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Need for speed

THE location and some of the cast had changed, and the match began two days late.

Tim Bresnan celebrates taking the wicket of Marlon Samuels  Photograph: Reuters
Tim Bresnan celebrates taking the wicket of Marlon Samuels Photograph: Reuters

But the action had a distinctly familiar feel when the Edgbaston Test finally got under way. England's seam attack, even without rested spearheads Jimmy Anderson and Stuart Broad, was generally in the ascendancy, while Marlon Samuels looked to be in a different class to any other West Indies batsman.

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