{"id":21678,"date":"2024-08-08T01:15:29","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T01:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=21678"},"modified":"2024-08-08T01:15:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T01:15:33","slug":"england-gains-upper-hand-as-west-indies-struggle-on-day-two-of-third-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/england-gains-upper-hand-as-west-indies-struggle-on-day-two-of-third-test\/","title":{"rendered":"England Gains Upper Hand as West Indies Struggle on Day Two of Third Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>After an encouraging start, the West Indies found themselves in a challenging position as England capitalized on day two of the third test match at Edgbaston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The West Indies, having been dismissed for 282 runs, had initially made a strong impression by reducing England to 38 for 3 at the end of day one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, England made a formidable comeback on day two, scoring 376 runs before being all out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Key contributions came from Joe Root, Jamie Smith, Chris Woakes, and Ben Stokes, who collectively amassed 298 runs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smith led with a score of 95, followed by Root with 87, Woakes with 62, and Stokes with 54.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the West Indies, Alzarri Joseph took four wickets for 122 runs, while Jayden Seales claimed three wickets for 79 runs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Facing a deficit of 94 runs, the West Indies had a rough start to their second innings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Captain Kraigg Brathwaite was dismissed for a duck after just six deliveries, and Kirk McKenzie soon followed, scoring eight runs from 18 balls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By stumps on day two, the West Indies were at 33 for 2, with Mikyle Louis (18) and Alick Athanaze (5) still at the crease. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>England\u2019s wickets were taken by Chris Woakes and Gus Atkinson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The West Indies are still trailing by 61 runs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After an encouraging start, the West Indies found themselves in a challenging position as England capitalized on day two of the third test match at Edgbaston. The West Indies, having&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20514,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21678","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\/21678","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=21678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21679,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21678\/revisions\/21679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}