Responding to England’s first innings score of 569 for six declared, West Indies slumped to 310 all out in spite of a fluent 15th Test hundred from Sarwan, and were 115 for three following on at stumps yesterday.

The Windies are 144 runs behind with only seven wickets standing entering today’s last day but Sarwan has not given up hope.

“I think we’ve got the batting. We just need to apply ourselves and if we can do that, hopefully, we’ll be able to save the game,” Sarwan said last evening.

The 28-year-old Sarwan played splendidly for an even hundred in the first innings, his 15th century in Test cricket.

He fell for 22 in the second innings but his positive first innings hundred, he says, came as a result of his being determined to make up for his failure in the first Test at Lord’s where West Indies lost by 10 wickets inside three days.

Recapturing the form that saw him take the man-of-the-series award when West Indies lifted the Wisden Trophy in the Caribbean two months ago, Sarwan marched to his hundred – his second in England — off just 131 balls.

He shrugged off a painful blow from a James Anderson delivery when he was on 58 and got to his fourth century this season by smashing a superb pull shot off pacer Chris Broad to square leg for his 13th boundary.

He said he was determined to be more measured in this match following a double failure in the first Test loss when he made 13 and one.

“I thought I needed to be patient throughout the innings,” he said.

“At Lord’s, I was a bit anxious and it didn’t really pay off – but I was a bit more patient here,” Sarwan said.