Kemar Roach (2-10) claims the last two wickets will fall on the fourth morning, Jason Holder taking an excellent catch to fire Chris Woakes (19); England were left with 120 after adding 17 to their score overnight; The West Indies chase 28 in 29 balls to triumph by 10 wickets and win the series 1-0
Jason Holder celebrates after pulling off an impressive catch on the leg slide to fire Chris Woakes on the fourth morning
England were handed a 10-wicket hammering by the West Indies early on day four of the third Test in Granada to go through five Test series without a win.
The Tourists, who resumed 103-8 with just a 10-run lead, held out for 11.2 overs before being knocked out by 120, leaving the West Indies in a routine 28-run chase – their starters shot them on target. in 29. balls.
England’s loss completes a miserable run of results in which they have only a solitary Test victory to show from their last 17 matches dating back to February 2021.
Before the loss in the Caribbean, Joe Root’s team lost in India, at home to New Zealand, away to Australia and lost 2-1 in last summer’s home series against India before it was postponed due to Covid.
England’s last wicket-keeper, Jack Leach and Saqib Mahmood, had heroically added 90 runs in the opening innings, but a repeat performance from the bottom on the fourth morning was always unlikely, and it was, although the field didn’t offer as much. . as much for the bowlers as it had been the day before when England’s top order dwindled.
Saturday’s West Indies superstar Kyle Mayers was unable to add to his five-wicket haul, looking much more harmless mid-paced than last night’s metronomic nightmare; it was the introduction of Kemar Roach (2-10) that ended England’s futile resistance.
Roach hit the first ball, albeit with a bit of a capricious angled down-leg drop that Chris Woakes (19) found practically mid-bat, only for Jason Holder to make a sensational diving catch on the slide of the ball. leg.
Woakes had survived a scare a couple of overs earlier, delivered on 18 caught on Alzarri Joseph’s short leg, but checked immediately and the decision was overturned with no advantage shown as he looked to get one off his hip.
Woakes was unable to capitalize on the reprieve, and with him back in the booth, Leach (4) sliced into Roach’s next over to end the innings. Initially not given on the field, DRS again overruled the decision to end England’s innings.
Kraigg Brathwaite (20th no) and John Campbell (6th no) then quickly and calmly put together the required runs for the West Indies to see them win a memorable series and win the new Richards-Botham Trophy.
