Sunday 27 January 2019 09:16, UK
Roston Chase's best-ever bowling figures completed an enormous victory for Windies inside four days as England were rolled over for 246 in the first Test of the three-match series. Here's all you need to know from day four in Barbados...
England succumbed to a 381-run defeat in the first Test as part-time spinner Roston Chase bowled Windies to victory.
Chase finished with Test-best figures of 8-60 as England were bowled out for 246 less than an hour into the evening session in Barbados.
Rory Burns top-scored for England with 84 but no other batsmen passed 50 and the tourists head to Antigua 1-0 down in the three-match series.
John Campbell's eye-catching mid-wicket dive to dismiss Jos Buttler was fairly breathtaking - but for sheer coolness, it has to be Kraigg Brathwaite's catch on the boundary that soon followed.
Brathwaite nonchalantly plucked Adil Rashid's leg-side heave out of the air, glanced down to make sure his foot was on the right side of the boundary line and flicked the ball up before skipping back into bounds to complete the catch.
With the Windies' victory long since inevitable, it may not have mattered a great deal in the context of the game, but the catch underlined the confidence that has begun coursing through the home side throughout this one-sided Test.
The winning margin of 381 runs was the Windies' third best in Test matches - and their highest ever in the Caribbean. Windies' biggest ever Test win remains the 425-run hammering they inflicted on England at Old Trafford in 1976.
Roston Chase's bowling figures of 8-60 were the best of his career. The spinner's previous best Test return was 5-121 against India in Jamaica in August 2016 - in only his second appearance for Windies.
Ben Stokes became the 18th player in Test history to achieve the combination of 3,000 runs and 100 wickets during his innings of 34.
Only four other England players have previously reached that double - Tony Greig, Sir Ian Botham, Andrew Flintoff and Stuart Broad.
Plenty has been said already about the merits of England's team selection for this Test - but they now run the risk of a knee-jerk reaction that could lead them further into the mire in Antigua.
The tourists will certainly be under pressure to make changes for the second Test after their crushing 381-run defeat - with calls for Stuart Broad's inclusion likely to be particularly loud.
However, as Jeffrey Dujon pointed out on commentary, the wicket at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium is likely to play very differently from that at Kensington Oval during the past four days.
England need to approach the second Test calmly and methodically rather than automatically swapping spin for extra seam just because their tactics backfired so badly in Barbados.
JASON HOLDER: "It has been a while since I've been playing Test cricket and I wanted to come back into the game this way. I have put in a lot of hard work to come back to full fitness and it is really good to see it come off.
"I have had a lot bottled up for a long time and I have the opportunity to let it out. It is pleasing to know that I could help the team get out of the hole we were in and also help Shane (Dowrich) reach his century.
"Credit to Roston Chase, I thought he bowled outstandingly well today. I couldn't have asked more of him, he was patient and bowled the ball in right places today."
JOE ROOT: "After a Test match it is very easy to make selections after you've seen how the pitch will play. If you look at how the game panned out over the four days no-one would have seen the pattern of play as it unfolded.
"We could have gone a different way with selection but it doesn't protect how we have gone about things this week. We need to make sure we turn up to Antigua and perform much better."
DAVID LLOYD: "That was woeful. This spinner, Roston Chase, hasn't spun a ball yet - not one ball! He's a slow bowler. Before this innings he had 44 wickets at 46.
"They're playing him like it's Lance Gibbs and Muralitharan rolled into one! He's not spun a ball! Take the game to him, he's inexperienced, he's a part-time spinner.
"Give him something to think about and that means coming down the pitch. Slip is in play and he keeps beating them on the outside. What are they doing!?"
