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Nash’s knock in vain as England thrashes West Indies

LONDON: Australia-born Brendan Nash’s 81 couldn’t prevent England beating the West Indies by 10 wickets to win the first Test at Lord’s here on Friday with more than two days to spare.

Nash, together with Denesh Ramdin (61), however, helped in avoiding an innings defeat. The duo added 143 for the sixth wicket — the only century partnership of the match — after the West Indies had been made to follow-on.

Nash was the last man out as the West Indies was all out for 256, leaving England just 32 runs to win.

Cruising home

England knocked off the required runs without losing any wicket and went 1-0 up in the series ahead of next week’s second and final Test at Durham’s Riverside ground.

England reached the target in 41 balls in what was the first Test win by any side at Lord’s after a run of six successive draws.

Strauss said the performance had been excellent following some poor winter showings.

“We were pretty clinical in everything we did. Guys stood up when we needed them to,” said Strauss. West Indies skipper Chris Gayle praised England and admitted that his men dropped too many catches while “losing early wickets is always going to create pressure.

“We’ve got a lot of work to do,” Gayle conceded. — Agencies

SCOREBOARD

England — 1st innings: 377.

West Indies — 1st innings: 152.

West Indies — 2nd innings: C. Gayle c Swann b Anderson 0, D. Smith b Onions 41, R. Sarwan b Anderson 1, L. Simmons c Cook b Onions 21, S. Chanderpaul c Bopara b Swann 4, B. Nash c Cook b Broad 81, D. Ramdin b Broad 61, J. Taylor lbw b Swann 15, S. Benn b Swann 0, F. Edwards c Bresnan b Broad 2, L. Baker (not out) 2; Extras (b-8, lb-18, w-2): 28; Total (in 72.2 overs): 256.

Fall of wickets: 1-14, 2-22, 3-70, 4-75, 5-79, 6-222, 7-243, 8-246, 9-249.

England bowling: Anderson 15-6-38-2, Broad 19.2-64-3, Bresnan 7-0-3-17-0, Swann 17-4-39-3, Onions 12-2-64-2, Bopara 2-0-8-0.

England — 2nd innings: A. Strauss (not out) 14, A. Cook (not out) 14; Extras (nb-4): 4; Total (for no loss in 6.1 overs): 32.

West Indies bowling: Edwards 3.1-0-12-0, Taylor 3-0-20-0.

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