10:05Hearty good mornings to ya and welcome to OBO coverage of Day one of the second Test between England and West Indies. I, Vithushan Ehantharajah (Vish will do), will be your guide through this fine Headingley morning, hoping the weather stays fair and willing West Indies to far greater heights. The pink ball took some of the heat but most of the intended targets were scorched after an innings-and-209-run-shellacking. You could not move for takes on the decline of cricket in the Caribbean, Test cricket as a whole and the wider world at large (mercifully, it was just an eclipse). The ball remainsth.eir best hopeAs for England, like Scrooge McDuck high-diving into a vat of gold coins, they’re flexing their wealth by bringing back Chris Woakes and “dropping” Toby Roland-Jones.

Source: The Guardian August 25, 2017 09:00 UTC