Four innings in a day

The close-of-play lines on the Lord’s card of 2000 read: day one, West Indies 267 for nine; day two, England 0 for no wicket after 1.1 overs of their second innings; day three, England 191 for eight, end of match. Between the first line and the second is a day on which all four innings of a Test were played in part, and two of them in full.

Thursday

England put West Indies in. Sherwin Campbell made 82 and Wavell Hinds 59, Dominic Cork took four for 39 in 24 overs and Darren Gough four for 72, and bad light took thirty-five minutes out of the afternoon. West Indies closed on 267 for nine.

Friday, morning

Courtney Walsh was leg before to Andy Caddick to the first ball of the day, 267 all out. England then lost Mark Ramprakash to the sixth ball of their innings and Mike Atherton to the twelfth, both caught by Brian Lara, and were 1 for two. They were 58 for five at lunch.

Full scorecard: England v West Indies, 2nd Test, Lord’s, 29 June–1 July 2000 →

Friday, afternoon

Alec Stewart made 28, Craig White 27, Graeme Hick 25. Curtly Ambrose took four for 30 in 14.2 overs and Walsh four for 43. Bad light brought tea early at 100 for eight, and England were all out for 134 soon after it, a deficit of 133.

West Indies batted again with the evening ahead of them. Campbell caught for 4 at 6. Hinds caught for 0 at 6, two balls later. Adrian Griffith for 1 at 10. Lara, caught Cork bowled Caddick, 5, at 24. Shivnarine Chanderpaul for 9 at 24.

Ridley Jacobs 12, Jimmy Adams 3 in 40 balls, Ambrose 0, all gone at 39. Franklyn Rose caught and bowled at 41. Reon King leg before at 54. Ten wickets in 128 minutes, and the innings had begun after tea.

Caddick: 13 overs, eight maidens, 16 runs, five wickets. Gough two for 17, Cork three for 13. The innings lasted 26.4 overs and 128 minutes, and West Indies’ fifty came up in the 26th of them.

Friday, evening

England needed 188. Atherton and Ramprakash came out for 1.1 overs and went in again at 0 for no wicket. That is the seven balls. The card has four innings on the second day: one ball of the first, all of the second and third, and the first over and a ball of the fourth.

Saturday

Rain delayed the start by fifty minutes. Atherton made 45 from 143 balls, Michael Vaughan 41, and England were 95 for one and then 120 for four, 140 for six, 149 for seven, 160 for eight. Walsh took six for 74 in 23.5 overs. Ambrose bowled 22 overs, eleven of them maidens, for 22.

Cork was not out 33 from 49 balls, with a six, and Gough not out 4 from 19. The ninth wicket added 31 and was not broken. England won by two wickets, Cork was player of the match for 4 for 39, 3 for 13 and 33 not out, and the series was level at one all.

What the card holds

Three days of a five-day Test. One day with four innings on it, which the card does not remark on because it only lists what happened and when. A total of 54, with three wickets at 39. A five-for that took 13 overs and a six-for that took 23.5.

A debutant, Matthew Hoggard, whose only bowling was on the Thursday. And a close-of-play line, 0 for no wicket after 1.1 overs, which looks like nothing and is the record of a day on which twenty-one wickets fell and four innings were open.

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No. 13 in Collapse, a series of 16.

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