England 258-4 at stumps v West Indies: third Test, day one – as it happened
After an iffy start from England’s batsmen, Ollie Pope and Jos Buttler helped the hosts take control of the deciding Test 6.41pm BST A good day’s work for England: runs in the bank and for the two men who hadn’t passed fifty this summer - an unbroken partnership of 136. Buttler had an understandably wary start but freed the shoulders with those two sixes off Cornwall and looked increasingly confident. Pope was all ease and poise and timing. He sleeps, nine short of his century.
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