Roach double strike puts England in trouble


LONDON  - England were 10 for two in their second innings, needing a further 181 runs to reach their victory target of 191, at the close of the fourth day of the first Test against the West Indies at Lord’s here Sunday.
Alastair Cook and Jonathan Trott were both at nought not out after West Indies fast bowler Kemar Roach rocked England with a sensational spell of two wickets for seven runs in eight balls.
He had England captain and first innings century-maker Andrew Strauss caught in the gully for one and nightwatchman James Anderson caught behind for six. Next ball Roach thought he had Trott lbw but Aleem Dar turned down the tourists’ appeal.
The West Indies reviewed the decision but as replays showed the ball only just clipping the stumps, Pakistan umpire Dar’s original verdict was upheld. This is the first of a three-Test  series.
Shivnarine Chanderpaul, officially the world’s best batsman, made 91 to follow his first innings 87 not out with the left-hander batting for more than 10 hours in the match. Stuart Broad took four wickets for 93 runs after he claimed Test-best figures of seven for 72 in West Indies’s first innings 243.
That gave the fast-medium bowler a match haul of 11 for 165. It was the first time any player had taken 10 or more wickets in a Lord’s Test since South Africa’s Makhaya Ntini returned figures of 10 for 220 in 2003.
And Broad’s match figures were the best by an England bowler in a Lord’s Test since Ian Botham’s 11 for 140 against New Zealand in 1978.
Meanwhile, Stuart Broad became only the fourth player in history to take five wickets in an innings, 10 in a match and score a century in Tests at Lord’s after completing a haul of 11 for 165 against the West Indies on Sunday.
The complete list is as follows (first recorded instances in each case):
Gubby Allen (ENG) 5-43/5-35 v IND 1936; 10-78 v IND 1936; 122 v NZL 1931
Keith Miller (AUS) 5-72/5-80 v ENG 1956; 10-152 v ENG 1956; 109 v ENG 1953
Ian Botham (ENG) 8-34 v PAK 1978; 11-140 v NZL 1978; 108 v PAK 1978
Stuart Broad (ENG) 7-72/4-93 v WIS 2012; 11-165 v WIS 2012; 169 v PAK 2010.
ScoreCard
WEST INDIES 1ST INNINGS: 243
ENGLAND 1ST INNINGS: 398
WEST INDIES 2ND INNINGS: (OVERNIGHT: 120-4):
A Barath c Prior b Bresnan    24
K Powell c Bell b Broad    8
K Edwards run out (Bairstow)    0
D Bravo b Swann    21
S Chanderpaul lbw b Swann    91
M Samuels c Swann b Broad    86
D. Ramdin b Anderson    43
D Sammy c Prior b Broad    37
K Roach c Bell b Broad    4
F Edwards not out    10
S Gabriel b Swann    13
EXTRAS: (lb7, nb1)    8
TOTAL: (all out, 130.5 overs)    345
FOW: 1-36, 2-36, 3-36, 4-65, 5-222, 6-261, 7-307, 8-313, 9-325, 10-345 (Gabriel)
Bowling: Anderson 36-11-67-1; Broad 34-6-93-4 (1nb); Bresnan 36-11-105-1; Swann 18.5-4-59-3; Trott 6-0-14-0
England 2nd Innings (target: 191)
A Strauss c Powell b Roach    1
Alastair Cook not out    0
J Anderson c Ramdin b Roach    6
J Trott not out    0
EXTRAS: (nb3)    3
TOTAL: (2 wkts, 4 overs, 24 mins)    10
FOW: 1-1, 2-10
To bat: K Pietersen, I Bell, J Bairstow, M Prior, T Bresnan, S Broad, G Swann
Bowling: Edwards 2-0-3-0 (1nb); Roach 2-1-7-2 (2nb)
Toss: England

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