Historic day, but same old story at top

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By Chris Stocks
August 17, Edgbaston, Birmingham

England 215-2
(Root 103*, Cook 85*, Cummins 1-40, Roach 1-49)
West Indies
Tea - Day One

Bad start: Mark Stoneman leaves after beng bowled by Kemar Roach

THE historic first daynight Test in this country may be a novel experience but the same could not be said of watching Joe Root and Alastair Cook bail England out after yet another top-order collapse.
West Indies were, in theory, meant to provide England’s unproven batsmen with a chance to plunder easy runs ahead of this winter’s Ashes.
However, that wasn’t the way it s...

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