Kemar Roach was the man the Windies put up for interview after yesterday's play, having taken the wickets of Cook and Bell. "Alastair Cook has a weakness - everyone knows that - we just have to execute it as much as possible," was his reaction when asked about his dismissal of the England skipper. His line is a little tighter than it was in his first over, just a Tredwell single from it.

Gm ptapt: Nightwatchmen aren't just about the last over - they can see off the first half-hour when the ball's still doing a bit too.

Paul Barker: Would like to think we can still score 450-plus today, especially if Stokes and Buttler get going.

Fellow right-arm pacer Jerome Taylor takes the second over of the day, and gets an early talking-to from umpire Steve Davis for running on the wicket, though it stops short of a formal warning. Stokes steers the Jamaican for four with a very delicate, careful dab past gully - the sort of shot you'd normally associate with a batting craftsman like Mahela Jayawardene (a sad loss to international cricket). England's score has inched past 350.

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BBC Test Match Special

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To confound any doubters about his ability to "get on with it" early on, nightwatchman James Tredwell pushes the first ball of the day for three off his legs - taking his strike rate to 300. Fellow left-hander Ben Stokes also gets an easy one on his legs from Roach which he clips for two, while a single takes him to 74 and ensures he keeps the strike.

After a fervent pep-talk from bowling coach Sir Curtly Ambrose, West Indies take the field - and it's going to be Kemar Roach opening up from the Sir Andy Roberts End. Let's play!

Stan Cowell: End of play scores: England 502-9 dec, Windies 58-5. What do you think?

Jon in Cardiff: I wonder what England's mindset is going to be. They have to put the pressure straight on the West Indies and be in the field just before tea after making 550+.

Will Rider, Tunbridge Wells: This is the first time that England has scored over 200 in the first innings of the opening match of an away tour since against Australia at Brisbane in 2010. England has also only scored above 400 once in their first innings of a tour away from home since November 2005 in Multan against Pakistan, and that was against Bangladesh in Chittagong in 2010. Slow starters.

Impressive stats, Will. They've not won the first Test of too many away series in that time either (Bangladesh excepted).

Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

"England's top three were low in confidence, but the middle order came out with a different mindset. Ben Stokes hadn't been around the England team at the World Cup so didn't have that negativity."

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The last of the covers are being brought off, so we should have a prompt start. It looks as though there aren't quite as many people in the ground as they were yesterday - when it was a half-holiday in Antigua.

Jonathan France: Can't fathom the nightwatchman decision. It was this kind of decision that stopped us winning 2-1 in 2009. Hit out or get out!

I wholeheartedly agree. At the "replacement" 2009 Test at the Antigua Recreation Ground, England were 281 ahead on first innings near the end of day three, didn't enforce the follow-on, but then sent out a nightwatchman when they lost a wicket. All it served to do was hold up play on day four and delay the declaration for a match in which England ran out of time trying to bowl the Windies out.

Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

"Looking at these England bowlers warming up, the ball swung yesterday for about 20 overs, and I'd expect that first 20 to be crucial throughout this series. Ben Stokes was outstanding yesterday, Bell and Root were the glue, and I was surprised they used the nightwatchman yesterday - let's hope Tredwell doesn't block it. When England bowl, if Anderson can get it swinging, I'd expect Anderson to pass Ian Botham's record very quickly."

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"We've had some covers on in the last half-hour, but the showers have blown through and the sun's beating down now."

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But while Bell's was the innings of day one, there was a serious sub-plot around Ben Stokes, who's had an interesting 17 months or so.

Propelled into the five-day side after one Test of a dismal Ashes tour, he was lauded after hitting a century in Perth and generally being a bright star in a losing cause. However, back home, a run of low scores saw him lose his Test place last summer, while a wretched run of form in Sri Lanka meant he didn't make the cut for the World Cup.

As if to prove a point to England, with the World Cup squad now set in stone, he then proceeded to impress in the Big Bash - and now finds himself back in favour, while he played an exciting counter-attacking innings yesterday, tucking into a tiring Windies attack - with hopefully more to come from the Durham man today.

Ian Bell was England's man of the day yesterday, hitting a measured 143 from 256 balls, adding 177 with Joe Root (83) and 130 with Ben Stokes (71 not out) until he was caught behind one over before the close.

That preceded a mildly curious decision by England - who sent in James Tredwell (picked for his second Test, five years after his first) as a nightwatchman - even though Stokes was on strike for the last over and showed no inclination to do anything other then play out a maiden over.

Tredwell's defenders will no doubt point out that he has three first-class centuries to his name - and made 37 in his only Test innings to date.

England 341-5 (90 overs)

Batsmen: Stokes 71*, Tredwell 0*

Fall of wickets: 1-1 (Trott 0), 22-2 (Cook 11), 34-3 (Ballance 10), 211-4 (Root 83), 341-5 (Bell 143)

Bowling figures: Taylor 15-2-79-2, Roach 21-4-66-2, Holder 18-7-55-1, Benn 26-3-85-0, Samuels 10-0-46-0

West Indies won toss

Full scorecard

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I'm inclined to think you would take that offer. Certainly England would have bitten the proverbial hand off for 341-5 when they had been reduced to 34-3 early on.

Anyway, welcome to day two of the first Test between West Indies and England at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua. Play will resume at 15:00 BST - with Test Match Special on the airwaves from 14:45.

Afternoon, everyone. You're away from home, with a critical media heavily on your back, and after limited meaningful warm-up fixtures, you lose the toss and are asked to bat first, at a ground where you've not played more than 10 balls of Test cricket.

You're offered a close-of-play score of 341-5. Do you take it?