skip Jofra Archer after the fast bowler admitted to taking an unauthorized trip home after the first Test that violated the bio-safe health regulations of this Serie.
But Archer returned to the networks on Sunday after the England and Wales Cricket Board announced on Saturday that, after a disciplinary hearing, he would be available for the third Test at Old Trafford starting July 24.