There will be a few reasons to remember this game, the first day-night Test held in England, but none of them will have anything much to do with the cricket played by West Indies. Alastair Cook batted for longer in the one innings he played than their 11 batsmen managed in 22 innings between them. On Saturday West Indies lost 19 wickets in the day. It wasn’t even spectacularly bad cricket. There was no dramatic collapse, just a grim and inevitable subsidence. You would get a better contest watching a steamroller go over wet tarmac. This is a callow West Indies team, young to enough to learn, yes, but young enough to get scarred, too. And it is hard to believe a defeat like this will do them any good.
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