ENG vs WI Highlights 3rd Test Day 3 7-28-2024

Watch cricket video highlights of West Indies tour of England 2024 3rd Test day 3 between England vs West Indies. Venue of the match will be Birmingham.

With a five-wicket haul after noon, Mark Wood’s amazing post-lunch stint placed England on the verge of yet another convincing win over the West Indies, which they completed in three days at Edgbaston. While his unrelenting rockets at Trent Bridge left people’s mouths dropping, they only produced two wickets for the whole match. However, an hour after lunch, his mastery of the reverse-swinging ball explained all five of the remaining wickets held by the West Indies, allowing them to score 19 runs in only 39 balls. In addition to his 2 for 52 from the first innings against the West Indies, Wood finished with 5 for 40 from 14 overs, his seventh five-wicket haul in Test cricket.

Mikyle Louis and Kavem Hodge both struck half-centuries, but their efforts were completely destroyed by the burst, leaving West Indies with a meager 81-run lead. Ben Stokes opened in place of Zak Crawley, who had left the field for scans after hurting his finger while fielding, and the run-chase seemed set up for England to Bazball their way to victory. Ben Duckett, with 25 off 16, and Stokes, with an incredible 57 off 28 balls, smashed the mark in 7.2 overs without giving up a wicket to complete a 3-0 series sweep.

England equaled their team record set at Trent Bridge as they reached fifty off just 26 balls. Stokes scored forty-one of those runs this time. After being instrumental in setting the fastest-fifty record in Nottingham, Duckett was weary of being on a supporting role. In just one Jason Holder over, he hit four boundaries. Stokes, on the other hand, struck the winning runs, swinging a waist-high full-toss from Kraigg Brathwaite for six through backward square-leg, underscoring the one-sided nature of the series despite some encouraging moments of fight from the West Indies. Stokes recorded the fastest Test fifty for an England batter and tied for third fastest overall, off just 24 balls.

In the morning session, it was Stokes who had first got the ball reversing. In the afternoon, he made effective use of Wood and Gus Atkinson, who had previously taken two wickets for the day. Joshua Da Silva had not moved from his lunchtime score of 2 when he was hit by a reverse-swinging yorker that swung at 90 mph. Wood strongly objected to the delivery, but umpire Adrian Holstock remained unmoved, and the batter survived England’s review on the umpire’s call. The West Indies were five wickets down and only 57 runs ahead at that point.

However, Da Silva only managed to score three more runs after Wood had declared him out for sure with a delivery that moved past the bat and struck low on the back leg in line with the middle stump. Soon after, Wood’s yorker reversed out of Alzarri Joseph’s middle stump, leaving the West Indies at 162 for 7, with England clearly leading. Three wickets fell in an over that proved to be a profitable decision for Stokes, who had good reason to keep Wood on for a rare sixth over.

The last recognized batsman for the West Indies, Hodge, was removed by Wood with the opening delivery when he got a thick edge on a late-reversing rocket that Jamie Smith caught behind. The procession continued when Wood sent Jayden Seales crashing off stump for a three-ball duck. He then finished it with a late reverse-swinging delivery that Shamar Joseph edged to Harry Brook at second slip. West Indies were down 53 for 3 but Louis and Hodge had stabilized them with a 72-run partnership off 78 balls for the fourth wicket.

Alick Athanaze, who scored 10 runs for the day, including a four off Wood through third slip, which Brook had his hands on but was unable to hold, was dismissed by Shoaib Bashir before they were reunited. Bashir struck Athanaze’s front pad with a ball that slipped under his attempted sweep five balls after the reprieve. Based on his century at Trent Bride, Hodge offered the West Indies grounds for optimism, and he delivered with his second fifty in the Test. He hit two consecutive fours from Wood, one of which looped past midwicket and the other a gorgeous drive.

With a slog-swept six from Bashir, Louis reached his half-century. In Bashir’s next over, he helped himself to another maximum, clearing the boundary well away. Louis was fighting off one that pitched on a length outside off stump and edging to Crawley at second slip as Stokes was getting the ball to reverse swing. When Crawley dropped Holder, who was on 12 at the time, off Stokes, he was in the same position and hurt his finger. However, Atkinson removed Holder at the end of the next over with an inswinger that struck the front knee roll, and the batter’s review was unsuccessful because ball-tracking determined that the umpire had called the hit leg stump.