
England’s hopes of banishing their post-Ashes blues in Antigua got off to a rocky start as the West Indies reduced a reworked top order to 57 for four on the first morning of the first Test.
Exactly seven weeks since they concluded a miserable tour of Australia with the latest in a string of batting collapses in Hobart, Joe Root led a much-changed side into some familiar trouble at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium. The much-discussed ‘red ball reset’ was off to a slow start.