Summary

  • England reach 103-8 at stumps - just 10 runs ahead

  • Mayers finishes day with figures of 5-9

  • England 97-7, just four runs ahead, when Lees bowled by Mayers ball that keeps low

  • England 83-6, still trailing by 10 runs, when Foakes was run out for two

  • Bairstow (22) under-edges through to wicketkeeper earlier in same over

  • England were 39-4 - Root (5) nicks to slip & Stokes (4) feathers an edge

  • Lawrence bowled for duck playing no shot to Mayers, Crawley (8) taken at second slip after edging drive in fourth over off Seales

  • Earlier, Da Silva hit maiden Test ton, in 52-run stand with last-man Seales, before West Indies finally dismissed for 297

  • Day three of third and final Test in Grenada

  • Series level at 0-0

  1. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 21:32 Greenwich Mean Time 26 March 2022

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    Jack: As much as we are all piling in on England right now. We should give a lot of credit to West Indies, they have used the conditions and pitch to their advantage and simply outplayed England.

  2. Eng 102-8published at 52.0 overs

    Lead by nine

    Jayden Seales with five dots to Jack Leach before he gets one away past short leg for a single.

  3. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 21:28 Greenwich Mean Time 26 March 2022

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    Kevin: Kyle Mayers doing a Scott Boland, this is LIKE a nightmare. A actual nightmare, you don’t wake up from!!

  4. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 21:27 Greenwich Mean Time 26 March 2022

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    Who would want to coach this lot? They would destroy your reputation. As Roy Keane would say ' these players will throw you under the bus'.

    Paul in Sarisbury

  5. ouch!

    Eng 102-8published at 51.1 overs

    Lead by nine

    Jayden Seales into the attack and his first ball to Jack Leach is a snorter of a bouncer. He's banged it in and it's climbed steeply into Leach and glanced the helmet.

    He actually played that very well with the bat in a good position.

    The left-hander calmly removes his lid and gives the spectacles a clean while we have a concussion check.

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    Get Involvedpublished at 21:23 Greenwich Mean Time 26 March 2022

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    Leon: Bad news: Looks like West Indies will need only around 20 runs to win the test match.Good news: There’s a glimmer of hope. England has some of the best bowlers in the world.Bad news: We left them at home.

  7. Eng 102-8published at 51.0 overs

    Lead by nine

    Kyle Mayers all wobble, nibble and nip on a good length. A few floated up there, a few held back. Got it on a string, as some folk like to say.

    Another maiden.

    England's players, in a various array of training vests and t-shirts look pretty glum on the balcony. Scratching their heads, stroking their chins.

  8. Postpublished at 21:19 Greenwich Mean Time 26 March 2022

    Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent in Grenada

    This just feels like England have lost the plot.

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    Get Involvedpublished at 21:18 Greenwich Mean Time 26 March 2022

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    The last 18 months has exposed the frailty in the England set up. We've been dragged through by individual brilliance via an all rounder who is other worldly and a captain who is simply world class (yes, world class). The remainder are a group of brilliant county players, who will never be decent Test players.

    Ceri from Oxford

  10. Eng 102-8published at 50.0 overs

    The bespectacled Jack Leach, echoes of David Steele, arrives at the crease looking like a bank clerk.

    Alzarri Joseph continues his short-ball policy hoping to bounce England out out the left-hander does his best to dodge the bumpers.

    Just one run to Chris Woakes off that over.

  11. 'England have almost thrown in the towel'published at 21:12 Greenwich Mean Time 26 March 2022

    Michael Vaughan
    Former England captain on BT Sport

    Kyle Mayers has got 7-22 in the game. He's a good all-rounder - he's skillful - but he's no Joel Garner or Curtly Ambrose.

    This England team have almost thrown in the white towel. When the pressure is on they've once again failed to cope.

  12. Postpublished at 21:12 Greenwich Mean Time 26 March 2022

    Ian Bishop
    Former West Indies pace bowler on BT Sport

    A first five-wicket haul in Test cricket for Kyle Mayers. What a career he's having!

  13. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 48.2 overs

    Overton c Holder b Mayers 1 (Eng 101-8)

    A maiden Test five-for in the bag for Kyle Mayers. He's gone for nine runs off 10.2 overs.

    Craig Overton is his fifth victim as he pushes at one back of a length and Jason Holder juggles the catch at before holding on at third slip.

    Start digging that tunnel.

  14. WI 100-7published at 48.0 overs

    Lead by eight

    Alzarri Joseph intent on peppering Craig Overton and Chris Woakes with catchers in place on the leg side.

    A couple of twitchy moments with the ball ballooning up a few of times as the England pair fend off the bumpers, but both men survive.

    Four runs off the over.

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    Get Involvedpublished at 21:05 Greenwich Mean Time 26 March 2022

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    Another diabolical showing from our over-hyped Test team. We’re somehow contriving to make the West Indies look like the seminal team from the early 90s. How long can this delusion about English cricket last? Poorly coached, poorly skippered.

    James, Worcester

  16. Postpublished at 21:05 Greenwich Mean Time 26 March 2022

    Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent in Grenada

    It's taken seven English wickets to fall, but finally we have one that isn't the batsman's fault.

  17. Eng 97-7published at 47.0 overs

    Lead by four

    Alex Lees actually glanced back at his stumps a little in disbelief. Craig Overton is the new batter.

    Do England counter-attack now? Worst-case scenario it's a day on the beach tomorrow if it all goes south.

  18. Postpublished at 21:01 Greenwich Mean Time 26 March 2022

    Ian Bishop
    Former West Indies pace bowler on BT Sport

    Kyle Mayers just has the ability to hit a length and it's beautiful.

  19. Postpublished at 21:01 Greenwich Mean Time 26 March 2022

    Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent in Grenada

    That was such rotten luck for Lees, who has been solid in his defence. He just got an unplayable shooter along the ground.

  20. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 46.2 overs

    Lees b Mayers 31 (Eng 97-7)

    Magic Mayers strikes again, but Alex Lees is a little unlucky.

    Kyle Mayers bowls a straight one on a good length but the ball stays low as the variable bounce does for the England opener. It goes under his bat before clattering into the stumps.

    We're possibly in done and dusted territory now aren't we? Or am I doing a disservice to England's two top scorers from the first innings.