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  1. WI 57-3

    Bashir is looking threatening with every delivery. He is a smiling assassin.

  2. Steven Finn
    Former England fast bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    Bashir has started well this morning. It was a good captaincy decision by Ben Stokes.

    He looks remarkably confident. The way he interacts with people and stands at the bottom of his mark, there's just something confident about him.

  3. dropped catch

    Dropped catch. Sort of (again)

    Kavem Hodge nicks his first ball but it flies between Jamie Smith and Joe Root, who is positioned at more of a one-and-a-half slips. It runs away for four.

  4. Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    Shoaib Bashir and Joe Root celebrate a wicketGetty Images

    It didn't feel like the logical decision to start with Bashir this morning but he's got the wicket. There's a little bit of grip there for him.

  5. wicket

    WICKET

    Athanaze lbw b Bashir 12 (WI 53-3)

    Got him. Told you it wasn't respite!

    Bashir, from around the wicket, bowls one a touch quicker. Alick Athanaze was down sweeping but it was too sharp for him. They thought about a review for a while, but then decided it wasn't worth it.

  6. Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    That would have been a fabulous catch, it went so fast to him.

  7. WI 53-2

    Wood bowling wheels here. I would say that facing Bashir is a little respite, but that wouldn't be true.

  8. dropped catch

    Athanaze dropped on eight

    Harry Brook slams his hands on the ground. Athanaze cuts a Wood fizzer that is tight at his body. Brook, at third slip, gets two hands on it, but it was travelling. Properly travelling. Feels harsh to call it a drop.

  9. WI 47-2

    Neither of these two look particularly comfortable against Bashir.

  10. Fazeer Mohammed
    West Indies commentator on BBC Test Match Special

    There is a little bit of turn and bounce for Shoaib Bashir. He'll be encouraged by what he's seen so far.

  11. dropped catch

    Dropped catch (well, not really, but a chance)

    Bashir gets more turn and bounce. The ball strikes Louis' pad and bat, before flying off just out of Ollie Pope's reach.

  12. The glory days, Timothy. Page 340 for all the cricket news.

  13. Timothy Abraham
    BBC Sport at Edgbaston

    Brian Lara 501* plaqueBBC Sport

    Brian Lara was at Edgbaston yesterday signing copies of his new book. There's plenty of reminders around the ground of the 501* he made for Warwickshire just over 30 years ago.

    Like many people, I can remember checking the scorecard from the match on Ceefax, and not being quite sure if there had been an error of some sort.

  14. WI 46-2

    Mikyle LouisGetty Images

    Mikyle Louis' turn to play the short ball badly. Didn't pick up the length of the penultimate ball of Wood's over and it hit the splice of his willow. Leg slip is in place, by the way.

  15. WI 44-2

    WI trail by 50. Slowly, slowly. I wonder if Bashir will bowl all day from one end while the seamers rotate around him (not literally). That would be fun.

  16. Sourdough, Tim? Has to be these days.

  17. Timothy Abraham
    BBC Sport at Edgbaston

    I happen to be staying in the same Birmingham city centre hotel as the England players along with the rest of the BBC TMS gang. We saw Shoaib Bashir at breakfast heartily tucking into some scrambled eggs on toast. He'll need the energy as he'll have plenty of bowling to do today.

  18. WI 40-2

    More turn from Bashir. Mikyle Louis jabs bat and pad down, before Ollie Pope half appeals for a catch a short-leg. Crowd were excited.

  19. WI 40-2

    West Indies' Alick Athanaze in actionReuters

    Fiery start from Wood. Six balls north of 90mph - just getting warmed-up(!) - including one that Alick Athanaze ducked into. He will have a bruised shoulder tomorrow.

  20. WI 39-2

    Shoaib Bashir reactsGetty Images

    Little bit of turn for Bashir. But no real scares for the West Indies. It's a start.

    No surprise to see Mark Wood starting us off from the other end.