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Patna : Electing to bat after winning the toss on July 8, 2020, England were 143/5 in their first innings in the second session of the play on Day 2 in the first test against West Indies (WI) at The Rose Bowl, Southampton, on July 9, 2020, with stand in captain Ben Stokes batting on 38 hitting 6 fours and Jos Buttler (wk) batting on 27 hitting 5 fours. Stokes and Buttler have added 56 runs for the 6th wicket.

WI fast bowler Sannon Gabriel has taken 3/62 while captain Jason Holder has taken 2/24 so far. Gabriel took the wickets of openers : Dominic Sibley (0)) and Rory Burns (30), and Joe Denly (18). Holder took the wickets of Zak Crawley (10) and Ollie Pope (12). England had lost the wicket of opener Sibley with no run on the score board on Day 1.