England vs West Indies, 1st Test - Live Cricket Score, Commentary

Series: West Indies tour of England, 2017 Venue: Edgbaston, Birmingham Date & Time: Aug 17-Aug 21, 02:00 PM LOCAL

Broad went past Botham to move up to 2nd in England's list of leading Test wicket-takers. © Getty

England complete victory by innings and 209-runs

Toby Roland-Jones finishes it all off. Length delivery and Joseph edges it towards the slip cordon, where Ben Stokes completes a neat dicing catch. The first ever D/N Test in England ends in a complete mis-match. It's done and dusted inside 3 days with England completing their third biggest victory - by an innings and 209 runs.

West Indies have lost 19 wickets today. Let that sink in for a bit! 19 - the most they've lost in a day's play of Test cricket. That statistic perhaps sums up their fate. Their Test cricket is in need of some immediate fix. Not sure where that's coming from.

168 and 137 in two efforts with the bat is perhaps an accurate representation of where their cricket is. England march off with smiles on their faces. They ticked every box - Cook and Root scored big, Anderson and Broad picked up wickets, Roland-Jones, Stokes, Moeen all contributed. Some questions remain over the top-order batting. But you can't have everything, can you?

They'll look to address that at Leeds in six days' time. For now, their cricket, like the ball in play at Edgbaston, looks in the pink of health.

It's been a lopsided Test match. Here's hoping for better contests in the coming games. Until then, it's good bye from us. Hang around cricbuzz for all the post-match stuff - reports, analysis, quotes etc.! Rob's on it.

Tata!

Anderson ends Roach's resistance

Roach and Joseph batted for over half-an-hour, a lesson in attrition for the top-order batsman. But eventually James Anderson gets one up to the batsman and gets it to nip back into the the batsman. It goes through bat and pad to knock the timber down.

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Scheduled Restart time: 14:00

ICYMI

If you are just tuning into the Test match, here's a quick recap. Joe Root elected to bat on a road of a pitch at Edgbaston and routinely turned up to score a century after another England top-order failure. But his 136 wasn't the innings of the match - that credit went to Alastair Cook, who compiled his fourth Test match double hundred, feasting on WI's bowling atrocities (read poor lines).

Such was West Indies' apathy with the ball (sorry Holder & Co.) that even Dawid Malan (apologies again!) managed to get a 65. For a man who self-admittedly couldn't get bat to ball against South Africa, this innings was a vital shot of confidence.

England declared at 514/8 after Roston Chase dismissed Cook for the last of his four wickets. The hosts turned up under lights and quickly prised out Kraigg Brathwaite before Powell and Kyle Hope saw off the remainder of the session before rain came pouring down at the end of Day 2.

Day 3 - Prelude

Aloha. Birmingham welcomes you with blustery weather for the third day of the England-West Indies Day-Night Test. Our man, Rob Johnston, however points that rain isn't forecast. So a capacity weekend crowd should enjoy the pink-ball action and England's dominance.

West Indies are 470 runs behind in their first innings but were lucky to have avoided facing a charged-up Broad and Anderson in the evening session yesterday because of rain. The hosts hold all the aces going into the third day. But things can change. This is Test cricket even if the dynamics have been altered slightly with a change of ball colour and the need for lights.

Are you ready?

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