Not­ting­ham, Eng­land A stun­ning col­lapse in a night­mare fi­nal hour saw the West In­dies sur­ren­der the Richards-Both­am Tro­phy with a de­mor­al­is­ing 241-run de­feat in the sec­ond Test at Trent Bridge on Sun­day.

There was no sign of the car­nage to come when the West In­dies, hav­ing set an im­prob­a­ble 385 for vic­to­ry, bat­tled to 61 with­out loss at the end of the first hour, with cap­tain Kraigg Brath­waite (47) and open­ing part­ner Mikyle Louis (17) safe­ly ne­go­ti­at­ing the new-ball bar­rage from Eng­land’s quicks.

How­ev­er, once Louis nicked the first ball fol­low­ing the drinks break from seam­er Chris Woakes (2-28) and was caught at the wick­et, the West In­dies lost 10 wick­ets for 82 runs to tum­ble to 142 all out, los­ing the Test with a day to spare to fall 2-0 be­hind in the three-Test se­ries.

Twen­ty-year-old off-spin­ner Shoaib Bashir, in on­ly his fifth Test, pun­ished the West In­dies with a ca­reer-best five for 41, be­com­ing the youngest-ever Eng­lish bowler to take a five-wick­et haul at home, while first Test hero Gus Atkin­son sup­port­ed with two for 49.

“A win was on our minds as a team, but pret­ty much we lost all of our wick­ets in one ses­sion, so we know that was not good enough,” said Brath­waite.

“To be hon­est, the pitch was quite good to­day, so I felt as though it was still a good pitch. We just didn’t bat well enough.

“[I’m] dis­ap­point­ed be­cause ob­vi­ous­ly I knew we could do a lot bet­ter than we showed to­day. But the main thing is to learn from it. It’s gone; it’s his­to­ry; we can’t bring it back.”

Re­sum­ing the fourth morn­ing in con­trol at 248 for three in their sec­ond in­nings, Eng­land con­sol­i­dat­ed their ad­van­tage be­fore be­ing dis­missed on the stroke of tea for 425, thanks to for­mer cap­tain Joe Root’s 122 and Har­ry Brook’s 109—the pair ex­tend­ing their fourth wick­et stand to 189 be­fore be­ing sep­a­rat­ed.

Root, who be­gan the morn­ing at 37, reached 81 not out at lunch be­fore go­ing on to com­plete his 32nd Test hun­dred, fac­ing 178 de­liv­er­ies in just over five hours and count­ing 10 fours.

Brook, on 71 overnight, faced 132 balls in 188 min­utes and struck 13 fours be­fore be­com­ing the day’s first ca­su­al­ty, nick­ing be­hind off Seales, who was the West In­dies’ best bowler with four for 97.

Root then took re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for the in­nings, putting on 30 for the sev­enth wick­et with Woakes (12) and 41 for the eighth with Atkin­son (21 not out) af­ter lunch be­fore he was eighth out, tak­en at short cov­er by Kirk McKen­zie off medi­um pac­er Ja­son Hold­er.

Seales fin­ished off the in­nings quick­ly with the two fi­nal wick­ets as Eng­land lost their last three for just six runs.

Tasked with over­haul­ing a chal­leng­ing to­tal in the last four ses­sions of the con­test, the West In­dies looked set to com­fort­ably push the game in­to Mon­day’s fi­nal day when Brath­waite and Louis care­ful­ly craft­ed the foun­da­tions of the chase in an in­tel­li­gent half-cen­tu­ry open­ing stand.

Brath­waite once again got a start, hit­ting eight fours in an un­char­ac­ter­is­ti­cal­ly breezy 48-ball knock, while Louis spent 40 balls at the crease, strik­ing two bound­aries.

Louis’s demise, how­ev­er, opened the flood­gates for Eng­land in the fi­nal hour. Left-han­der Kirk McKen­zie’s mis­er­able se­ries con­tin­ued when he edged a cut at Bashir and was tak­en low down by wick­et­keep­er Jamie Smith for one, and Brath­waite fol­lowed via the same route off Woakes, leav­ing the Caribbean side on 74 for three.

With one run added, first-in­ning cen­tu­ry-mak­er Kavem Hodge played back to the fourth ball he faced and was lbw to Bashir with­out scor­ing, and left-han­der Al­ick Athanaze (1) al­so failed to make an im­pres­sion, push­ing for­ward to Bashir and edg­ing low to Root at first slip.

When Kevin Sin­clair fend­ed off a snorter from speed­ster Mark Wood and lobbed a straight­for­ward catch to sec­ond slip for one, the West In­dies were slid­ing fur­ther at 91 for six, and Ja­son Hold­er’s counter-at­tack­ing 37 off 42 balls with four fours and two six­es on­ly served to de­lay the in­evitable.

Wick­et­keep­er Joshua Da Sil­va (14) and Alzarri Joseph per­ished three balls apart in one over from Atkin­son, and Hold­er even­tu­al­ly played down the wrong line to Bashir and was bowled off stump.

Shamar Joseph failed to muster any of his first-in­ning fire­works and last­ed 11 balls be­fore miss­ing a heave at Bashir and hav­ing his stumps rat­tled.

The fi­nal test kicks off at Edg­bas­ton on Fri­day.

Sum­merise Scores

ENG­LAND 416 (Ol­lie Pope 121, Ben Duck­ett 71, Ben Stokes 69, Chris Woakes 37, Har­ry Brook 36, Jamie Smith 36; Alzarri Joseph 3-98, Kavem Hodge 2-44, Kevin Sin­clair 2-73, Jay­den Seales 2-90) and 425 (Joe Root 122, Har­ry Brook 109, Ben Duck­ett 76, Ol­lie Pope 51; Jay­den Seales 4-97, Alzarri Joseph 2-103)

WEST IN­DIES 457 (Kavem Hodge 120, Joshua Da Sil­va 82 not out, Al­ick Athanaze 82, Kraigg Brath­waite 48, Ja­son Hold­er 27, Mikyle Louis 21; Chris Woakes 4-84, Gus Atkin­son 2-107, Shoaib Bashir 2-108) and 142 (Kraigg Brath­waite 47, Ja­son Hold­er 37; Shoaib Bashir 5-41, Chris Woakes 2-28, Gus Atkin­son 2-49)

Re­sult: Eng­land won by 241 runs.

Se­ries: Eng­land lead three-match se­ries 2-0.

Man-of-the-Match: Ol­lie Pope.

Toss: West In­dies.

Um­pires: Adri­an Hold­stock,

Rod Tuck­er; TV – Nitin Menon.

(CMC)