Of all the absurdity the England men’s Test side have served up over the last few years, it is hard to think of many that come close to this. There was, of course, the bad and the ugly: reduced to 67-7 on day one of this third Test in Grenada by West Indies, then circling the drain on 114-9. But thanks to the unexpected good from their two top-scorers, number 10 Jack Leach (41) and number 11 Saqib Mahmood (49), they find themselves in a workable position.
West Indies eventually finished the job, bowling the tourists out for 204 in the final over on Thursday. But by then, they had been stripped of the glee of their earlier brilliance, with a final wicket stand of 90.
