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Sports Desk: Stuart Broad rescued England with a quickfire fifty after a collapse on the second morning of the deciding third Test against the West Indies at Old Trafford on Saturday.<\/p>\nSports Desk: Stuart Broad rescued England with a quickfire fifty after a collapse on the second morning of the deciding third Test against the West Indies at Old Trafford on Saturday.<\/p>\n
England resumed on 258-4 in their first innings but lost four wickets for 18 runs to collapse to 280-8.<\/p>\n
But veteran paceman Broad, on a ground where he was hit on the face by a bouncer from India's Varun Aaron six years ago, hit back with a punishing 62.<\/p>\n
At lunch, England had been dismissed for 369 in the concluding match of a three-Test series, currently all square at 1-1, that marks international\u00a0cricket's return from the coronavirus lockdown.<\/p>\n
England's slump against a new ball well deployed by Kemar Roach and Shannon Gabriel started when Ollie Pope failed to add to his overnight 91.<\/p>\n
England then lost Jos Buttler for 67. On Friday, the wicketkeeper had completed his first Test fifty in 14 innings to help England regain the initiative.<\/p>\n
Pope should have been out even earlier on Saturday when he edged a good-length ball from Gabriel but Rahkeem Cornwall, who held a brilliant slip catch to dismiss Rory Burns on Friday, dropped a routine chance.<\/p>\n
Gabriel continued to charge in and, in his next over, clean bowled Pope, aiming legside to a straight delivery to end a fifth-wicket partnership of 140.<\/p>\n
Pope's 150-ball innings, included 11 fours, with the 22-year-old Surrey batsman still waiting for a second century in 10 career Tests following his 135 not out against South Africa at Port Elizabeth in January.<\/p>\n
New batsman Chris Woakes promptly played on to give Roach, who eventually had innings figures of 4-72, his 200th Test wicket.<\/p>\n
Buttler was well caught low down at second slip by West Indies captain Jason Holder who in the net over took another good catch to get rid of Jofra Archer.<\/p>\n
But left-handed batsman Broad, whose Test-best score of 169 against Pakistan at Lord's in 2010 is higher than any managed by his father Chris, the former England opener, counter-attacked.<\/p>\n
He pulled Roach for six and cut Holder, who had sent England in to bat on Friday, for four as the new ball started to soften.<\/p>\n
Broad completed a 33-ball fifty with his eighth four, a pull off Holder before hitting a full-toss from occasional off-spinner Roston Chase straight to deep midwicket after dominating a ninth-wicket stand of 76 with Dom Bess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sports Desk: Stuart Broad rescued England with a quickfire fifty after a collapse on the second morning of the deciding third Test against the West Indies at Old Trafford on Saturday. England resumed on 258-4 in their first innings but lost four wickets for 18 runs to collapse to 280-8. But veteran paceman Broad, on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":61050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n