No Anderson. Broad. There is still plenty to fight.

If you decide to throw out a couple who have 1,177 Test wickets between themselves, the stand-ins should be there to help.

Just as Stuart Broad and Jimmy Anderson might have been tempted by the 'told-you so' smiles, Joe Root managed to find the cake and candles.

Jonny Bairstow had reached 140, and England made 311, so it was up to Chris Woakes (and Craig Overton) to make sure Andrew Strauss didn't regret cutting his legendary strike team.

Woakes, Overton and others allowed the West Indies to fly.

England needed a new ball reset, not the red ball reset.

England were then reintroduced to the contest, thanks to Mark Wood and Ben Stokes. The final game will be decided by Jack Leach's ruthless, as-dim, bowling.

As the Windies finished day two of the First test on 202-4, England was still 109 runs behind England's first innings total, but likely a neck ahead.

Woakes, in particular, needs to improve his game after leaking runs from all parts of Sir Vivian Richards Stadium.

He arrived in Antigua with great doubts about his ability to deliver from home.

Only 31 Test wickets were taken in the past overseas, at a cost totaling 52 runs. This contrasted with the 94 victims who were only 22 runs per on English soil.

Unfortunately, he was unable to maintain the boundaries.

He must be straighter, fuller, and more confident today. England needs to quickly end the partnership between Jason Holder, Nkrumah Bonner and Jason Holder, which has already scored 75 runs.

England added 43 runs to their overnight score earlier, surpassing 300 for the first 13 innings.

Bairstow & Woakes extended their partnership at 71 before Warwickshire all-rounder Jayden Seales lifteder to keeper Joshua Da Silva, for 28 runs.

Overton was next just two balls later. Seales' extra bounce brought a poke at short leg, making it the fourth victim for the lanky bowler.

England may not have been able to reach 300 if Holder had not clung to the Bairstow simple return catch soon afterward.

Wood went for one when he tried to pull off Alzarri Joe, but ended up with backward point.

Bairstow was at 126 when he was dropped and moved on to equal his third highest Test score. Holder brilliantly collected the line by Holder, which was far more difficult than the one Holder had written.

It was now about how England bowled using the new ball.

The answer is terribly.

John Campbell and Kraigg Brathwaite, opening Windies, milked the first burst, and were seldom troubled, even though England's lines after lunch were slightly better.

Brathwaite is an excellent nurdler, but he managed to score 50 on just 62 balls. He also scored seven fours over Leach.

England was looking out of ideas when Overton strangled Campbell on the leg-side for 35. Ben Foakes gratefully captured Campbell with the score at 83.

As the ball started to turn, Wood lured Brathwaite to chase a wider one, which was pouched at the gully by Overton for 55.

Stokes was all hustle, bustle, and aggression, and was bowling ahead of schedule. This induced Shamarh Brooks to take a loose drive, which was then bagged by Root at the first slip.

England claimed 328 of 58 balls.

Woakes succeeded in requesting a review after JermaineBlackwood was caught off-edge and thigh pad at the gully. They were back at 127-4

Woakes was able to feel the relief in his face.

He was going at a run and a half after being clattered to his boundary two more times in his comeback.

England continued to exert pressure after tea. Leach bowled nine consecutive maidens before Holder began to take a liking for Root's off spin.

There is still much to be done.