Roller-coaster

They failed to capitalise on three dropped catches, with skipper Paul Collingwood surviving an edge off the first ball he faced only to miscue the second to mid-wicket.

All looked well when Scott Borthwick pulled Gareth Berg for his ninth four to reach an 86-ball half-century and bring up the 100 stand with Keaton Jennings for the second wicket.

But Borthwick drove at the next ball and edged to wicketkeeper John Simpson, who took a good catch low to his left.

Jennings, dropped on 25, progressed to 38 before he was adjudged lbw to Corey Collymore, who was bowling round the wicket and moved one sharply enough to raise doubt about whether it would have hit leg stump. After lengthy deliberation Martin Bodenham decided it would.

The participants in an excellent stand had departed in successive overs, then Will Smith and Ben Stokes rebuilt carefully for 11 overs before two more wickets went down.

Stokes survived a straightforward chance to Dawid Malan at first slip off James Harris on 11 but added only eight before inside edging a drive off the same bowler to be well caught by Simpson, diving to his right.

Collingwood became Harris’s second victim, attempting to pull, but Smith survived to reach 22 and Phil Mustard is on 18 at tea.