NEW DELHI: To say that England cricket team has revolutionized the style of batting in Test cricket won't be an understatement.
With their Bazball approach, England are putting their opponents on the back foot early and that was more than evident when on the first day of the second Test against the West Indies at Trent Bridge in Nottingham on Thursday, England achieved the fastest fifty in Test cricket history within just 4.2 overs.
England lost opener Zak Crawley for a duck on the third ball of the match, but that didn't prevent Ben Duckett and Ollie Pope to play their shots.
England vice-captain Ollie Pope reached his 6th Test hundred off 143 balls and he did it with a stunning shot that went racing to the mid-wicket fence.
West Indies' pacer Jayden Seales bowled a delivery fraction short on off-stump and Pope, who was dropped twice till then, just executed a short-arm jab but so good was the timing that the ball went racing away to the fence.
The broadcaster of the match shared a video of the shot on their official X handle.
Pope fell for 121, after his third hundred at home, as England were dismissed for 416.
Pope was dropped on 46 and 54, by Alick Athanaze and Jason Holder.
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