Given another docile pitch in Grenada for the second Test against West Indies England might be tempted to use as many as three spinners
• England left frustrated as West Indies cling on for a draw
• Jimmy Anderson probably the most skilful bowler to hail from Britain
There is only one thing worse than drawing a Test match that you have dominated throughout and that is losing it. At least England avoided that indignity. As in their last Test in Antigua in 2009 they had nothing to show for a lot of noble sweat and toil. They could not finish off opposition deemed to be mediocre in some high places.
Yet England played pretty well. With a red ball in a half-empty ground, their players – with the possible exception of Jimmy Anderson, when he was so anxious to get Sir Ian Botham’s wicket landmark out of the way – looked as relaxed and contented as the goats grazing in the long grass beyond the stands, far more so than during the World Cup. But they could not win.
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