Tea West Indies 212 for 3 (Athanaze 65*, Hodge 58*, Bashir 2-68) trail England 416 (Pope 121, Duckett 71, Stokes 69, Joseph 3-98) by 204 runs
Athanaze and Hodge added 123 runs after lunch in an unbroken partnership of 128 as West Indies went to tea on 212 for 3. It was a maiden fifty in his sixth Test for Athanaze, who was not out 65 at the tea interval, with Hodge, playing his fourth Test, on 58.
Wood had gone unrewarded for a searing first four-over spell which lit up Trent Bridge and kept West Indies in check on the second morning.
He should have had a wicket when Hodge was on 16, his length ball outside off stump finding the edge and flying to slip, where Joe Root shelled it.
Wood came on in the tenth over and managed to produce some swing, which had been non-existent to that point on Friday. But it was his unbridled pace that had everyone transfixed as he twice nudged the 96mph mark and hit 95mph twice more in the over.
Wood’s second over was equally rapid, clocked at 94mph five times and 95 once, with testing lines as he twice beat Brathwaite’s outside edge.
The Trent Bridge crowd gasped in unison as the scoreboard flashed up the speed of Wood’s fifth delivery in his third over – a staggering 97.1mph. That was understandably a maiden and after three overs, his figures read 3-1-5-0.
Brathwaite managed to find the boundary, guiding the ball fine off his ribs, in Wood’s fourth over, which still contained some serious pace.
It was Bashir who made the breakthrough in the 15th over, shortly after the drinks break, as Harry Brook took a nerveless catch running a long way to his right and back from mid-on to remove Lewis for 21. It was Bashir’s first Test wicket. from two matches at home after not bowling in the first game of this series at Lord’s.
Bashir could have had his second in his next over when he rapped Kirk McKenzie – on naught at the time – on the pad and appealed but the umpire was unmoved, as were England who didn’t seem interested in deferring to the DRS, although replays. later shown the ball would have hit the top of leg stump.
Atkinson returned for his second spell to replace Wood and he soon removed Brathwaite within a stroke of his half-century trying to turn a short, straight delivery down the leg side but looping it off the shoulder of the bat straight to Ollie Pope at short leg. .
Bashir did take his second wicket shortly before lunch, McKenzie serving up a simple catch to Ben Stokes at mid-on.
Valkerie Baynes is a general editor, women’s cricket, at ESPNcricinfo