Despite a chance injury to Mark Butcher in the field, England made good progress on the second day of their tour match against Jamaica at Sabina Park. They bowled out the home side for 281 with the help of five catches by wicket-keeper Chris Read.

Butcher was fielding at mid-off when the ball was played softly towards him. It appeared as if he twisted his left ankle as he went to field the ball and fell to the ground in obvious pain before being carried off by Ashley Giles and physio Kirk Russell. He went to hospital for an x-ray which the England management will hoping shows no serious damage.

Butcher was not the only one to struggle during the morning session. Neither Matthew Hoggard nor James Anderson settled into a rhythm and it needed the introduction of Andrew Flintoff to break the blossoming partnership between the overnight batsmen, Danza Hyatt and Shawn Findley.
Their partnership lasted for 12 overs into the morning when Flintoff's fifth ball bounced more than Hyatt might have expected and he was well-taken by Marcus Trescothick at slip. Giles then had Findley smartly caught by Nasser Hussain just after he had reached his fifty so that England had two wickets to show for their morning's work as Jamaica went to lunch on 113 for four.
Anderson picked up the fifth Jamaican wicket to fall when he had Lorenzo Ingram caught behind by Chris Read. That was the only success England enjoyed in the afternoon session, but after tea Mario Ventura was run out to end a painstaking innings of 52 from 130 balls.

Michael Vaughan was ringing the changes with his attacking options as the later batsmen proved difficult to dislodge. He bowled himself, but it was not until he brought Trescothick into the attack that he got another success when the Somerset man had Bevon Brown caught behind.
Evon McInnis joined Matthew Sinclair in a frustrating eighth wicket partnership that added 59 runs as McInnis plundered 41 from 27 balls with six fours and two sixes before he offered Chris Read his fourth catch of the innings off the bowling of Anderson.
The same combination accounted for Sinclair while Hoggard picked up his third wicket with the help of his captain to end the innings with England enjoying a useful lead of 39 as Jamaica were bowled out for 281.

Trescothick opened the second innings with Graham Thorpe to double the lead, at which point Thorpe was out for 18. Trescothick got in some useful batting practice on his way to 21 not out as England reached 50 for one by the close.
If the injury to Butcher took the gloss off the England performance on the field, there was some good news off it. Pace bowler Simon Jones, who arrived in Jamaica late on Monday night, bowled for a quarter of an hour in the nets without showing any signs of his recent shin injury. Jones is likely to play in England's next three-day match starting on Friday.