Summary

  • England lose Crawley, Duckett & Wood in tricky 35-minute spell to be 38-3 at stumps

  • West Indies bowled out for 282 - Atkinson takes 4-67 and Woakes 3-69

  • West Indies fell from 76-0 to 115-5 in 45 balls

  • Holder (59) & Da Silva (49) shared 109 for sixth wicket

  • Third Test, day one, Edgbaston - England lead series 2-0

Live Reporting

Sam Dalling

  1. Here is that Jamie Smith fumble-catch to get rid of Brathwaite.

    By the way, I'm with Carl Gamble (see below) - the all black keeping gloves are a thing of beauty.

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    The commentator’s curse is really working well for England today. Keep praising the West Indies batsmen please.

    Peter, Grampian

  3. WI 119-5

    Hard to describe this as anything other than a West Indies collapse. Another one.

    On the plus side, if you take out the five wicket taking deliveries, West Indies are pretty much going at a run-a-ball. Got to find the positives, right?

  4. How's stat?!

    Andy Zaltzman
    Statistician on Test Match Special

    Chris Woakes celebrates a wicketGetty Images

    The West Indies collapse is 5-39 in 45 deliveries.

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

    Kavem Hodge is bowled by Chris WoakesGetty Images

    That was not a good one. We have been talking about the bounce - at Lord's that may have gone over the top of the stumps. It was a misjudgement.

  6. wicket

    WICKET

    Hodge b Woakes 13 (WI 115-5)

    As I was saying, these two making a steady start after lunch...

    Talk about putting the live-texter's curse on it Sam. Sorry fans of West Indies cricket.

    In front of an adoring home crowd, Chris Woakes has his first wicket of the Test. Kavem Hodge had moved swiftly onto 13 but he offered no shot at that one. The result? His off stump was clipped. He won't want to see the replay of that too many times.

  7. WI 115-4

    Earlier in the over Mark Wood had, if not the full tea pot, then at least a large mug out. Kavem Hodge picked up a streaky boundary down to third. But he is all smiles now that Brathwaite has gone.

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    Love Jamie Smith's big black gloves. They remind me of the player who comes out to bat with black trainers and trousers on a Saturday and gets a ton in 10 overs.

    Carl Gamble, Lutterworth

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

    It is a good job that Jamie Smith has been doing his bench press! It was able to bounce off his chest into his hands.

    Kraigg Brathwaite got into a funny position.

  10. wicket

    WICKET

    Brathwaite c Smith b Wood 61 (WI 115-4)

    Oh dear. That's not ideal for the West Indies. Kraigg Brathwaite is caught smartly down the leg-side by Jamie Smith, and Mark Wood has his second wicket. A little fumble from Jamie Smith but he holds on at the second attempt.

  11. WI 110-3

    If we thought West Indies were wobbling pre-lunch, a hearty meal seems to have steadied their collective stomach.

    True, we're only a couple of overs into the session, but these two look assured already. Brathwaite moved into the sixties with an authoritative swing over point in that over.

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

    That is a fine way to get off the mark. It didn't get up very much, it was a bit of a skimmer.

  13. WI 103-3

    It might have been an uncomfortable lunch for Kavem Hodge as he waited to wander out to the middle. But he will feel a little better now. He's off the mark with a nice pulled boundary that also brings up the team 100.

    A mixed bag of an over from Mark Wood that...some might say a Hodge-Podge.

  14. WI 97-3

    Right, (Mamma Mia) here we go again. Mark Wood to start us off.

  15. And - with Shoaib Bashir readying his right trapezius for the obligatory 'pre-lunch over of spin' - Atkinson brought the session to a premature close by claiming Alick Athanaze's wicket.

    All of which leaves us with the West Indies, having opted to bat, about to resume on 97-3.

  16. Not to be outdone by the young up-start Atkinson, Mark Wood soon produced something even better still.

    A 91mph fizz-banger that nigh on cut Kirk McKenzie in half before removing his middle stump. If you're a quick bowler - which I think we can all agree Mark Wood is - there is surely no finer sight?

  17. But then Gus Atkinson struck to remove Louis. It was a belting piece of bowling. Hit the seam. Move away. Take the outside edge. Gone.

  18. For England? Well, it was - aside from an early (and rather bizarre) missed run-out attempt - an hour and a half or so of relative toil. The general view of the experts was that they were straining a touch too hard to find that bit of magic.

  19. So where are we? I would say a morning of two halves, but really it was more one of quarters...three of which belonged to the West Indies.

    Kraigg Brathwaite, who will march out post-lunch unbeaten on 56, got off to a lovely start with this pair of boundaries off of Chris Woakes.

    It was a slightly odd sight. Brathwaite, in the words of the great Vic Marks, is usually an "elegant snail" but he had definitely been jump started this morning.

    After a more watchful beginning, fellow opener Mikyle Louis then opened his boundary account.

    The pair soon brought up their third consecutive 50+ opening stand of the series. The West Indies had managed precisely zero such stands across their last three tours of these shores. That's nine Tests, folks.

    Brathwaite then reached his own personal 50 from just 70 balls. That made it 42 50+ scores for him in Test cricket, a dozen (and counting?!) of which he has converted to three figures.

    All going along rather nicely, right?

  20. Thanks Stephan. No speech, though?! I was assured that you had a few rousing words prepared. No? Not even a cap number? Ah well, I guess I'll crack on then...