Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  I whakairi a Alastair Cook i tona matenga i te whakaponokore i muri i te ngaronga o te whai wāhitanga koura ki te whakamutu i tana tatari roa mo te rau tau i mua i te tangata e ahua nei ka whai mana ia ia hei rangatira o Ingarangi e whakaatu ana me pehea te mahi. I reira ko te mamae mo Cook i runga i te toru o nga ra o te Whakamātautau tuarua rite hoki ia i taka i raro i te makutu e toru ngā tatauranga ahakoa titiro rite pakari, me te unflustrated i te takoto rite i tetahi wa i roto i te rua tau mai i tona rau tau whakamutunga. Engari ko ngā raruraru o Cook i roto i te kimi i te rere i roto i tana 211-pōro 76 i hoatu ki roto ki te tirohanga mārama e tetahi atu whakaaturanga o te akomanga onge me te pakeke e kua hanga Joe Root Ingarangi's batsman tino. Kei te whakanui a Joe Root i tana rau tau, ā, e 118 ōna pō i te rā tuatoru o te whakamātautau tuarua ki ngā Moana-a-Kiwa. He pōro poto a Root o Ingarangi ki te rohe i te wā e mātakitaki ana te kaitiaki me te rangatira o Te Hau-ā-uru o Ingarangi, a Denesh Ramdin. Ka whakatangihia e Root te waewae o muri i te taha o waho i te wā o te whakahaeretanga i te wā i whai wāhi ai ia i te rā tuatoru. Ko Root rāua ko Gary Ballance e rere ana i waenganui i ngā whitiki i a rāua e mahi ngāwari ana i te poihau a te West Indian i tētahi rā wera i Grenada. Kei te whakawhiwhia e Ben Stokes he mihi ki tana hoa whawhai o West Indies a Marlon Samuels i muri i tana whiwhinga mo nga oma e waru. He whakamātautau puhoi anō tēnei, i roto i ngā āhuatanga e kore e pai ki te hākinakina kirikiti. Heoi, i te wa i tu ai a Root hei kaitiaki, ka eke te patu i te National Stadium o Grenada ki tetahi atu taumata. Kāore he raruraru mō te tangata o Yorkshire ki te eke ki ngā tatauranga e toru <unk> tōna rau tau whakamātautau tuaono me tōna tuatahi ki tāwāhi <unk> ā, kua eke tana toharite ki te kotahi rau mai i tōna hokinga mai ki te kapa Ingarangi i te raumati whakamutunga. I konei ka whai hua ia i te papa pakari i whakatakotoria e Cook me Jonathan Trott kia whai waahi a Ingarangi ki te haere ki te momo katoa ka taea te akiaki i a West Indies i te ra whakamutunga. Ko te putanga whakamutunga o te haurangi i kite ai i a Moeen Ali e rere ana ki waho, a, ka patua e Ben Stokes he Devendra Bishoo e rere roa ana ki raro i te waewae tapawha o te kaki o Ingarangi...
E 373 ngā whiwhinga a Ingarangi mō ngā whiwhinga e ono i te rā tuatoru, e 74 ngā whiwhinga i mua i te 299 o ngā whiwhinga tuatahi a Te Hau-ā-uru. Ko Alastair Cook (76) rāua ko Jonathan Trott (59) i eke ki te 125 i te tīmatanga, engari kāore i eke ki ō rātau rau. He tino pai a Joe Root i te whiringa toa 5 i te whakatutukitanga o te rau tau i runga i te auau whiu 80 me te 118 kaore i puta i nga rakau. Ko te hawhe rau o Root i hoatu ki a ia te rekoata Ingarangi e taurite ana ki te ono o nga kaute Whakamatau mo te 50 neke atu ranei - kaore tetahi e whitu. Ko Gary Ballance i puta ngawari i te 77 i muri i te takaro a Ian Bell mo te kotahi. I rere a Moeen Ali ki waho ki te tiki i tētahi pīpī.