LIAM Livingstone again impressed with the ball after struggling with the bat for England Lions in their second Test against West Indies A.

Livingstone was dismissed for a duck as the Lions were all out for 145 at Sabina Park, Jamaica, but the new Lancashire captain returned to take two wickets as the hosts reached 159 for 4 in response at the close.

Joe Clarke made a good half-century, and there were two wickets each for Jack Leach and Barrow CC product Livingstone, on an otherwise forgettable first day for England.

Clarke was last out for 56 after the Lions were again undone by Jomel Warrican, the 25-year-old left-arm spinner from St Vincent who took seven for 33 in the second innings of the first Test in Trelawny, and who went one better here with eight for 34.

The tourists were going fine at 56 without loss soon after drinks, having been put in for the second match running on a pitch that again offered sharp turn from the start.

But they then lost six wickets for 29 either side of the lunch break, and that became eight for 50 before Clarke finally found some reasonable support from Mason Crane in a ninth-wicket stand of 38 – the second-highest of the innings.

The Windies responded with an opening stand of 72 inside 13 overs between John Campbell and their captain Kieran Powell.

And, although Leach dismissed Campbell and Jermaine Blackwood in consecutive overs to take his tally of wickets for the series to 10, Powell’s 59 helped his team to 159 for four at the close – already a lead of 14, with six wickets remaining.

At the start of the day, Haseeb Hameed and captain Keaton Jennings each collected a few boundaries off the new-ball bowlers before Powell turned to his spinners inside the first hour.

Warrican struck with his third ball, luring Hameed down the pitch and beating his outside edge for Shane Dowrich to complete a sharp stumping.

Nick Gubbins edged the next ball to Blackwood at slip, and although Clarke survived the hat-trick delivery, Jennings was out three overs later, adjudged lbw pushing forward to the off-spinner Rahkeem Cornwall.

Livingstone, who is on the three-match tour ahead of travelling to New Zealand to link up with the England Test squad, was bowled for a duck when Warrican beat his defensive push.

The collapse continued in the third over after lunch as Davies and Paul Coughlin both lobbed catches into the off-side as they miscued attacking shots at the left-arm spinner.

Toby Roland-Jones hung around for a while before edging Warrican to slip, and Leach was bowled offering no shot to Cornwall.

At that point Clarke was on 42, but Crane hung around long enough on his 21st birthday to allow the Worcestershire batsman to complete his half-century from 98 balls with seven fours.

After Crane edged Warrican to slip, Clarke was bowled by the left-arm spinner trying to manoeuvre a single to retain the strike.

When the Windies replied, Campbell’s aggressive innings of 47 from 44 balls was ended when Leach had him caught by Hameed at leg slip.

In Leach’s next over, Blackwood got off the mark with a miscued six over long-off but edged to Jennings at second slip two balls later.

Livingstone, who had been the first spinner introduced in the sixth over and bowled a 16-over spell from the Michael Holding End, had a couple of near-misses before he bowled Shamarh Brooks, and the South Cumbrian then took a return catch to dismiss Powell late in the day.

But the Lions will need early wickets tomorrow to avoid conceding a significant first-innings lead.