TOP SPIN AT THE TEST

ROOT’S CONVERSION RATE IS A FRUSTRATION

JOE ROOT’S innings of 72 confirmed that the captaincy has not impaired his batting at all. On the contrary, since taking over from Alastair Cook, Root has scored 728 Test runs at an average of 66. Only his conversion rate remains a source of frustration: just 13 of Root’s (right) Test half-centuries have been turned into three figures.

GABRIEL’S GIFTS FOR ENGLAND

IT FELT symbolic when England moved into a 200-run lead thanks to another no-ball from West Indies fast bowler Shannon Gabriel. In England’s second innings alone, Gabriel (right) conceded 15 in no-balls and wides — a performance that sums up their sloppiness.

YOU have to go back nine years for the last time England won a Test after conceding a firstinnings lead of over 150. At Old Trafford in 2008, they were 179 behind New Zealand, only to win by six wickets. West Indies, meanwhile, have never lost a Test afte

FOR only the second time in his career, Ben Stokes scored a hundred and a fifty in the same Test. The previous occasion came against New Zealand at Lord’s in 2015, when his 92 and 101 helped England to a memorable win.