• Third Test, day three: England 204 & 103-8; West Indies 297
  • Embarrassing batting collapse leaves Root under more pressure

The third Test in Grenada will reach its conclusion on the fourth day and what could easily prove Joe Root’s last as England captain following a batting collapse to top anything witnessed during his side’s winter of discontent.

On a stirring third day at the National Cricket Stadium in St George’s, it was the unlikely right-arm medium of Kyle Mayers that re-opened the wounds inflicted by the more celebrated Australian attack in the Ashes, claiming remarkable figures of five for nine to leave West Indies within touching distance of a 1-0 series win.

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