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Sam Dalling

  1. Totally agree Carlos, totally agree. Great cricketing minds and all that.

  2. Carlos Brathwaite
    Former West Indies all-rounder on BBC Sounds

    Ollie PopeGetty Images

    I would love to see West Indies bring the mid-wicket into cover for Ollie Pope. That means they can push point out and really restrict Pope's scoring and build pressure.

  3. Eng 39-3

    Just a single off the day's first over.

    Ollie Pope played a lovely straight drive that was, well, too straight and crashed back into the stumps at the non-striker's end. Fortunately for Joe Root there was not a fingertip from the bowler.

    Pope also flashed at one outside his off-stump. That will encourage the West Indies.

  4. Carlos Brathwaite
    Former West Indies all-rounder on BBC Sounds

    It will be important for West Indies to control Ollie Pope, Joe Root and Harry Brook's scoring like they did with Ben Duckett.

  5. Shamar Joseph is about to bowl the first over of the day from the City End. We didn't see him with ball in hand last night. Joe Root is ready. We are ready. And after a false start from Joseph, we are underway.

  6. Remembering Bob Willis...

    England and West Indies line up ahead of Blue for Bob dayGetty Images

    It is "Blue for Bob" day in memory of Mr Willis. What a bowler. What a man. The players have just lined up for 45 seconds applause in their limited edition light blue caps.

    We will be underway imminently. Joe Root and Ollie Pope have just punched gloves and stepped over the boundary rope, with Root immediately sprinting ahead of everyone else. Likes to be in the middle first does Joseph.

  7. Timothy Abraham
    BBC Sport at Edgbaston

    Similar conditions to yesterday here at Edgbaston, although it does feel a fraction warmer. Certainly a few more people donning shorts, shirtsleeves rolled up and there's Panama hats in abundance.

    Incidentally, the Panama hat actually originated in Ecuador. A chap called Manuel Alfaro is credited with making them popular when he started exporting them from Ecuador via the Panama canal - hence the name.

    The cricket connection does not end there, though. Alfaro's son became Ecuador's president and was instrumental in creating one of the county's first grounds for cricket in the city of Guayaquil.

  8. That was then, but what about now? A fair question. Our man Timothy Abraham is on the ground at Edgbaston again - let's check in with him...

  9. A late evening flurry...

    And then, with the evening sunshine baking Birmingham, the West Indies enjoyed a lovely old time of it.

    Zak Crawley looked very much "in" after taking a trio of boundaries from a Jayden Seales over. But - and it is a big 'but' - Seales delivered some red hot revenge...

    The very next ball Alzarri Joseph struck to remove Ben Duckett. Joseph had dropped a simple-ish return catch from the same batter not long prior. Luckily it cost precisely zero runs...

    And, finally, Mark Wood, the night-something-or-other, fell to Seales. England three down and facing an uphill task this morning.

  10. Atkinson stars (again)...

    For England, Gus Atkinson continued to take to Test cricket like a water mammal to the wet stuff. Just the four wickets for him yesterday, taking his series tally to a nice round 20.

    This beauty to remove Holder was the best of them IMHO...

  11. West Indies playing for pride...

    It has been a tricky tour for the West Indies so far. They trail 2-0 in the series and so are playing for pride. However, some good news...yesterday was arguably their best day so far.

    Kraigg Brathwaite - with his decision to stick England in at Trent Bridge likely still playing on his mind - won the toss and elected to bat. He top scored with 61, while Jason Holder made 59. All in all, the West Indies made 282. Respectable, albeit it felt a little under par.

    Here is the best of Brathwaite...

    And here is Holder's highlights reel...

  12. Welcome back...

    Morning everyone (for a split second I felt like the late, great, Richie Benaud there). Sam Dalling here reporting for duty on day two of the third Test between England and the West Indies.

    And today is anything like yesterday, we've got a belter in store. For those that missed the day one action and / or who want a quick refresher, why not check out our neat little five minute highlights package below.

    For those of you who prefer the written word, you should know that:

    • England will, in about 15 minutes time, resume their first innings.
    • Joe Root and Ollie Pope are the unbeaten batters, and they have two and six runs to their respective names.
    • Ben Stokes' side are in a touch of trouble at 38-3. They trail the West Indies by 244 runs.