Report Motie checks progress but England lead swells at Lord's Left-arm spinner bowls Stokes and Root but West Indies trail by 172 Matt Roller 11-Jul-2024 • 42 mins ago Ben Stokes was bowled by a beauty from Gudakesh Motie • Gareth Copley/Getty Images England 293 for 6 (Crawley 76, Root 68, Pope 57, Brook 50, Motie 2-25) lead West Indies 121 (Atkinson 7-45) by 172 runs England cruised to a 172-run lead on the second morning at Lord's but were pegged back by Gudakesh Motie , who vindicated his selection by dismissing Ben Stokes and Joe Root . West Indies' bowlers were put under constant pressure as England added 104 runs in a 28-over session, but Motie's two wickets checked their progress. After Harry Brook fell for exactly 50, Root cruised to his 93rd 50-plus score in Test cricket and moved into the format's top-ten highest run-scorers in the process.
But he fell shortly before the lunch interval for 68, becoming the second England batter bowled by an exceptional delivery from West Indies' old-school left-arm spinner. Stokes' first international innings of the season lasted only 11 balls, with Motie knocking his middle stump out of the ground. Bowling his first over of the morning session, Motie tossed the ball up and found sharp turn after landing it on a footmark.
It spun back past Stokes' bat, leaving him open-mouthed before trudging back to the pavilion. And in the penultimate over before the interval, Root was left smiling in disbelief after losing his off stump to t.
