Summary

  • England go 2-0 up in three-game series

  • Root and Woakes share stand of 102

  • Root hits unbeaten 90 and Woakes 68

  • England lost four wickets for 16 runs

  • WI 225: Mohammed 50, Plunkett 3-32

Live Reporting

Amy Lofthouse and Kal Sajad

  1. wicket

    WICKET

    Roy c C Brathwaite b Nurse 52 (Eng 87-2)

    Oh Roy! He goes for a big heave from a ball outside the off stump, it goes straight down the ground but finds the man on the boundary. Roy looks gutted. 

    Ashley Nurse celebrates dismissing Jason RoyAFP
  2. 50 runs

    50 for Roy - Eng 87-1

    Roy guides it down to deep square-leg for a couple, bringing up his fifty. He raises his bat to the dressing room and signals thumbs up.  

  3. Eng 83-1

    Wallop! Roy with a high back-lift as crashes a short and wide ball through to the long-on boundary. The Surrey man takes a single from the final delivery to move onto 49. If he's here until the end then you can expect an early finish.

  4. Get Involved - your worst dropped catch

    #bbccricket

    Toby Tarrant: At school I dropped Zaffer Ansari on 19 having set the plan to get him out. I eventually got him out after he'd passed 150...  

    Stuart Mitchell:  Remove 9 batsmen, on ten for, number 11 prods the ball back to me. It's a dolly, I see headlines..... Shelled it!

    Ben:  A few years back, A teammate went for a southern-hemisphere catch. His hands were apart and the ball smacked his forehead

  5. Eng 77-1

    England continue to rotate the strike with four singles, before a play and a miss from Root. The scoring rate has eased down a little, with 26 runs from the last five overs. I don't think it will be long until we see some more big hitting.  

  6. Get Involved - your worst dropped catch

    Not my catch but the worst I've seen ... I was 11, playing my first season in senior cricket. Had the ball swinging miles. Two consecutive wickets bowled. Hat-trick ball completely fools the batsman who lobbed the slowest, friendliest leading edge you've ever seen to mid on. It took an age to arc slowly into his lap ... and spill out. I'm 40 this year and still never taken a hat-trick. #notatallbitter.

    Jon

  7. Eng 73-1

    Just one run from the over, tight from Bishoo. Roy and Root happy for a bit of rest and relaxation as they slow down the pace of the innings. 

  8. Eng 72-1

    It's spin from both ends as Ashley Nurse is brought in. A quiet over from England, just the two singles from it. 

    There's a fella in the crowd wearing a dressing gown and talking on what looks like a landline phone which isn't connected to anything. Make of that what you want. 

  9. Ta, Amy. 

    So both players scoring more than a run a ball and the required rate is now under four. England in the driving seat. 

  10. And now Kal Sajad will take you through the next ten overs. In a bit.

  11. Eng 68-1

    Can Devendra Bishoo stop the runs? Er, no, not straight away. Reverse sweep from Roy, a sumptuous turn of the wrists, and the ball is cracked away to the boundary. Roy then goes for an almighty slog-sweep outside off-stump and just about avoids getting an edge through to Shai Hope behind the stumps. A googly, which Roy doesn't pick, comes next before he hammers another couple through the covers.

  12. Get Involved - your worst dropped catch

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    Having noticed that the batsman was playing on the up through the covers I made a change to the field to bring in a short extra cover. Sadly I chose myself and promptly dropped the next delivery - an absolute sitter - and retreated to third man to stay away from a furious bowler.

    Mark

  13. Eng 63-1

    Brathwaite 2-0-19-0

    A moment of worry for Jason Roy as he goes through his shot too quickly and watches the ball sail towards Evin Lewis in the deep. Lewis is quick, but not quick enough, and he has to let the ball bounce in front of him. That's lovely work from Joe Root too, firstly working the ball off his pads before a square cut brings him back-to-back boundaries. Wheels are now off for the West Indies - Carlos Brathwaite is bowling to a completely different field to the one he's set himself.

    Joe RootGetty Images

  14. Sir Curtly Ambrose
    Former West Indies fast bowler on TMS

    Jason Roy is in a no-nonsense mood. He plays at Surrey and the Oval is a bouncy track so he's good at the pull shot. 

    The kind of mood he is in, you can't over-pitch as he will hit it over your head. It makes you uncomfortable as a bowler as you don't know what ball to bowl. 

  15. Eng 51-1

    Roy 34, Root 16

    Trying a bit of spin might not be a bad idea, here, as Joe Root whips Jason Holder off his pads for a well-judged three. In fact Holder's dropping too short and Jason Roy is enjoying it. Brutal stuff as he first pulls him, thumping the ball with aplomb to the boundary, before he gets up on one leg to whip the ball away for another four. That's the 50 up for England. What a counter-attack after that wobbly start.

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

    England continue to dominate. They did it with the ball and if they can knock this off rapidly it will show them continuing with that aggressive nature.

  17. Eng 38-1

    Roy 25, Root 12

    A change of bowling as Carlos Brathwaite comes on, and Joe Root is on the move straight away as he works him through the covers for a couple. That's a proper hoick from Root into the deep but it's good intent from England, not letting the new bowler settle. 

  18. Get Involved - your worst dropped catch

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    I dropped a catch at mid-wicket when the batsman was on 1. He went on to score 99. I reckon I had the last laugh.....

    Mark from Ilminster

  19. 6 runs

    Eng 31-1

    Shot! That is superb from Jason Roy. A lofted drive, Roy holding his position and watching the ball sail over the ropes and into the advertising board. So much to like about that shot, from the power to the elegance of it. Jason Holder swings a boot in frustration as he goes back to his mark. Good counter-attacking, this.

    Jason RoyGetty Images

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

    You can't teach shots like that. He's just created a little bit of room and still gone through the line, whereas sometimes you see batters go square.