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Friday, July 11, 2025

Charles grabs five as Root powers England

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SPORTS DESK
2368 days ago
20190116
Off-spinner Bryan Charles.

Off-spinner Bryan Charles.

CAVE HILL, Bar­ba­dos – Off-spin­ner Bryan Charles claimed five wick­ets as CWI Pres­i­dent’s XI pushed tour­ing Eng­land on the open­ing day of the two-day tour match at 3W’s Oval, yes­ter­day.

The tourists were dis­missed at the close for 317 with the 23-year-old Charles claim­ing five for 100 from 25 overs.

Twen­ty-year-old speed­ster Chemar Hold­er end­ed with three for 67 while fel­low seam­er Alzarri Joseph, picked in the 13-man squad for the first Test, claimed a sin­gle wick­et from 14 overs.

Cap­tain Joe Root shone with a run-a-ball top score of 87 while all-rounder Ben Stokes struck 56 and Chris Woakes, an un­beat­en 39.

Open­er Ro­ry Burns made 35 while Moeen Ali got a start failed to build on his 21.

The home side made a strong start when they re­moved open­er Keaton Jen­nings (10) and the dan­ger­ous Jon­ny Bairstow (4) cheap­ly.

Jen­nings was tak­en at short leg by Vishaul Singh off Joseph while left-arm seam­er Ray­mon Reifer re­moved Bairstow to a catch at the wick­et.

Root, how­ev­er, sta­bilised the in­nings by an­chor­ing two suc­ces­sive half-cen­tu­ry stands. First, he put on 72 for the third wick­et with Burns, who faced 70 balls and count­ed three fours be­fore falling lbw to Hold­er.

Root then added a fur­ther 69 for the fourth wick­et with Stokes, a stand which saw Eng­land dom­i­nate the sec­ond ses­sion to be 202 for four at tea.

The right-hand­ed Root struck 12 fours and two six­es in near­ly two hours at the crease be­fore per­ish­ing to a catch at mid-wick­et by Sunil Am­bris off Charles.

Stokes, who belt­ed sev­en fours and a six off 97 balls, post­ed 42 for the fifth with Moeen but was sixth out, hol­ing out to mid-wick­et off Charles.

SCORES

ENG­LAND 317 (Joe Root 87, Ben Stokes 56, Chris Woakes 39 not out, Ro­ry Burns 35; Bryan Charles 5-100, Chemar Hold­er 3-67) vs CWI PRES­I­DENT’S XI.

(CMC)


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