Broad tops Botham as England rout WI

BIRMINGHAM: Stuart Broad starred as England thrashed the West Indies by an innings and 209 runs to ensure the inaugural day/night Test in Britain ended inside three days at Edgbaston on Saturday night.

West Indies, following-on, lost 19 wickets for 261 runs in the day’s play as England surged to a 1-0 lead in this three-Test series.Having been bowled out for just 168 in their first innings, after England had piled up 514 for eight declared on the back of man-of-the-match Alastair Cook’s 243 and captain Joe Root’s 136, the West Indies collapsed to 137 all out second time around.

Broad took three wickets for 34 runs in 10 overs, including a spell of three for four in 11 balls that saw him surpass England great Ian Botham’s tally of 383 Test wickets.Broad is now second in England’s list of all-time leading Test wicket-takers, with only new-ball colleague James Anderson ahead of him.

“Very remarkable, very pleasing,” Root told Sky Sports. “We talk about being ruthless. Stuart Broad has had a fantastic career... He has those spells in him where he can turn a game on its head.

“Today was a fine example of that.” Meanwhile Cook told BBC’s Test Match Special: “It’s always nice to win and contribute with a big score.“We bowled well today — Jimmy and Broady are world class.”

Defeat left the West Indies without a Test win in England since 2000. Their squad is missing several star names, the legacy of a bitter dispute with their board and the attraction of the lucrative Caribbean Premier League Twenty20 tournament that is taking place at the same time as this tour.

But West Indies captain Jason Holder said his youthful side could not afford to lose heart in the short time between now and Friday’s start of the second Test at Headingley.“It is obviously very disappointing,” Holder told Sky Sports.“We have to just believe. It is not impossible, we can’t drop our heads on one game, the series is not lost.”It was Anderson who did the initial damage in both West Indies innings.

Barely had a Windies first innings where Jermaine Blackwood’s 79 not out accounted for nearly half the total finished, then Anderson struck again when Kieran Powell edged to former captain Cook at first slip. —AFP

England won toss

England 1st innings 514-8 dec (Cook 243, Root 136, Malan 65; Chase 4-113)

West Indies 1st innings 168 all-out (J Blackwood (no) 79; J Anderson 3-34)

West Indies 2nd innings (follow on)

K C Brathwaite lbw b Ali       40

K O A Powell c Cook b Anderson      10

K A Hope lbw b Roland-Jones          12

S D Hope c Root b Stokes    4

R L Chase lbw b Broad         24

J Blackwood st Bairstow b Ali          12

†S O Dowrich b Broad          5

*J O Holder c Cook b Broad  0

K A J Roach b Anderson       12

A S Joseph c Stokes b Roland-Jones         8

M L Cummins not out 0

Extras (b 9, lb 1)      10

Total: (all-out; 45.4 Overs)  137

Bowling: Anderson 7-2-12-2; Broad 10-4-34-3; Roland-Jones 6.4-3-18-2; Stokes 9-4-9-1; Ali 13-2-54-2

Fall: 1-15, 2-41, 3-60, 4-76, 5-102, 6-104, 7-104, 8-115, 9-137, 10-137

Result: England won by an innings and 209 runs

Series: England lead the 3-match series by 1-0

Man of the Match: Alastair Cook (England)

Test debut: M D Stoneman (England); K A Hope (West Indies)

Umpires: S Ravi (India), Marais Erasmus (South Africa). TV umpire: Chris Gaffaney (New Zealand). Match referee: David Boon (Australia)