Broad sparks West Indies collapse found in Test decider
Stuart Broad sparked a good top-purchase collapse after starring with the bat seeing that England reduced the West Indies to 137-6 in stumps on the next evening of the decisive third Test in Out of date Trafford on Saturday.
England had slumped to 280-8 after losing four wickets for 18 runs before Zero 10 Broad's swashbuckling 62 took them to a first innings total of 369.
When bad light forced an early on close, the West Indies were 232 runs behind, needing 33 more in order to avoid the follow-on.
West Indies captain Jason Holder was 24 not away and Shane Dowrich 10 not out.
Veteran new-ball duo Broad and James Anderson, paired together for the first time this series, both had stumps numbers of 2-17.
Broad struck with only his fourth ball to have West Indies dangerman Kraigg Brathwaite caught in slip by England captain Joe Root for just one.
John Campbell, dropped on 10 when normally reliable second slip Ben Stokes deposit a routine chance, seemed increasingly assured while building 32.
But quickly bowler Jofra Archer, again after getting omitted from England's 113-run gain in the second Test out for breaching the bio-secure regulations governing this series, produced a rib-large delivery that left-hander Campbell can only fend to gully.
Anderson, England's all-period leading Evaluation wicket-taker, then struck either side of tea on his Lancashire residence ground while the tourists slumped to 59-4.
Shai Wish, struggling for works this series, was squared up by simply an Anderson delivery that transferred aside late -- a desperately difficult ball to enjoy -- and was caught behind for 17.
After the interval Anderson got someone to keep coming back the other way to Shamarh Brooks, which time the batsman inside edged to wicketkeeper Jos Buttler.
In a campaign that marks international cricket's returning from lockdown, Broad then produced a classic nip-backer to have Roston Chase lbw for nine, the batsman not really bothering with an assessment as West Indies collapsed to 73-5.
Jermaine Blackwood, who produced a good match-clinching 95 during West Indies' four-wicket win found in the first Test, looked good while building 26.
But he had his middle stump knocked out from the surface when Chris Woakes nipped one off the seam.
Dowrich, new from two ducks on the second Test, was lucky when he got on a tangle against an Archer bouncer limited to the ball to only clear the back-pedalling Rory Burns on the gully.
England, with all-rounder Stokes unfit to bowl carrying out a quad personal injury, opted to play an extra seamer by dropping batsman Zak Crawley as they looked to gain this three-match series 2-1.
That they had lost early wickets but resumed on 258-4 after losing the toss.
Ollie Pope was 91 not out and Buttler unbeaten on 56 -- his first Test fifty found in 14 innings.
Pope, however, failed to increase his score.
Around the corner of his second Test century, Pope had recently been dropped by Rahkeem Cornwall in the slips when Shannon Gabriel tidy bowled him to end a fifth-wicket stand of 140.
Woakes promptly played to offer Roach, who finished with 4-72, his 200th Test wicket.
Buttler was good caught low straight down for 67 by Holder at second slip.
But Broad, who includes a highest Test score of 169, counter-attacked along with his primary fifty as of this level in just over three years.
On a ground where he was hit on the face by a bouncer from India's Varun Aaron in 2014, left-handed batsman Broad pulled Roach for six as the brand new ball started to soften.
Broad pulled Holder for four to complete a good 33-ball fifty before hitting a full-toss from occasional off-spinner Chase to deep midwicket.
