Summary

  • Four wickets each for Woakes & Plunkett

  • Mohammed top-scores for Windies with 71

  • Morgan - dropped on 4 - hits 112-ball ton 107

  • Stokes hit three sixes in 55; Billings made 52

  • Windies won toss; First of three ODIs; Antigua

  1. dropped catch

    Morgan dropped on 4published at 10.1 overs

    Eng 38-2

    Carlos Brathwaite has just missed out on getting a wicket with his first ball! Oh, I bet he's thrilled with his slip fielder there, who really should have clung onto that. Eoin Morgan drove at one outside off-stump, it flew away to slip, who had it, and then dropped it. Dearie me.

  2. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 14:48 Greenwich Mean Time 3 March 2017

    #bbccricket

    Francis Edwards: England are so bad on anything other than roads. Imagine if they were up against a team that was any good.

    Mark Pettman: Classic Root dismissal - caught on the crease when he needed to be forward. Terrific bowling by Gabriel.

  3. Eng 38-2published at 10 overs

    A rare mistake from Shannon Gabriel as he sends a long hop down. Sam Billings' eyes light up and he hoicks it up and over for a boundary. The bowler checks himself and goes back too slightly full of a length, forcing Billings back onto the defensive. That's the end of the Powerplay, and it's been a profitable one for the West Indies.

  4. Postpublished at 14:44 Greenwich Mean Time 3 March 2017

    Curtly Ambrose
    Former West Indies fast bowler, on TMS

    Very good start for West Indies, this is exactly what they needed - a couple of wickets early, get into the middle order and put England under pressure.

    GabrielImage source, Getty Images
  5. Eng 34-2published at 9 overs

    Morgan 4, Billings 11

    Two batsmen out, hanging back to low deliveries. It never makes for pleasant viewing. Jason Holder rolls through his fifth over, getting some of that awkward bounce to bother Eoin Morgan's top hand. He responds with a drive through the covers, Morgan just leaning on the delivery, and it's away for a boundary.

  6. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 14:39 Greenwich Mean Time 3 March 2017

    #bbccricket

    James Humber: Gabriel looking dangerous, no surprise to anyone who saw him putting in serious shifts for Worcestershire in 2015. 

    Matthew Hobbs: Jonny Bairstow would be great in this situation, eh? 

  7. Eng 29-2published at 8 overs

    Gabriel 4-0-2-12

    Root's grin when he realised what had happened there was a picture. A look of ruefulness and annoyance. Here's Eoin Morgan, and he's welcomed to the crease with a cracker that beats his outside edge. Gabriel's getting one or two to keep low and this time Morgan lets one trickle past his stumps and through to the keeper.  

  8. Postpublished at 14:36 Greenwich Mean Time 3 March 2017

    Ebony Rainford-Brent
    Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match Special

    You won't see a better sight than that as a bowler - stumps splattered. The bounce did for the batsman again, but the line was key. He angled it in and has been getting movement all day.

  9. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 7.2 overs

    Root b Gabriel 4 (Eng 29-2)

    Bowled 'im! Another one keeps low and Joe Root looks behind him to see his stumps splattered all over the show. That's very good from Shannon Gabriel, putting a bit of extra zip on it, but Root didn't play that terribly well. He went up on tiptoes and the ball snuck past the bat and straight onto the stumps.

    Joe RootImage source, Getty Images
  10. Postpublished at 14:34 Greenwich Mean Time 3 March 2017

  11. Eng 28-1published at 7 overs

    Billings 9, Root 4

    Jason Holder will continue, and Joe Root lets his first few deliveries go by the off-stump. A nice push off his legs pick up three as the ball sticks in the outfield. A quick single then ends with Root trying to slide his bat over the line and ending up having to abandon it as it sticks into the outfield. There's grins all round but that wasn't far away from a run out.

  12. get involved

    Get Involved - favourite cricket bookspublished at 14:29 Greenwich Mean Time 3 March 2017

    Text 81111

    'The Following Game' by Jonathan Smith is a stunning cricket book. About a father's passion for cricket and his son (TMS commentator Ed Smith)

    Alex in Suffolk

  13. Eng 24-1published at 6 overs

    Gabriel 3-0-11-1

    Replays show that delivery was very much crashing into the stumps. Joe Root is the next man in and he scampers off the mark to his first ball. That's another very good over from Shannon Gabriel.

  14. Postpublished at 14:27 Greenwich Mean Time 3 March 2017

    Ebony Rainford-Brent
    Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match Special

    Shannon Gabriel has threatened to do that all morning. He's got that extra pace and the ball kept low. Gabriel has been probing that line and has been very difficult to face.

  15. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 5.3 overs

    Roy lbw b Gabriel 13 (Eng 23-1)

    Out. That just looked out. Shannon Gabriel gets one to keep low, Jason Roy misses it with the prod forward and ends up on his knees. It struck him flush on the knee roll and the umpire raises a finger. Roy shakes his head in annoyance as he departs.

    Jason RoyImage source, Getty Images
  16. Postpublished at 14:23 Greenwich Mean Time 3 March 2017

    Ebony Rainford-Brent
    Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match Special

    West Indies have bowled well and kept England in check but that could prove crucial.

  17. dropped catch

    Roy dropped on 13published at 5 overs

    Eng 16-0

    Now then. Jason Roy, who is not enjoying this pitch, is kept on the defensive before his patience wears thin. He tries to drive up and over Jason Holder, mis-times it and the ball flies to Holder's left. He gets two hands to it, it's a nice height, but he can't cling on. How costly will that be?

  18. Postpublished at 14:18 Greenwich Mean Time 3 March 2017

    Ebony Rainford-Brent
    Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match Special

    In terms of this wicket, 250 seems like a good score. But there are short boundaries so the batsmen can take the pitch out of the equation by using their feet and hitting over the top.

  19. Eng 16-0published at 4 overs

    Roy 13, Billings 1

    Shannon Gabriel has the pace that you'd expect Jason Holder to have. Jason Roy aims to smash Gabriel into one of Antigua's many beaches, and ends up looking a tad daft. The bowler then goes straighter and beats Roy. It kept low and Roy's feet were nowhere. He looks thoroughly relieved to get off strike. Gabriel rounds off an excellent over with a delivery that cuts Sam Billings in half and only narrowly avoids taking the outside edge.

    Jason RoyImage source, Getty Images
  20. get involved

    Get Involved - favourite cricket bookspublished at 14:13 Greenwich Mean Time 3 March 2017

    Text 81111

    Definitely Miles Jupp's 'Fibber in the Heat' where he pretends to be a journalist and manages to blag his way into the press corps for England's tour of India.

    Rupert

    Favourite cricket book has to be Jarrod Kimber's Test Cricket: The Unauthorised Biography. Gives a fantastic overview of the history of Test cricket while telling some superb stories.

    Ben, Oxford