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West Ind ies pacemen bowl over England to win by 381 runs in first Test

Subscribe to our channel: https://goo.gl/pqS0mLWest Indies pacemen bowl over England to win by 381 runs in first Test. The sight of Shannon Gabriel steaming in and giving Joe Root, never previously troubled by pace, a good going over here on Saturday was evidence that West Indies unexpected dominance of this first Test may not be a one-off. The England captain was seriously discomforted by West Indies' fastest bowler and appeared to be dismissed by him when he fended off a brutal delivery just after lunch straight to the cordon but was reprieved when Gabriel was shown to have bowled a no ball. How England needed that stroke of good fortune as they struggled to delay what will be a huge upset and a famous West Indies victory here that they suddenly seem well-equipped to build on in the Tests in Antigua and St Lucia still to come. Simply, West Indies, eighth in the world rankings, have completely out-played an England team that had won eight of their previous nine Tests and had hoped here to move closer to India at the top of the Test tree. The question now is whether this is another of the false dawns that have punctuated Caribbean cricket in the years since they ruled the cricket world or whether the hugely impressive Jason Holder really is now onto something big. England started the fourth day with all their second innings wickets intact but knowing that their only realistic hope was to take the match into a last day after being ground into the Barbadian dust just and left an impossible target of 628. At least Rory Burns, in making 84 and joining Keaton Jennings in England’s biggest opening stand for 44 innings, showed that he should have an Ashes future this summer and is capable of stepping into the giant shoes of the retired Sir Alastair Cook. Yet the Surrey captain is not yet the finished article and there remain worrying reservations about a technique that sees him bring his bat down at unusual angles and leaves him prone to soft dismissals. A case in point came on Saturday just as it seemed certain Burns would make a maiden Test century when he left an alarming gap between bat and bat against the suddenly penetrative off-spin of Roston Chase and was bowled by one that went straight on. If Burns still looks likely to have an extended run in the side to work on his technical issues then Jennings seems no nearer to solving his and is one of England’s biggest concerns heading to Antigua for Thursday’s second Test and beyond. The man who has made two Test centuries in the sub-continent remains worryingly susceptible to pace as he showed again here by again getting out outside off-stump, admittedly to a slip catch only a man as tall as the 6ft 7in Holder could make. Jennings averages just 16.90 against pace, the lowest by any opener in history who has played more than 15 Tests, and time must be running out on a character England would love to succeed as they rate him so highly as a character. The problem for England is a lack of opening alternatives in the squad for the only possible replacement for Jennings is Joe Denly, who is surely better suited to a place lower down the order even if he does have some opening experience with Kent. Denly had been pencilled in to bat at three ahead of England’s Sri Lanka tour but so bad was he in the warm-ups there that England had a hasty re-think and he looked no better in his one brief appearance in the practice matches here. Really, Denly is lucky to be here and England would have been better bringing Jason Roy here and giving him the chance to show that he could emulate Jos Buttler and make the leap up to Test cricket without extensive red-ball experience. For now England are likely to stick with the same top three next week, including Jonny Bairstow at three even though he would much prefer to bat in the middle order and get the keeping gloves back, a move that would at least make room for another bowler. Here Bairstow survived a review when Chase was convinced he had him