Day 1
England Captain Straus won the toss and chose to bat first. This is a very important test match for both the teams. If West Indies wins then they would win the series or if England wins then they would level the series and of the match draws then West Indies would win the series.
Cook and Straus started the Inning with the opening partnership of 26.Cook got out caught behind on 12 on the bowling of Powell.Then Strauss and Owais Shah had a good partnership until Owais Shah got Injured. Strauss again scoring a century and remained not out till the end of the day. Till the end of the day England was 258/2 with Straus on 139 and Collingwood on 54.
Day 2
At the start of day 2 I think West Indies team had gone totally in the negative mind and their bowling showed.Ryan Hinds was bowling most of his deliveries outside the leg stump.But England after losing 2 early wickets in start of the day Collingwood and Matt Prior had a good partnership.They shared partnership of 220.Collingwood scored 161 and Matt Prior scored 131 not out.England declared their innings at the scored of 546.
West Indies started their innings with the string aggressive batting from Chris Gayle who scored 49 of 64 balls till the end of the day.West Indies loosed their one wicket and their score was 92 till the end of the day.
Day 3
West Indies lost their night watchman Powell early in the day.Sarwan was also dismissed cheaply.Then Gayle and Simmons had a nice partnership.When Gayle was on 99 he tried to take a sharp single and in the process pulled his hamstring and was retired hurt on hundred.Simmons was LBW by Panesar then ChanderPaul and Nash remained not out till the end of the day.Nash was on 70 , ChanderPaul was on 52 and West Indies are still trailing by 197 and have 6 wickets in hand.
Day 4
This was again I can say a boring day in the test.Nash and ChanderPaul scored hundreds.Nash got out at 109 just after the lunch and ChanderPaul remained not out at 147.ChanderPaul was out on 92 but he referred to third umpire and was given not out.West Indies scored 544.For England Swann and Broad both took three wickets.Then England in their 15 overs lost three wickets with the score of 80.I this this will be again result in draw.
Day 5
Pietersen and Prior had fast partnership in the 1st session of day 5 which enabled England to declare the inning at lunch and gave target of 240 to West Indies.But West Indies just had to draw the match to win the series.England took 3 wickets in the second session then England had to take 7 wickets more to win the match and draw the series.But this was too much for the England bowlers to ask for 7 wickets in a session and then West Indies lost 8 wickets and they won the series by 1-0.Prior got the man of the match and Sarwan got the man of the Series.
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