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England declared their first innings on 514 for eight on the second day of the first Test against the West Indies at Edgbaston on Friday.
Joe Root, the England captain, called a halt after former skipper Alastair Cook was out for 243 in the first day/night Test staged in Britain.
Off-spinner Roston Chase led West Indies` attack with four for 113. This fixture, the 50th Test staged at Edgbaston, is the first of a three-match series.
Alastair Cook’s double century ensured West Indies continued to struggle in the inaugural day/night Test in England at Edgbaston.
England were 449 for four at lunch on the second day, with opening batsman and former captain Cook 213 not out after more than eight hours at the crease.
It was his second double century at this level at Edgbaston, with Cook having made 294 — his highest Test score — against India at the Birmingham ground six years ago.
The one disappointment for England was that they lost Dawid Malan for 65 to what became the last ball of the session following the Middlesex batsman’s maiden Test fifty.
England resumed in an immensely strong position of 348 for three in the first of this three-match series and the 50th Test at Edgbaston.
Cook was 153 not out — his tenth score of 150 or more in Tests equalling the England record shared by Leonard Hutton, Walter Hammond and Kevin Pietersen.
Together with current skipper Joe Root, who made 136 after winning the toss, he’d put on 248 for the third wicket.
New Delhi: Joe Root and Alastair Cook marked England’s first foray into day-night test cricket with centuries, leading the home team to 348-3 against the West Indies on Day 1 of the series-opener.
The captain and former captain eased England’s concerns over how they would deal with the challenge of batting against the pink ball with a 248-run partnership for the third wicket.
Root made 136 and Cook was not out on 153 at stumps yesterday, which were called just after 9.30 pm (local time) at a flood-lit Edgbaston.
Their stand overcame some trying early times in the first day-night test in England, and first involving England, which was 39-2 in the eighth over when the pair came together.
But helped by some wayward bowling by the West Indian attack, Root and Cook negotiated the pink ball with ease. Root hit 22 fours, collecting 88 of his runs in boundaries. Cook was equally adept at dispatching the regular flow of bad balls to the boundary with 92 of his runs coming from 23 fours.
On his way to his 13th test century, Root also became only the sixth man to score a half-century in 11 consecutive tests. AB de Villiers holds the outright record with half- centuries in 12 straight tests.
Source: Zee News