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Friday, August 22, 2025

Windies slump to defeat as Anderson bows out in style

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406 days ago
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West Indies' Gudakesh Motie batting during day three of the first Rothesay Men's Test match at Lord's Cricket Ground, London, yesterday. (Steven Paston/PA via AP)

West Indies' Gudakesh Motie batting during day three of the first Rothesay Men's Test match at Lord's Cricket Ground, London, yesterday. (Steven Paston/PA via AP)

Steven Paston

LON­DON – In the end, West In­dies failed to ru­in the farewell of Jim­my An­der­son af­ter fel­low pac­er Gus Atkin­son com­plet­ed an­oth­er mem­o­rable spell and pro­pelled hosts Eng­land to a 1-0 lead in the Richards-Both­am Tro­phy se­ries with an in­nings and 114 runs win in the first Test on Fri­day.

Gu­dakesh Motie, bat­ting at nine, end­ed with the top score of 31 not out for the Caribbean side and en­abled the vis­i­tors to ex­tend their sec­ond in­nings for a lit­tle more than an hour in­to the third day of the con­test at Lord’s be­fore they were bowled out for 136.

Hopes of a rear­guard ac­tion from West In­dies to take a lit­tle shame off their per­for­mance in the Test failed to ma­te­ri­alise af­ter Test new­com­er Atkin­son bagged three of the last four wick­ets and fin­ished with five for 61 from 14 overs – and match fig­ures of 12 for 106 to earn the Play­er-of-the-Match award.

The re­sult en­abled An­der­son to bring down the cur­tain on an il­lus­tri­ous in­ter­na­tion­al ca­reer in style af­ter West In­dies vet­er­an Ke­mar Roach and rook­ie Shamar Joseph said be­fore the start of the se­ries the Caribbean side want­ed to spoil the swan­song for their 41-year-old fel­low pac­er.

West In­dies cap­tain Kraigg Brath­waite said there was noth­ing his team could do to re­verse the re­sult and now had to look ahead to the sec­ond Test, start­ing this com­ing Thurs­day at Trent Bridge in Not­ting­ham.

“[This re­sult] quite dis­ap­point­ing, but it’s gone now,” he told re­porters dur­ing a post-play news con­fer­ence. “We have two Test match­es left in this se­ries and we have got to look ahead, and we have got to stay men­tal­ly tough.”

With West In­dies re­quir­ing an un­like­ly 171 at the start of play to make Eng­land bat again, Joshua Da Sil­va be­came the fi­nal wick­et for An­der­son – play­ing his 188th and fi­nal Test – when he was caught be­hind for nine in the third over of the day af­ter the Caribbean side re­sumed from their overnight to­tal of 79 for six.

Da Sil­va played de­fen­sive­ly for­ward to a de­liv­ery that was the stock-in-trade of the re­tir­ing pac­er, an­gling in­to the bats­man through the air and mov­ing away af­ter pitch­ing while the bats­man tried to close the face of the bat, on­ly to tick­le it to his op­po­site num­ber be­hind the stumps.

The West In­dies wick­et­keep­er-bats­man be­came the 704th wick­et in Tests for An­der­son, who leaves the in­ter­na­tion­al stage with the Eng­land record for wick­ets and the most by a pac­er in the his­to­ry of the for­mat.

An­der­son end­ed the in­nings with three for 32 from 16 overs and the match with four wick­ets to fin­ish his ca­reer third on the all-time list for most suc­cess­ful bowlers be­hind de­ceased Aus­tralia leg-spin­ner Shane Warne, on 708, and mer­cu­r­ial Sri Lan­ka off-spin­ner Mut­ti­ah Mu­ralitha­ran, on 800.

Atkin­son mopped up the rest of the bat­ting af­ter he got West In­dies vice-cap­tain Alzarri Joseph caught at deep back­ward square leg for eight, Shamar Joseph bowled for three miss­ing a york­er, and Jay­den Seales caught at deep mid-wick­et al­so for eight.

Motie put up the on­ly re­sis­tance and his ef­fort was the high­est in­di­vid­ual score in the match for the vis­i­tors, and he al­most hand­ed An­der­son his 705th Test scalp on a plat­ter when he mist­imed a straight dri­ve back to the bowler, who spilled the chance.

Sumerise Scores

WEST IN­DIES 121 (Mikyle Louis 27, Kavem Hodge 24, Al­ick Athanaze 23; Gus Atkin­son 12-5-45-7) and 136 (Gu­dakesh Motie 31 not out, Al­ick Athanaze 22, Ja­son Hold­er 20; Gus Atkin­son 14-2-61-5, James An­der­son 3-32, Ben Stokes 2-25,).

ENG­LAND 371 (Zak Craw­ley 76, Jamie Smith 70, Joe Root 68, Ol­lie Pope 57, Har­ry Brook 50, Chris Wokes 23; Jay­den Seales 4-77, Gu­dakesh Motie 2-41, Ja­son Hold­er 2-58).

Re­sult: Eng­land won by an in­nings and 114 runs.

Se­ries: Eng­land lead the three-match Richards-Both­am Tro­phy se­ries 1-0.

Points: Eng­land 12, West In­dies 0.

Play­er-of-the-Match: Gus Atkin­son (Eng­land).

Um­pires: Nitin Menon (In­dia), Rod Tuck­er (Aus­tralia).

TV um­pire: Adri­an Hold­stock (South Africa).

Match ref­er­ee: Jav­a­gal Sri­nath (In­dia).

Re­serve um­pire: Rus­sell War­ren.

(CMC)


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