Last Updated: 27/03/22 6:09 p.m.
Jason Holder celebrates after making an amazing foot slip and ousting Chris Woakes on Wednesday morning
England won a pounding with 10 wickets from the West Indies early on the fourth day of the third test in Grenada to go five sets of tests without a win.
The tourists, who continued with 103-8 and with a lead of only 10 in a row, held 11.2 overs before being rejected for 120, leaving in the West Indies a usual pursuit 28 – their openers threw at the target in 29 arches.
The defeat of England completes a miserable series of results in which it has only one lone victory in the Test from its last 17 matches that extend until February 2021.
Prior to the defeat in the Caribbean, Joe Ruth’s team lost to India, at home to New Zealand, away to Australia, and lost 2-1 at home last summer against India, before being postponed due to Covid.
The couple of Jack Leach and Shakib Mahmoud of England in the last net had added a heroic 90 runs in the first innings, but a repeat performance from the queue on the fourth morning was always unlikely, and so it turned out, even though the field did not have the same performance. much for the bowlers, as the day before, when England’s top class fell.
West Indies Saturday superstar Kyle Mayers could not add to his five wickets and seemed a much safer mid-range than last night’s metronome nightmare. It was the introduction of Kemar Roach (2-10) that finally ended England’s futile resistance.
Roots hit the first ball, albeit with a slightly looser foot that Chris Woakes (19) encountered almost in the middle of the bat, only for Jason Holder to achieve an impressive dive when he slipped on his foot.
Woakes had survived a fear a few over before, given at 18, was caught in the short leg by Alzarri Joseph, but immediately reconsidered and the decision was overturned without showing any advantage as he looked to work one off his hip.
Woakes could not make any money from the suspension and with Leach (4) back in the hutch, Leach (4) went to Roach’s next over to finish the innings. Initially not given to the pitch, the DRS again overturned the decision to end the England games.
Then Kraigg Brathwaite (20no) and John Campbell (6no) quickly and calmly completed the required routes to the West Indies to watch them win an unforgettable series earning a scent in the new Richards-Botham Trophy.
