Jerome Taylor belatedly returns at the Sir Andy Roberts End - the late Fred Trueman would be chuntering by now about an opening bowler who's only bowled 13 of the first 82 overs, I'm sure back in the day Fred and the other grizzled old pace bowlers would bowl 30-40 overs every day and still have time to jog off for a Woodbine afterwards... Again, like Roach last over, Taylor bowls too short and Stokes gets up on one leg to help a four through square leg, and guide another one through the covers for four more. He has 47 from 58 balls.

Jonathan Agnew
BBC Test Match Special

"As well as Bell and Root played, West Indies have let themselves down. Their bowling from mid-afternoon onwards has been pretty ordinary."

Ben Fides: All Test series should be played in the West Indies. Home from work, set for the evening. Love it! #perfecttimezone.

After that one-over delay, it's going to be Kemar Roach with the new cherry - but Aggers hasn't seen much loosening up from the quick bowlers, and it shows as Roach serves up a juicy long-hop which Bell effortlessly pulls for four. How to hand the advantage back to your opponents in one fell swoop... Another short ball is carefully directed through square leg for four by Warwickshire's Coventry-born, Dunchurch-raised, Rugby-claimed, Villa-supporting Ian Ronald Bell.

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Mark Almond: Do you think Ian Bell would be good on Strictly Come Dancing?

Fourth umpire Joel Wilson delivers the new ball, and it looks as though West Indies are going back to Jerome Taylor, but at the last minute it's thrown back to spinner Benn. Bell cuts a single - nine overs left today.

Geoff Ward from Birmingham: Re 21:42. Having lived in Rugby, Coventry and Dunchurch, I can assure you that your geography is wrong. Dunchurch is south of Rugby and certainly not between Rugby and Coventry. Oh, and Walsgrave Hospital is the major hospital for Coventry and Warwickshire. Belly is a Rugby lad.

We've reached the 80th over, with Samuels to bowl. Stokes and Bell are happy to take a single off nearly every ball. Time for the quicks?

Football Fragmento: Left-arm spinner Permaul took 67 wickets in the West Indies four-day competition this year. Why not give him a go?

Bell reaches Nelson (111) in the penultimate over with the old ball - ones and twos are easy to come by against Benn, whose work for the day may now be over.

Mike in Birmingham: Baffles me how Stokes didn't go to the World Cup. He'd have been first on the plane in my eyes. A bowler who can bowl a fair lick, gets wickets and can bat in the top seven is surely an integral part of any one-day side. Faulkner, Anderson, Matthews, Sammy all spring to mind - something England were missing.

While Geoffrey Boycott on TMS lays into Benn's "buffet" bowling, commenting on how his entire family would be queuing up to face the left-arm spinner, Samuels is quickly through another over, with Stokes looking to cash in before the new ball arrives.

Tim Williams in Leicester: Re: 21:10. The boy Bell grew up in a village between Rugby and Coventry called Dunchurch. My dad was caretaker at his school.

Dunchurch's sporting heritage includes it being the birthplace of Olympic 400m medallist Katharine Merry.

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"It's a waiting game. West Indies just want the new ball and England are trying not to do anything silly because sometimes you can try and score quickly, get out and let a new batsman in against the new ball. So it's a little cat and mouse at the moment."

We have 14 more overs due today, if West Indies can get them in. Stokes sweeps Benn for four and then goes for the big one, crashing a six into the stand at long-on where a fan in an England cap takes a terrific catch.

England 255-4 (76 overs)

Batsmen: Bell 108*, Stokes 23*

Fall of wickets: 1-1 (Trott 0), 22-2 (Cook 11), 34-3 (Ballance 10), 211-4 (Root 83)

Bowling figures: Taylor 13-2-57-2, Roach 17-4-43-1, Holder 15-6-36-1, Benn 23-4-68-0, Samuels 8-0-40-0

West Indies won toss

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It's as if this Test has entered a holding pattern for the past few overs, with West Indies rattling through some two-minute overs of spin to get to the new ball, and England not looking to take any risks to ruin what has been an astonishing recovery from 34-3. Bell and Stokes take a single apiece.

Sir Viv Richards
Ex-West Indies captain on BBC Test Match Special

"It's always deflating for the fielding team when you've won the toss and you're approaching the end of the day in the field. You can see that at present."

Benn wheels away for his 23rd over, but Bell's steady progression continues - as Ed Smith noted earlier on TMS, it's been a chanceless innings. Just one from the over.

Voice From The Stand: Once again, the myth of Ian Bell only scoring hundreds in easy circumstances has been proven to be total rubbish.

Jack of all trades: Well done to Ian Bell on his ton, but we gotta be honest, this is an easy attack, the real test will come in the summer.