England Cricket

Maiden from Holder to Bairstow, stifling a vociferous appeal halfway up his windpipe when nipping one back into Baisrtow's left leg, midway up the top flap.

Gorgeous variation from Seales to end the over and Lawrence is almost a gonner. A lovely shot from Stokes as he chops a shorter ball off the back foot for four through cover. Stokes refuses to be tempted by Holder plugging away outside off and eschews a stroke until Holder fires one into off and middle and Stokes digs it out of the blockhole and sprints a larcenous single. Bairstow defends stoutly and when one is pitched up into the slot, he middles a drive but can't beat cover. Roach bangs another one in and Bairstow swivels and clatters it for a third successive four, this one one the pull. Brathwaite turns to Joseph after the break, as he did after lunch, and the right-armer reels off an over of inswing. Bairstow is the steak in the Stokes, Foakes and Woakes club sandwich. Having just typed that, Bairstow flicks the fourth ball of the over for a single through midwicket. Bairstow climbs into another Joseph short ball and clatters two through point and two more with a back-foot punch. The early swing dissipated allowing Stokes and Bairstow to bed in and a session worth 88 for one was good progress given the start. Again. Seales rounded off a strange over with a beauty, full and tailing in late that Stokes drove hard at but inside edged onto his leg stump. His belligerent hundred in Sydney, made through the pain of a broken thumb, was Bairstow at his pugnacious best.

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47th over: England 141-5 (Bairstow 35, Foakes 17) It’s Veerasammy Permaul, slow left-arm, and he bowls a tidy over for just a single. 52nd over: England 145-5 (Bairstow 35, Foakes 21) Young Alzarri Joseph opens the post-tea session with a maiden. 71st over: England 222-6 (Bairstow 88, Woakes 0) Baristow greets Joseph with the air of a man who wants his dinner and wants it now. 58th over: England 167-5 (Bairstow 56, Foakes 21) The game suddenly sparks into life, as YJB sizzles Joseph through backward point with a sizzle of insouciance. 67th over: England 192-5 (Bairstow 60, Foakes 41) Theses two seem to be taking it in turns to score. 81st over: England 251-6 (Bairstow 104, Woakes 13) A single trumpet echoes over the stadium and clouds start to gather over the pavilion. 72nd over: England 224-6 (Bairstow 90, Woakes 0) Holder enquires politely after an lbw, but it’s a no from the ump. His Test average should be a lot closer to his 1st-class one (mid-forties from memory). It’s a mental game and he has some bad habits but he has been multiply humped in selection terms and that has got between his ears for years. Woakes plays out a Joseph over to the sleepy sounds of a day drawing to a close. 86th over: England 268-6 (Bairstow 109, Woakes 24) With a dash into the legside, the fifty partnership comes up in 96 balls and there’s a stat on Sky about Bairstow and England and fifty partnerships which I don’t quite catch but I think is impressive. Bairstow grins the broadest of grins, and as he walks off is greeted by a smiling Joe Root. Here’s the last ball of the day: defended with aplomb, straight back down the pitch by Woakes. He and Bairstow hug, Brathwaite doles out a hug too, and Holder, in fact nearly all the West Indies team line up to bump fists.

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