Opener Kraigg Brathwaite (65) helped West Indies build a first-innings lead over England in the first Test at Southampton on Friday. At the time of going to press, the tourists were bowled out for 318 in the post-tea session on Day Three, 114 runs ahead of England. Shane Dowrich (61) and Roston Chase (47) put on 81 runs for the sixth wicket. Stand-in captain Ben Stokes finished with 4-49, while England's all-time leading Test wicket-taker James Anderson had figures of 3-62.

Earlier, WI resumed on 57-1, with the first sunny blue skies of the match providing ideal conditions for batting. Brathwaite was 20 not out and Shai Hope three not out, with the pair having scored three hundreds between them in a sensational Test victory at Headingley during the West Indies's 2017 tour of England. Barbados-born Archer would have had Hope lbw for 16 had a West Indies review not revealed a no-ball. But Hope was still on 16 when his edged drive off Bess flew to first slip where Stokes, captaining England in the absence of regular skipper Joe Root, held a sharp chance.