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that included 17 fours and two sixes but also long periods of deep concentration.

He and Sibley added 260 for the fourth wicket, well over half the team’s total runs in one partnership, but he took his share of the work in his stride.

“Numbers, figures... I don’t really care. The main number for me is how many wins,” he said.

“I was more buzzing that I faced 300 balls than I was when I got to my hundred, that’s something I never thought I’d be capable of doing.

“The more time you spend in the middle the more chance you’ve got to get runs.

“I feel at an age and an experience level where I really understand my game pretty much all the time and I try not to get carried away.”

Sibley, who set the tone for unfaltering diligence by batting for 372 balls at the head of the innings, was rewarded with a second hundred in England kit and first on home turf.

Overnight: England 207-3 (D P Sibley 86 no, B A Stokes 59 no). England First Innings cont D P Sibley c Roach b Chase B A Stokes c Dowrich b Roach O J D Pope lbw b Chase J C Buttler c Joseph b Holder C R Woakes c Hope b Roach S M Curran c Campbell b Chase D M Bess not out S C J Broad not out

Extras 120 176 7 40 0 17 31 11 29 –––– 469

Total for 9 wkts dec

Bowling: Roach 2/58, Gabriel 0/79, Joseph 1/70, Holder 1/70, Chase 5/172, Brathwaite 0/9.

West Indies First Innings

K C Brathwaite not out

J D Campbell lbw b Curran

A S Joseph not out

Extras 6 12 14 0 –––– Total for 1 wkt 32 Bowling: Broad 0/14, Woakes 0/2, Curran 1/8, Bess 0/8.

Picture: PA.