With five-for in the bag, Holder eyes a hundred
West Indies captain Jason Holder said "my Test is definately not over" just after he rocked England with a career-very best six-wicket haul in the second working day of the series opener at Southampton on Thursday.
Holder, the world's top-ranked all-rounder, took 6-42 due to England were dismissed for 204 to surpass his previous Test-best of 6-59 against Bangladesh in Kingston 2 yrs ago.
It had been the sixth time in his last 10 Lab tests that the towering paceman had taken five or more wickets within an innings, with Thursday's return like the prize scalp of rival all-rounder and stand-in England captain Ben Stokes.
West Indies possess not won a Test series in England since 1988 nonetheless they contain the Wisden Trophy after a good 2-1 success in the Caribbean this past year -- when Holder made a great unbeaten double century in an opening win in his Barbados home surface.
"I have done an excellent job up to now but my Test is definately not over," Holder told reporters after poor light forced an early on close with West Indies 57-1, a good deficit of 147 runs.
"I have an enormous contribution to create with the bat," the 28-year-old added.
Holder had been fighting an ankle injury found in the lead-up to the series -- the first Check campaign since lockdown -- but nonetheless troubled England with his accuracy and late movement.
He also led from leading. West Indies possessed twice dropped Stokes, second in the Evaluation all-rounder ratings, before Holder possessed him found behind for 43, the most notable rating of the innings, to end a stand of 67 with Jos Buttler (35).
"It was a major wicket to get," stated Holder. "We deposit two probabilities and he was looking to make us pay.
"His partnership with Jos was beginning to blossom into a thing that could really hurt all of us.
"But We was getting sufficient activity to keep him at bay, keep him using and finally got the edge."
Holder added he had a particular reason for wanting to do well found in England this time.
"I really wanted to get on the honours board at Lord's," Holder said.
"We were planned to play there but because of COVID they shuffled it around," he added of a series where the bio-secure grounds of the Ageas Bowl and Out of date Trafford, the venue going back two Tests, are getting used instead.
"One of the things I have always strived to do is to score a hundred on England and get a five-wicket haul. I've ticked one field, now you have to knuckle down and get yourself a hundred."
