Root gets ton as England pronounce with a lead of 285

 Britain's arrangements of serenely allowing their lead to take off on the last Day in Antigua was met with some firm obstruction from the West Indies quicks, yet even as they represented five wickets toward the beginning of the day meeting, England took their lead to 285 preceding Joe Root announced and gave his bowlers 10-12 minutes to make a strike or two. West Indies openers Kraigg Brathwaite and John Campbell saw that brief period out.

Zak Crawley didn't keep going long following a century on the downpour hit Day 4, however Joe Root proceeded to score his 24th in the organization - a count simply second to Alastair Cook among England's Test centurions.

It took a fine yorker from Jason Holder to break the stand promptly toward the beginning of the day, finishing Crawley's fine thump on 121. Daniel Lawrence showed up determined to laugh in the face of any potential risk, piling up a speedy stand with his captain. Lawrence's blitzy appearance started with a scornful uppish drive through covers off Holder, followed up by one more fearless hit down the ground for a six off a similar bowler. Any width proposed to him by different bowlers was not saved either as England jogged towards a 200 or more lead. Crawley pursued Veerasamy Permaul too after the beverages break, prior to cutting a full conveyance from Alzarri Joseph to the spinner at in reverse point and withdrawing for a 36-ball 37.

It was clear by this stage that England were searching for ways of adding fast runs and arrive at a phase where they could think about assertion. That attempt accompanied chance and West Indies promoted. Indeed, even as Ben Stokes left and hit his first ball for a four, Root was before long tidied up attempting to rearrange across and play a flick. Joseph's full conveyance at 143kmph was excessively fast for that saucy endeavor and thumped back the stumps.

Stirs up fell in the accompanying over attempting to pursue Kemar Roach, hitting the more slow ball to Shamarh Brooks at long off. Kraigg Brathwaite endured with a long spell for Joseph, who brought one more forward leap before Lunch as Ben Foakes' apathetic drive away from the body to a full ball wound up as an inside edge onto the stumps. Britain's first-innings centurion Jonny Bairstow and Chris Woakes added 35 off only 37 balls before Root got back to his batsmen with the declaration of the presentation. West Indies went into the break at 4 for 0, expecting to score 282 from the last two meetings for a triumph.

Brief scores: England 311 and 349/6 decl. (Zak Crawley 121, Joe Root 109; Alzarri Joseph 3-78, Kemar Roach 2-53) lead West Indies 375 and 4/0 by 282 runs