Summary

  • West Indies 155-4 at close - trail by 244

  • Blackwood 30*, Chanderpaul 29*

  • Anderson takes 381st Test wicket

  • Botham holds England record of 383

  • England 399: Stokes 79; Roach 4-94

  • First Test, second day, Antigua

  1. Postpublished at 22:56 British Summer Time 14 April 2015

    And as the sun sets on Antigua, it's time to bid you farewell for another day - I wonder if England will lose much sleep over that Ben Stokes no-ball which cost them a wicket.

    Cricket returns to BBC Radio 5 live sports extra tomorrow morning with commentary on the final day of Middlesex-Notts - while you can hear all the remaining games online.

    England will resume their duel with Chanderpaul at 15:00 BST - we'll be back at 14:30. Sleep tight. And keep your foot behind the popping crease.

    Ben StokesImage source, Getty Images
  2. Join the debate at #bbccricketpublished at 22:52 British Summer Time 14 April 2015

    Alex Klymyszyn: When Shiv Chanderpaul made his Test debut, Test matches still had rest days and Alan Igglesden was in the England side.

  3. Postpublished at 22:50 British Summer Time 14 April 2015

    A rather limpid day, as it turned out. England began on 341-5 with Ben Stokes in good nick and thoughts of 450 or even 500... but instead they were bowled out for 399, about 20 minutes before lunch.

    In the afternoon, James Anderson bagged one of the four wickets he needs to overtake Sir Ian Botham's Test total, but while Kraigg Brathwaite fell for a measured 39 at the top of the order, England - as ever - found it impossible to dislodge Shivnarine Chanderpaul, and he added an unbroken 56 with young Jermaine Blackwood.

  4. Text 81111published at 22:44 British Summer Time 14 April 2015

    Mike, London: The forgotten man, Monty! Take note my man; Tredders' variation of pace and occasional drift exemplary.

    Matt: Shame Finn isn't playing in this game, might have done his economy figures some good.

  5. Postpublished at 22:44 British Summer Time 14 April 2015

    Geoffrey Boycott
    Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

    On Stuart Broad's batting woes:

    "Somebody needs to sit Stuart Broad down. It's too embarrassing. It would have embarrassed Yorkshire in the old times of Yorkshire cricket. You deal with it or you're out. Stop mollycoddling him - it reflects badly on him."

  6. Join the debate at #bbccricketpublished at 22:44 British Summer Time 14 April 2015

    Simon George: Stuart Broad, 169 against Pakistan in 2010. Why is he now not regularly making big scores at Test level?

  7. Postpublished at 22:42 British Summer Time 14 April 2015

    Geoffrey Boycott
    Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

    "Liam Plunkett is sitting there in the dressing-room - he could bowl a few overs and shake a few people up. We always go for the safe option - we go for Tredwell, who's a lovely county bowler but he's not going to bowl sides out, rather than the leg-spinner Adil Rashid. You close your eyes and it could be any of the four seamers, all bowling at the same pace. The Aussies would take a risk if someone was 19 and bowling well.

    "I'm not blaming anyone when you get a pitch as sluggish as this - if you ask snooker players, they wouldn't pot too many balls on a bumpy table - but this West Indies side is not that good. If England can get their act together, they're miles better as a team - let's get them beaten."

  8. Join the debate at #bbccricketpublished at 22:40 British Summer Time 14 April 2015

    David: Once again Broad, the most ineffective of the bowling attack, gets the most overs. Misplaced trust by the captain. More variation in a club cricket lunch than England's bowling attack... oh is that another cheese based sandwich?

  9. Postpublished at 22:40 British Summer Time 14 April 2015

    Geoffrey Boycott
    Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

    "Nothing went to plan, it was a slow day. Starting this morning, the way we'd plundered runs last night, we should have been batting until after lunch, but we just folded. We just made mistakes and got out. It's still a very flat pitch, not easy for bowlers.

    "Then we set about the bowling, bowled quite well, got four of them out, and then just when you thought we had a chance of really getting stuck in, we let Chanderpaul and Blackwood get away with it. The England players might be sat in the dressing room, thinking we should have done better."

  10. Postpublished at 22:36 British Summer Time 14 April 2015

    Hailing frequencies open - Aggers and Geoffrey are limbering up for their review of the day, which will be available later as the TMS podcast.

    Already on the podcast page you can listen again to the lunchtime "Ask Viv" feature with Sir Viv Richards.

  11. Postpublished at 22:35 British Summer Time 14 April 2015

    Graeme Swann
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    "West Indies have looked to blunt the England attack rather than take it to them. The dismissal of Marlon Samuels was a fine bit of bowling from Broad, as was the catch from Jordan to get rid of Brathwaite, but other than that it's been dull as dishwater."

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  12. Close-of-play scorecardpublished at 22:35 British Summer Time 14 April 2015

    West Indies 155-4 (66 overs) - trail by 244 runs

    Batsmen: Chanderpaul 29*, Blackwood 30*

    Fall of wickets: 19-1 (Smith 11), 42-2 (Bravo 10), 89-3 (Samuels 33), 99-4 (Brathwaite 39)

    Bowling figures: Anderson 13-8-24-1, Broad 15-1-46-1, Jordan 13-4-29-1, Stokes 10-2-32-0, Tredwell 15-7-22-1

    England 399: Bell 143, Root 83, Stokes 79; Roach 4-94

    West Indies won toss

    Full scorecard

    Alastair CookImage source, Reuters
  13. Email tms@bbc.co.ukpublished at 22:33 British Summer Time 14 April 2015

    Matthew Walker: I really would have liked to have seen Wood, Plunkett and Rashid in with Anderson. Really do think we will struggle in the summer with the bowlers on show now.

  14. Postpublished at 22:33 British Summer Time 14 April 2015

    Jonathan Agnew
    BBC Test Match Special

    "It was a bit of a sluggish day. England perhaps lack someone to come in and shake it up a bit. It's been attritional cricket on an attritional pitch."

  15. Close of playpublished at 22:32 British Summer Time 14 April 2015

    Chanderpaul has relished his role as the proverbial immovable object for much of his career, and though Tredwell's bowled tightly today and held an end, he's not threatened to be the equally proverbial irresistible force. After four dot balls, he goes round the wicket, but "The Crab" clings on, and scuttles off the field with an unbroken stand of 56.

  16. WI 155-4 (Chanderpaul 29*, Blackwood 30*)published at 22:30 British Summer Time 14 April 2015

    Probably time to get two of the three remaining overs in before 22:30 BST - and it rather sums up the session as when England take a man out of the covers to second slip, Jordan serves up a half-volleyed pie which Blackwood gratefully pummels through that exact gap in the covers for four. We've time for one more over.

  17. Postpublished at 22:29 British Summer Time 14 April 2015

    Graeme Swann
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    "Surely there has never been another man in international sport who has looked so uncomfortable yet performed so well as Shivnarine Chanderpaul. I truly believe he's never felt uncomfortable at the crease."

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  18. WI 151-4 (Tredwell 14-6-22-1)published at 22:25 British Summer Time 14 April 2015

    Tredwell spins down a maiden to Chanderpaul, and there's really nothing else to report.

  19. Postpublished at 22:25 British Summer Time 14 April 2015

    Graeme Swann
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    "Brathwaite looked very solid to me, before a very good catch by Tredwell. I like to see an opening bat who likes to bat time and occupy the crease, who lets the bowlers do the crossword in the dressing-room. Back in the glory days when we had Strauss, Cook and Trott all averaging 60, I'd get four hours of sleep a day when we were batting."

  20. WI 151-4published at 22:22 British Summer Time 14 April 2015

    A double change in the bowling as Chris Jordan returns at the Ambrose End. Chanderpaul, anti-glare stickers under his eyes, helps himself to a single, while it's feast or famine with Blackwood - blind aggression or studied defence. For now, it's studied defence.