{"id":21664,"date":"2024-08-08T00:55:39","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T00:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=21664"},"modified":"2024-08-08T00:55:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T00:55:40","slug":"windies-edge-ahead-on-day-one-of-final-test-against-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/windies-edge-ahead-on-day-one-of-final-test-against-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Windies Edge Ahead on Day One of Final Test Against England"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>The West Indies hold a narrow advantage at the end of the first day of the third and final Test against England at Edgbaston. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>England, in their reply to the Windies&#8217; first-innings score, are at 38 for 3, trailing by 244 runs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thirteen wickets fell on the opening day, with England losing three of those. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As play resumes tomorrow, Ollie Pope and Joe Root will be at the crease, with Pope on six and Root on two. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zak Crawley was dismissed earlier for 18 runs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jayden Seales was pivotal in dismantling England&#8217;s top order, claiming two wickets for 19 runs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fellow fast bowler Alzarri Joseph also contributed with one wicket for 10 runs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Windies, having won the toss, chose to bat and managed to post 282 runs in 75.1 overs despite a shaky start. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Captain Kraigg Brathwaite led the way with a solid 61, supported by Jason Holder with 59 and Joshua Da Silva with 49. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lower-order contributions from Shamar Joseph (16) and Alzarri Joseph (15) were also crucial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>England&#8217;s Gus Atkinson continued his impressive form, taking four wickets, while Chris Woakes and Mark Wood supported with three and two wickets, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>England have already clinched the series by winning the first two Tests, and the West Indies are striving to avoid a whitewash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The West Indies hold a narrow advantage at the end of the first day of the third and final Test against England at Edgbaston. England, in their reply to the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21665,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21664\/revisions\/21665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}