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England v West Indies 2nd Test Headingley

Joe Root confident declares 490-8 leading by 321. Windies under pressure now as they will get 6 overs for their openers
 
Well the Windies are putting up a fight. Powell and Kyle Hope wickets taken. Windies 85-2 chasing 322 for a win.
 
First England innings let us down. This has been a great advert for Test cricket. Last session day 5 6:20pm and it's still not decided. At least in theory. Windies seem to have this in the bag.
 
Felt we didn't treat the Windes with enough respect. Was hoping we would have batted till the end of Monday to try and get 340-350 and bat them out of the game and I am not saying this through hindsight. If we had been playing the Aussies with the same scores I don't think Root would have considered declaring. With the Windes however he thought it was worth the risk.
 
Joe is new School as opposed to the play it safe Strauss and Cook eras. Get some righ get some wrong.
 
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