
On a long, hot day in the field, there were two agonising moments of missed opportunity for England on a pitch that remains as flat as it was when they racked up 500 runs for just the fourth time in five years.
The first was in the morning session. Ben Stokes had just picked up Nkrumah Bonner, immovable in Antigua, with a controversial lbw (did he hit it?), their second wicket of the day after Jack Leach had Shamarh Brooks caught lazily at backward point.