By Jo Harman
At 115-5 on day one of the Edgbaston Test, having won the toss and elected to bat first on a placid surface, the West Indies threatened to be blown away as they had been five days earlier in Nottingham.
A steady start had given way to a flurry of wickets, the visitors losing their top five in the space of nine overs as England’s seamers found their groove.
A rescue operation was needed and, not for the first time in his decade-long Test career, Jason Holder was the man to orchestrate it.
Holder is no longer skipper, having relinquished the role to Kraigg Brathwaite in 2021 in ...
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