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01-Mar-2009 06:59:00 GMT
England in West Indies, 4th Test, 3rd Day

West Indies-England Test Now Balanced After Sarwan Ton

Bridgetown: England failed to remove Sarwan and he reached his hundred from 160 balls, when he drove off-spinner Graeme Swann to mid-on and scurried a single to a cacophony of noise from the near capacity crowd.

He shared four stands of 50 or more with Smith, Chanderpaul, Nash, and Denesh Ramdin with whom he'll resume on the penultimate day in an unbroken stand of 64 for the sixth wicket.

Graeme Swann has admitted that Ramnaresh Sarwan has become a thorn in England's side after the West Indies batsman struck his third hundred of their Test series on Saturday.

Sarwan's marathon, undefeated 184 followed scores of 107, 94, and 106 in his three previous innings in the series, and has enhanced West Indies' chances of saving the fourth Test at Kensington Oval.

Sarwan's 14th Test hundred carried West Indies to 398/5, replying to England's first innings total of 600/6 declared, at the close on the third day, leaving the home team three runs short of avoiding the follow-on.

"He has been a pain in the backside for us in the series so far," Swann said. "We need to come up with a method for dislodging him.

"He has been good enough to get a hundred and get out in the previous three knocks, but (on Saturday), he carried on after he got the milestone and he has been hard to get out.

Brief Score: West Indies 398/5 (Sarwan 184*, Ramdin 25*) trail England 600/6d (Strauss 142, Bopara 104) by 202 runs


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