Rahul Tiwari
khelja|22-07-2024
The second Test match is being played between England and West Indies in Nottingham from 18 July. During England's innings on the fourth day of the game, West Indies bowler Jaden Seals got very angry after seeing his team's fielding. During his bowling, the fielders dropped two easy catches on two consecutive balls. On the third ball of the 91st over, Gus Atkinson tried to play a drive, but the ball went to the second slip. Jason Holder standing there was not expecting this catch and he dropped it. On the next ball, Mark Wood came on strike. This time the ball got edged and went to the first slip and this time Kavem Hodge failed to catch the catch.
As soon as Jaden saw two catches being dropped on his ball, he lost faith in the fielders. After this, he decided to take revenge and bowled the next ball fast and ahead on the stumps. Mark Wood remained in the crease, before he could react to the ball, he was bowled. As soon as Mark Wood was bowled, England lost the 9th wicket. After this, Seals did not trust the fielders even for the last wicket. He bowled ahead to Shoaib Bashir and bowled him out.
West Indies fielders did very poor fielding during England's second innings. In this innings, they missed many opportunities apart from Mark Wood and Antkinson. England batsmen took full advantage and took a huge lead. England scored 425 runs in their second innings and finished off West Indies' first innings lead of 41 runs and went 384 runs ahead. Joe Root scored 122 runs for England and Harry Brook played an innings of 109 runs. Now West Indies has to chase it in the last innings.
There are a total of 9 teams in the World Test Championship 2023-25 cycle. In this, the Indian team is at the top of the points table. India has 68.71 percentage points with 6 wins, 2 losses and 1 loss out of 9, while Australia is at number two with 62.50 percentage points. On the other hand, if we talk about West Indies, then it is at sixth place with 26.67 percentage points and England is at the last place with 25 percentage points.