BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Jan 26, CMC – West Indies crushed hapless England by 381 runs inside four days here Saturday, to win the opening Test at Kensington Oval and take a shock 1-0 lead in the three-Test series.
Off-spinner Roston Chase snatched a career-best eight for 60 as England, chasing an improbable 628 for victory, crumbled meekly for 246, three quarters of an hour after tea.
Left-handed opener Rory Burns top-scored with 84, all-rounder Ben Stokes chipped in with 34 and Jonny Bairstow got 30, but England never came to grips with Chase, especially after lunch when they lost four critical wickets.
The day had started brightly when Burns and Keaton Jennings (14) put on 85 for the opening stand before Burns added another 49 for the second wicket with Bairstow.
But Burns perished to the penultimate ball before lunch to change the momentum of the morning, giving West Indies the opening they wanted.
Shannon Gabriel claimed Bairstow in the third over following the interval and the key wickets of captain Joe Root (22) and Stokes followed as England slid to 217 for six at tea.
Chase then took all four wickets in the final session to hands West Indies their second largest win ever against England.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Jan 26, CMC – West Indies crushed hapless England by 381 runs inside four days here Saturday, to win the opening Test at Kensington Oval and take a shock 1-0 lead in the three-Test series.
Off-spinner Roston Chase snatched a career-best eight for 60 as England, chasing an improbable 628 for victory, crumbled meekly for 246, three quarters of an hour after tea.
Left-handed opener Rory Burns top-scored with 84, all-rounder Ben Stokes chipped in with 34 and Jonny Bairstow got 30, but England never came to grips with Chase, especially after lunch when they lost four critical wickets.
The day had started brightly when Burns and Keaton Jennings (14) put on 85 for the opening stand before Burns added another 49 for the second wicket with Bairstow.
But Burns perished to the penultimate ball before lunch to change the momentum of the morning, giving West Indies the opening they wanted.
Shannon Gabriel claimed Bairstow in the third over following the interval and the key wickets of captain Joe Root (22) and Stokes followed as England slid to 217 for six at tea.
Chase then took all four wickets in the final session to hands West Indies their second largest win ever against England.
Well done guys…
Congratulations guy
Congrats
Windies gave England a beating that the English didnt expect. Your headline is rubbish. WINDIES didnt clinch victory they decisively won the test match.
Well done ….comtinue
Jason Holder you did us proud. Enjoy the moment. Mum was beaming . Sad you Uncle was not alive to see it.
Congratulations. Well done.
Congratulations
I guess the story deserved to be written twice on the same page because the win was so emphatic?
Let sleeping editors sleep.
Congratulations
Congrats guys! You are looking good. Keep up the good work!
Congratulations to the entire WI team.
Congrats Jason Holder an the rest of the team.
Congratulations guys,keep moving forward,Better days ahead.
Congrats West Indies
Congrats West Indies keep it up
Cindy Bunting tell me where you read “clinch”… I might have bunting over my eyes.
Congrats to the whole West Indies entourage,this was a great morale booster for Barbados and all cricket lovers in the carribean.We must also thank Sir Garfield Sobers for his pep talks he would have been filled with pride and reminiscence of the glory days!!! Very happy the event concluded without incident.
Congratulations!!!!
Well done captain JASON HOLDER… to those HATERS and NAY SAYERS ESPECIALLY from TRINIDAD …I wonder what allya are saying now?..’the man DOESN’T even deserve a place on the team ‘were allya favorite cry.
Well done DOWRICH….Ramdin says although he was elated that he was back in the T20 team,his love is TEST cricket as though CWI are about to give him a recall.
To a well known talk mout radio host who got on the PEOPLES RADIO and said that DWAYNE BRAVO should have been playing and who is ALWAYS criticizing and making mock sport at the team when it loses…WHAT ARE YOU SAYING NOW? of course you will now come and offer kudos
Come congrats keep the good work up
How you mean “clinch”.
Clinch?? Who wrote dis headline? Some English person?
you win a match you clinch a series