TOP SPIN AT THE TEST: England make history for only the second time since WW2 and Joe Root storms up the all-time runs list as hosts dominate West Indies on Day One at Trent Bridge

England began their second Test match against the West Indies with an impressive display of batting, eventually bowling out the home side for 416 runs.

After the Windies won the toss at Trent Bridge, Brendon McCullum came to bat and put pressure on the team to start strongly. Unfortunately, things started to get tough when Zak Crawley was dismissed after just three balls.

Crawley’s troubles were soon forgotten, however, as Ben Duckett scored 71 runs, Ollie Pope top-scored with 121 and Ben Stokes added another half-century to his sensational England Test record.

West Indies prevented England from batting further on the second day as Shoaib Bashir scored just five runs before falling behind to end his team’s first innings.

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England’s Historic Day at the Crease

Since World War II, England have only scored more than 416 runs on the first day of a Test match once: in December 2022, they scored 506 for four in just 75 overs against Pakistan in Rawalpindi.

Record-breaking 50 from the hosts

England’s 50 came from 4.2 overs – a record for a Test innings. It beat the previous best by one delivery, set by Graham Gooch and Mike Atherton against South Africa at The Oval in 1994.

England’s 50 at Trent Bridge came from 4.2 overs – a record for a Test innings

Root climbs ahead in the record books

Joe Root made just 14, but it was enough to move him to ninth place on the all-time list of Test runs, four ahead of Sri Lanka’s Mahela Jaywardene, who scored 11,814.

Joe Root made just 14, but it was enough to move him to ninth place on the all-time Test run-scoring list

Root is now 49 points behind West Indies’ Shivnarine Chanderpaul.