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Sports Desk: Stuart Broad sparked a top-order collapse after starring with the bat as England reduced the West Indies to 137-6 at stumps on the second day of the decisive third Test at Old Trafford on Saturday.<\/p>\nSports Desk: Stuart Broad sparked a top-order collapse after starring with the bat as England reduced the West Indies to 137-6 at stumps on the second day of the decisive third Test at Old Trafford on Saturday.<\/p>\n
England had slumped to 280-8 after losing four wickets for 18 runs before No 10 Broad's swashbuckling 62 took them to a first innings total of 369.<\/p>\n
When bad light forced an early close, the West Indies were 232 runs behind, needing 33 more to avoid the follow-on.<\/p>\n
West Indies captain Jason Holder was 24 not out and Shane Dowrich 10 not out.<\/p>\n
Veteran new-ball duo Broad and James Anderson, paired together for the first time this series, both had stumps figures of 2-17.<\/p>\n
Broad struck with just his fourth ball to have West Indies dangerman Kraigg Brathwaite caught at slip by England captain Joe Root for one.<\/p>\n
John Campbell, dropped on 10 when normally reliable second slip Ben Stokes put down a routine chance, looked increasingly assured while making 32.<\/p>\n
But fast bowler Jofra Archer, back after being omitted from England's 113-run win in the second Test for breaching the bio-secure regulations governing this series, produced a rib-high delivery that left-hander Campbell could only fend to gully.<\/p>\n
Anderson, England's all-time leading Test wicket-taker, then struck either side of tea on his Lancashire home ground as the tourists slumped to 59-4.<\/p>\n
Shai Hope, struggling for runs this series, was squared up by an Anderson delivery that moved away late — a desperately difficult ball to play — and was caught behind for 17.<\/p>\n
After the interval Anderson got one to come back the other way to Shamarh Brooks, and this time the batsman inside edged to wicketkeeper Jos Buttler.<\/p>\n
In a campaign that marks international\u00a0cricket's return from lockdown, Broad then produced a classic nip-backer to have Roston Chase lbw for nine, the batsman not bothering with a review as West Indies collapsed to 73-5.<\/p>\n
Jermaine Blackwood, who made a match-clinching 95 during West Indies' four-wicket win in the first Test, looked good while making 26.<\/p>\n
But he had his middle stump knocked out of the ground when Chris Woakes nipped one off the seam.<\/p>\n
Dowrich, fresh from two ducks in the second Test, was lucky when he got in a tangle against an Archer bouncer only for the ball to just clear the back-pedalling Rory Burns in the gully.<\/p>\n
England, with all-rounder Stokes unfit to bowl following a quad injury, opted to play an extra seamer by dropping batsman Zak Crawley as they looked to win this three-match series 2-1.<\/p>\n
They had lost early wickets but resumed on 258-4 after losing the toss.<\/p>\n
Ollie Pope was 91 not out and Buttler unbeaten on 56 — his first Test fifty in 14 innings.<\/p>\n
Pope, however, failed to add to his score.<\/p>\n
In sight of his second Test century, Pope had already been dropped by Rahkeem Cornwall in the slips when Shannon Gabriel clean bowled him to end a fifth-wicket stand of 140.<\/p>\n
Woakes promptly played on to give Roach, who finished with 4-72, his 200th Test wicket.<\/p>\n
Buttler was well caught low down for 67 by Holder at second slip.<\/p>\n
But Broad, who has a highest Test score of 169, counter-attacked with his first fifty at this level in just over three years.<\/p>\n
On a ground where he was hit on the face by a bouncer from India's Varun Aaron in 2014, left-handed batsman Broad pulled Roach for six as the new ball started to soften.<\/p>\n
Broad pulled Holder for four to complete a 33-ball fifty before hitting a full-toss from occasional off-spinner Chase to deep midwicket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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