CHRIS WOAKES waited all winter to finally enjoy the day.

After Grenada had heard Jack Leach sing his redemption song with the bat 24 hours later, the Warwickshire allrounder sang his own with the ball.

England lost the last Test by a point, but wicketkeeper Josh Da Silva gave the Windies an advantage that they will continue to build.

His three-wicket smash, which ripped out the West Indies middle orders, was enough to ensure that this should be a second innings shootout.

Da Silva's 54 runs unbeaten led the home team to 232-8 at closing, 28 runs ahead of the lead. Day two mirrors day one.

England had just recovered from 114-9 to reach their total. The home team plummeted down to 128-7, before fighting back.

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Woakes found a silver lining in two of his tours of woe. However, it was only after he had contributed to the wasting of the new ball.

Woakes has only eight wickets for 504 in five Tests before, the first Down Under and second in the Caribbean. He is still struggling to match his domestic form on foreign pitches.

Ben Stokes was heavily strapped on his left knee and led the way in dislodging Kraigg Brathwaite from Windies, breaking an opening partnership of 50.

Craig Overton and Saqib Mahmood followed him to the breach, dismissing Shamarh Brooks (and John Campbell) respectively before lunch.

Woakes finally found the platform to capitalize on the inconsistant bounce.

Nkrumah Bonner was his initial victim. He couldn't get his top glove free of the grasp of a well-directed lifter.

It was 82-5 three balls later, Jason Holder misjudged his pull and he landed squarely in Jonny Bairstow’s hands.

Woakes took as many wickets in four balls than he did in the 66 overs of the first two Tests.

After having been put to death by Foakes of Mahmood, he was beaming when he pinned Jermaine for 18.

Woakes ended the day with 3-48 and said that he would have liked to have bowled more on this tour.

"It hasn't been about a lack or trying to find ways of taking wickets on difficult surfaces.

"This one was a little more intense and I felt like it hit my strings, I bowled really well and got my reward."

He said that he could have bowled more in the first hour. We were a bit short and could have made them work a bit harder.

"Even though we had the ball in the right places, it didn't seem as if it offered as much as we saw Thursday until we began to do that more frequently."

After some lusty exchanges, Kyle Mayers chipped Stokes softly at Mahmood for 28 England had hopes of a lead.

Alzarri Joseph and Da Silva added 49, just before Ben Foakes' wild swish gave way to Alzarri Joe.

Then Kemar Roach joined Da Silva in an effort to stop England at the end.