Report Kavem Hodge leads fight for West Indies as England chip away in morning Three wickets in first session on day three, including Louis for career-best 57 Valkerie Baynes 28-Jul-2024 • 8 mins ago Kavem Hodge pulls during his run-a-ball fifty • Getty Images {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","contentUrl":"https://img1.hscicdn.
com/image/upload/f_auto/lsci/db/PICTURES/CMS/385500/385502.4.jpg","caption":"Kavem Hodge pulls during his run-a-ball fifty"} Lunch West Indies 282 and 151 for 5 (Louis 57, Hodge 52*) lead England 376 (Smith 95, Root 87, Woakes 62, Stokes 54) by 57 runs Half-centuries to Mikyle Louis and Kavem Hodge steadied West Indies, who moved to a 57-run lead against England on the third day of their final Test at Edgbaston.
At lunch, Hodge remained unbeaten on 52, Louis having departed for 57 in an eventful morning session which yielded three more wickets after the tourists resumed on a precarious 33 for 2. Louis added 39 runs to his overnight score and shared a 72-run stand off just 78 balls with Hodge for the fourth wicket. They came together after Shoaib Bashir accounted for Alick Athanaze, who managed to add 10 runs for the day, including four off Mark Wood through third slip, where Harry Brook got his hands to it but couldn't hold what would have been a spectacular catch.
Athanaze offered West Indies hope after his 82 in the second Test in Nottingham but, five balls after his reprieve, Bashir clipped his front pad with a ball that sli.