Stu­art Broad came through an in­jury scare and Jon­ny Bairstow fell just short of a cen­tu­ry against his own team­mates as Eng­land's Test warm-ups de­scend­ed in­to a glo­ri­fied train­ing drill.

Events at Lord's, where the de­ci­sion was made to cull Eng­land and Wales Crick­et Board man­ag­ing di­rec­tor Paul Down­ton, seemed rather more rel­e­vant to the fu­ture of Eng­lish crick­et than the mix-and-match day at Warn­er Park, where four mem­bers of the tour­ing par­ty were para­chut­ed in to bol­ster the lo­cal team.

Jonathan Trott (nought) and Gary Bal­lance (17) large­ly failed to do so, but Bairstow made 98 and Joe Root end­ed the day 87 not out in a score of 303 for nine.

It seemed en­tire­ly in keep­ing with the un­sat­is­fac­to­ry na­ture of Eng­land's Test prepa­ra­tion week that Bairstow, the on­ly mem­ber of the sec­ond­ed quar­ter not like­ly to fea­ture in the se­ries, had the most pro­duc­tive day.

At least Broad avert­ed se­ri­ous in­jury when he col­lapsed clutch­ing his left an­kle in the sec­ond over.

Broad ini­tial­ly looked in trou­ble when his boot slid through the crease and he tum­bled to the ground, and coach Pe­ter Moores was con­cerned enough to stride out to the mid­dle to as­sess the dam­age.

But he spent just short of an hour off the field with an ice pack and lat­er re­turned to the at­tack.

Broad was con­cerned enough about the run-ups to sum­mon the ground­staff the ball be­fore com­ing to grief.

He ini­tial­ly sug­gest­ed bowl­ing round the wick­et in search of firmer foot­ing but de­cid­ed to go back to his orig­i­nal an­gle of at­tack af­ter saw­dust was ap­plied.

When he went down the game was just ten balls old–the same num­ber of de­liv­er­ies that were pos­si­ble in the in­fa­mous aban­doned Test in An­tigua six years ago.

By that stage, the first of Eng­land's hon­orary Kit­ti­tians had al­ready come and gone.

Trott opened the bat­ting but last­ed just three balls, guid­ing James An­der­son straight to James Tred­well at third slip.

That was hard­ly the added steel Eng­land were look­ing for.

The same was large­ly true of Bal­lance, who seems short of his best af­ter a trou­bled World Cup, and man­aged on­ly 17 be­fore an ill-judged cut against Tred­well end­ed up in Jos But­tler's gloves.

The game lacked all sem­blance of com­pet­i­tive edge, even as Root com­piled a trou­ble-free half-cen­tu­ry of his own, but there were some pos­si­ble point­ers ahead the first Test in An­tigua.

James Tred­well clear­ly out­bowled Adil Rashid in the race for the spin­ner's role and Chris Jor­dan failed to take a wick­et de­spite see­ing plen­ty of the ball.