• Team ended up too far away from Lord’s pavilion
  • Jamie Smith thrilled with ‘surreal’ 70 on Test debut

Jimmy Anderson’s final Test continued to proceed serenely towards an apparently inevitable England ­victory, the second day at Lord’s ending with West Indies 79 for six, still 171 runs away from making the home side bat again.

But the 41-year-old missed out on one showpiece moment when a planned guard of honour as he came out to bat, perhaps for the final time, was scuppered by the tourists’ ­gleeful celebration of Mikyle Louis’ long-range direct-hit run-out of Shoaib Bashir and he ended up having to make do with a hurried handshake from Jason Holder.

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