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West Indies have suffered their worst ever defeat, losing the Headingley Test match by an innings and 283 runs. It took only 33.1 overs for England to take the 7 remaining West Indian wickets. Overall the West Indies batting hit an extreme low in this test match with their first innings lasting 37 overs and the second innings slightly better at 42.1 overs. Windies were bowled out for 141, five runs lesser than their first innings total.
Kevin Pietersen for his double century was given the Man of the Match award. Resuming from their second day’s score of 22 for 2, Windies lost Chris Gayle to Liam Plunkett in the second over of the fourth day’s play. There was a rain interruption which held up play for a while but once it was over, left armer Ryan Sidebottom came back with the wickets of Sylvester Joseph and Devon Smith to have West Indies at 57 for 5. Then followed a resistance for a change from the tourists in the form of Runako Morton and Dwayne Bravo. The two right handers batted together for more than 16 overs to put up 63 runs before the breakthrough was given by Harmison. Morton was the man getting out for 25.
Harmison took another two wickets and Monty Panesar got Bravo as the West Indian innings folded quickly after the start of the post tea session. Bravo looked good in his stay of 74 balls in which he had got 52 with 7 fours and a six. Ramnaresh Sarwan didn’t come onto bat and it looks unlikely that he will play any part in the remainder of the series. Ryan Sidebottom had a fantastic comeback test match. His second innings figures were 4 for 44 in 15 overs to go along with the overall match figures of 8 for 86 in 27 overs. Harmison showed signs of getting in his own with 3 for 37 in the second innings. West Indies have lot of time to regroup with the third test at Old Trafford starting on the 7th of June.