LONDON: England bowler Andrew Caddick (right) celebrates Mark Ramprakash (centre) catching out West Indies batsman Wavell Hinds (left), during the second Test at Lord's yesterday. England were all out in their first innings for 134 in reply to a West Indies first innings total of 267.
LONDON (AP):
A BRILLIANT spell of seam and swing bowling by Andrew Caddick and a sensational West Indies batting collapse has turned the second cricket Test on its head to give England an outside chance of forcing a win at Lord's yesterday.
On a dramatic second day West Indies were skittled out for 54 in their second innings. England need 188 runs to win the Test.
The total was the lowest for West Indies against England in 123 Tests, eclipsing the previous lowest 86 in the fifth Oval Test in the 1957 series here.
Openers Michael Atherton and Mark Ramprakash faced just seven balls between them before bad light stopped play with England yet to score in its second innings.
The home side will need 188 over the next three days to square the five-match series 1-1 before breaking for a triangular one-day series between England, West Indies and Zimbabwe.
It was West Indies' third lowest total in Tests. They had been bowled out for 51 by Australia at Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, in March 1999 and for 53 by Pakistan in Faisalabad in October 1986.
The West Indies faced the embarrassment of being bowled out for under 50 for the first time when they were reduced to 41 for nine. But the 10th wicket pair of Reon King and Courtney Walsh saved face by adding 13 runs.
After being dismissed by the rampant Curtly Ambrose and Courtney Walsh for 134 runs, England hit back through Caddick, five for 16, Darren Gough, two for 17 and Dominic Cork three for 13 as the West Indies innings lasted 161 balls.
"I didn't bowl well in the first innings at all so I was determined to do well in the second innings," Caddick said. It was Caddick's fourth five wickets in an innings against the West Indies in 11 Tests.
A total of 21 wickets fell on the second day of this historic Test -- the 100th to be played at the home of English cricket. No other ground has staged so many Tests.
"We've got the runs on the board and it's up to the team to make it difficult as possible for England to get the runs," said West Indies coach Roger Harper. "The ball is in England's court now. "With a very good team effort we can win the Test. We've got to go out and bowl well."
