By Chris Stocks at Edgbaston
August 17-19, Edgbaston, Birmingham
England 514-8d
(Cook 243, Root 136, Malan 65, Chase 4-113)
West Indies 168 (Blackwood 79, Anderson 3-34)
& 137 (f/o) (Broad 3-34, Anderson 2-12) England win by an innings and 209 runs Toss: England, who chose to bat Umpires: M Erasmus (SA), S Ravi (Ind)
THE landslide victory at Edgbaston may have left some English cricketers rightly feeling pleased with themselves, but the ugly truth is that the match devalued the currency of Test cricket.
There have been few contests in this country as one-sided as this in recent ye...
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