New Delhi. West Indies has given a befitting reply to England in the second Test. The Caribbean team, which is considered weak, scored 351 runs for 5 wickets on the second day of the match. Kavem Hodge played an important role in giving this strong score to West Indies, who scored 120 runs. This is also Hodge’s first Test century. By the way, this is also the second century of this match. England’s Ollie Pope had scored 121 runs on the first day.
The second test match being played between England and West Indies has become exciting. England had scored 416 runs on the first day of the match by batting aggressively. In response to this, when West Indies started batting on Friday, its fans would not have expected the kind of performance it gave.
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West Indies have scored 351 runs for 5 wickets in reply to England’s 416 runs. Kavem Hodge scored 120 runs in 171 balls. Hodge, who was playing the fourth test match of his career, hit 19 fours in his innings. Alick Athanase also played a brilliant innings of 82 runs for West Indies. Captain Craig Brathwaite scored 48 runs.
When the game was halted after 84 overs on the fourth day of the second Test, the Windies had reached more than 350 runs for 5 wickets. At that time wicketkeeper batsman Joshua de Silva was unbeaten on 32 and all-rounder Jason Holder on 23. So far Shoaib Bashir has taken 2 wickets for England. Chris Woakes, Gus Atkinson and Ben Stokes have taken one wicket each.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : July 20, 2024, 05:49 IST