If Lord’s has a hum, then Trent Bridge has a murmur. Or rather, a series of murmurs, each with their own distinct character.

An undercurrent of knowledgeable excitement underpinned the whole of this second day between England and West Indies.

And it was possible to follow the ebb and flow by audio alone as the visitors forced their way back into the contest, and the series.

The morning session saw scalps for Shoaib Bashir – but in truth, it belonged to Mark Wood.

Recalled to the squad for the Trent Bridge Test, the Durham paceman was a man in a hurry.

If there were gasps from the crowd after every delivery, they only increased in volume as Wood’s pace was writ large on the screen in miles per hour.

93.9; 96.1; 95.2; 92.2; 96.5; 95.2.

It was the fastest over by an England bowler at home since records began – and all those gathered at the ground were grateful that Microsoft’s global IT outage hadn’t disabled the Trent Bridge speed gun.

Grateful, too, not to be facing Wood in this kind of mood, as he passed 97mph with a bouncer in his next over.

“This isn’t fun to face, is it,” opined one press box scribe, with more than a little understatement.

But it was Bashir – bowling at little over half the speed – who made the breakthrough, luring Louis into a miscue on 21.

The assist, without question, went to Wood.

West Indies were three down at lunch, but were reinvigorated by their 40-minute break.

And the Trent Bridge faithful were generous with their applause as Alick Athanaze stroked a delightful cover-drive off Bashir in the 37th over. Brian Lara is said to be an Athanaze advocate – and on this evidence, it was easy to see why.

Athanaze made 82 before he edged Ben Stokes to a diving Harry Brook at gully – and this time the noise was all Stokes’, an animalistic roar betraying the relief the England skipper felt at breaking a 170-run stand.

Kavem Hodge, however, was not to be denied.

In 2015, he made 159 for the Winward Islands in a pre-season friendly against Nottinghamshire. It took him nine more years to come to the attention of the West Indies selectors, with a Test debut earlier this year at the age of 30, and he was making up for lost time.

His century included 17 fours, and received the warm ovation it so richly deserved.

England continued to toil away in the unforgiving heat – Chris Woakes picking up a 999th career wicket by trapping Hodge on 120.

And still the noise changed as the game moved forward, the crowd roaring Wood into the crease, with a little encouragement from Joe Root at first slip, as play-and-miss followed play-and-miss in the evening session.

West Indies, however, had shown they were up for the fight.

After the disappointment of a three-day defeat at Lord’s, something is stirring.

And with three days of the contest to go, the watching masses are absorbed.

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