Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

"Stokes has batted beautifully. Especially since that second new ball, he has played some crunching drives and anything short he has just swatted away. He made sure this was definitely England's day."

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Luke Berry: England are back! Not really but Bell deserves, at the very least, a firm handshake.

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Jason Holder to send down the last over of the day. At no point does Ben Stokes ever look like taking a run, so the redundant nightwatchman Tredwell stays at the non-striker's end. Still, perhaps he'll get the chance to make a name for himself with the bat tomorrow - given that England often judge bowlers on whether they can bat, rather than whether they can bowl.

Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

"Psychologically, putting your head down on the pillow knowing you've not got to bowl at the man with 140 tomorrow, it gives you hope. West Indies will go out tomorrow knowing they're not far off bowling at the England bowlers."

A curious decision - not only have England sent out a nightwatchman ahead of their number seven Jos Buttler (evidently viewing him as a frontline batsman), the aforementioned watchman, James Tredwell, may not get to face a ball here as there's only one over left and Stokes is on strike.

Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

"An absolute peach from Kemar Roach - bouncing, just leaving him, and it's just a little tickle. Bell walks off to rapturous applause. What a time for West Indies to get a wicket."

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Just when it looked like he was booking in for bed and breakfast, Ian Bell's long vigil is ended as he edges a beautiful outswinger from Roach to the delighted keeper-captain Denesh Ramdin, getting on the back foot and trying to prod it back to the bowler. It ends a stand of 130 from 25.4 overs.

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Tony Cozier
BBC Test Match Special

"This last session has been absolutely carnage. The new ball has gone all over the place."

Holder goes round the wicket but serves one up short and wide for Stokes, who gleefully helps it down to third man - a boundary which has been left vacant all day. England are on triple-Nelson (333) for the briefest of times as a single takes Stokes to 71 from his first 71 balls on a day when the Durham all-rounder (yes, I know, born in Christchurch, New Zealand for all you completists) has triumphantly returned to the international stage. Two overs left.

KM: Good recovery from the morning. Shows that the run rate at the start of the day/innings is not the be-all and end-all.

Roach has changed ends to replace the expensive Taylor, and the flow of boundaries is momentarily stemmed. Three overs left tonight, and there are some weary bodies out there among the Windies fielders.

Bryony Lever: Why don't we ask Ian Bell where he considers himself to be from?

West Indies recall the tall Jason Holder to the attack, there are two slips and a gully in, but the fielding remains a little sloppy as Bell and Stokes pick up ones and twos with consummate ease, while Bell unleashes one of his classy cover drives for four and swipes another one off the edge to third man. This new ball has been like an energy drink for England - 48 runs in five overs with the new nut - while West Indies look like they just want to get through the day.

Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

"It's a great approach from Stokes - there's no thought of England batting out the last few overs. If you get the opportunity to score, you give it a whack - try and hurt that second new ball. The field is spread all over the place now."

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Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician

"This is Ben Stokes's first hundred partnership in Test cricket - and Ian Bell's 49th. Alastair Cook is the only player with more for England, with 55."

Stokes keeps going, pushing England's score past 300 with a two and then tucking into Taylor, driving and pulling the Jamaican for three successive fours. At this rate, he'll overtake Bell tomorrow morning if they both stay in... That's the century stand. Five overs left today.

LJ Messam: Do we have to discuss where Bell is from? We ignored that for KP, Morgan, Trott et al. Let's just agree he's having a great knock.

I think people have made a lot of fuss in the last few years about where England's non-England-born players were from...

Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

"For those people who saw Ben Stokes's talent during the last Ashes, it has just been in hibernation for a while. It's had a sabbatical."

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This stand is already worth 82 - make that 84, as Roach, who bowled well in the first session but has deteriorated since then, twice oversteps for no-balls. Bell moves to 123 with a single - and Stokes clearly knows how close he is to a half-century as he guides one through the covers, scampers two and keeps scampering until he's run his bat in for a third to bring up his fifty. It's his second highest Test score, only surpassed by that ton in Perth.

Michael Prag: Re: 21:51. Ian Bell's parents still live in Dunchurch and you see them wandering around the village now and again... The square needs a decent groundsman, mind!