The cricket is back with England hosting the caribbeans for a 3 match test series and the fans all over the world are elated to see high quality cricket from 2 of the pride cricket playing nations that includes top 2 all rounders in world cricket at the moment.
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The wisden cricketer of the year Ben Stokes has been the designated captain for England due to the absence of Joe Root who made himself unavailable due to the birth of his second child. The Rose bowl, Southampton will mark the return of cricket after the novel corona virus pandemic.
The 34 year old right hand batsman for England Joe Denly was bowled by a jaffa from Shannon Gabriel as the well built fast bowler exploited the flaw in Joe Denly’s batting. The ball viciously came in as Joe Denly was caught on the crease. The scrambled seam once again proved to be too costly as Gabriel was next to unplayable with dukes in hand as he picked 3 wickets and broke the back of England batting order.
In the absence of their regular captain Joe Root, England’s top order was always going to be tested and with the West Indies pacers breathing fire, they were exposed to say the least. After winning the toss, Ben Stokes opted to bat first on a gloomy morning in Southampton and the bowling attack led by Kemar Roach and Shannon Gabriel ran through the top order of the England batting line up.
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The #1 all rounder and the caribbean captain Jason Holder joined the party with 2 important wickets of Zak Crawley and the highly rated Ollie Pope who looked at easy during his brief stay at the crease.
England have 106 runs on the board with the loss of 5 wickets. They badly need their captain Ben Stokes and vice captain Jos Buttler to do the rescue act and take them to a respectable 1st innings total on board.
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