England edge to warm-up win

Centurion Joe Root and canny off-spinner James Tredwell helped England to a nervy 29-run win over a University of West Indies Vice Chancellor’s XI.
Root’s unbeaten 104 underpinned 290 for eight – a total in which Ben Stokes’ 58 was the other significant contribution – and then Tredwell, with 3-39, got to work.
The Vice Chancellor’s XI were far from done with, however, as Kyle Corbin’s sustained hitting in a 98-ball hundred kept the hosts just about within range of a shock victory at Antigua’s Sir Vivian Richards Stadium.