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West Indies faces pivotal challenge in final Test against England at Edgbaston - Match Summary and Team History
West Indies face England in the final Test at Edgbaston, aiming to avoid a series whitewash. Key players include Brathwaite, Holder, and Da Silva. Past matches at Edgbaston detailed.
Pride is at stake for West Indies in the third and final Test against England at Edgbaston in Birmingham.
Down 2-0 following defeats by an innings and 114 runs at Lord’s and by 241 runs at Trent Bridge, West Indies are desperate to avoid a clean sweep, having surrendered the Richards-Botham Trophy.
On an opening day of fluctuating fortunes today, England closed on 38 for three after West Indies, who won the toss, were bowled out for 282.
The leading contributors for West Indies were captain Kraigg Brathwaite (61), Jason Holder (59), and Joshua Da Silva (49).
Holder and Da Silva added 109 for the sixth wicket following a slide from 76 without loss to 115 for five.
In 10 Tests between England and West Indies at Edgbaston, West Indies have won four and lost three with the others drawn.
The West Indies victories were by an innings and 180 runs (1984), by seven wickets (1991), by an innings and 64 runs (1995), and by an innings and 93 runs (2000). They lost by 217 runs (1963), by 256 runs (2004), and by an innings and 209 runs (2017). The draws were in 1957, 1973, and 2012. (See below summarised scores of England-West Indies Tests at Edgbaston since 2000).
Jimmy Adams, now with the West Indies team as an assistant coach, was the captain in 2000 when they last triumphed at Edgbaston, with Nasser Hussain captaining England.
Adams top scored with 98 in a total of 397. His fellow Jamaican, fast bowler Courtney Walsh, had match figures of eight for 58 including five for 36 in the first innings.
The other players were Sherwin Campbell, Chris Gayle, Wavell Hinds, Brian Lara, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Ridley Jacobs, Curtly Ambrose, Franklyn Rose, and Reon King.
West Indies lost the five-Test series 3-1.
The 2004 series featured four Tests – all won by England under the captaincy of Michael Vaughan. Lara was the West Indies skipper.
In 2012, England captured the three-Test series 2-0. The captains were Andrew Strauss and Daren Sammy.
The final Test at Edgbaston was badly rain-hit with no play on the first, second and fifth day. Fast bowler Tino Best, batting at No. 11, scored a career-best 95 off 112 balls with 14 fours and one six in a record last wicket partnership of 143 with Denesh Ramdin, who made 107 not out.
The 2017 Test at the same venue was the first to be played as a day/night in England.
There were as many as eight Barbadians in the West Indies team – captain Jason Holder, Kraigg Brathwaite, Kyle Hope, his brother Shai Hope, Roston Chase, Shane Dowrich, Kemar Roach, and Miguel Cummins. The other players were Kieran Powell, Jermaine Blackwood, and Alzarri Joseph.
