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Scorecard and ball-by-ball details17-year-old Holly Ferling took three wickets as England’s top order capsized•Getty Images

England came up agonisingly short in their second thriller in four games. They had been shocked by Sri Lanka’s last pair off the last ball. Today, their last pair of Holly Colvin and Anya Shrubsole almost beat Australia. Almost. Having added 31 with Shrubsole to take England within three runs of victory, Colvin edged a cut to the wicketkeeper. It would have been a particularly dispiriting end to the game for Shrubsole, who had kept England alive with the bat after having run through the Australia top order in the morning.England have now lost 14 ODIs on neutral territory to Australia without having ever beaten them. There wasn’t much to choose between the two sides. Australia were 32 for 5 at one stage, England were 39 for 6 as the seam trio of Megan Schutt, Holly Ferling and Julie Hunter came hard at them. A battling 49 by Lydia Greenway seemed to have finally set England on their way to victory but her fall with the score on 114 turned the game again. Colvin and Shrubsole almost pulled off an improbable escape. Almost.When Katherine Brunt holed out to mid-on off Lisa Sthalekar, Australia captain Jodie Fields would have thought the game was hers with England on 114 for 9 in the 42nd over. Sthalekar was Player of the Match for lifting Australia from 15 for 3 to 114 for 6 along with Sarah Coyte and returning figures of 10-5-19-1 with her offspin. She was to take the game’s decisive catch as well, that of Greenway, who hit Ferling straight to Sthalekar at short extra cover in the 41st over after painstakingly guiding them past 100 during a 113-ball stay.Fields now needed just one of Colvin or Shrubsole, and crowded them with fielders. Colvin scattered them, punching and steering Coyte for boundaries in the 43rd over. An outside edge in the same over snipped a further four runs off the target. Shrubsole stepped out to Sthalekar and just cleared mid-on, and dispatched Ferling to the deep point rope. With 12 needed off five overs, the last pair sensibly started pushing for singles.Fields brought her field back in, and Sthalekar, again, at short midwicket almost ran out the non-striker Shrubsole with a direct hit. Replays showed Shrubsole had just made it back, but England weren’t so lucky next ball. Colvin went back to cut, and Fields jumped with a scream as soon as she took the edge.The England last pair’s fight stood out amid poor batting by the specialist batsmen on both sides against the moving ball. It had been expected to move around in the morning, which is why Charlotte Edwards asked Australia to bat. Brunt was her usual bustling self, moving the ball away at pace. Shrubsole complicated matters for Australia with some huge inswingers, one of which flattened Jess Cameron’s middle stump. Rachael Haynes played a loose drive to be caught by the bowler Shrubsole. Three others, Alex Blackwell, Meg Lanning and Fields, perished trying various things outside off stump -a prod, a cut, a drive. A scoreline of 32 for 5 was a fair indication of both, how well England had bowled, and how poorly Australia had batted.Sthalekar was joined by Coyte, and the pair put on 82. Sthalekar was solid and busy as ever, while Coyte showed off her hitting with some stinging sweeps. England had the chance to break through when Sthalekar cut Jenny Gunn to point, but Greenway could not hold on. Australia were 58 for 5 then, Sthalekar was 11. It was Arran Brindle, brought back in the 32nd over, who eventually bowled Sthalekar with a loopy slower one first ball on return. Coyte found Shrubsole at mid-on off Colvin a few overs later, and the innings subsided at 147 in the 45th over.Edwards began with a couple of fours in Schutt’s opening over, but was given leg-before in her next after walking across, though replays showed the incoming ball would have missed leg. Edwards has tended to do that early in her innings this tournament – a similar appeal was turned down previous ball. Schutt made another big incision in her third over, as Sarah Taylor went after a very wide one and edged it to slip.Danielle Wyatt fell after a few crisp boundaries to Ferling’s first ball, edging a cut behind. Ferling was replacing the ill Ellyse Perry, but made sure Australia didn’t miss their premier quick bowler. All of 17 and playing her second game, she ran in with energy and generated bounce that troubled England.Hunter was the slowest of the three Australia seamers, but she moved the ball both ways. Brindle went chasing a widish outswinger, Heather Knight went lbw to one that nipped in. Gunn avoided a Ferling bouncer, but could not keep out a straightening low full toss next ball. At 39 for 6, 148 looked much farther.It had turned into a survival game now for England. Greenway and Marsh took nearly 26 overs to add 57. Both defended resolutely, Marsh’s resistance ending on 22 off 75 when she walked across to Coyte. Replays had it just missing leg stump, but Marsh had left it exposed, and that could have influenced the umpire.Greenway now started opening up, swatting boundaries through the leg side with ease. With England just 34 away, though, Sthalekar came in the way of a drive. Colvin and Shrubsole almost got England home. Almost.

ScorecardVidarbha’s 85-run first-innings lead came in handy as they defeated Odisha by 106 runs on the third day in Cuttack. A half-century from their No. 3 Amol Ubarhande was crucial in their second-innings total of 140 which helped them set a target of 226. In reply, Odisha were dismissed for 119, the collapse catalysed by Amol Jungade’s five wickets. The win took Vidarbha to third position in Group B.
ScorecardMaharashtra opener Harshad Khadiwale scored a responsible century to help his team take a first-innings lead against Baroda in Pune. Continuing from his overnight score of 69, Khadiwale was involved in valuable partnerships with five batsmen before departing for 168, including a 166-run stand with captain Rohit Motwani, who scored 91. Left-arm spinner Bhargav Bhatt claimed both the wickets, and added one more later as Maharashtra finished the day at 376 for 7.
ScorecardLeft-arm spinner Ali Murtaza took seven wickets as Uttar Pradesh bowled Tamil Nadu out for 179 and took a commanding position on the third day in Chennai. Resuming on 149 for 6, Tamil Nadu lasted for less than 13 overs. In response, their bowlers, Aushik Srinivas and medium pacer Sunil Sam, shared seven wickets to restrict Uttar Pradesh to 207. But they have a tough target of 421 ahead of them after conceding a first innings deficit of 213.
Scorecard”As long as I play cricket I will remember Hubli, since I scored my first hundred and double-hundred here and my recall to the Indian team also came here,” Haryana captain Amit Mishra had said on Sunday. Karnataka will have less fond memories of the city since their batting buckled in little more than two sessions, needing a miracle to reach the knockout stages. Haryana started the round in seventh place, qualification looking a long way away, but an outright victory here will keep them in the hunt for reaching the next stage.Read more of the report here.

The Dr DY Patil Sports Stadium in Navi Mumbai was involved in a controversy last month for hosting England Lions for a fortnight without the requisite clearances from the BCCI and Mumbai Cricket Association. It led to the stadium being stripped off two Women’s World Cup matches it was scheduled to host in February 2013.But on Friday, as Mumbai and Gujarat practised on either side of the main stadium on the eve of their crucial Ranji Trophy Group A match, parity was restored for the hardworking staff and volunteers (read students of the DY Patil university).While the wandering students in the campus could catch a glimpse of Zaheer Khan and Ajit Agarkar – two of the biggest names in Mumbai cricket – they missed out getting photographed with Parthiv Patel, who still comes across as a wonder boy a decade after making his international debut as a teenager. Not because Parthiv didn’t turn up for the training but because his team was preparing in the nets that were not as accessible as the Mumbai ones.Similar to their Ranji campaign, in which they have silently marched to the second spot, the Gujarat players went about their practice unnoticed. But they were focused as they have been all along the season. Under the watchful eyes of coach Mukund Parmar, Parthiv’s men had a prolonged net session. And with most of the squad members being under-25, they didn’t mind putting in the extra yards.”It was a conscious decision at the beginning of the season to build a team of youngsters,” Parthiv said of his team’s excellent campaign so far. “And it wasn’t as if we were not expecting ourselves to do well. We believed in our abilities and the results are there for everyone to see.”The game changer for Gujarat has been left-arm spinner Rakesh Dhurv, who was imported from adjoining Saurashtra as a professional. And Dhurv has justified the faith put in by the Gujarat selectors by emerging as the most successful spinner this Ranji season with a tally of 35 wickets at 23.57 apiece. “We lacked a quality spinner, so it was decided to bring on Rakesh and he has delivered by taking all those wickets. That has made a big impact.”Mumbai, the home side, is pleased this time to see a green-top after having been given two disappointing pitches at the Wankhede and Agarkar, the Mumbai captain, is happy that the team’s chances are in their control.”That [the scenario] is something that augurs well for us,” Agarkar said. “We know that our future depends on what we do. If we win, we are through. We don’t have to wait for some other results to go our way.”The match is set up nicely. Both teams are coming into the game with wins under their belt – Gujarat having surprised table-toppers Punjab and Mumbai clinching a thriller against Madhya Pradesh. Gujarat has 21 points to Mumbai’s 20 and even if the match doesn’t see a result, the side that pockets three first-innings-lead points is assured of a spot in the quarter-finals. An intense battle awaits and it’s just the tonic the organisers at the stadium needed.

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In the previous match at the Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Rajkot, Ravindra Jadeja alone had scored 331 but though he top scored again, run-making wasn’t as easy and Saurashtra were bowled out for 209. Much of the damage was done by left-arm spinner Iresh Saxena, whose five-for helped Bengal take the final six wickets for 35 runs. The slide was hastened by the dismissal of Jadeja, who made 70 to take his season’s tally past 700, and there were three ducks in the lower order. Saxena finished with impressive figures of 12.3-5-17-5. Saurashtra had looked set for a larger total after the openers played out more than two hours to put on 64, but they lost wickets in bunches to finish on a small score.
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Two of Rajasthan’s talented young batsmen, Robin Bist and Ashok Menaria, continued to struggle to find form, falling cheaply on a day when Gujarat kept the run-rate firmly in check. Bist has only one half-century in 10 innings since his sparkling performance at the Duleep Trophy, while Menaria hasn’t hit a fifty in nine Ranji innings. Forties from debutant opener Saurabh Chouhan and the vastly experienced Hrishikesh Kanitkar lifted Rajasthan, and Rashmi Parida also chipped in with 36.The most successful of the Gujarat bowlers was left-arm-spinner Rakesh Dhurv, who ended with figures of 36-19-47-3.
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Madhya Pradesh made patient progress against Railways in Bhubaneshwar, with Rameez Khan’s 82 guiding them to 212 for 5. None of MP’s top four was in any rush after Railways chose to field, with all of them striking at less than 40. Each of the top-order batsmen got set, but only Rameez went on to reach a half-century. Opener Zafar Ali batted for almost an hour and a half before being caught-behind, and his partner Naman Ojha followed suit half an hour later. Rameez anchored the innings, and the arrival of Udit Birla and Jalaj Saxena provided some urgency towards the end of the day.

Saleem Malik, the former Pakistan captain, has applied for the position of batting coach of the senior team after the PCB advertised to fill the post earlier this month. Malik had his life ban – imposed by the PCB after Justice Qayyum’s inquiry into match-fixing, in 2000 – lifted by a local court in 2008 after several years of legal battle. The previous time he came close to getting a PCB position, as director of National Cricket Academy, the ICC sought details of his reported appointment, though the PCB subsequently denied he’d been offered the job.”I am cleared and my life ban was lifted four years ago,” Malik told reporters after submitting his application to Intikhab Alam, PCB director of international cricket operations. “I am cleared by the PCB and the ICC so I can now be involved in any cricket-related activity.”Malik, who maintained his innocence after the match-fixing inquiry, appealed against the life ban in 2001 but it was rejected. He then went to the the Supreme Court which decided to direct the appeal to a lower court, where he argued for nine years to be released from the charges.Malik last played international cricket in June 1999. He played 103 Tests, captaining in 12 Tests in 1994-95, winning seven. He is also one of four Pakistan players to have played more than a hundred Tests, and also featured in 283 ODIs.The PCB are seeking a Level-3 coach with at least five years’ experience with elite cricketers, but Malik believes that his lack of qualification or experience as a coach would not override his experience as a player and captain.”A Test cricketer like me doesn’t need any coaching course or any certificate. I have the ability to help the batsmen overcome their problems, which have been the main hurdle in team’s performance.”I feel I have a role to play and want to serve my country. I was a successful captain in my time and despite the various disputes in the team I had kept the team united. I managed to lead the team very efficiently and produced the results and this shows my competence,” he said. Malik has been maintaining a cricket academy at the Lahore Gymkhana Ground and has also engaged in coaching school kids during summer vacations at the ground.The PCB, in August, recruited Mohammad Akram as bowling coach, though the former fast bowler also didn’t have much experience in coaching before taking up the position.

Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene has said a phalanx of allrounders will be his side’s biggest strength in the upcoming World Twenty20, because of the balance and flexibility they afford the team. Angelo Mathews and Jeevan Mendis are in Sri Lanka’s squad as batting allrounders, while Thisara Perera’s forte is with the ball. Nuwan Kulasekara has also batted well in the last eight months in addition to opening the bowling, and opening batsman Tillakaratne Dilshan has contributed reliable offspin as well.”[The allrounders] give us a lot of options in our team combination, so we can pick more batsmen or more bowlers to suit conditions and opposition, and still have a balanced team,” Jayawardene said. “They give me options, because if you have some guys who aren’t hitting their stride, I can keep rotating the bowlers and one bowler having an off day won’t hurt us. Likewise, if someone who wouldn’t be a first-choice bowler is going really well and getting wickets, you can get four really good overs out of him. If your bowlers can bat as well, that gives you the depth in your line-up.”Mathews and Dilshan scored heavily during the recently concluded SLPL, while Perera also struck form with the bat. Mathews’ average of 70.33 was the highest in the league among batsmen who had scored more than 100 runs, and his aggregate of 211 put him at second in the top run-scorers’ list. Dilshan finished two places behind, having made 195 in one fewer innings.Jayawardene said the progress of Mathews and Perera had been particularly encouraging, given their performances over the last 18 months. “[Perera] has worked on his bowling and he has seen the results of that in the last year, where he picked up a lot of wickets for us, and there’s a lot to like about how he goes about his game. We’ve all seen what [Mathews] can do as well. He played an amazing knock in the SLPL final, and he’s been playing those back-against-the-wall kinds of innings for Sri Lanka in the past, so those two look very promising for us. “Jayawardene said that despite several players being called upon to contribute in both disciplines, they are each aware of not neglecting their primary skill. “I don’t think there will be a problem with that, because everyone knows what they have to do and what their focus is,” he said. “We have a unit that has been together for a while, and everyone knows their role in the team.”Sri Lanka made the final in three of the last four limited-overs World Cups, but Jayawardene said his side’s inability to convert those chances into titles was not the result of a lack of mental fortitude. “Getting ourselves into the semi-finals and final means that we are doing most of the things right, but perhaps we need to push a little bit more in a big game, like a final, to win it,” he said. “I’ve always said that playing in big tournaments and playing well is a big plus. Yes, we’ve stumbled in a few finals in the last five years, but I look at it in a positive way and say, ‘We’re getting there and doing the right thing’.”Sri Lanka have picked 18-year-old spin bowler Akila Dananjaya in their World Twenty20 squad, despite him having played only six professional games in his career, all during the SLPL in August. Jayawardene said the team management was mindful about exposing Dananjaya to international cricket too early, but will not hesitate to play him, should he respond well to being in the international side. “We have to see how he reacts and handles himself around the squad. From what I’ve seen in the provincial tournament, he doesn’t look scared at all. We’ve got two senior spinners [Rangana Herath and Ajantha Mendis] in the squad who can do the job, but if Akila is up to the task, we will use him.”

ScorecardJonny Bairstow rediscovered some of his early season form•Getty Images

There was a reminder of golden eras for both Yorkshire and Leicestershire on the second day of this match. The Fernie Suite in the Grace Road pavilion was being renamed in honour of Ray Illingworth, who played for both teams in seasons when they were powers in the land, and the great man turned up for the occasion.Now 80, Illingworth clearly has deep affection for his two counties, but he was Yorkshire president until last March and there is no secret where his heart lies. So one might infer that he will have greatly enjoyed watching Adam Lyth bat in Yorkshire’s first innings. The opener has had a thin time of it this summer, first finding it difficult to break into Andrew Gale’s team and then making just 86 runs in five innings before the current match.So Lyth’s career-best 159 not out against Leicestershire was a triumph of temperament as well as craft, and his celebratory skip when he reached three figures evinced obvious delight. And what may have pleased Illingworth just as much as the fact of Lyth’s achievement was the manner of it: the opener can be a fluent strokemaker and reached his half-century in just 76 balls with eight fours; yet when Yorkshire were stumbling on 112 for 3, Lyth drew in his horns and grafted for a further 120 deliveries to reach his hundred. He constructed an innings around the requirements of his side.But Lyth was not the only visiting batsman to reach three figures on a day when the architecture of this match began to take on a slightly clearer shape. For most of the last two sessions of the day he was partnered by Jonny Bairstow, who has probably been told that his only means of getting back into the England team is by scoring bucketloads of runs in county cricket and waiting his turn.By making 118 off 144 balls against an attack he treated with progressively more disdain Bairstow began to accomplish the first part of that task. His third Championship century of the season was filled with the thrilling drives, powerful pulls and impertinent sweeps which his advocates have cited as evidence of his precocious class. The contrasting styles of Bairstow and Lyth during their partnership can be gauged from the fact that Lyth was on 63 when his partner arrived at the crease and that Bairstow required only three more deliveries to reach 100 than Lyth had needed to score his second fifty. It was a deeply effective combination.”Jonny is obviously a class player and he batted fantastically well today,” Lyth said. “I was in the seventies for 30 or 40 balls, but when you’ve got someone like Jonny scoring at four or five runs an over it takes the pressure off.”Lyth and Bairstow put on 197 in 48.4 overs for the fourth wicket against an attack that was held together for most of the day by Claude Henderson, who bowled unchanged for 35 overs from the Pavilion End. The slow left-armer took the wicket of Gale and went for less than three runs an over, although he was both hit for six and reverse swept by Lyth, once the Yorkshireman had reached his hundred. By then the opener once again had regained the licence to bat with more freedom, another thing which old pros like Illingworth might have appreciated.In the last hour of play Matthew Hoggard took the new ball and Nathan Buck broke the partnership that had bedevilled his team’s day when Bairstow was, in the professionals’ argot, “turned round” and edged the ball to Greg Smith at slip. Gary Ballance followed four balls later, lbw to Hoggard for a single and the day ended with Lyth and Anthony McGrath batting for the morrow.Yet for all that Saturday will be remembered for Illingworth’s honour and the Lyth-Bairstow stand, Yorkshire’s progression to a position of strength in this match was not as facile as a glance at the second-day scorecard might suggest: Joe Root was castled by a low-bouncing Buck delivery in the fourth over; Phil Jaques, having batted fluently and found the boundary frequently in making 30, top-edged the same bowler straight to deep backward square-leg, Matthew Boyce one of two fielders who had been deliberately placed for just such an eventuality; and when Gale carelessly cut Henderson to backward point five overs after lunch the promotion-chasing visitors were still 208 in arrears on first innings.For half an hour or so the Yorkshire effort was in the balance as Henderson and Buck extracted plenty of bounce from a Grace Road pitch that may prove rather tricky on the final day. The visitors hope that will not be their problem, though. If Lyth and McGrath can dig in tomorrow morning, Yorkshire will aim to bat only once in this match. Ray Illingworth would approve.

Yuvraj Singh has been included in India’s preliminary squad of 30 players for the World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka this September. Mandeep Singh, the Punjab batsman who plays for Kings XI Punjab in the IPL, and Ambati Rayudu, the Hyderabad and Mumbai Indians batsman, are the only uncapped players in the list.Mandeep has played 13 first-class matches for Punjab and North Zone, scoring 1074 runs at an average of 63. He had a successful IPL 2012 for Kings XI Punjab, finishing the season as the tenth-highest run-scorer, with 432 runs at a strike rate of 126.This selection is also Rayudu’s first call-up to an India shortlist since he returned to the BCCI’s fold after playing the Indian Cricket League (ICL). He’s played 47 matches for Mumbai Indians, making 1084 runs at a strike rate of 128. Rayudu was Mumbai Indians’ second-highest run-scorer in 2012, scoring 333 in 15 innings.This is Yuvraj’s first official inclusion in an India squad following his treatment for a mediastinal seminoma, a rare germ cell cancer, in the United States. His last appearance for India was in a Test match against West Indies in Kolkata in November 2011, and his last one-day match was the World Cup final against Sri Lanka in April that year. Yuvraj had respiratory difficulties through 2011 and in May he withdrew from the ODI series in the West Indies due to an “illness”. He toured England but had to return home after breaking his finger in the Nottingham Test and later played two home Tests against West Indies. However, he then pulled out of the ODI series against West Indies in November citing an “abnormal tumour in his lung”.Yuvraj had originally targeted the CB series in Australia for his return to international cricket. However, he was ruled out of that tournament and travelled to the US in late January for what was later revealed to be cancer treatment. Yuvraj spent three months in Indianapolis’ IU Simon Cancer Centre and returned to India in early April 2012. He is currently training in Bangalore and said he believed Twenty20 was the best format for him to begin his return to competitive cricket.It is understood Yuvraj aims to play at least two matches in the three-day Buchi Babu tournament in Chennai or the four-day KSCA League in Bangalore or the inter-district Katoch Shield tournament in Punjab.Probables: MS Dhoni, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Suresh Raina, R Ashwin, Pragyan Ojha, Umesh Yadav, Ashok Dinda, Ajinkya Rahane, Manoj Tiwary, Rahul Sharma, Vinay Kumar, Zaheer Khan, Yuvraj Singh, Robin Uthappa, Irfan Pathan, Yusuf Pathan, Mandeep Singh, Piyush Chawla, Ravindra Jadeja, Shikhar Dhawan, Ambati Rayudu, Harbhajan Singh, Munaf Patel, Naman Ojha, Dinesh Karthik, Praveen Kumar, L Balaji.

Scorecard and ball-by-ball commentaryEngland’s bowlers found it tough to break through as West Indies battled impressively•Getty Images

Six minutes before tea on the fourth day, Shivnarine Chanderpaul finally cracked. Another Test innings of monumental patience ended when he swept at Graeme Swann and Marais Erasmus raised his finger for the lbw decision that England begged. Even then Chanderpaul made them wait, and the Lord’s crowd with them, as he called for a review, but technology granted no clemency: the ball was shown to be striking leg stump.The result of his painstaking resistance was a victory target for England of 191, a dominant position certainly, but not an impregnable one. That much was made painfully apparent for England in an awkward four overs batting in murky light in which Andrew Strauss and the nightwatchman James Anderson both succumbed to Kemar Roach, whose mini-burst would have had great West Indies fast bowlers of old purring in appreciation.Strauss, a first-innings century-maker, succumbed for a single as he edged Roach to Kieran Powell, the finer of two gullies. Roach hit 90mph and Anderson was caught at the wicket, the ball brushing his glove and Anderson deciding, quite rightly, that a review would be untoward now that Sky’s high-quality cameras have brought new efficiency to Hot Spot – a message here for the ICC. It could have been worse for England if Jonathan Trott had fallen first ball; Aleem Dar turned down an lbw appeal, West Indies appealed to DRS, but Trott had got millimetres outside the line.Chanderpaul’s birthing pains have set up a great finale. He batted for nearly ten-and-a-half hours in this match. He followed an unbeaten 87 in the first innings with 91 second time around before his laborious resistance, characterised by furtive flicks into the leg side, was finally broken. It was an innings so introspective that it turned all those who watched it into introverts, increasingly wrapped up in their own thoughts as they respectfully observed an innings of rare discipline.It was not solely about Chanderpaul because alongside him Marlon Samuels summoned one of his most disciplined Test displays, 86 from 172 balls, as West Indies resisted with great dedication. Chanderpaul’s placid refusal to quit communicated itself to his partner, who can rarely have batted so judiciously for his country.Until the grand climax, it was a largely monotonous day, decidedly chilly, too, with a brisk northerly wind. If this abysmal weather continues much longer egg-and-bacon overcoats will be de rigueur in London NW8. But it was a day from which West Indies could draw pride. With their resistance at its height, a couple of players ventured on to the balcony to convey their support for an immensely worthy innings and wore white towels over their heads. If Chanderpaul had batted much longer England’s bowlers would soon have been looking for white flags.

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• Shivnarine Chanderpaul scored a half-century in both innings. It is the eighth instance of a West Indian batsman making two fifty-plus scores in a Lord’s Test. Chanderpaul remains the only batsman to do so twice (2004 and 2012).

• Chanderpaul was dismissed in the nineties for the fourth occasion. There have been two other occasions when he has remained not out in the nineties. Four other West Indian batsmen have been dismissed more often than Chanderpaul in the nineties.

• This is Marlon Samuels’ 14th half-century in Tests to go with two centuries. The 86 is, however, his highest score against England

• The 157-run stand between Samuels and Chanderpaul is joint-seventh on the list of top fifth-wicket stands for West Indies against England. It is the highest fifth-wicket stand for West Indies at Lord’s.

• Stuart Broad became the 8th England bowler to pick up 11 or more wickets in a match against West Indies. Broad’s performance is the third-best by an England bowler against West Indies in Lord’s Tests.

• For only the tenth time against top teams (excluding Bangladesh and Zimbabwe), West Indies managed to score over 300 in their second innings. It is their highest second-innings score in England in the same period.

• Since 1990, England have failed to chase sub-200 targets on only three occasions. None of them is in home Tests but one defeat (1994) came against West Indies in Trinidad when they were bowled out for 46 chasing 194.

At the start of play, West Indies trailed by 35 with six wickets intact and forecasts abounded that the game would be up by lunchtime. But the pitch remained slow, it was too cold to swing, and England were again faced with the problem of how on earth to rid themselves of Chanderpaul’s silent resistance. Shiv was Shiv, engaged in an extensive exercise in problem solving. His fifty came in 151 balls and three-and-three-quarter hours as he inside-edged Bresnan past leg stump. It was one of his few errors. He raised his bat as if disgusted with himself.They began by bowling wide at him, as they had on Saturday, the repetitive cricket causing spectators to bury themselves dejectedly into their overcoats. When they were driven into bowling straighter, Chanderpaul routinely worked them behind square. England might have been better posting a leg gully, anything to suggest that the shot had an element of risk. They were reluctant to bowl fuller with the old ball because there was no movement but as Chanderpaul was as likely to sing a song as drive down the ground their reluctance was hard to fathom.There was always the chance of a run-out because Chanderpaul is so immersed in his own game that he is often oblivious to the needs of his partner. He might have been run out by Kevin Pietersen’s underarm flick from short mid wicket on 38 when Samuels wanted a single. On another time he ambled halfway down the pitch on the assumption of a single to mid-off and had to retreat quickly. His offended glare at Samuels at least found some use for the anti-reflective war paint below his eyes. He did not say anything: like most introverts, he deals in non-verbal cues.Alongside Chanderpaul, Samuels grew in authority. The lesson about how to construct a Test innings, and fight for your team, was seeping in. He was struck on the shoulder by a short ball from Broad and concluded that it was time to adopt a more aggressive approach, pulling him thunderously through midwicket. England will remain convinced that he is shaky on the short ball.The second new ball, due one over into the afternoon session, was not the panacea for which England had hoped – but it did account for Samuels. They took it gratefully at 212 for 4, after suffering a wicketless morning, and it was into its sixth over when Stuart Broad had Samuels caught at second slip. It ended a fifth-wicket stand of 157 runs in 54 overs and Broad puffed out his cheeks in relief. The afternoon session leaked only 53 runs in 28 overs, grim fare indeed.England’s seamers had little luck on a pitch that became a little livelier as the day progressed, more reason for West Indies optimism. Tim Bresnan, previously an economical but unthreatening third seamer, found seam movement, Broad occasionally flogged life from a sedate surface and with Anderson also passing the edge at regular intervals without reward, England’s frustration became increasingly evident.After Chanderpaul became the sixth wicket to fall, the Test shifted tempo. West Indies added a further 84 in 25 overs with Darren Sammy, the antithesis of Chanderpaul, providing a freewheeling 37 from 47 balls and taking a particular liking to Bresnan, who he struck for four boundaries in eight balls.Sammy fell, though, to an outrageous carve, high above his head, at Broad who also had Kemar Roach caught at backward point to finish with match figures of 11 for 163. Denesh Ramdin’s resistance ended when Anderson removed his off stump and Shannon Gabriel was bowled, slogging at Swann. England, on the ropes at the close, will have been grateful he did not get out 20 minutes earlier.

ScorecardLuke Wright continued his impressive start to the CB40•Getty Images

A hundred from Luke Wright helped Sussex maintain their unbeaten record in Clydesdale Bank 40 Group C as they eased to a four-wicket win over Yorkshire.Wright made 103, only the second List A century of his career, as Sussex won their third successive game with 6.1 overs to spare. He was playing at Hove for the first time in over 10 months after missing much of last season after knee surgery and only played his first game of the season for Sussex last Sunday after a stint in the IPL with Pune Warriors and a bout of illness.Wright, who played the last of his 46 ODIs in Sri Lanka in March 2011, was back to his ebullient best against a toothless Yorkshire attack who never looked like defending a total of 238 after Sussex had thrashed 51 in the first five overs of their reply.Ed Joyce went early, caught in the covers in the second over, but Chris Nash and Wright blazed away in a stand of 49 off 31 balls before Nash, who had struck eight boundaries in his 31-ball 44, was run out when Mitchell Starc deflected Wright’s straight drive onto the stumps.The out-of-form Murray Goodwin, who has only scored 68 runs in 10 innings this season, went cheaply but Wright maintained the tempo with Joe Gatting in a fourth-wicket stand of 90 in 14.1 overs as the pair matched each other shot for shot.Gatting struck two sixes off Azeem Rafiq on his way to a run-a-ball 45 but Sussex suffered a brief wobble when he holed out to deep mid-wicket and Matt Machan was taken at short mid-wicket, both off Joe Root’s off-spin.Wright, however, seldom looked in trouble. He reached his hundred with his 10th four and also hit two sixes. The only disappointment was that he did not see Sussex home as, with four runs needed, he was run out by Adam Lyth’s direct hit at short mid-wicket having faced 95 balls for his 103.It was a night to forget for the Yorkshire seamers and in particular Australian Starc, whose first over was hit for 21 and who finished with no wicket for 71 from his eight overs.Yorkshire surrendered crucial momentum at the end of their innings, losing their last five wickets for 11 runs in 17 balls, and had to settle for 238 for nine when a total in excess of 270 looked possible at one stage.All of their top-order batsmen got established but could not play the dominating innings fashioned later on by Wright. Root improvised well for 46 off 36 balls, sharing a stand of 65 in nine overs with Anthony McGrath, but when they departed in successive overs the innings went into steep decline.Chief beneficiary was Amjad Khan with 3 for 51 while Sussex’s spinners did a good containing job on a pitch offering turn and bounce with Nash, Will Beer and Monty Panesar all taking wickets.