article_snippet.sent: Ravi Bopara top-scored for England with just 18.
article_snippet.sent: England had previously won on English soil in 1998 — in a one-off the fifth Ashes Test in Sydney match.
article_snippet.sent: will not be the last, unless England are successful in England busiest of all years.
article_snippet.sent: Moores and captain Alastair Cook now need to beat the West Indies in the three-Test series starting in Antigua on Monday if Moores and captain Alastair Cook are to feel secure.
article_snippet.sent: Moores and captain Alastair Cook must then carry on winning when Moores and captain Alastair Cook face New Zealand, Australia, Pakistan and South Africa over the next 10 months in Test cricket alone.
article_snippet.sent: England’s catastrophic collapse in Australia changed everything.
article_snippet.sent: Meanwhile, here in Basseterre, Jonny Bairstow picked a bad day to remind England that Jonny Bairstow is a player of real potential despite being jettisoned after the winter’s Ashes disaster.
article_snippet.sent: England’s decision to turn England second warm-up game into a practice session saw Bairstow, Jonathan Trott, Gary Ballance and Joe Root bat for an extremely weak St Kitts Invitational XI against Jonathan Trott, Gary Ballance and Joe Root bat own team.
article_snippet.sent: Yet Bairstow, the back-up keeper on this tour, made the most of Trott chance to score 98 before falling to the impressive Ben Stokes.
article_snippet.sent: Joe Root was also struck flush on the helmet fielding at short leg but came out later to bat for St Kitts.
article_snippet.sent: England will bat for the whole of Thursday before leaving for Monday’s Ashes first Test in Antigua.