SIX YEARS ago, England and West Indies played out one of the most stultifying games of cricket imaginable at Kensington Oval. Hundreds of supporters who had flown in from Britain were left utterly bored and disenchanted as batsmen filled their boots to no good purpose.
This match has been rather different. With the home side needing a result to level the series, the pitch was prepared accordingly and was offering turn before lunch on the first day. The new ball has swung.
There was incident aplenty on Friday, but the drama accelerated yesterday, with eight wickets tumbling in the first half of the day. England’s innings of 257 was hardly bountiful but if the pitch was only going to get harder to bat on their