England vs West Indies Live score 1st Test Day 5: WI needs 10 runs to win

England vs West Indies 1st Test live updates: A gritty unbeaten fifty from Jermaine Blackwood put West Indies in the driver seat with 57 runs to win in the last session of England vs West Indies 1st Test match on Day 5 at The Ageas Bowl, Southampton today. It was a 73-run stand between Roston Chase ( 37 off 88 balls) and Blackwood after Lunch that made the difference. At tea, West Indies was 143-4 with Blackwood and Shane Dowrich at the crease. 

Earlier, Jofra Archer's two wickets gave West Indies early problems as it chases a modest target of 200 on the final day to win the first Test against England. Archer removed Kraigg Brathwaite (4) and Shamarh Brooks (0), and Mark Wood added the wicket of Shai Hope for 9, leaving the tourists on 35-3 at lunch.


Shai Hope (9 off 23 balls) did play some glorious cover drive but Mark Wood cleaned him up to give England the third breakthrough. The odds are also against West Indies as no team has successfully chased down 200 runs since 2017 in the eight instances. At lunch, West Indies was 35-3 with Roston Chase (12 off 29 balls) and Jermaine Blackwood (1 off 4 balls) at crease.

England’s lead: England eked out a 170-run lead on Day 4 of the first test against the West Indies, with all outcomes still possible in the first match since the resumption of international cricket under the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic.
 
Late West Indian flair: The West Indies pace attack took five wickets in the final session of Day 4 to reduce England to 284-8 at stumps at an empty Rose Bowl on Saturday, making the tourists marginal favourites with the pitch slow but yet to misbehave.
 
English stars on Day 4: Zak Crawley (76) and Dom Sibley (50) were the two batsmen who got half-centuries, while England captain Ben Stokes chipped in with 46 before the late Windies fightback. "It should be tight if we bowl well tomorrow, especially if we get a lead of 200," Crawley said after the Day 4 proceedings.
 
That will be on the shoulders of unbeaten batsmen Jofra Archer (5) and Mark Wood (1), with James Anderson to come in at No. 11.
Windies stars on Day 4: Shannon Gabriel bowled Ollie Pope and Dom Bess in the last hour to finish with figures of 3-62 off his 18 overs. Joseph was also impressive, taking 2-40 off 16 overs.