And that's where we leave it for the day. We'll do it all again tomorrow - with play starting at 15:00 BST, we'll be back on duty here from 14:30.
Two good sessions could - and should - put England on the brink of a first away Test victory since Kolkata 2012. West Indies need some inspiration from somewhere - I'd expect them to get another pre-match "fire and brimstone" talk from Sir Curtly Ambrose tomorrow morning. Bye for now.
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Mel, North London: Just to redress the balance, could you make clear that some England fans love and appreciate Test cricket, are enjoying this match and are hoping England can turn this good position into a winning one?
Review of the day
Apologies for the TMS line going down - you'll be able to download Aggers and Geoffrey's review of the day via the podcast page later.
West Indies began day three on 155-4, still 244 behind England - and while Shivnarine Chanderpaul was dislodged for 46, the rest of the innings belonged to Jermaine Blackwood, who rode his luck a little but forged ahead to compile a maiden Test century. However, he lacked support at the other end as the last five batsmen added just 32 between them, leaving Blackwood high and dry on 112 and England with a first-innings lead of 104.
Sadly, it was the same old story for Alastair Cook and Jonathan Trott, who both fell cheaply, while Ian Bell may only have himself to blame after a needless run-out. But Gary Ballance (44 not out) and Joe Root (32 not out) have added 64 as West Indies rather lost heart in the last hour or two, and England are now "net" 220-3 in a one-innings match with two days remaining.
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Craig Stevanato: 24 overs of spin, 30 mins extra, yet still 5 overs short. Not acceptable. Penalty runs + big fines + bans for captains required. Fans pay to see 90 overs in 6 hours, not 80-odd overs in 6.5 hours.
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As you may be aware, TMS's line to Antigua went down just after the close of play - they're working to restore it as soon as possible.
If you missed today's lunchtime feature celebrating James Anderson's 100th Test, "The Real Jimmy" (featuring Graeme Swann, BBC Radio 1's Greg James and Anderson's agent Luke Sutton), it's available on the TMS podcast page.
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Chris Parker: Re: Firas (22:21): Make Root captain as "our best batsman"? Because that's what we thought with Cook, and look what it's done to him.
Jimmy: Drop Cook, play Lyth and make Root captain.
billybunter3rd: Root will be next captain but needs 18-24 months' more experience, which is why selectors want Cook stay 'til then.
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West Indies batsman Jermaine Blackwood on Sky Sports: "It was hard, I took a couple of blows, but that's why it's Test cricket. It's a very big difference scoring a Test century, it's a very important milestone for me. No-one remembers you for half-centuries. I'm looking forward to many more."
On Ben Stokes, whose no-ball reprieved him on the way to his century:
"Ben Stokes and I go back to the 2010 Under-19 World Cup. Ben Stokes is all right, Ben Stokes is my boy."
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Close-of-play scorecard
England 116-3 (38 overs) - lead by 220 runs
Batsmen: Ballance 44*, Root 32*
Fall of wickets: 15-1 (Trott 4), 20-2 (Cook 13), 52-3 (Bell 11)
Well, it was a more entertaining day than yesterday, but it still drifted for long periods. England will start day four "net" 220-3 - and will be aiming, you would hope, for an afternoon declaration to allow them time to force victory.
Crustacean XI
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C.J. Henstock: C.R.A.B. de Villiers would be a shoo-in for the Crustacean XI.
Christo EL: Crustacean XI players tend to go into their shells when going gets tough and then look like fish out of water when they re-emerge!
Close of play
Eng 116-3 (lead by 220)
It looks as though both sides are going through the motions, as Samuels bowls a few wide of Ballance's off stump, he's not too interested until he chips a single off the last ball.
How do you solve slow over-rate problems? Penalty runs? If a team's five overs short, why not give the other team 25 runs - that would soon eradicate the problem.
"I think the game needs to do more to get to grips with poor over rates. Something needs to be done on the day."
Eng 115-3 (lead by 219)
Holder bowls a no-ball, never a good start to the over, while far more interesting news is that the Antigua & Barbuda PM has moved on from selfies with Barmy Army fans to selfies with the dancing girls. Oh, the trappings of power... Back on the pitch, some hard running takes Ballance's score to 43, and even though it's only 22:29 by our clocks, it looks as though the players are ready to walk off... until the umpires force them back on.
We're still going to have lost five overs today, despite 24 overs of spin so far today. Hardly cricket's finest hour.
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Paul in Spain: Erm, we are 200 runs ahead with seven wickets in hand, what is going so wrong? Why is everybody so down on England? And why is Tredwell with easily the best bowling figures in the first inning being marked for the chop? Have any of these critics ever actually played or even watched live cricket?
Eng 109-3 (Ballance 38*, Root 32*)
The teams, collectively, are going to be about five overs short of their target of 90 today, not that you'd know it from the players' body language... Samuels to continue, but there are wide open spaces in the leg side for Root to pick off a single just about anywhere. A single from Ballance stretches the lead to 213.
"When you are 100 runs behind, you have no option but to bowl your best bowlers into the ground. The only way you can win is to bowl the opposition out."
Eng 107-3
The Antigua & Barbuda PM Gaston Browne (who was interviewed on TMS earlier) is now posing for pictures with a fan in a Barmy Army shirt. Having leaked plenty of runs with spin on at both ends, West Indies turn back to Jason Holder at the Sir Andy Roberts End, which puts the brakes on a little - but has the game gone away from West Indies in the last hour?
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Firas: Why not make Root captain? Arguably our best batsman and brings a relaxed approach to the team. He can't do worse than Cook...
Tom Tuthill: Will everybody calm down - we are nearly 200 ahead with two days to go. Victory is in the bag.
"West Indies won't be in this contest for long if they carry on in this vein."
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Eng 107-3 (lead by 211)
More easy accumulation against Samuels, this day's play is ambling towards a conclusion with England firmly in the driving seat. Meanwhile, at the back of the TMS box, it sounds as though Geoffrey Boycott is coming off the long run, giving an update to 5 live listeners...
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A few more entries for the Crustacean XI we were discussing earlier while Shivnarine "The Crab" Chanderpaul was batting...
Roger Williams, Twickenham: None of the modern crustaceans are a patch on the great Australian from the early days, Clam Hill.
Tom, Herefordshire (and others): You can't have a crustacean XI without including Michael Slater (a slater is a kind of crustacean).
Andrew Rankin: Of course, moules mariniere must have Onions.
Eng 104-3 (Ballance 35*, Root 30*)
A ripple of applause around the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium as Ballance brings up the hundred for England and then the fifty stand, as the ones and twos continue to flow.
While Benn and Samuels bowling in tandem will improve West Indies' over-rate, it'll also give England a nice end-of-day boost of easy runs. 18 minutes remaining of day three.
"The footholes haven't really arrived yet. There's nothing of note for the spinners to aim at."
Eng 99-3 (lead by 203)
Samuels rattles through the rest of his over at the cost of two singles.
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As we thought - impact outside the line, and even if it wasn't, it was also an "umpire's call" for hitting the wickets. Ramdin may be sent to remedial "how to use DRS" school at the close of play.
"That's a panic review. The umpires do get some wrong, but generally it has be a thud below the knee roll to be overturned."
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Umpire review
An overly optimistic review from captain Denesh Ramdin as Root is hit on the pad by Samuels attempting a pull shot - the impact looked clearly outside off stump and he was playing a shot...
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James Standen: Let's be honest with ourselves! We are struggling v WI... the Aussies will be 10-0 unless a whole Test gets rained off!
Jamie Taylor: West Indies v Yorkshire...
Eng 97-3 (Ballance 31*, Root 27*)
Root square-cuts Benn, but that's only a single as the fleet-footed Jermaine Blackwood is patrolling the cover boundary. Busy, positive cricket from the fourth-wicket pair means they're picking up ones, twos and even a three with ease - the stand is up to 45, and the lead is up to 201.
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Omnishambles: Supporting England cricket has to be a form of Stockholm Syndrome.
Rachel T: My son is learning cricket at school this term. Needless to say I'm not allowing him to watch this Test.
Eng 92-3 (lead by 196)
A good call from MP Vaughan - as it's going to be Marlon Samuels to bowl his part-time off-spin, inscrutable behind his sunglasses. But his first ball is another freebie, full outside leg stump and Root easily sweeps it for four. England's lead continues to build.
Today's lunchtime discussion "The Real Jimmy", celebrating James Anderson's 100th Test, is available for another listen on the TMS podcast page.
"The way Sulieman Benn is bowling, I don't know if we'll see him in Grenada. It's too short, there's nothing on it. These two bowlers are releasing all the pressure. Ramdin needs to bowl Taylor and Holder, or if not, Marlon Samuels."
Eng 87-3 (Ballance 30*, Root 18*)
Root drives Benn through the covers, it's half-stopped and they run two. A more fluent cut shot brings the young Yorkshire right-hander (he's still only 24) four, and there are plenty of free runs to be had at the moment. There are three close fielders but Benn's not really bringing them into the game.
"West Indies need to get Kemar Roach out of the attack. They need to build pressure, they need to get wickets. He's bowling slowly, he's bowling with nothing on it, there are too many freebies coming Ballance's way."
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Eng 80-3 (lead by 184)
This is not good bowling from Roach, spraying it around either side of the wicket as Ballance helps himself to a four through point and another helped down to fine leg. Frustrating for the Windies after all the control Taylor and Holder showed earlier, that Roach and Benn have allowed England to step on the gas - but in a four-man attack, there's no hiding place. Perhaps the Seaweed Man (see earlier) could turn his arm over?
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Marko Koning: England's number four batsman don't even have time for a cup of tea these days. Another top-order collapse. Worrying.
Thomas Hammond: England are maddening. It would be fascinating to see what goes on behind closed doors in terms of preparation.
Eng 70-3 (Ballance 20*, Root 11*)
Root moves into double figures, helping Benn for two through square leg. Meanwhile, TMS scorer Andrew Samson reveals that England were seven overs adrift of their target by the time they bowled West Indies out - and they've "no excuse" for that according to Michael Vaughan, considering how long spinner Tredwell bowled.
"Joe Root's arrived at the crease and he wants to look busy against Sulieman Benn. Ballance has been very watchful - he's played and missed at a few, but he's seen off the new ball and he's good at using the width and getting that left hand into play."
Eng 68-3 (lead by 170)
After that three-over burst from Taylor, it's time for a third spell from Kemar Roach - and having seen off Taylor, Ballance finds the room to cut Roach for four. 44 minutes left of play today.
"Benn won't mind that six too much, because Root's playing across the line. There's always that fine line when you're a spinner between the shot that you want to see the batsman play, and the shot that you want to see the batsman mess up playing."
Drinks break
Eng 64-3
Single from Ballance, then a slog-shovel across the line from Root brings him a six over mid-wicket - the fifth maximum of the match. The players have earned another drinks break, the second of this mammoth session, and it looks like umpire Billy Bowden is scampering off for a comfort break.
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Woolpack Inn York: Has the @ECB_cricket got any clue at all how to select a team? #Clueless.
Eng 57-3 (Taylor 8-4-12-2)
Taylor v Ballance, round three. The left-hander leaves anything he doesn't have to play, but Taylor's hopes of another maiden are ended when Ballance guides the last ball for a single off his legs - a favoured shot of his.
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Joshua Edwards: Re 21:00. Geoff Kidd wins his bet. Aussie here in Texas falling off my chair laughing...though I first fell 2 days ago to be fair.
Eng 56-3 (lead by 160)
Joe Root is off the mark with his 11th delivery, on-driving Benn for three, while Ballance nudges a single off his legs, Jason Holder gives chase and slips over on his posterior while retrieving the ball in a brief moment of comedy. Always looks a little funnier when it happens to such a tall man.
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Chris Jones: Could throw away this whole Test in one bad session here.
John S Kirkup: This cricket team. Dear me. Get a grip.
Richard Branch: So England's top-order batsmen are working hard to ensure there's a result from this Test.
Eng 52-3
The Taylor-Ballance duel continues, the Jamaican goes round the wicket to the Zimbabwean-Harrovian-Yorkshireman, there are a couple of wafts outside off stump but it's a maiden over. Taylor has an excellent 2-11 from seven.
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Alice Stainer: That Bell run-out takes the biscuit. What on earth is going on? England don't look like serious professionals but a jittery mess.
Scorecard update
England 52-3 (20 overs) - lead by 156 runs
Batsmen: Ballance 13*, Root 0*
Fall of wickets: 15-1 (Trott 4), 20-2 (Cook 13), 52-3 (Bell 11)
Bowling figures: Taylor 6-3-11-2, Roach 7-1-18-0, Holder 5-2-14-0, Benn 2-1-4-0,
First innings: England 399; West Indies 295: Blackwood 112*, Tredwell 4-47
West Indies look to put the frighteners on England by recalling Jerome Taylor to the attack. Ballance is stout in defence, biding his time. His last five international innings in all formats before today were 10, 10, 10, 6, and 10 - he's now unbeaten on 13. Maiden over.
"It was a massive mess-up. You can't really blame Gary Ballance - Ian Bell made a mistake and before he knew it, he was gone. He has just made one of those boo-boos at the wrong time."
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Eng 52-3
Not for the first time in this game, Joe Root comes to the crease with England in a spot of bother. He sees out the over.
"Ian Bell is normally a very good runner. He just aimlessly went jogging down the pitch, then suddenly realised it was too late. I just can't understand what he was thinking, other than thought square-leg was deep square-leg. Bell had given up the ghost."
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Bell run out (sub Bishoo/Ramdin) 11 (Eng 52-3)
Bell turns Benn off his legs and goes walkabout, he's sent back, the ball is thrown back sharply from short fine leg by sub fielder Devendra Bishoo and he's run out by yards... Ballance, who came a couple of yards down the pitch, has his head in his hands.
With Ramdin seemingly only taking the bails off at the second attempt, there's even a question: if Bell had dived, might he have made his ground? England are "net" 156-3.
James Pockett: The laptop didn't say the ball was going to swing like this!
Eng 52-2 (lead by 156)
Holder to continue - Bell guides a single off his legs, then feverishly signals to the dressing-room, pointing at his helmet. Ballance punch-drives a three past third man, or is that four? The fielder's knee appeared to be touching the rope when he pushed the ball back so that's four. Bell gets a drink between overs, and it's been a long day for the dancing girls on the boundary but they're still going.
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Phil Lang: Are England the only team with a tail at the top and bottom of the order?
Eng 47-2 (Ballance 9*, Bell 10*)
After 16 overs of right-arm seam, time for some left-arm spin from big, bad Sulieman Benn, who didn't bowl well in the first innings but has contributed today with a couple of entertaining swipes at number 11, and a good catch at gully to remove Cook. But it's bowling where he's supposed to contribute - Ballance helps himself to an easy four off his hip, guiding the ball between the keeper and leg slip.
"I've heard them say this pitch is slow, but some balls have taken off. If you put it in, you'll get it out."
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Antigua & Barbuda prime minister Gaston Browne on TMS: "Cricket connects us in the West Indies, we also have common traditions. and origins. Fundamentally we're the same people. We're all Caribbeans."
Eng 43-2 (lead by 147)
Holder has been gun-barrel straight so far, but even his radar slips for once when he bangs in a bouncer to Ballance which disappears for five wides. A leg bye rotates the strike for the first time for a while, Bell pushes a leisurely two through the covers and is that leg-spinner Devendra Bishoo on as a sub fielder?
England's lead is 147. A good score in snooker, eminently beatable in cricket.
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Could this be a shock family reunion on TMS?
Sir Viv Richards to PM Gaston Browne: "I'm hearing from the family that we could be related."
Gaston Browne: "My maternal grandfather was a Richards."
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Geoff Kidd: Bet any Aussies watching this are falling off their stools with laughter. #shambles.
Eng 35-2 (Ballance 5*, Bell 8*)
Roach raises his arm, half in appeal, half in frustration as Bell plays and misses and the ball is well taken by skipper Ramdin crouching to his right. But the Warwickshire man then profits with a slash just over point for four. We still have another 28 overs left - realistically, another 95 minutes of play, in which they'll struggle to get 28 in. With the current lot struggling to bowl 90, I wonder how the incoming ECB chairman might incentivise the players to bowl 105 in a day for his planned four-day Tests?
"This was a great opportunity for the West Indies to bounce back, and to have gotten those two early wickets does send a message that it's game on."
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Eng 31-2 (lead by 135)
While Aggers and the PM chat about the value of Antigua's investment in Test cricket, the game resumes with Holder going round the wicket to Ballance, who knocks a two off his legs.
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Antigua & Barbuda PM Gaston Browne on TMS: "It's untenable that we don't have one [Antiguan] person in the West Indies team now. We need to change that, encourage the youth to get involved in cricket, and find the next generation of Sir Vivs."
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E Mistry: What has happened to England, no joy in watching/listening anymore. Less fight than a wet lettuce.
Tristan Watson: Someone take Cook out this England setup now before he ruins his career any further. Enough is enough, he is spent.
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Antigua & Barbuda PM Gaston Browne on TMS: "We had to pay half a million US dollars to the West Indies Cricket Board to stage this game. But with all the tourists here, we feel we get a good return - we had in excess of 10,000 people here on the first day, and 5-6,000 today. We're subsidising the game so more people are here."
"Do you have the power to deport people? There's a candidate behind me, Mr Boycott."
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Drinks break
Eng 29-2
Ian Bell, at least, seems pretty confident in the knowledge of where his off stump is, leaving a lot of deliveries from Roach in Geoffrey's beloved corridor of uncertainty. Another maiden earns England a drinks break.
As well as Sir Viv, TMS have now been joined by Antigua & Barbuda's Prime Minister, Gaston Browne.
"You want to have a gap on the off side to encourage the batsman to drive. Ballance doesn't play straight unless he's in; he likes to drive through extra cover."
Eng 29-2 (lead by 133)
With another 31 overs left to bowl today after this one (albeit in less than two hours - they can't go beyond 22:30 BST), what would you think England's target would be? 250 ahead by the close with an eye on a pre-tea declaration tomorrow? For now, it's just about recovering from those early wickets. An accurate maiden over to Ballance means Holder is yet to concede a run.
"I'm amazed they've taken Taylor out of the attack. Bell is the key wicket. He might not get in the same rhythm when he comes back."
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Eng 25-2 (Ballance 3*, Bell 4*)
After a hostile and accurate spell of 2-11 from five overs, Taylor is off - to England's relief, and Michael Vaughan's surprise - and Roach has had a change of ends. Bell is off the mark from his 12th delivery as he smacks a loose delivery through the covers for four. England lead by 133.
West Indies make their first bowling change and turn to the tall Jason Holder, the third prong of their three-pronged seam attack who supported Jermaine Blackwood well with the bat earlier today. Holder keeps it tight, Ballance hangs his bat out and comes within a whisker of getting a nick as the ball ends up in the hands of first slip. Maiden.
I wonder what the people who seemed keen to hound Compton out of the England team in 2013 make of that stat?
Eng 25-2 (Taylor 5-2-11-2)
"You can't chop and change after one game," muses Michael Vaughan - but Ian Bell will know only too well that it doesn't always happen like that, having been dropped after the first Test of the 2009 series in the Caribbean after England's Jerome Taylor-inspired 51 all out calamity in Jamaica. Owais Shah was the man brought in, but he only lasted the rest of that series before being replaced at three by Ravi Bopara.
Bell's second coming was later in 2009 when injury to Kevin Pietersen earned Bell a mid-Ashes recall, and when lack of form prompted Bopara to be dropped, his place went to the uncapped... Jonathan Trott. How things change. Something to ponder as Bell survives a maiden from Taylor.
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Mark: Cook's technical flaw remains and shows no sign of being rectified. Every bowler knows to pitch it up around off stump.
Adam Tillsley: Cook out cheaply again. Surely this can't go on much longer? He's so out of form it's incredible...
Scorecard update
England 25-2 (8 overs) - lead by 129 runs
Batsmen: Ballance 3*, Bell 0*
Fall of wickets: 15-1 (Trott 4), 20-2 (Cook 13)
Bowling figures: Taylor 4-1-11-2, Roach 4-0-10-0
First innings: England 399; West Indies 295: Blackwood 112*, Tredwell 4-47
West Indies' body language show their tails are up, there's a spring in their step - an overstep in Roach's case as he bowls a no-ball to Ballance, and then frustration as the left-hander fences and misses at the last ball of the over.
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Thomas Huysinga: There's a Dutch saying that goes 'a donkey never steps on the same stone twice'. Not quite sure what that makes Alastair Cook.
Football Fragmento: Vaughan says on TMS that Cook looks great. Next ball he's out. Commentator's Curse or what.
"Of Jerome Taylor's 108 Test wickets, 19 of them have been the opposition captain. It's the highest percentage (17.59%) of any bowler in Test history."
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Eng 24-2
New batsman Ian Bell shows the full face of a back-foot defensive shot to Taylor as the ball whizzes by first ball, then one nips back, nearly cuts him in half and keeper Ramdin can't hold on as it disappears to the boundary. It's signalled as leg byes though, so can't be put down as a chance, but was mighty close.
"His foot movement was good, he just prodded at the ball. It was the first ball Taylor bowled round the wicket, and that's the angle that causes Cook problems. Taylor's getting it as full as he can, it's not safe bowling but he draws the drive."
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Cook c Benn b Taylor 13 (Eng 20-2)
A tentative checked drive does for Alastair Cook as he edges Taylor to gully and is caught by big Sulieman Benn. Not a start to the innings that either Cook or Trott will remember fondly - the knives will be out for both of them now.
In England's favour, they are "net" 124-2. Ballance managed to open his account with a three through mid-wicket before Cook fell.
Kevin Baker: What a delivery by Taylor. World class. Not much Trott could do.
James Gutteridge: Can we just admit Trott is no opener and give Lyth the chance he deserves?
Will Morrall: Send Trott home. He's not even close to being the same player. Moeen's back too - no brainer.
Eng 17-1 (lead by 121)
Gary Ballance is the new batsman, walking to the middle while the West Indians celebrate. For now he's the non-striker as Cook sizes up Roach, who runs up in the manner of the former star sprinter Michael Johnson (with his head well back) but is nowhere near as quick,,, Cook adds a couple to his score.
"He's on the move, which is not great. But I think he was playing towards mid-on, which he always does. It's not great against the new ball. I don't think he's an opener. If I was Adam Lyth, I'd have a good sleep tonight and go to the nets early tomorrow morning."
"It wasn't one solid movement, it was a walking shot, playing towards mid-off. He was squared up, the outswing has done for him again."
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Trott c Ramdin b Taylor 4 (Eng 15-1)
Oh, no - Trott edges to the keeper for the second time in this match, trying to work a swinging delivery from outside off stump to leg. I can hear the knives being sharpened already.
"It's difficult to create pressure when there are only a couple of really good bowlers. Cook is used to the ball going across him: the that gives him the most trouble is the one that just holds."
"You can feel Cook trying to get forward rather than across the crease. Taylor is just finding a little bit of movement at the moment."
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Eng 15-0
Cook is not quite entirely fluent yet, inside-edging Taylor onto his pad, while he's slightly off-balance (as opposed to being off-Ballance) as he hoicks him through mid-wicket for four. A single takes him to 11.
On Twitter: Benn is Anderson's first wicket caught at short leg since Iain O'Brien at Manchester in 2008 (his 78th wicket).
Eng 10-0 (lead by 114)
No rain yet, but the floodlights are on as Trott steps well across his stumps to work Roach for two - almost like the way Hashim Amla played England at The Oval three years ago, stepping across to the off side each time to bring lbw out of the equation.
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Ben Hoare: Trott and Cook to get a century each with a stand of 225/230. It'll happen.
David: Moeen Ali has scored one Test hundred in 10 innings, never scored a 50. Why is he a guaranteed pick?
Moeen added to England Test squad
If you didn't hear earlier, all-rounder Moeen Ali has been added to the England squad for the final two Tests in the West Indies.
The 27-year-old left-handed batsman and off-spinner was not included in the original 16-man party because of a side stain suffered during the World Cup.
However, he made 62 and four on his comeback in Worcestershire's season-opening County Championship defeat by Yorkshire this week.
The England and Wales Cricket Board said Moeen will join up with the squad in Grenada on Saturday, before the second Test begins on 21 April.
Eng 8-0
While we all reach for the Laws of Cricket, Cook safely negotiates a maiden from Taylor, while Geoffrey has a bit of a moan about Adam Lyth and Liam Plunkettt not being in the England side.
Here's a worry - Aggers has spotted some ground staff by the boundary "dressed like North Sea trawlermen". Is there rain on the way?
Law 23.1 (a) (i) The ball becomes dead when it is finally settled in the hands of the wicketkeeper or of the bowler.
23.1 (b) The ball shall be considered to be dead when it is clear to the bowler's end umpire that the fielding side and both batsmen at the wicket have ceased to regard it as in play.
23.2 Whether the ball is finally settled or not is a matter for the umpire alone to decide.
Eng 8-0 (Cook 6*, Trott 2*)
Kemar Roach takes the second over, banging a freebie down the leg side which Captain Cook helps on its way for four. Windies captain Denesh Ramdin responds immediately by sending one of his five-man slip cordon into the covers. Then there's an odd moment when a wild throw to the keeper sails past the slips and goes to the boundary, but after a discussion between the umpires, the ball is deemed to be "dead" so no extra runs are added.
Aggers on TMS thinks it wasn't "dead" and England have been robbed of four overthrows - and I agree. At what point did the ball become dead there, umpire Billy Bowden?
"Taylor is bowling full outside off stump: a lovely line to Trott, because he wants to get out to the off side and work it to on."
Eng 3-0 (lead by 107)
Cook clips a single off Jerome Taylor's first ball, bringing Trott on strike. On a pair. And he plays and misses outside off stump... not one for the purists, that. But an easy flick to long leg for two gets Trott - playing his 50th Test, lest we forget - off the mark. Relief all round.
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Gary Brooks: To be frank, even though I'm an England fan, the best thing all round might be a sound thrashing of England in this series. Then we might get real change at the top, a new coach and then pick players on form with some bottle.
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Alastair Cook and Jonathan Trott to open for England - starting on a "net" total of 104-0.
"What England won't need here is two or three out-of-form batsmen trying to cling on like limpets, desperately trying to play themselves back into form."
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Thanks, James. Strap yourselves in and get your sandwiches to hand for a long final session - we still have 43 overs to cram in today.
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Time for me to hand you back to Mark Mitchener for the evening session...
Gayle was unable to play in this series because of a persistent back injury - but is playing in the Indian Premier League instead.
The spin debate
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Mike Bell: Is Simon Kerrigan not even on the selection spectrum? Shane Watson thumped a few shots off him in one spell, but is that it?
Si Lomas: Ali in for Trott to open, he'll play aggressively, Rashid in for Tredwell... you then have two spinners who spin ball opposite ways.
James Cowe: Would you necessarily drop Tredwell for Ali? Broad, Jordan or Stokes could easily be replaced based on their performances. Tredwell somehow reminds me of an Ashley Giles spinner. Does a job, keeps an end. Gets mocked by many.
Cracking cheese, Tredders!
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Joe Baker: Did they base Wallace from Wallace and Gromit on James Tredwell? Spitting image.
Who's the better off-spinner - Moeen Ali or James Tredwell?
"Moeen. You look at what he's done in his short Test career so far, if he's fit you get him in the team. Look at who are the best five bowlers to win in Grenada - if you go with four seamers and one spinner, do you bring in Moeen for Tredwell? Harsh - but yes. If Moeen and Stokes are going to bat six and seven, Buttler at eight, then Jordan, Tredwell or Rashid, then Broad and Anderson. It'd be interesting to see who they left out if they went down to three seamers. By not playing Rashid this week, it's telling me they don't trust him, even though he won Yorkshire the title. The rumours are they're not impressed with him. If he isn't in their plans for the next two games, they should send him home. Same goes for one of the seamers, as long as they're covered for Barbados."
"You know what you're going to get with James Tredwell, but I think England are missing a trick by not having a look at Adil Rashid. I hope they don't bring back Moeen Ali in order to go with two off-spinners. Maybe two spinners is the way, but two off-spinners isn't the way."
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Tea has been taken before England begin their second innings...
"What England can't afford to do is to be 30-3 like they were in the first innings, as at 50-5 West Indies are back in it. They need to score, but not recklessly - West Indies only have a four-man attack and Sulieman Benn needs to bowl better than he did in the first innings."
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Pete: Jimmy is superb but let's not forget Beefy had the small matter of 5,200 runs also!
Peter Collins: Perfect, time for our batsmen to go out and smash their way to a couple of hundred. Blistering start needed. Oh wait...
Chris Jones: West Indies throwing away all their hard work today in one over.
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So, a strong afternoon session from England, who were able to run through the tail pretty quickly once they winkled out Jason Holder. James Tredwell had been expected to play second fiddle to England's seamers but he was the star performer, picking up four wickets with good ol' fashioned flight and guile.
Jermaine Blackwood played an excellent, gritty innings, often reining in his natural attacking instincts, to drag West Indies up to nearly 300, but that first-innings deficit of 104 runs puts England firmly in the box seat.
End-of-innings scorecard
West Indies 295 all out (113 overs) - trail by 104 runs
Blackwood 112*, Chanderpaul 46; Tredwell 4-47
Fall of wickets: 19-1 (Smith 11), 42-2 (Bravo 10), 89-3 (Samuels 33), 99-4 (Brathwaite 39), 192-5 (Chanderpaul 46), 227-6 (Ramdin 9), 276-7 (Holder 16), 292-8 (Roach 5), 292-9 (Taylor 0), 295 all out (Benn 2)
Bowling figures: Anderson 23-9-67-2, Broad 22-2-67-2, Jordan 23-8-46-1, Stokes 19-3-64-0, Tredwell 26-12-47-4
England 399: Bell 143, Root 83, Stokes 79; Roach 4-94
"A wonderful innings from Blackwood - he set his stall out with that second ball when he hit it for six. Stuart Broad gave him a working-over with the short stuff, he came through that and chose the right balls to attack. But to get those last two wickets so quickly is a big bonus for England - they're in the box seat to go out, bat well and give West Indies four or four-and-a-half sessions to survive the match."
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Benn c Root b Anderson 2 (WI 295 all out)
It's all over, and as we suspected Jermaine Blackwood is left high and dry. Sulieman Benn's brief innings ends when he tries to flick Anderson into the leg side but the ball bobbles up tamely and is claimed by Joe Root at short leg.
"Crazy stuff from Jerome Taylor, he didn't even wait for the third umpire. Now it's Tredwell's chance to take five as the last man is a crazy left-hander who hacks across the line - Sulieman Benn."
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Taylor run out (Broad) 0 (WI 292-9)
Well now, that is careless. Jerome Taylor squirts one backward of point and sets of without looking, and Stuart Broad swoops on it like a hawk and rattles the timbers with a sharp throw. West Indies folding like a deckchair in a stiff gale.
"Five catches for Jos Buttler, which is the first time he's done that in a Test innings - he's just the second keeper to take five in an innings against West Indies after Jack Russell in 1990."
"Well bowled, James Tredwell - it was pushed through quicker, Roach tried to defend, it was well taken by Buttler and Tredwell is doing exactly what he should do - easily the pick of the bowlers. He's got two opportunities left to get his first Test five-for."
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Roach c Buttler b Tredwell 5 (WI 292-8)
He'll have an honest try, they said. He won't let anybody down, they said. Well, James Tredwell is doing a bit better than that - he's leading the England attack here. He picks up his fourth wicket with one that skids straight on and takes the edge of Kemar Roach.
Blackwood plays a lovely shot through extra cover but only gets one for it as Ben Stokes, who has an arm like a medieval trebuchet, sweeps round on the off side. No-one will reel the next one in though as Blackwood smears one through mid-wicket for four.
"As a spin bowler, if you've got three wickets of three top-order batsmen, then if you can convince the captain to let you bowl at the tail-enders, that's your bread and butter."
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Julian, Surrey: Once Jimmy is done, surely the stage is set for Cook to chase down Gooch's 8,900 runs record? 460-odd needed could coincide nicely with the third Ashes Test?
WI 286-7
Roach is bedding in here. He plays out his second successive maiden off Tredwell.
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Terry Mahoney: Bringing Jimmy back to have a go at the tail with the record in sight. Good captaincy (for once).
WI 286-7 (Blackwood 106*, Roach 4*)
Blackwood, whose concetration still looks solid out there, nudges a couple of twos from Anderson's latest over.
WI 282-7
Tredwell continues and he almost has a fourth wicket, sliding one across Kemar Roach and enticing a wild swing which, luckily for the West Indian, connects with nothing but fresh air.
Tredwell or Rashid?
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Tom Audsley: Is Rashid ever going to be given a chance? He has been outstanding for Yorkshire. Ali joining up will put him further back.
Jack Tecwyn: Fair play to Tredders. He's held up an end & got three wickets. I thought Rashid should have played. But I am a Yorkshireman!
James Cowe: Tredwell won't be a decent off-spinner till he bowls a few or gets a few catches behind in one innings.
WI 282-7 (Blackwood 102*, Roach 4*)
Chris Jordan is finally hooked, and James Anderson gets a bowl. Jordan's rest is rudely interrupted though when Blackwood immediately skies one on the off-side and Jordan has to get his piston-like thighs pumping to try and chase it down, but it lands tantalisingly safe.
"Moeen Ali could replace James Tredwell in this team. But what if Tredwell gets eight or nine wickets in this game and wins it for England, you could have an England spinner who can't get in his own County Championship team keeping out the established spinner."
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WI 280-7
It's been a performance of quiet determination from Tredwell, whose selection ahead of Adil Rashid was widely lamented but who now has three wickets to his name. He keeps West Indies quiet, just a single from his latest over.
"England seem to be unusually reticent to pick Adil Rashid. Whether or not he's been deemed unselectable after they way he bowled in the warm-up games, I'm not sure, but they can't just keep him here and have him bowling in the nets. If he's not playing, send him back home and let him play for Yorkshire. One of the reasons we don't develop high-class spin in this country is that we don't trust them. Rashid has won the hearts and minds of Andrew Gale and Jason Gillespie at Yorkshire, and as there are no more warm-up games here, let him go home and get some wickets in case they need him later this summer."
"News from the ECB: Moeen Ali is being added to the England squad for Grenada. He's not replacing anyone at this stage, the team will be reassessed after this Test."
WI 279-7 (Blackwood 100*, Roach 3*)
Jerome Taylor is wearing the scowl of a thwarted man as he sits padded up on the West Indies balcony - he has a Test hundred to his name but is batting at ten today. Jordan's radar is beginning to misfire here - he sprays an errant full-toss down the leg side. Time for a bowling change perhaps?
"A good hundred from Blackwood, a good mixture of steadfast defence and maverick aggression."
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WI 279-7
Kemar Roach is the new batsman, which is perhaps a surprise. Jerome Taylor is the more usual number nine. Roach is off the mark with three down to third man.
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David: Bell in charge for a few overs here, let's see some wickets, for the Ashes captain.
"It was the same sort of shot that got Chanderpaul out - they advanced but didn't quite get to the pitch of the ball, and holed out to cover. You must give credit to Tredwell as he's not the biggest spinner of the ball, but he has guile and variety."
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Holder c Ballance b Tredwell 16 (WI 276-7)
Those young ladies aren't leaping with joy any more, Aggers. West Indies lose another wicket when Jason Holder hits Tredwell uppishly to Gary Ballance, who takes a good catch low down at cover.
"There are young ladies literally leaping with joy there - sheer enthusiasm and love for the game. All part of the atmosphere, and well played Jermaine Blackwood. When he came in, you'd think if he were to get a century, it would come off 90 balls - it's taken 205."
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Century for Blackwood
WI 276-6
He's done it! Blackwood nurdles Tredwell down the ground to bring up his first Test century in his sixth Test match. An excellent, gutsy knock from the young Jamaican.
"The crowd don't like this with Jordan bowling down the leg side, they think it's a tactic - I don't think it is, I think it's just some bad deliveries."
WI 275-6 (Blackwood 99*, Holder 16*)
Jermaine Blackwood, leaning jauntily on the handle of his bat at the non-striker's end, looks as composed as anyone has a right to look when they're within one of their first Test ton. Holder extends the agony by playing out six dots.
"I think he was going for six for his hundred there, coming down the pitch. We saw Gary Ballance at Lord's hit a six for his first Test century."
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WI 275-6
Adam Lyth is hauled off his deck-chair to do some substitute fielding as skipper Alastair Cook trots off. It's up to Ian Bell to take the reins temporarily.
Blackwood, within six of his maiden century, decides he can no longer resist Tredwell's loopy, lofted tempters - he steps down the track and smashes the off-spinner straight back over his glistening bonce. The ball hangs in the air for a while but doesn't quite carry the rope: just four for Blackwood, whose wait goes on. He moves on to 99 with a nudge past point.
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Herbie, Leeds: Re Ruairi, Putney (18:16): get a wicket without bowling a no ball?
WI 269-6 (Blackwood 94*, Holder 15*)
Chris Jordan continues for the 101st over of the West Indies innings. Blackwood inches closer to the promised land with a single off his legs.
"Holder's school coach Ezra Moseley, the former Glamorgan and West Indies bowler, thought he would be a better batsman than bowler, and also identified him as a future leader for Barbados and possibly West Indies."
WI 268-6
Alastair Cook, a man with 25 Test hundreds to his name, stands in the outfield, cogitating on a cunning plan to prevent Jermaine Blackwood reaching his first. The Jamaican has shown a liking for the odd expansive shot in this innings, and Cook decides to dangle a carrot - asking James Tredwell to float down some gentle off-spin on the faint afternoon breeze.
Tredders does succeed in drawing a big shot, but it's not Blackwood, but Holder, who absolutely marmalizes him over mid-off. One-bounce four.
"This partnership is going to be crucial after losing Ramdin just before lunch. I've always had a lot of faith ever since I first saw this young man Jason Holder, he looks the complete part - all the potential is there for him to do well on West Indies' behalf."
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WI 264-6 (Blackwood 93*, Holder 11*)
A strangled yelp from Jordan as he strikes Holder on the pads, but that's just drifting down the leg side. Blackwood, desperately clinging fast to his precious wicket, then does well to jam the bat down on a probing yorker.
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Ruairi, Putney: Stokes has now had a wicket off a no ball, a dropped catch and a tight lbw go against him. What's he gotta do to get a wicket!?
WI 263-6
All of a sudden, Blackwood is within sniffing distance of his first Test ton, the bright lights twinkling tantalisingly in the distance. He moves in to the nineties with a back-foot shovel through point which brings an all-run four.
"The problem with West Indies cricket, and the development of it, is that the pitches have not been good for some time."
WI 259-6 (Blackwood 89*, Holder 11*)
England seem to have abandoned the policy of short-pitched bowling that brought them success just before the interval, but they might want to rethink that as Chris Jordan gets one to lift sharply off the pitch and even the tall Holder only just about manages to get his gloves on top of it and fend it to safety. No short leg in place. Jordan is bowling with good place, but so far without reward.
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Matthew Coote: You just wonder if Cook's batting would benefit from him not being captain. He just seems lost.
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WI 257-6
Here comes Ben Stokes again, his sun-bleached strawberry-blond eyebrows standing out like little white caterpillars on his reddening face. And he's greeted by an absolute gem of a shot from Jason Holder, who hits powerfully through the line of a length ball and lofts it into the stands at long-on.
Alastair Cook blinks and pulls a man out of the slip cordon to stand at mid-on, and the skipper is made to rue that decision when two balls later, Jermaine Blackwood squirts one off the edge straight into that vacant area. And the Jamaican rubs salt into the wound with a handsome drive through the covers for four.
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Neil Graham, Grantham: Just to let you guys know Aggers was just featured as a question on Pointless. It was a picture round on sports presenters and Aggers was the lowest of the six answers scoring just four points - less than the likes of Bobby George and Hazel Irvine.
WI 243-6 (Blackwood 74*, Holder 10*)
Blackwood's has been a curious, almost volcanic innings: lying dormant for ages and then intermittently spluttering into life with an explosive shot over the infield. He's in one of his circumspect spells at the moment, blocking out four dots from Jordan and then tucking a single to long leg.
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Kevin Harris: I have my doubts about these crustaceans being able to bat - they often get caught in the nets.
WI 240-6
So Blackwood survives. Earlier in the over he collected the first boundary of the afternoon session with the nudge down to fine leg.
"Frustration for Stokes. In old money, they were often given not out. It felt very close; it was very close."
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Not out
The ball-tracker shows the ball would have hit leg stump, but not full enough to reverse the on-field decision. On we go...
Umpire review
Ben Stokes has rapped Jermaine Blackwood on the pads with a hooping in-ducker - umpire Billy Bowden says not out, but England are going for the review...
WI 235-6 (Blackwood 69*, Holder 8*)
Jason Holder was in belligerent mood before lunch, smashing a one-bounce four and then nearly middling one into the mitts of Gary Ballance, but it looks like he's in more circumspect mood after the interval. He plays out four dots, then knocks a single in to the leg side.
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Thank you Mitch. Chris Jordan is going to take the cherry after lunch, with Jermaine Blackwood and Jason Holder at the crease.
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And with the players on their way back, after an enjoyable lunch interval celebrating the career of Jimmy Anderson, it's time to pass the baton to James Gheerbrant to talk you through the afternoon session.
"He'll be a great coach, he can talk cricket on an everyman level so even the stupidest Yorkshire fast bowler can understand. I just hope that when he does retire, the ECB get him in and don't tell him he's got to go off and get his Level 4 coaching badge or whatever."
The Real Jimmy
What will Anderson do after retiring from playing?
Luke Sutton, Anderson's agent: "I can see him coaching, but also other things. Because he's so involved with cricket, he needs that little bit of creativity outside of cricket - like the radio show with Swanny and Greg James."
The Real Jimmy
Luke Sutton, Anderson's agent: "The demand for him is high all the time. He's a good-looking boy and an absolute superstar in what he has done. Going into the summer, if he has broken the record and with the Ashes coming up, it will ramp up even more."
"It was great when his face was on the back of all of those London buses last year - just so I could say to him 'You've got a face like the back of a bus'."
The Real Jimmy
What is Anderson like to manage?
Luke Sutton, Anderson's agent: "We're mates as much as anything. He does have his moody times. I have sat in the car with him going to go a corporate event and told him to buck up his ideas and turn it on. He loves his job, his family. The fanfare that goes around it is not for him. The key for me managing that is to understand that - if it gets in the way of cricket, he's not going to do it. As long as I understand that, it's fine."
"He realises how important this game is to his mum and dad, wife and kids. He'd rather it wasn't his 100th Test, but he realises how much it means to these other people - and he will be happier as soon as this record is broken."
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Luke Sutton, Anderson's agent: "He hugely admires Beefy [Sir Ian Botham]. He's still coming to terms with the fact that he is so close to the record. There's massive respect there."
"Jimmy's not one to hold grudges. There are one or two people in the dressing-room who really don't like criticism and certain members of the press, but Jimmy's not one of them. He's got the ability to say, 'Well, I'm better than he was anyway.'"
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Luke Sutton, Anderson's agent: "Jimmy will definitely play as long as he can. Cricket is in his blood. He might not like me saying this, but e is a student of the game. He watches so much cricket - at a time when young players don't see it as being cool. It's in his DNA, so he will play for as long as he possibly can. And he will stay in that beyond that, definitely."
"He's got so many sidelines thanks to Luke - he's got his own wine and clothing range. But he loves cricket, and when it's time to go back and play for your county, more than anyone in that dressing-room, he will always put his hand up and go back and play for Lancashire."
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Luke Sutton, James Anderson's agent: "I did keep wicket to him at Lancashire. At first hand I got to see his skill-set, so it was great."
"Cricket is so much a part of Jimmy's life that I think he'll go on as long as he can. He's got to earn a crust, and live radio broadcast may not be his forte!"
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The Real Jimmy
BBC Radio 1's Greg James: "I've become a bit of a cricket tourist, we thought this is the Test we'd pick as we thought this was where he'd break the record, and I'd never been to the West Indies. There's a great group of us here. If he doesn't do it, I will be asking for a full refund!"
"One thing that gets overlooked with Jimmy is how good he used with the old ball. He's unparalleled within the England set-up. He's so naturally talented with his hand and his wrist. There's a reason that he's the leader of the England attack: the other bowlers can still learn from him."
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"You used to know in the first three or four balls whether he'd take wickets. Lord's for me was Stuart Broad's ground - Trent Bridge, before they put the drainage in, was Jimmy's. He was an absolute genius at having it swinging round corners. Simon Jones cracked reverse swing early on, but it's a different skill to get it reversing."
"His diet is appalling. I've never seen a man eat as many burgers. He never puts a scrap of weight on. My wife used to tell me not to eat with Jimmy Anderson on tour."
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The Real Jimmy
What do you admire most about Jimmy, cricket-wise?
BBC Radio 1's Greg James: "The control. I've chatted to him, without trying to bore him, about his hand position and wrist position - he watches so much cricket, he always wants to develop new stuff and that's why he's at the top, because he wants to learn. And physically, he's a machine."
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BBC Radio 1's Greg James: "It's incredible to see the switch between off-the-field Jimmy and the on-field competitor. He's really fierce and he really wants to get all the wickets. I remember filming a nets session with him, and he said to me: 'Aren't you going to wear a chest guard? I'm going to knock your block off.' When you see him bowling, you think: 'That's not the guy that I had a beer with a couple of weeks ago, is it?'"
What about the sledging side of things? Why does he do that?
"He hasn't got any malice towards any batsman, he does it to wind himself up and get the best out of himself. He loves a guy coming back at him and squaring up to him, that's why he does it. India tried to wind him up last year, but that was the worst thing they could have done as it fired him up."
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"Jimmy will want to get these wickets [to break Ian Botham's record] as soon as possible. He hates the limelight. He just wants to get it out of the way. He likes being the leader of the attack, but he doesn't like the plaudits that come with it."
The Real Jimmy
BBC Radio 1's Greg James: "From what I gather, he would have been annoyed here that they were three down so early on the first morning."
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"The dressing room is very much them and us: batters and bowlers. You're preparing for two very different games. Almost to a man, bowlers are very lazy. You've never seen a happier Jimmy Anderson than when England get to lunch one down and he can have a pudding and do a crossword. He's good company, until his mood darkens when he has to get his thigh-pad on at seven down."
"He's a bit like a cat. I'm more like a dog, I bounce around and love everyone. With Jimmy, you have to work harder to win him over."
The Real Jimmy
How do you wind Jimmy up? He can be hard work sometimes?
BBC Radio 1's Greg James: "It takes longer to get the good bits from him in an interview - he takes a while to get warmed up, he'll wait for 20 minutes and then hit a real zinger. But he's a very funny man, you don't immediately think that when you see him in interviews, as he takes his job very seriously."
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After a quick check on the county scores with Kevin Howells at Lord's, TMS will be celebrating James Anderson's 100th Test - discussing "The Real Jimmy" with Anderson's pals Graeme Swann and BBC Radio 1's Greg James, and his agent Luke Sutton - who you might remember from his days behind the stumps with Somerset, Derbyshire and Lancashire.
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Charlie Rhodes: Why did Ian Bell stop being under the helmet at short leg? He was arguably the best there in the world!
Howard Horner: This is more like the Broad we know and love! Great bowling on a pitch that isn't offering too much. Bodes well for the summer!
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That session included 79 runs and two wickets - about even?
What's more, we had Seaweed Man, who has to be seen (see 16:40) to be believed.
"England changed tactics well to get the wickets. If they can get the remaining wickets for 40 or 50 runs, they'll be right in the box seat. If West Indies get close, it makes it hard for England to know how positively and how long to bat."
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"England had to work hard. They might have expected the new ball to swing around and cause all the damage, but this particular ball hasn't. West Indies are hanging on."
Lunch interval
WI 234-6
The lanky Holder to see West Indies through to lunch - Broad to continue, the short leg has been joined by a leg slip while 12th man Jonny Bairstow has to scamper on with an extra helmet as Joe Root steps in at silly point for the last three deliveries. Holder gets an edge... wide of gully and it's an easy two to third man. A single off the last ensures West Indies will trail by 165 at the break.
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James Gutteridge: Typical that the cricket is on at the same time I'm trying to put some effort into university work. Every. Single. Time.
Football Fragmento: Liam Plunkett is being missed here by England. He gives them some variation. Hope he plays the next Test.
"I always found playing the short ball on slower wickets was harder, because you're always in two minds. On pitches like this you've got to get everything spot on, because the ball comes off at so many different paces."
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WI 231-6 (Blackwood 69*, Holder 4*)
Blackwood, very much the senior partner now, defends well against the persistent Jordan - we should get one more over in before lunch. This one was a maiden.
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Jay: Cook has to be following #bbccricket. As suggested at 16:20, he has got a bat pad in. Had he been following regularly, England could have won the World Cup.
"It would have been a fine catch. It was crisply struck off the back foot by Holder and it went about waist-high to Ballance, it wasn't one of those loopy ones. They stick or they don't."
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WI 231-6
New batsman Jason Holder has some long levers on him, towering above his partner (and just about everyone else) - and he immediately shows what he can do with the short ball - pulling his first ball for four, but agonisingly for England he's dropped off his second as Gary Ballance can't hold onto a chest-high chance at short leg.
"Excellent bowling from Stuart Broad. It was a well-directed short ball, England were just starting to get frustrated. It's the perfect time to get a wicket, six minutes before lunch. It's been a well-worked plan that they've produced over the last five or six overs."
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Ramdin c Buttler b Broad 9 (WI 227-6)
A big appeal as the short ball pays off for Broad, firing one down the leg side from round the wicket and Ramdin obligingly gloves it to the keeper. The captain is removed before lunch.
"It's a good contest. Jordan is trying to get the ball to shape away to those four slips. Ramdin likes to play to the off-side, but so far he's played nice and straight, nice and late."
WI 226-5 (trail by 173)
A packed slip cordon all rise as Jordan whistles one through Ramdin's defences and through to the keeper, but replays show it coming off the Windies skipper's thigh pad. The Sussex man looks set for a maiden over until Ramdin steers a four - and it's a no-ball to boot. This stand is already worth 34.
We have just under 15 minutes until lunch - when TMS will be discussing "The Real Jimmy" with Anderson's pals Graeme Swann and BBC Radio 1's Greg James, and his agent Luke Sutton.
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Jay: Nathan Kraken could do alright as the first change bowler.
Steve Gibson: Chanaka Whelk-egedara could open the bowling.
WI 221-5 (Blackwood 68*, Ramdin 5*)
Broad goes round the wicket as England resume their short-pitched assault, and Blackwood crashes a good-looking drive through the covers to reach his highest Test score.
"England are desperate to break this partnership. The closer West Indies get, the more freely the likes of Jason Holder and Jerome Taylor can play. If West Indies can get another 100, it makes the third innings for England a tricky one."
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WI 215-5
After three overs with the old ball and three with the new one, that may the last we see of Anderson in the morning session as he's replaced by Chris Jordan. Blackwood's counting finally lets him down as he takes a single off the fifth ball and Ramdin, who hasn't faced a ball for ages, cuts a four past the slips.
"Blackwood has played well. England were targeting around fourth stump, but they are now going to go for the short stuff, having hit him on the body. Blackwood's got a real problem because he's trying to play the pull shot into the wind, which makes the boundary a long one."
WI 210-5 (Blackwood 61*, Ramdin 1*)
Broad continues to give Blackwood some "chin music", but the young Jamaican is showing an uncanny ability to count to six as for the fourth successive over, he runs one off the last ball of the over to steal the strike from his captain.
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Al Watson: I am sad to say that I have started to lose interest in the England team of late. Wholesale backroom staff change needed.
Alan Lloyd: Re: 1533. If Chanderpaul was English, everyone would be moaning that he scores too slowly.
Ouch!
WI 209-5
Have England decided Blackwood has a problem with the short ball? Now it's Broad testing the right-hander with a bouncer, and with a helmeted short leg hovering nearby, Blackwood takes a painful blow on the forearm.
He's not wearing an armguard - and so the physio trots out with some "magic spray". And there are several international cricketers who could tell you - you don't want to get a reputation as someone who "doesn't like it up him"...
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Andrew Butcher: West Indies could have contributed to the Crustaceans XI in this match, by picking the one and only Langostino Best.
WI 209-5 (trail by 191)
Blackwood, on 59, is only seven away from equalling the highest score of his brief Test career, an unbeaten 66 against Bangladesh in St Lucia last year. In fact, he's passed 50 in four of his nine Test innings - and failed to exceed 15 in his other five stays at the crease. Anderson unleashes a fearsome bouncer well out of Blackwood's reach, and it pings over the keeper's head for five wides. A single wide of point ensures he continues to hog the strike - Randin has been in for 6.2 overs and only faced 11 balls.
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Joe in Guildford: I'd pick Yabbyjan Singh every time....
Marcus Postlethwaite: Somerset all-rounder from the 1970s/1980s - Nigel Cocklewell.
Follow-on avoided
WI 203-5
After keeping Stokes on for an over, England turn back to Stuart Broad - Blackwood fences at a bouncer, uppercutting it over the slips for four and that shot ensures England must bat again. Another short ball is fended off towards the leg slip/short leg area, and keeper Jos Buttler can't get there in time. Get a bat-pad man in, Captain Cook... Blackwood even risked a run-out as Buttler's underarm throw hit the stumps but he just returned to his ground in time. A single allows him to keep the strike.
"Broad has got to bend his back here and get some rhythm. England have got to seize the initiative in this match and the new ball is the opportunity to do that. But it is odd that they've got a long-off in for the new ball."
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West Indies 198-5 (83 overs) - trail by 201 runs
Batsmen: Blackwood 54*, Ramdin 1*
Fall of wickets: 19-1 (Smith 11), 42-2 (Bravo 10), 89-3 (Samuels 33), 99-4 (Brathwaite 39), 192-5 (Chanderpaul 46)
Bowling figures: Anderson 18-9-46-1, Broad 17-2-47-1, Jordan 13-4-29-1, Stokes 16-3-41-0, Tredwell 19-9-32-2
England 399: Bell 143, Root 83, Stokes 79; Roach 4-94
Anderson finds some outswing, Blackwood - whose approach has veered between resistance and rebellion - shoulders arms to one and plays and misses at another, while Jimmy then finds some bounce in the wicket as one rears up and strikes Blackwood on the glove. A leg bye is the only score from a probing over - so it's a maiden.
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Richard Anderson: Any fishy team has to be captained by Warwickshire's Jim Trouton.
We're really looking for crustaceans rather than fish in general...
WI 197-5 (trail by 202)
An interesting move - or a sign of the future? If you expected to see Stuart Broad share the new ball with Anderson, you'd be wrong - as it's Ben Stokes to continue from the Roberts End, perhaps buoyed from catching Chanderpaul. A maiden over - Broad is having a stretch in the outfield - and West Indies need just three more runs to avoid the follow-on.
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And Aggers has tracked down the big white bird/wampa (see 15:15). Apparently he's "Seaweed Man". He's filmed him and has been trying to put it up on Twitter.
"That wicket of Chanderpaul brings England back into the game. Blackwood and Chanderpaul had shown some resistance, but it's in the balance again now. Blackwood is very much an attacking player, and if he gets going we'll see some fireworks."
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WI 197-5 (Blackwood 54*, Ramdin 1*)
Despite a "go on skip, give me another one" look from Tredwell, England throw the new ball to their spearhead James Anderson, with three slips and a gully in (to Geoffrey's approval). Skipper-keeper Ramdin is up on his toes to defend well, a single brings Blackwood on strike and he lofts one over mid-off - the ball "plugs" and stops a few inches short of the rope as they run two. A typical cavalier Caribbean shot - or not the approach to take against a new ball?
"I'd have three slips in for Ramdin and a bat-pad to stop him lunging. That way you can get out on two sides of the bat - it makes the batsman play at the ball and gives you more chance of getting an outside nick."
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WI 194-5
Stokes runs in for the 80th over. Two slips for Blackwood - a one-and-a-half, and a fourth. A tentative play-and-miss from the Jamaican entices Cook to bring in an extra slip - there's now men at first, second and fourth. Blackwood guides a two through the covers, and the last ball is hit to mid-on where James Anderson picks it up - and will now exchange it for a new one, which is brought out by fourth umpire Joel Wilson.
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Mikey Knight-Robson: Dare we say it... good captaincy from Cook having those two short covers in for 'The Crab'?
WI 192-5
Captain Denesh Ramdin is the new batsman - he's surrounded by a slip, leg slip and short leg as Tredwell spins down the rest of the over. He survives for now.
"That was beautifully bowled, gorgeous old-fashioned flight bowling. He just teased it up a little bit more. Chanderpaul came down but he didn't quite get to the pitch of it, so it came out of the meat of the bat but right at breadbasket height."
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Chanderpaul c Stokes b Tredwell 46 (WI 192-5)
Got him! Chanderpaul, four short of his fifty, comes down the track to Tredwell and chips a catch straight to Stokes, one of two catchers posted in the (reasonably) short extra cover area. A big wicket for England, just after Chanderpaul had shown his class by bisecting those two catchers with a cover-driven four. How crucial might that be, just before the new ball?
Terry Mahoney: Re 14:58. Steve in USA is right. Ray Illingworth's opponents said that he would aim to win the match from the very first ball. Cook doesn't.
WI 188-4 (new ball available in 2 overs)
Stokes to bowl what we expect will be the antepenultimate over with the old ball. The obdurate Chanderpaul jams his bat down on a yorker, which is fielded by Joe Root, who's fielding a yard or two closer than normal at fourth slip, which is perhaps why he's wearing a helmet. With Stokes bowling right-arm over at the left-hander, the two slips are now Cook (effectively at second) and Root (fourth). Just a single from the over.
"It's been a strange innings: a mixture of patches of dogged defence and a few extravagant shots. Some of his strokes would suggest a calypso carefree innings, but in reality it's been characterised by patience."
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50 for Blackwood
WI 187-4
Blackwood finds the boundary again with - you guessed it - a skip down the track and a smack over extra cover. He then rocks back to squeeze a single through the covers - but a wild throw to the keeper allows them to run an overthrow to bring up the young Jamaican's fourth Test fifty from 120 balls, in only his sixth Test.
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Simon Staniland: Wouldn't have been complete without former Gloucs and South Africa great Mike Proctopus.
Ronky: Jack Mussell would have to be the wicketkeeper for the team.
Mike Poole: Andrew Strauss and Kevin Pietersen are sworn anemones.
WI 181-4 (Chanderpaul 41*, Blackwood 44*)
Stokes, still looking for that reverse swing, has a man catching on the square at short extra cover for Blackwood. Again England find the right-hander's edge... but this time it trickles along the ground to Tredders, still occupying that fourth slip spot where he makes a good diving stop. A scampered single to mid-wicket reduces the arrears to 218.
"Stokes is asking some questions here. This is a difficult period for the West Indies with Tredwell pegging away his off-spin at the other end. The runs have dried up. How long can Blackwood keep his patience?"
WI 180-4 (Tredwell 17-9-22-1)
Tredwell goes round the wicket to the left-handed Chanderpaul, who's not taking the bait at this time - another maiden. Five overs until the new ball is available.
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Frank in Essex: I'd include anyone that played for Clamorgan.
"I don't think it was a straightforward easy catch, but at this level, because of the height, it didn't go rocket-fast, you could see it all the way, I think you'd expect to catch more of those than you drop. When you make mistakes like that, it's difficult to win matches."
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Scorecard update
West Indies 180-4 (74 overs) - trail by 219 runs
Batsmen: Chanderpaul 41*, Blackwood 43*
Fall of wickets: 19-1 (Smith 11), 42-2 (Bravo 10), 89-3 (Samuels 33), 99-4 (Brathwaite 39)
Bowling figures: Anderson 16-8-43-1, Broad 17-2-47-1, Jordan 13-4-29-1, Stokes 12-2-37-0, Tredwell 16-8-22-1
England 399: Bell 143, Root 83, Stokes 79; Roach 4-94
Another life for Jermaine Blackwood, again Stokes is the bowler - but he's not to blame as the right-hander is dropped by James Tredwell diving to his left, standing at about a fourth slip position. (Just two slip in - one at first, one at fourth). A hard chance but one England needed to take. If Blackwood has a favourite shot, it must be the loft over extra cover as earlier in the over, such a waft brought him another four - his sixth.
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Richie Macca: Only two things can survive a nuclear holocaust: One of them is cockroaches, and the other is Shivnarine Chanderpaul!
Chris Parker: If Chanderpaul was English he'd have never been as good, that technique would have been taught out of him, same with Lara.
WI 176-4 (trail by 223)
"A typical Caribbean day", notes Tony Cozier on TMS as the sun beats down, while Graeme Swann feels his telepathic link with Alastair Cook is working as Anderson is off and off-spinner James Tredwell is going to bowl from the Ambrose End - where he's not bowled so far in this game. A maiden means it's still 24 more needed to avoid the follow-on.
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Philippe Garcia: Er, last time I checked pollock, bass & brill all had bones inside, not an exoskeleton. Squid has neither.
"Ben Stokes is just hiding the ball as he runs up to bowl, which normally means there's a hint of reverse swing. James Anderson was just getting it to tail back in to the batsman's pads."
WI 176-4 (new ball available in 8 overs)
After two overs of Broad without making the breakthrough, England turn to fellow right-arm seamer Ben Stokes. When you need a wicket, even a run-out will do - and Chanderpaul takes a slightly risky single to test the arm of the pacey Chris Jordan at backward point. This stand is now worth 77.
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Paul in Wimbledon: Michael Prawn - when he was on song and the cover drive flowing it took a while to 'winkle' him out.
Nigel Roberts: The skipper of any world crustacean XI would have to be Bob Shrimpson.
"If I was in Alastair Cook's shoes, Broad and Anderson have bowled tidily but they don't look dangerous. I'd ask Jordan, Stokes and Tredwell to come in hard for 10 overs and save my strike bowlers - give them an hour's rest."
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WI 175-4
With the new ball available in 10 overs' time, it'll be interesting to see how long England keep Anderson along, given that I'm sure he'll take the new ball. Blackwood nudges Anderson for two, and Aggers leaves the TMS box to get a picture of that white bird/wampa...
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Huw James, Dorset: How about Sea-Urchin Tendulkar?
Adam Hallissey: Douglas Sardine.
James Leatherland, Derbyshire: Tillakaratne Krillshan must be opening the batting.
WI 173-4 (Chanderpaul 40*, Blackwood 39*)
A landmark was passed in that last over - Chanderpaul has overtaken Mahela Jayawardene's total of 11,814 Test runs, putting him seventh on the all-time list. His next target is Brian Lara on 11,953. It's as though the two batsmen have switched personalities, as after that flurry from Chanderpaul, Blackwood adds a gentle single against Broad.
The white bird/wampa is now dancing in the stands. We'll bring you pictures if we can.
"Alastair Cook has got a very off-side-heavy field. The ball is definitely tailing across Chanderpaul. If I was Cook, I'd get square-leg out and get him catching in the gully."
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George in London: Re 14:42. I know Aaron was probably being facetious, but I'd like to see an over or two from Ballance before the new ball. Even if he only lands three or four an over, leg-spin is always challenging to faceā¦
WI 172-4 (trail by 227)
West Indies tuck into Anderson, as Blackwood adds a single and it's Chanderpaul breaking the shackles with a brace of boundaries, driving Jimmy through the covers and cracking another four through point. A two means that having taken 106 balls to score 30, he now has 40 from 110.
Meanwhile, cricket fans in the Caribbean are known for their eccentric costumes, but there's someone at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium dressed in some sort of a huge, full-length white (sheepskin?) bird outfit giving them a passing resemblance to a Hoth Wampa from The Empire Strikes Back. Tauntauns beware.
"If Chanderpaul was English, I wonder if would he have made it to the top...?"
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James Gutteridge: England pace attack desperately needing something different. Plunkett or Finn obvious options but what about Mark Footitt?
WI 161-4 (new ball available in 12 overs)
Anderson's new-ball partner Stuart Broad will bowl from the Sir Andy Roberts End - I nearly typed Andy Roberts bowling from the Stuart Broad End, how England could do with a fiery fast bowler like ex-West Indies, Antigua, Hampshire and Leicestershire paceman Roberts.
Chanderpaul takes a fresh guard, banging a bail into the crease as is his habit - and sees off a maiden over without an attacking shot. As is his habit.
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Mark Solomons, Loughton: Geoffrey Boycott was always a shellfish batsman.
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WI 161-4 (Chanderpaul 30*, Blackwood 35*)
A round of applause breaks out around the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium - possibly for the finish of the England supporters' a cappella rendition of "Jerusalem" - but West Indian hearts are briefly in mouths as Blackwood, who struggled to keep the ball down at times yesterday, skies the ball just wide of mid-on and away for four.
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Dominic Walker: Chanderpaul won't go down as a West Indies great as he should because of the way he has scored his runs. Lacks the flair.
WI 157-4 (trail by 242)
James Anderson has first use of the old ball - but his first delivery is a floater down the leg side to the right-handed Jermaine Blackwood, who helps it away for a single. This brings the leftie Shivnarine Chanderpaul on strike, and he's up and running too with a push through the covers for one. Two balls, two singles.
"The England team of fielders is a brilliant one and should raise the standard in every series. You've got Moeen Ali and Chris Woakes to come in - so the batting order should be really deep. Stuart Broad might find himself at 10 or 11."
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Ralph Brooker in France: Re. 14:33. How many other crustacean cricketers are there (or might there be)? Enough for an XI? I'll start. Trevor Bailey. Wasn't he called 'The Barnacle' prior to becoming 'The Boil'? I miss him.
A challenge for the rest of you - who can join The Barnacle and The Crab in the XI?
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Players on their way out. Aggers thinks yesterday's play was "one for the purists" and may have enticed one or two of the more fairweather England fans out there to go to the beach instead today...
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Steve in Chicago: As an American English cricket fan, it amazes me how overly conservative the English cricket team appears. I'm not sure if it is internally even recognised. Picking players on actions from years ago rather than their most recent trend is so maddening. The lack of confidence from many of the team members is infectious. They need to bring in some new, young players, if only to break the spell and spread a new sense of elan.
"Jordan's slip catch yesterday was absolutely wonderful. If you can have that as a second string to your bow, it can really help keep you in the side."
"That third innings can become a really tricky one for England, particularly depending on how close West Indies get to their total."
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Jordan preaches patience
TMS also heard yesterday from England seamer Chris Jordan, who feels the wicket is "not the easiest" but feels patience is the key if England are to succeed.
Tony: I thought Anderson was going to break Botham's record today but then I realised Chanderpaul was at the crease.
Keep your foot behind the line...
Clearly Ben Stokes wasn't happy with the reaction on social media after he was denied a wicket yesterday when he bowled a no-ball as he had Jermaine Blackwood caught at slip. He later tweeted:
"Tweets about the no ball flooding in, so tomorrow I won't try, bowl 4 foot behind the line and bowl 70mph... then your all happy. Unfortunately when trying hard you can get tight on the line... apologies people, will try to make it up tomorrow."
"When West Indies have won Test matches here, it's generally been because of Chanderpaul. I think in the 2007 series in England we just couldn't get him out, but we still won the series - and they were competitive because of Chanderpaul."
"Yesterday was attritional, with some good bowling but the West Indies really dug in. England have got a ball 66 overs old, can they knock one or two over before the new ball? If they can get Chanderpaul early, I think it could be a score of about 250 for West Indies."
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John Monks: Chanderpaul not too far away from passing Lara for most Windies test match runs. What a class act!
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So, is today the day when Jimmy gets the record? Will England's fans be joyously throwing some shrimps on the barbie with a healthy first-innings lead if they can remove The Crab early on? With West Indies still needing 45 more to avoid the follow-on, is that a realistic target for England - and if so, should it be enforced?
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Aaron, Northants: Give the batsmen who failed to score decent runs if any a chance to bowl, mix things up. "And Ballance gets another wicket" or "Trott with figures of 3-3", turn this Crab into a Crab cake.
Anderson v Botham
For those of you on Anderson-watch, the "Burnley Express" took the first Windies wicket yesterday, having Devon Smith caught behind, but he still trails Sir Ian Botham by two in England's all-time Test wicket-taking list.
With impressively economical figures of 13-8-24-1 yesterday, Jimmy will be cheered by the fact that the second new ball will be available in 14 overs' time - roughly around the time of the first drinks break an hour into play.
Latest score: IT Botham 383, JM Anderson 381.
The Agnew view
BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew feels England are "still in a strong position" - but need to be bolder in their approach.
"I'd like to see them liberate Ben Stokes: tell him to bowl fast, bowl short, bowl bouncers, and if it costs runs it doesn't matter - we need somebody to go in and shake batsmen up a bit. At the moment the four-man seam attack is too samey," he writes.
As in just about every England-West Indies series of the last decade or two, Shivnarine Chanderpaul is the man whom, if your life depended on it, you would choose if you had to name one cricketer to occupy the crease ad infinitum.
The Guyana left-hander, sometimes nicknamed "The Crab" for his awkward, unorthodox stance as well as his limpet-like ability to cling on under pressure, has taken 98 balls to score 29 and has found a useful ally in young Jermaine Blackwood, who thrashed his second ball for six but has mostly calmed down somewhat since then. Mostly.
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Afternoon, everyone - it's eyes down for day three of England's Caribbean crusade at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua. Play will be under way at 15:00 BST - we're expecting a prompt start despite an earlier shower.
The game is finely balanced - having resumed at 341-5 at the start of day two, England were bowled out for 399, and have West Indies at 155-4 - but a familiar foe is proving a characteristically tough nut to crack.
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And that's where we leave it for the day. We'll do it all again tomorrow - with play starting at 15:00 BST, we'll be back on duty here from 14:30.
Two good sessions could - and should - put England on the brink of a first away Test victory since Kolkata 2012. West Indies need some inspiration from somewhere - I'd expect them to get another pre-match "fire and brimstone" talk from Sir Curtly Ambrose tomorrow morning. Bye for now.
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Mel, North London: Just to redress the balance, could you make clear that some England fans love and appreciate Test cricket, are enjoying this match and are hoping England can turn this good position into a winning one?
Review of the day
Apologies for the TMS line going down - you'll be able to download Aggers and Geoffrey's review of the day via the podcast page later.
West Indies began day three on 155-4, still 244 behind England - and while Shivnarine Chanderpaul was dislodged for 46, the rest of the innings belonged to Jermaine Blackwood, who rode his luck a little but forged ahead to compile a maiden Test century. However, he lacked support at the other end as the last five batsmen added just 32 between them, leaving Blackwood high and dry on 112 and England with a first-innings lead of 104.
Sadly, it was the same old story for Alastair Cook and Jonathan Trott, who both fell cheaply, while Ian Bell may only have himself to blame after a needless run-out. But Gary Ballance (44 not out) and Joe Root (32 not out) have added 64 as West Indies rather lost heart in the last hour or two, and England are now "net" 220-3 in a one-innings match with two days remaining.
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Craig Stevanato: 24 overs of spin, 30 mins extra, yet still 5 overs short. Not acceptable. Penalty runs + big fines + bans for captains required. Fans pay to see 90 overs in 6 hours, not 80-odd overs in 6.5 hours.
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As you may be aware, TMS's line to Antigua went down just after the close of play - they're working to restore it as soon as possible.
If you missed today's lunchtime feature celebrating James Anderson's 100th Test, "The Real Jimmy" (featuring Graeme Swann, BBC Radio 1's Greg James and Anderson's agent Luke Sutton), it's available on the TMS podcast page.
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Chris Parker: Re: Firas (22:21): Make Root captain as "our best batsman"? Because that's what we thought with Cook, and look what it's done to him.
Jimmy: Drop Cook, play Lyth and make Root captain.
billybunter3rd: Root will be next captain but needs 18-24 months' more experience, which is why selectors want Cook stay 'til then.
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West Indies batsman Jermaine Blackwood on Sky Sports: "It was hard, I took a couple of blows, but that's why it's Test cricket. It's a very big difference scoring a Test century, it's a very important milestone for me. No-one remembers you for half-centuries. I'm looking forward to many more."
On Ben Stokes, whose no-ball reprieved him on the way to his century:
"Ben Stokes and I go back to the 2010 Under-19 World Cup. Ben Stokes is all right, Ben Stokes is my boy."
Close-of-play scorecard
England 116-3 (38 overs) - lead by 220 runs
Batsmen: Ballance 44*, Root 32*
Fall of wickets: 15-1 (Trott 4), 20-2 (Cook 13), 52-3 (Bell 11)
Bowling figures: Taylor 8-4-12-2, Roach 9-1-32-0, Holder 7-3-20-0, Benn 9-2-34-0, Samuels 5-0-13-0
First innings: England 399; West Indies 295: Blackwood 112*, Tredwell 4-47
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Well, it was a more entertaining day than yesterday, but it still drifted for long periods. England will start day four "net" 220-3 - and will be aiming, you would hope, for an afternoon declaration to allow them time to force victory.
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C.J. Henstock: C.R.A.B. de Villiers would be a shoo-in for the Crustacean XI.
Christo EL: Crustacean XI players tend to go into their shells when going gets tough and then look like fish out of water when they re-emerge!
Close of play
Eng 116-3 (lead by 220)
It looks as though both sides are going through the motions, as Samuels bowls a few wide of Ballance's off stump, he's not too interested until he chips a single off the last ball.
How do you solve slow over-rate problems? Penalty runs? If a team's five overs short, why not give the other team 25 runs - that would soon eradicate the problem.
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Eng 115-3 (lead by 219)
Holder bowls a no-ball, never a good start to the over, while far more interesting news is that the Antigua & Barbuda PM has moved on from selfies with Barmy Army fans to selfies with the dancing girls. Oh, the trappings of power... Back on the pitch, some hard running takes Ballance's score to 43, and even though it's only 22:29 by our clocks, it looks as though the players are ready to walk off... until the umpires force them back on.
We're still going to have lost five overs today, despite 24 overs of spin so far today. Hardly cricket's finest hour.
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Paul in Spain: Erm, we are 200 runs ahead with seven wickets in hand, what is going so wrong? Why is everybody so down on England? And why is Tredwell with easily the best bowling figures in the first inning being marked for the chop? Have any of these critics ever actually played or even watched live cricket?
Eng 109-3 (Ballance 38*, Root 32*)
The teams, collectively, are going to be about five overs short of their target of 90 today, not that you'd know it from the players' body language... Samuels to continue, but there are wide open spaces in the leg side for Root to pick off a single just about anywhere. A single from Ballance stretches the lead to 213.
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"When you are 100 runs behind, you have no option but to bowl your best bowlers into the ground. The only way you can win is to bowl the opposition out."
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The Antigua & Barbuda PM Gaston Browne (who was interviewed on TMS earlier) is now posing for pictures with a fan in a Barmy Army shirt. Having leaked plenty of runs with spin on at both ends, West Indies turn back to Jason Holder at the Sir Andy Roberts End, which puts the brakes on a little - but has the game gone away from West Indies in the last hour?
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Firas: Why not make Root captain? Arguably our best batsman and brings a relaxed approach to the team. He can't do worse than Cook...
Tom Tuthill: Will everybody calm down - we are nearly 200 ahead with two days to go. Victory is in the bag.
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Ed Smith
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
"West Indies won't be in this contest for long if they carry on in this vein."
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Eng 107-3 (lead by 211)
More easy accumulation against Samuels, this day's play is ambling towards a conclusion with England firmly in the driving seat. Meanwhile, at the back of the TMS box, it sounds as though Geoffrey Boycott is coming off the long run, giving an update to 5 live listeners...
Crustacean XI
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A few more entries for the Crustacean XI we were discussing earlier while Shivnarine "The Crab" Chanderpaul was batting...
Roger Williams, Twickenham: None of the modern crustaceans are a patch on the great Australian from the early days, Clam Hill.
Tom, Herefordshire (and others): You can't have a crustacean XI without including Michael Slater (a slater is a kind of crustacean).
Andrew Rankin: Of course, moules mariniere must have Onions.
Eng 104-3 (Ballance 35*, Root 30*)
A ripple of applause around the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium as Ballance brings up the hundred for England and then the fifty stand, as the ones and twos continue to flow.
While Benn and Samuels bowling in tandem will improve West Indies' over-rate, it'll also give England a nice end-of-day boost of easy runs. 18 minutes remaining of day three.
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"The footholes haven't really arrived yet. There's nothing of note for the spinners to aim at."
Eng 99-3 (lead by 203)
Samuels rattles through the rest of his over at the cost of two singles.
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As we thought - impact outside the line, and even if it wasn't, it was also an "umpire's call" for hitting the wickets. Ramdin may be sent to remedial "how to use DRS" school at the close of play.
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"That's a panic review. The umpires do get some wrong, but generally it has be a thud below the knee roll to be overturned."
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Umpire review
An overly optimistic review from captain Denesh Ramdin as Root is hit on the pad by Samuels attempting a pull shot - the impact looked clearly outside off stump and he was playing a shot...
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James Standen: Let's be honest with ourselves! We are struggling v WI... the Aussies will be 10-0 unless a whole Test gets rained off!
Jamie Taylor: West Indies v Yorkshire...
Eng 97-3 (Ballance 31*, Root 27*)
Root square-cuts Benn, but that's only a single as the fleet-footed Jermaine Blackwood is patrolling the cover boundary. Busy, positive cricket from the fourth-wicket pair means they're picking up ones, twos and even a three with ease - the stand is up to 45, and the lead is up to 201.
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Omnishambles: Supporting England cricket has to be a form of Stockholm Syndrome.
Rachel T: My son is learning cricket at school this term. Needless to say I'm not allowing him to watch this Test.
Eng 92-3 (lead by 196)
A good call from MP Vaughan - as it's going to be Marlon Samuels to bowl his part-time off-spin, inscrutable behind his sunglasses. But his first ball is another freebie, full outside leg stump and Root easily sweeps it for four. England's lead continues to build.
Today's lunchtime discussion "The Real Jimmy", celebrating James Anderson's 100th Test, is available for another listen on the TMS podcast page.
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"The way Sulieman Benn is bowling, I don't know if we'll see him in Grenada. It's too short, there's nothing on it. These two bowlers are releasing all the pressure. Ramdin needs to bowl Taylor and Holder, or if not, Marlon Samuels."
Eng 87-3 (Ballance 30*, Root 18*)
Root drives Benn through the covers, it's half-stopped and they run two. A more fluent cut shot brings the young Yorkshire right-hander (he's still only 24) four, and there are plenty of free runs to be had at the moment. There are three close fielders but Benn's not really bringing them into the game.
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"West Indies need to get Kemar Roach out of the attack. They need to build pressure, they need to get wickets. He's bowling slowly, he's bowling with nothing on it, there are too many freebies coming Ballance's way."
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Eng 80-3 (lead by 184)
This is not good bowling from Roach, spraying it around either side of the wicket as Ballance helps himself to a four through point and another helped down to fine leg. Frustrating for the Windies after all the control Taylor and Holder showed earlier, that Roach and Benn have allowed England to step on the gas - but in a four-man attack, there's no hiding place. Perhaps the Seaweed Man (see earlier) could turn his arm over?
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Marko Koning: England's number four batsman don't even have time for a cup of tea these days. Another top-order collapse. Worrying.
Thomas Hammond: England are maddening. It would be fascinating to see what goes on behind closed doors in terms of preparation.
Eng 70-3 (Ballance 20*, Root 11*)
Root moves into double figures, helping Benn for two through square leg. Meanwhile, TMS scorer Andrew Samson reveals that England were seven overs adrift of their target by the time they bowled West Indies out - and they've "no excuse" for that according to Michael Vaughan, considering how long spinner Tredwell bowled.
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"Joe Root's arrived at the crease and he wants to look busy against Sulieman Benn. Ballance has been very watchful - he's played and missed at a few, but he's seen off the new ball and he's good at using the width and getting that left hand into play."
Eng 68-3 (lead by 170)
After that three-over burst from Taylor, it's time for a third spell from Kemar Roach - and having seen off Taylor, Ballance finds the room to cut Roach for four. 44 minutes left of play today.
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Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"Benn won't mind that six too much, because Root's playing across the line. There's always that fine line when you're a spinner between the shot that you want to see the batsman play, and the shot that you want to see the batsman mess up playing."
Drinks break
Eng 64-3
Single from Ballance, then a slog-shovel across the line from Root brings him a six over mid-wicket - the fifth maximum of the match. The players have earned another drinks break, the second of this mammoth session, and it looks like umpire Billy Bowden is scampering off for a comfort break.
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Woolpack Inn York: Has the @ECB_cricket got any clue at all how to select a team? #Clueless.
Eng 57-3 (Taylor 8-4-12-2)
Taylor v Ballance, round three. The left-hander leaves anything he doesn't have to play, but Taylor's hopes of another maiden are ended when Ballance guides the last ball for a single off his legs - a favoured shot of his.
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Joshua Edwards: Re 21:00. Geoff Kidd wins his bet. Aussie here in Texas falling off my chair laughing...though I first fell 2 days ago to be fair.
Eng 56-3 (lead by 160)
Joe Root is off the mark with his 11th delivery, on-driving Benn for three, while Ballance nudges a single off his legs, Jason Holder gives chase and slips over on his posterior while retrieving the ball in a brief moment of comedy. Always looks a little funnier when it happens to such a tall man.
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Chris Jones: Could throw away this whole Test in one bad session here.
John S Kirkup: This cricket team. Dear me. Get a grip.
Richard Branch: So England's top-order batsmen are working hard to ensure there's a result from this Test.
Eng 52-3
The Taylor-Ballance duel continues, the Jamaican goes round the wicket to the Zimbabwean-Harrovian-Yorkshireman, there are a couple of wafts outside off stump but it's a maiden over. Taylor has an excellent 2-11 from seven.
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Alice Stainer: That Bell run-out takes the biscuit. What on earth is going on? England don't look like serious professionals but a jittery mess.
Scorecard update
England 52-3 (20 overs) - lead by 156 runs
Batsmen: Ballance 13*, Root 0*
Fall of wickets: 15-1 (Trott 4), 20-2 (Cook 13), 52-3 (Bell 11)
Bowling figures: Taylor 6-3-11-2, Roach 7-1-18-0, Holder 5-2-14-0, Benn 2-1-4-0,
First innings: England 399; West Indies 295: Blackwood 112*, Tredwell 4-47
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Eng 52-3 (Taylor 6-3-11-2)
West Indies look to put the frighteners on England by recalling Jerome Taylor to the attack. Ballance is stout in defence, biding his time. His last five international innings in all formats before today were 10, 10, 10, 6, and 10 - he's now unbeaten on 13. Maiden over.
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Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"It was a massive mess-up. You can't really blame Gary Ballance - Ian Bell made a mistake and before he knew it, he was gone. He has just made one of those boo-boos at the wrong time."
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Eng 52-3
Not for the first time in this game, Joe Root comes to the crease with England in a spot of bother. He sees out the over.
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Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"Ian Bell is normally a very good runner. He just aimlessly went jogging down the pitch, then suddenly realised it was too late. I just can't understand what he was thinking, other than thought square-leg was deep square-leg. Bell had given up the ghost."
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Bell run out (sub Bishoo/Ramdin) 11 (Eng 52-3)
Bell turns Benn off his legs and goes walkabout, he's sent back, the ball is thrown back sharply from short fine leg by sub fielder Devendra Bishoo and he's run out by yards... Ballance, who came a couple of yards down the pitch, has his head in his hands.
With Ramdin seemingly only taking the bails off at the second attempt, there's even a question: if Bell had dived, might he have made his ground? England are "net" 156-3.
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James Pockett: The laptop didn't say the ball was going to swing like this!
Eng 52-2 (lead by 156)
Holder to continue - Bell guides a single off his legs, then feverishly signals to the dressing-room, pointing at his helmet. Ballance punch-drives a three past third man, or is that four? The fielder's knee appeared to be touching the rope when he pushed the ball back so that's four. Bell gets a drink between overs, and it's been a long day for the dancing girls on the boundary but they're still going.
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Phil Lang: Are England the only team with a tail at the top and bottom of the order?
Eng 47-2 (Ballance 9*, Bell 10*)
After 16 overs of right-arm seam, time for some left-arm spin from big, bad Sulieman Benn, who didn't bowl well in the first innings but has contributed today with a couple of entertaining swipes at number 11, and a good catch at gully to remove Cook. But it's bowling where he's supposed to contribute - Ballance helps himself to an easy four off his hip, guiding the ball between the keeper and leg slip.
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Sir Viv Richards
Ex-West Indies captain on BBC Test Match Special
"I've heard them say this pitch is slow, but some balls have taken off. If you put it in, you'll get it out."
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Antigua & Barbuda prime minister Gaston Browne on TMS: "Cricket connects us in the West Indies, we also have common traditions. and origins. Fundamentally we're the same people. We're all Caribbeans."
Eng 43-2 (lead by 147)
Holder has been gun-barrel straight so far, but even his radar slips for once when he bangs in a bouncer to Ballance which disappears for five wides. A leg bye rotates the strike for the first time for a while, Bell pushes a leisurely two through the covers and is that leg-spinner Devendra Bishoo on as a sub fielder?
England's lead is 147. A good score in snooker, eminently beatable in cricket.
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Could this be a shock family reunion on TMS?
Sir Viv Richards to PM Gaston Browne: "I'm hearing from the family that we could be related."
Gaston Browne: "My maternal grandfather was a Richards."
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Geoff Kidd: Bet any Aussies watching this are falling off their stools with laughter. #shambles.
Eng 35-2 (Ballance 5*, Bell 8*)
Roach raises his arm, half in appeal, half in frustration as Bell plays and misses and the ball is well taken by skipper Ramdin crouching to his right. But the Warwickshire man then profits with a slash just over point for four. We still have another 28 overs left - realistically, another 95 minutes of play, in which they'll struggle to get 28 in. With the current lot struggling to bowl 90, I wonder how the incoming ECB chairman might incentivise the players to bowl 105 in a day for his planned four-day Tests?
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Sir Viv Richards
Ex-West Indies captain on BBC Test Match Special
"This was a great opportunity for the West Indies to bounce back, and to have gotten those two early wickets does send a message that it's game on."
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Eng 31-2 (lead by 135)
While Aggers and the PM chat about the value of Antigua's investment in Test cricket, the game resumes with Holder going round the wicket to Ballance, who knocks a two off his legs.
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Antigua & Barbuda PM Gaston Browne on TMS: "It's untenable that we don't have one [Antiguan] person in the West Indies team now. We need to change that, encourage the youth to get involved in cricket, and find the next generation of Sir Vivs."
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E Mistry: What has happened to England, no joy in watching/listening anymore. Less fight than a wet lettuce.
Tristan Watson: Someone take Cook out this England setup now before he ruins his career any further. Enough is enough, he is spent.
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Antigua & Barbuda PM Gaston Browne on TMS: "We had to pay half a million US dollars to the West Indies Cricket Board to stage this game. But with all the tourists here, we feel we get a good return - we had in excess of 10,000 people here on the first day, and 5-6,000 today. We're subsidising the game so more people are here."
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Jonathan Agnew
BBC Test Match Special
To Antigua PM Gaston Browne:
"Do you have the power to deport people? There's a candidate behind me, Mr Boycott."
Drinks break
Eng 29-2
Ian Bell, at least, seems pretty confident in the knowledge of where his off stump is, leaving a lot of deliveries from Roach in Geoffrey's beloved corridor of uncertainty. Another maiden earns England a drinks break.
As well as Sir Viv, TMS have now been joined by Antigua & Barbuda's Prime Minister, Gaston Browne.
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"You want to have a gap on the off side to encourage the batsman to drive. Ballance doesn't play straight unless he's in; he likes to drive through extra cover."
Eng 29-2 (lead by 133)
With another 31 overs left to bowl today after this one (albeit in less than two hours - they can't go beyond 22:30 BST), what would you think England's target would be? 250 ahead by the close with an eye on a pre-tea declaration tomorrow? For now, it's just about recovering from those early wickets. An accurate maiden over to Ballance means Holder is yet to concede a run.
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West Indies/Royal Challengers Bangalore batsman Chris Gayle on Twitter: Run through this batting line up Bobby Taylor. No Kevin Pietersen, it's possible!
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"I'm amazed they've taken Taylor out of the attack. Bell is the key wicket. He might not get in the same rhythm when he comes back."
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Eng 25-2 (Ballance 3*, Bell 4*)
After a hostile and accurate spell of 2-11 from five overs, Taylor is off - to England's relief, and Michael Vaughan's surprise - and Roach has had a change of ends. Bell is off the mark from his 12th delivery as he smacks a loose delivery through the covers for four. England lead by 133.
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Comedian and cricket writer Andy Zaltzman on Twitter: Cook & Trott total 28-4 - joint-2nd worst Test by England openers since 1989. Only Jamaica 2009 was worse.
Daily Mirror cricket correspondent Dean Wilson on Twitter: With Cook and Trott back in the hutch, coach Peter Moores pulls batting coach Mark Ramprakash aside for an in-depth chat on the balcony.
Eng 25-2 (lead by 129)
West Indies make their first bowling change and turn to the tall Jason Holder, the third prong of their three-pronged seam attack who supported Jermaine Blackwood well with the bat earlier today. Holder keeps it tight, Ballance hangs his bat out and comes within a whisker of getting a nick as the ball ends up in the hands of first slip. Maiden.
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Cricket writer Daniel Brigham on Twitter: Only three century opening partnerships since Strauss retired. All between Cook and... Compton.
I wonder what the people who seemed keen to hound Compton out of the England team in 2013 make of that stat?
Eng 25-2 (Taylor 5-2-11-2)
"You can't chop and change after one game," muses Michael Vaughan - but Ian Bell will know only too well that it doesn't always happen like that, having been dropped after the first Test of the 2009 series in the Caribbean after England's Jerome Taylor-inspired 51 all out calamity in Jamaica. Owais Shah was the man brought in, but he only lasted the rest of that series before being replaced at three by Ravi Bopara.
Bell's second coming was later in 2009 when injury to Kevin Pietersen earned Bell a mid-Ashes recall, and when lack of form prompted Bopara to be dropped, his place went to the uncapped... Jonathan Trott. How things change. Something to ponder as Bell survives a maiden from Taylor.
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Mark: Cook's technical flaw remains and shows no sign of being rectified. Every bowler knows to pitch it up around off stump.
Adam Tillsley: Cook out cheaply again. Surely this can't go on much longer? He's so out of form it's incredible...
Scorecard update
England 25-2 (8 overs) - lead by 129 runs
Batsmen: Ballance 3*, Bell 0*
Fall of wickets: 15-1 (Trott 4), 20-2 (Cook 13)
Bowling figures: Taylor 4-1-11-2, Roach 4-0-10-0
First innings: England 399; West Indies 295: Blackwood 112*, Tredwell 4-47
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Eng 25-2 (lead by 129)
West Indies' body language show their tails are up, there's a spring in their step - an overstep in Roach's case as he bowls a no-ball to Ballance, and then frustration as the left-hander fences and misses at the last ball of the over.
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Thomas Huysinga: There's a Dutch saying that goes 'a donkey never steps on the same stone twice'. Not quite sure what that makes Alastair Cook.
Football Fragmento: Vaughan says on TMS that Cook looks great. Next ball he's out. Commentator's Curse or what.
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Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician
"Of Jerome Taylor's 108 Test wickets, 19 of them have been the opposition captain. It's the highest percentage (17.59%) of any bowler in Test history."
Close!
Eng 24-2
New batsman Ian Bell shows the full face of a back-foot defensive shot to Taylor as the ball whizzes by first ball, then one nips back, nearly cuts him in half and keeper Ramdin can't hold on as it disappears to the boundary. It's signalled as leg byes though, so can't be put down as a chance, but was mighty close.
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"His foot movement was good, he just prodded at the ball. It was the first ball Taylor bowled round the wicket, and that's the angle that causes Cook problems. Taylor's getting it as full as he can, it's not safe bowling but he draws the drive."
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Cook c Benn b Taylor 13 (Eng 20-2)
A tentative checked drive does for Alastair Cook as he edges Taylor to gully and is caught by big Sulieman Benn. Not a start to the innings that either Cook or Trott will remember fondly - the knives will be out for both of them now.
In England's favour, they are "net" 124-2. Ballance managed to open his account with a three through mid-wicket before Cook fell.
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Kevin Baker: What a delivery by Taylor. World class. Not much Trott could do.
James Gutteridge: Can we just admit Trott is no opener and give Lyth the chance he deserves?
Will Morrall: Send Trott home. He's not even close to being the same player. Moeen's back too - no brainer.
Eng 17-1 (lead by 121)
Gary Ballance is the new batsman, walking to the middle while the West Indians celebrate. For now he's the non-striker as Cook sizes up Roach, who runs up in the manner of the former star sprinter Michael Johnson (with his head well back) but is nowhere near as quick,,, Cook adds a couple to his score.
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Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
"He's on the move, which is not great. But I think he was playing towards mid-on, which he always does. It's not great against the new ball. I don't think he's an opener. If I was Adam Lyth, I'd have a good sleep tonight and go to the nets early tomorrow morning."
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Jonathan Agnew
BBC Test Match Special
"It wasn't one solid movement, it was a walking shot, playing towards mid-off. He was squared up, the outswing has done for him again."
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Trott c Ramdin b Taylor 4 (Eng 15-1)
Oh, no - Trott edges to the keeper for the second time in this match, trying to work a swinging delivery from outside off stump to leg. I can hear the knives being sharpened already.
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Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
"It's difficult to create pressure when there are only a couple of really good bowlers. Cook is used to the ball going across him: the that gives him the most trouble is the one that just holds."
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Jonathan Agnew
BBC Test Match Special
"You can feel Cook trying to get forward rather than across the crease. Taylor is just finding a little bit of movement at the moment."
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Eng 15-0
Cook is not quite entirely fluent yet, inside-edging Taylor onto his pad, while he's slightly off-balance (as opposed to being off-Ballance) as he hoicks him through mid-wicket for four. A single takes him to 11.
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Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician
On Twitter: Benn is Anderson's first wicket caught at short leg since Iain O'Brien at Manchester in 2008 (his 78th wicket).
Eng 10-0 (lead by 114)
No rain yet, but the floodlights are on as Trott steps well across his stumps to work Roach for two - almost like the way Hashim Amla played England at The Oval three years ago, stepping across to the off side each time to bring lbw out of the equation.
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Ben Hoare: Trott and Cook to get a century each with a stand of 225/230. It'll happen.
David: Moeen Ali has scored one Test hundred in 10 innings, never scored a 50. Why is he a guaranteed pick?
Moeen added to England Test squad
If you didn't hear earlier, all-rounder Moeen Ali has been added to the England squad for the final two Tests in the West Indies.
The 27-year-old left-handed batsman and off-spinner was not included in the original 16-man party because of a side stain suffered during the World Cup.
However, he made 62 and four on his comeback in Worcestershire's season-opening County Championship defeat by Yorkshire this week.
The England and Wales Cricket Board said Moeen will join up with the squad in Grenada on Saturday, before the second Test begins on 21 April.
Eng 8-0
While we all reach for the Laws of Cricket, Cook safely negotiates a maiden from Taylor, while Geoffrey has a bit of a moan about Adam Lyth and Liam Plunkettt not being in the England side.
Here's a worry - Aggers has spotted some ground staff by the boundary "dressed like North Sea trawlermen". Is there rain on the way?
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Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician
"The ball is dead when it rests in the wicketkeeper's gloves. It shouldn't have been dead there."
Here's Law 23 from the MCC website.
Law 23.1 (a) (i) The ball becomes dead when it is finally settled in the hands of the wicketkeeper or of the bowler.
23.1 (b) The ball shall be considered to be dead when it is clear to the bowler's end umpire that the fielding side and both batsmen at the wicket have ceased to regard it as in play.
23.2 Whether the ball is finally settled or not is a matter for the umpire alone to decide.
Eng 8-0 (Cook 6*, Trott 2*)
Kemar Roach takes the second over, banging a freebie down the leg side which Captain Cook helps on its way for four. Windies captain Denesh Ramdin responds immediately by sending one of his five-man slip cordon into the covers. Then there's an odd moment when a wild throw to the keeper sails past the slips and goes to the boundary, but after a discussion between the umpires, the ball is deemed to be "dead" so no extra runs are added.
Aggers on TMS thinks it wasn't "dead" and England have been robbed of four overthrows - and I agree. At what point did the ball become dead there, umpire Billy Bowden?
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Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
"Taylor is bowling full outside off stump: a lovely line to Trott, because he wants to get out to the off side and work it to on."
Eng 3-0 (lead by 107)
Cook clips a single off Jerome Taylor's first ball, bringing Trott on strike. On a pair. And he plays and misses outside off stump... not one for the purists, that. But an easy flick to long leg for two gets Trott - playing his 50th Test, lest we forget - off the mark. Relief all round.
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Gary Brooks: To be frank, even though I'm an England fan, the best thing all round might be a sound thrashing of England in this series. Then we might get real change at the top, a new coach and then pick players on form with some bottle.
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Alastair Cook and Jonathan Trott to open for England - starting on a "net" total of 104-0.
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Jonathan Agnew
BBC Test Match Special
"What England won't need here is two or three out-of-form batsmen trying to cling on like limpets, desperately trying to play themselves back into form."
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Thanks, James. Strap yourselves in and get your sandwiches to hand for a long final session - we still have 43 overs to cram in today.
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Time for me to hand you back to Mark Mitchener for the evening session...
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West Indies opener Chris Gayle: That's my boy Jermaine Blackwood, 1st Test hundred, many more to come! #WellDone #112NotOut
Gayle was unable to play in this series because of a persistent back injury - but is playing in the Indian Premier League instead.
The spin debate
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Mike Bell: Is Simon Kerrigan not even on the selection spectrum? Shane Watson thumped a few shots off him in one spell, but is that it?
Si Lomas: Ali in for Trott to open, he'll play aggressively, Rashid in for Tredwell... you then have two spinners who spin ball opposite ways.
James Cowe: Would you necessarily drop Tredwell for Ali? Broad, Jordan or Stokes could easily be replaced based on their performances. Tredwell somehow reminds me of an Ashley Giles spinner. Does a job, keeps an end. Gets mocked by many.
Cracking cheese, Tredders!
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Joe Baker: Did they base Wallace from Wallace and Gromit on James Tredwell? Spitting image.
The spin debate
Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
Who's the better off-spinner - Moeen Ali or James Tredwell?
"Moeen. You look at what he's done in his short Test career so far, if he's fit you get him in the team. Look at who are the best five bowlers to win in Grenada - if you go with four seamers and one spinner, do you bring in Moeen for Tredwell? Harsh - but yes. If Moeen and Stokes are going to bat six and seven, Buttler at eight, then Jordan, Tredwell or Rashid, then Broad and Anderson. It'd be interesting to see who they left out if they went down to three seamers. By not playing Rashid this week, it's telling me they don't trust him, even though he won Yorkshire the title. The rumours are they're not impressed with him. If he isn't in their plans for the next two games, they should send him home. Same goes for one of the seamers, as long as they're covered for Barbados."
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"You know what you're going to get with James Tredwell, but I think England are missing a trick by not having a look at Adil Rashid. I hope they don't bring back Moeen Ali in order to go with two off-spinners. Maybe two spinners is the way, but two off-spinners isn't the way."
Tea interval
Tea has been taken before England begin their second innings...
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"What England can't afford to do is to be 30-3 like they were in the first innings, as at 50-5 West Indies are back in it. They need to score, but not recklessly - West Indies only have a four-man attack and Sulieman Benn needs to bowl better than he did in the first innings."
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Pete: Jimmy is superb but let's not forget Beefy had the small matter of 5,200 runs also!
Peter Collins: Perfect, time for our batsmen to go out and smash their way to a couple of hundred. Blistering start needed. Oh wait...
Chris Jones: West Indies throwing away all their hard work today in one over.
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So, a strong afternoon session from England, who were able to run through the tail pretty quickly once they winkled out Jason Holder. James Tredwell had been expected to play second fiddle to England's seamers but he was the star performer, picking up four wickets with good ol' fashioned flight and guile.
Jermaine Blackwood played an excellent, gritty innings, often reining in his natural attacking instincts, to drag West Indies up to nearly 300, but that first-innings deficit of 104 runs puts England firmly in the box seat.
End-of-innings scorecard
West Indies 295 all out (113 overs) - trail by 104 runs
Blackwood 112*, Chanderpaul 46; Tredwell 4-47
Fall of wickets: 19-1 (Smith 11), 42-2 (Bravo 10), 89-3 (Samuels 33), 99-4 (Brathwaite 39), 192-5 (Chanderpaul 46), 227-6 (Ramdin 9), 276-7 (Holder 16), 292-8 (Roach 5), 292-9 (Taylor 0), 295 all out (Benn 2)
Bowling figures: Anderson 23-9-67-2, Broad 22-2-67-2, Jordan 23-8-46-1, Stokes 19-3-64-0, Tredwell 26-12-47-4
England 399: Bell 143, Root 83, Stokes 79; Roach 4-94
West Indies won toss
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"A wonderful innings from Blackwood - he set his stall out with that second ball when he hit it for six. Stuart Broad gave him a working-over with the short stuff, he came through that and chose the right balls to attack. But to get those last two wickets so quickly is a big bonus for England - they're in the box seat to go out, bat well and give West Indies four or four-and-a-half sessions to survive the match."
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Benn c Root b Anderson 2 (WI 295 all out)
It's all over, and as we suspected Jermaine Blackwood is left high and dry. Sulieman Benn's brief innings ends when he tries to flick Anderson into the leg side but the ball bobbles up tamely and is claimed by Joe Root at short leg.
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Ed Smith
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
On Twitter: Reliable, understated, modest, quietly proficient: James Tredwell belongs to the great old-school tradition of professional cricket.
WI 292-9
Sulieman Benn is the new batsman. Jermaine Blackwood is in danger of being left stranded like a shipwreck survivor on a tropical island.
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Tony Cozier
BBC Test Match Special
"Jerome Taylor is from the same parish in Jamaica as Jermaine Blackwood. You wouldn't think it after that run-out."
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"This is the first time I've seen West Indies panic, I expected more of that from them after the way they've played for the last few years."
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Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"Crazy stuff from Jerome Taylor, he didn't even wait for the third umpire. Now it's Tredwell's chance to take five as the last man is a crazy left-hander who hacks across the line - Sulieman Benn."
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Taylor run out (Broad) 0 (WI 292-9)
Well now, that is careless. Jerome Taylor squirts one backward of point and sets of without looking, and Stuart Broad swoops on it like a hawk and rattles the timbers with a sharp throw. West Indies folding like a deckchair in a stiff gale.
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Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician
"Five catches for Jos Buttler, which is the first time he's done that in a Test innings - he's just the second keeper to take five in an innings against West Indies after Jack Russell in 1990."
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Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"Well bowled, James Tredwell - it was pushed through quicker, Roach tried to defend, it was well taken by Buttler and Tredwell is doing exactly what he should do - easily the pick of the bowlers. He's got two opportunities left to get his first Test five-for."
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Roach c Buttler b Tredwell 5 (WI 292-8)
He'll have an honest try, they said. He won't let anybody down, they said. Well, James Tredwell is doing a bit better than that - he's leading the England attack here. He picks up his fourth wicket with one that skids straight on and takes the edge of Kemar Roach.
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West Indies 292-7 (111 overs) - trail by 112 runs
Batsmen: Blackwood 111*, Roach 8*
Fall of wickets: 19-1 (Smith 11), 42-2 (Bravo 10), 89-3 (Samuels 33), 99-4 (Brathwaite 39), 192-5 (Chanderpaul 46), 227-6 (Ramdin 9), 276-7 (Holder 16)
Bowling figures: Anderson 22-9-64-1, Broad 22-2-67-2, Jordan 23-8-46-1, Stokes 19-3-64-0, Tredwell 25-11-47-3
England 399: Bell 143, Root 83, Stokes 79; Roach 4-94
West Indies won toss
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WI 292-7 (Blackwood 111*, Roach 5*)
Blackwood plays a lovely shot through extra cover but only gets one for it as Ben Stokes, who has an arm like a medieval trebuchet, sweeps round on the off side. No-one will reel the next one in though as Blackwood smears one through mid-wicket for four.
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Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"As a spin bowler, if you've got three wickets of three top-order batsmen, then if you can convince the captain to let you bowl at the tail-enders, that's your bread and butter."
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Julian, Surrey: Once Jimmy is done, surely the stage is set for Cook to chase down Gooch's 8,900 runs record? 460-odd needed could coincide nicely with the third Ashes Test?
WI 286-7
Roach is bedding in here. He plays out his second successive maiden off Tredwell.
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Terry Mahoney: Bringing Jimmy back to have a go at the tail with the record in sight. Good captaincy (for once).
WI 286-7 (Blackwood 106*, Roach 4*)
Blackwood, whose concetration still looks solid out there, nudges a couple of twos from Anderson's latest over.
WI 282-7
Tredwell continues and he almost has a fourth wicket, sliding one across Kemar Roach and enticing a wild swing which, luckily for the West Indian, connects with nothing but fresh air.
Tredwell or Rashid?
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Tom Audsley: Is Rashid ever going to be given a chance? He has been outstanding for Yorkshire. Ali joining up will put him further back.
Jack Tecwyn: Fair play to Tredders. He's held up an end & got three wickets. I thought Rashid should have played. But I am a Yorkshireman!
James Cowe: Tredwell won't be a decent off-spinner till he bowls a few or gets a few catches behind in one innings.
WI 282-7 (Blackwood 102*, Roach 4*)
Chris Jordan is finally hooked, and James Anderson gets a bowl. Jordan's rest is rudely interrupted though when Blackwood immediately skies one on the off-side and Jordan has to get his piston-like thighs pumping to try and chase it down, but it lands tantalisingly safe.
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Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"Moeen Ali could replace James Tredwell in this team. But what if Tredwell gets eight or nine wickets in this game and wins it for England, you could have an England spinner who can't get in his own County Championship team keeping out the established spinner."
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WI 280-7
It's been a performance of quiet determination from Tredwell, whose selection ahead of Adil Rashid was widely lamented but who now has three wickets to his name. He keeps West Indies quiet, just a single from his latest over.
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Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"England seem to be unusually reticent to pick Adil Rashid. Whether or not he's been deemed unselectable after they way he bowled in the warm-up games, I'm not sure, but they can't just keep him here and have him bowling in the nets. If he's not playing, send him back home and let him play for Yorkshire. One of the reasons we don't develop high-class spin in this country is that we don't trust them. Rashid has won the hearts and minds of Andrew Gale and Jason Gillespie at Yorkshire, and as there are no more warm-up games here, let him go home and get some wickets in case they need him later this summer."
Moeen Ali added to England squad
Ed Smith
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
"News from the ECB: Moeen Ali is being added to the England squad for Grenada. He's not replacing anyone at this stage, the team will be reassessed after this Test."
WI 279-7 (Blackwood 100*, Roach 3*)
Jerome Taylor is wearing the scowl of a thwarted man as he sits padded up on the West Indies balcony - he has a Test hundred to his name but is batting at ten today. Jordan's radar is beginning to misfire here - he sprays an errant full-toss down the leg side. Time for a bowling change perhaps?
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Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"A good hundred from Blackwood, a good mixture of steadfast defence and maverick aggression."
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WI 279-7
Kemar Roach is the new batsman, which is perhaps a surprise. Jerome Taylor is the more usual number nine. Roach is off the mark with three down to third man.
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David: Bell in charge for a few overs here, let's see some wickets, for the Ashes captain.
Your wishes are answered David!
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Sir Viv Richards
Ex-West Indies captain on BBC Test Match Special
"It was the same sort of shot that got Chanderpaul out - they advanced but didn't quite get to the pitch of the ball, and holed out to cover. You must give credit to Tredwell as he's not the biggest spinner of the ball, but he has guile and variety."
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Holder c Ballance b Tredwell 16 (WI 276-7)
Those young ladies aren't leaping with joy any more, Aggers. West Indies lose another wicket when Jason Holder hits Tredwell uppishly to Gary Ballance, who takes a good catch low down at cover.
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Jonathan Agnew
BBC Test Match Special
"There are young ladies literally leaping with joy there - sheer enthusiasm and love for the game. All part of the atmosphere, and well played Jermaine Blackwood. When he came in, you'd think if he were to get a century, it would come off 90 balls - it's taken 205."
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Century for Blackwood
WI 276-6
He's done it! Blackwood nurdles Tredwell down the ground to bring up his first Test century in his sixth Test match. An excellent, gutsy knock from the young Jamaican.
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Jonathan Agnew
BBC Test Match Special
"The crowd don't like this with Jordan bowling down the leg side, they think it's a tactic - I don't think it is, I think it's just some bad deliveries."
WI 275-6 (Blackwood 99*, Holder 16*)
Jermaine Blackwood, leaning jauntily on the handle of his bat at the non-striker's end, looks as composed as anyone has a right to look when they're within one of their first Test ton. Holder extends the agony by playing out six dots.
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West Indies 275-6 (102 overs) - trail by 124 runs
Batsmen: Blackwood 99*, Holder 16*
Fall of wickets: 19-1 (Smith 11), 42-2 (Bravo 10), 89-3 (Samuels 33), 99-4 (Brathwaite 39), 192-5 (Chanderpaul 46), 227-6 (Ramdin 9)
Bowling figures: Anderson 19-9-52-1, Broad 22-2-67-2, Jordan 21-6-46-1, Stokes 19-3-64-0, Tredwell 21-9-42-2
England 399: Bell 143, Root 83, Stokes 79; Roach 4-94
West Indies won toss
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Jonathan Agnew
BBC Test Match Special
"I think he was going for six for his hundred there, coming down the pitch. We saw Gary Ballance at Lord's hit a six for his first Test century."
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WI 275-6
Adam Lyth is hauled off his deck-chair to do some substitute fielding as skipper Alastair Cook trots off. It's up to Ian Bell to take the reins temporarily.
Blackwood, within six of his maiden century, decides he can no longer resist Tredwell's loopy, lofted tempters - he steps down the track and smashes the off-spinner straight back over his glistening bonce. The ball hangs in the air for a while but doesn't quite carry the rope: just four for Blackwood, whose wait goes on. He moves on to 99 with a nudge past point.
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Herbie, Leeds: Re Ruairi, Putney (18:16): get a wicket without bowling a no ball?
WI 269-6 (Blackwood 94*, Holder 15*)
Chris Jordan continues for the 101st over of the West Indies innings. Blackwood inches closer to the promised land with a single off his legs.
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Tony Cozier
BBC Test Match Special
"Holder's school coach Ezra Moseley, the former Glamorgan and West Indies bowler, thought he would be a better batsman than bowler, and also identified him as a future leader for Barbados and possibly West Indies."
WI 268-6
Alastair Cook, a man with 25 Test hundreds to his name, stands in the outfield, cogitating on a cunning plan to prevent Jermaine Blackwood reaching his first. The Jamaican has shown a liking for the odd expansive shot in this innings, and Cook decides to dangle a carrot - asking James Tredwell to float down some gentle off-spin on the faint afternoon breeze.
Tredders does succeed in drawing a big shot, but it's not Blackwood, but Holder, who absolutely marmalizes him over mid-off. One-bounce four.
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Sir Viv Richards
Ex-West Indies captain on BBC Test Match Special
"This partnership is going to be crucial after losing Ramdin just before lunch. I've always had a lot of faith ever since I first saw this young man Jason Holder, he looks the complete part - all the potential is there for him to do well on West Indies' behalf."
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WI 264-6 (Blackwood 93*, Holder 11*)
A strangled yelp from Jordan as he strikes Holder on the pads, but that's just drifting down the leg side. Blackwood, desperately clinging fast to his precious wicket, then does well to jam the bat down on a probing yorker.
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Ruairi, Putney: Stokes has now had a wicket off a no ball, a dropped catch and a tight lbw go against him. What's he gotta do to get a wicket!?
WI 263-6
All of a sudden, Blackwood is within sniffing distance of his first Test ton, the bright lights twinkling tantalisingly in the distance. He moves in to the nineties with a back-foot shovel through point which brings an all-run four.
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Tony Cozier
BBC Test Match Special
"The problem with West Indies cricket, and the development of it, is that the pitches have not been good for some time."
WI 259-6 (Blackwood 89*, Holder 11*)
England seem to have abandoned the policy of short-pitched bowling that brought them success just before the interval, but they might want to rethink that as Chris Jordan gets one to lift sharply off the pitch and even the tall Holder only just about manages to get his gloves on top of it and fend it to safety. No short leg in place. Jordan is bowling with good place, but so far without reward.
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Matthew Coote: You just wonder if Cook's batting would benefit from him not being captain. He just seems lost.
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WI 257-6
Here comes Ben Stokes again, his sun-bleached strawberry-blond eyebrows standing out like little white caterpillars on his reddening face. And he's greeted by an absolute gem of a shot from Jason Holder, who hits powerfully through the line of a length ball and lofts it into the stands at long-on.
Alastair Cook blinks and pulls a man out of the slip cordon to stand at mid-on, and the skipper is made to rue that decision when two balls later, Jermaine Blackwood squirts one off the edge straight into that vacant area. And the Jamaican rubs salt into the wound with a handsome drive through the covers for four.
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Neil Graham, Grantham: Just to let you guys know Aggers was just featured as a question on Pointless. It was a picture round on sports presenters and Aggers was the lowest of the six answers scoring just four points - less than the likes of Bobby George and Hazel Irvine.
WI 243-6 (Blackwood 74*, Holder 10*)
Blackwood's has been a curious, almost volcanic innings: lying dormant for ages and then intermittently spluttering into life with an explosive shot over the infield. He's in one of his circumspect spells at the moment, blocking out four dots from Jordan and then tucking a single to long leg.
Crustacean XI
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Kevin Harris: I have my doubts about these crustaceans being able to bat - they often get caught in the nets.
WI 240-6
So Blackwood survives. Earlier in the over he collected the first boundary of the afternoon session with the nudge down to fine leg.
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Ed Smith
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
"Frustration for Stokes. In old money, they were often given not out. It felt very close; it was very close."
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Not out
The ball-tracker shows the ball would have hit leg stump, but not full enough to reverse the on-field decision. On we go...
Umpire review
Ben Stokes has rapped Jermaine Blackwood on the pads with a hooping in-ducker - umpire Billy Bowden says not out, but England are going for the review...
WI 235-6 (Blackwood 69*, Holder 8*)
Jason Holder was in belligerent mood before lunch, smashing a one-bounce four and then nearly middling one into the mitts of Gary Ballance, but it looks like he's in more circumspect mood after the interval. He plays out four dots, then knocks a single in to the leg side.
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Thank you Mitch. Chris Jordan is going to take the cherry after lunch, with Jermaine Blackwood and Jason Holder at the crease.
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And with the players on their way back, after an enjoyable lunch interval celebrating the career of Jimmy Anderson, it's time to pass the baton to James Gheerbrant to talk you through the afternoon session.
The Real Jimmy
Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"He'll be a great coach, he can talk cricket on an everyman level so even the stupidest Yorkshire fast bowler can understand. I just hope that when he does retire, the ECB get him in and don't tell him he's got to go off and get his Level 4 coaching badge or whatever."
The Real Jimmy
What will Anderson do after retiring from playing?
Luke Sutton, Anderson's agent: "I can see him coaching, but also other things. Because he's so involved with cricket, he needs that little bit of creativity outside of cricket - like the radio show with Swanny and Greg James."
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Luke Sutton, Anderson's agent: "The demand for him is high all the time. He's a good-looking boy and an absolute superstar in what he has done. Going into the summer, if he has broken the record and with the Ashes coming up, it will ramp up even more."
The Real Jimmy
Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"It was great when his face was on the back of all of those London buses last year - just so I could say to him 'You've got a face like the back of a bus'."
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What is Anderson like to manage?
Luke Sutton, Anderson's agent: "We're mates as much as anything. He does have his moody times. I have sat in the car with him going to go a corporate event and told him to buck up his ideas and turn it on. He loves his job, his family. The fanfare that goes around it is not for him. The key for me managing that is to understand that - if it gets in the way of cricket, he's not going to do it. As long as I understand that, it's fine."
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Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"He realises how important this game is to his mum and dad, wife and kids. He'd rather it wasn't his 100th Test, but he realises how much it means to these other people - and he will be happier as soon as this record is broken."
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Luke Sutton, Anderson's agent: "He hugely admires Beefy [Sir Ian Botham]. He's still coming to terms with the fact that he is so close to the record. There's massive respect there."
The Real Jimmy
Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"Jimmy's not one to hold grudges. There are one or two people in the dressing-room who really don't like criticism and certain members of the press, but Jimmy's not one of them. He's got the ability to say, 'Well, I'm better than he was anyway.'"
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The Real Jimmy
Luke Sutton, Anderson's agent: "Jimmy will definitely play as long as he can. Cricket is in his blood. He might not like me saying this, but e is a student of the game. He watches so much cricket - at a time when young players don't see it as being cool. It's in his DNA, so he will play for as long as he possibly can. And he will stay in that beyond that, definitely."
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Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"He's got so many sidelines thanks to Luke - he's got his own wine and clothing range. But he loves cricket, and when it's time to go back and play for your county, more than anyone in that dressing-room, he will always put his hand up and go back and play for Lancashire."
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The Real Jimmy
Luke Sutton, James Anderson's agent: "I did keep wicket to him at Lancashire. At first hand I got to see his skill-set, so it was great."
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Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"Cricket is so much a part of Jimmy's life that I think he'll go on as long as he can. He's got to earn a crust, and live radio broadcast may not be his forte!"
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BBC Radio 1's Greg James: "I've become a bit of a cricket tourist, we thought this is the Test we'd pick as we thought this was where he'd break the record, and I'd never been to the West Indies. There's a great group of us here. If he doesn't do it, I will be asking for a full refund!"
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Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"One thing that gets overlooked with Jimmy is how good he used with the old ball. He's unparalleled within the England set-up. He's so naturally talented with his hand and his wrist. There's a reason that he's the leader of the England attack: the other bowlers can still learn from him."
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The Real Jimmy
Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"You used to know in the first three or four balls whether he'd take wickets. Lord's for me was Stuart Broad's ground - Trent Bridge, before they put the drainage in, was Jimmy's. He was an absolute genius at having it swinging round corners. Simon Jones cracked reverse swing early on, but it's a different skill to get it reversing."
The Real Jimmy
Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"His diet is appalling. I've never seen a man eat as many burgers. He never puts a scrap of weight on. My wife used to tell me not to eat with Jimmy Anderson on tour."
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The Real Jimmy
What do you admire most about Jimmy, cricket-wise?
BBC Radio 1's Greg James: "The control. I've chatted to him, without trying to bore him, about his hand position and wrist position - he watches so much cricket, he always wants to develop new stuff and that's why he's at the top, because he wants to learn. And physically, he's a machine."
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BBC Radio 1's Greg James: "It's incredible to see the switch between off-the-field Jimmy and the on-field competitor. He's really fierce and he really wants to get all the wickets. I remember filming a nets session with him, and he said to me: 'Aren't you going to wear a chest guard? I'm going to knock your block off.' When you see him bowling, you think: 'That's not the guy that I had a beer with a couple of weeks ago, is it?'"
The Real Jimmy
Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
What about the sledging side of things? Why does he do that?
"He hasn't got any malice towards any batsman, he does it to wind himself up and get the best out of himself. He loves a guy coming back at him and squaring up to him, that's why he does it. India tried to wind him up last year, but that was the worst thing they could have done as it fired him up."
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Jack O'Brien: Any XI must include Marron Samuels.
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Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"Jimmy will want to get these wickets [to break Ian Botham's record] as soon as possible. He hates the limelight. He just wants to get it out of the way. He likes being the leader of the attack, but he doesn't like the plaudits that come with it."
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BBC Radio 1's Greg James: "From what I gather, he would have been annoyed here that they were three down so early on the first morning."
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The Real Jimmy
Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"The dressing room is very much them and us: batters and bowlers. You're preparing for two very different games. Almost to a man, bowlers are very lazy. You've never seen a happier Jimmy Anderson than when England get to lunch one down and he can have a pudding and do a crossword. He's good company, until his mood darkens when he has to get his thigh-pad on at seven down."
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Jonathan Agnew
BBC Test Match Special
"I remember an interview Jimmy gave to Mark Nicholas at Lord's - two minutes, just muttering. He'd just taken 5-30."
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Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"He's a bit like a cat. I'm more like a dog, I bounce around and love everyone. With Jimmy, you have to work harder to win him over."
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How do you wind Jimmy up? He can be hard work sometimes?
BBC Radio 1's Greg James: "It takes longer to get the good bits from him in an interview - he takes a while to get warmed up, he'll wait for 20 minutes and then hit a real zinger. But he's a very funny man, you don't immediately think that when you see him in interviews, as he takes his job very seriously."
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BBC Radio Test Match Special
After a quick check on the county scores with Kevin Howells at Lord's, TMS will be celebrating James Anderson's 100th Test - discussing "The Real Jimmy" with Anderson's pals Graeme Swann and BBC Radio 1's Greg James, and his agent Luke Sutton - who you might remember from his days behind the stumps with Somerset, Derbyshire and Lancashire.
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Charlie Rhodes: Why did Ian Bell stop being under the helmet at short leg? He was arguably the best there in the world!
Howard Horner: This is more like the Broad we know and love! Great bowling on a pitch that isn't offering too much. Bodes well for the summer!
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That session included 79 runs and two wickets - about even?
What's more, we had Seaweed Man, who has to be seen (see 16:40) to be believed.
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"England changed tactics well to get the wickets. If they can get the remaining wickets for 40 or 50 runs, they'll be right in the box seat. If West Indies get close, it makes it hard for England to know how positively and how long to bat."
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Lunch scorecard
West Indies 234-6 (92 overs) - trail by 165 runs
Batsmen: Blackwood 69*, Holder 7*
Fall of wickets: 19-1 (Smith 11), 42-2 (Bravo 10), 89-3 (Samuels 33), 99-4 (Brathwaite 39), 192-5 (Chanderpaul 46), 227-6 (Ramdin 9)
Bowling figures: Anderson 19-9-52-1, Broad 22-2-67-2, Jordan 16-5-39-1, Stokes 16-3-41-0, Tredwell 19-9-32-2
England 399: Bell 143, Root 83, Stokes 79; Roach 4-94
West Indies won toss
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Ed Smith
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
"England had to work hard. They might have expected the new ball to swing around and cause all the damage, but this particular ball hasn't. West Indies are hanging on."
Lunch interval
WI 234-6
The lanky Holder to see West Indies through to lunch - Broad to continue, the short leg has been joined by a leg slip while 12th man Jonny Bairstow has to scamper on with an extra helmet as Joe Root steps in at silly point for the last three deliveries. Holder gets an edge... wide of gully and it's an easy two to third man. A single off the last ensures West Indies will trail by 165 at the break.
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James Gutteridge: Typical that the cricket is on at the same time I'm trying to put some effort into university work. Every. Single. Time.
Football Fragmento: Liam Plunkett is being missed here by England. He gives them some variation. Hope he plays the next Test.
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"I always found playing the short ball on slower wickets was harder, because you're always in two minds. On pitches like this you've got to get everything spot on, because the ball comes off at so many different paces."
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WI 231-6 (Blackwood 69*, Holder 4*)
Blackwood, very much the senior partner now, defends well against the persistent Jordan - we should get one more over in before lunch. This one was a maiden.
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Jay: Cook has to be following #bbccricket. As suggested at 16:20, he has got a bat pad in. Had he been following regularly, England could have won the World Cup.
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Ed Smith
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
"It would have been a fine catch. It was crisply struck off the back foot by Holder and it went about waist-high to Ballance, it wasn't one of those loopy ones. They stick or they don't."
Holder dropped on 4
WI 231-6
New batsman Jason Holder has some long levers on him, towering above his partner (and just about everyone else) - and he immediately shows what he can do with the short ball - pulling his first ball for four, but agonisingly for England he's dropped off his second as Gary Ballance can't hold onto a chest-high chance at short leg.
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"Excellent bowling from Stuart Broad. It was a well-directed short ball, England were just starting to get frustrated. It's the perfect time to get a wicket, six minutes before lunch. It's been a well-worked plan that they've produced over the last five or six overs."
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WICKET
Ramdin c Buttler b Broad 9 (WI 227-6)
A big appeal as the short ball pays off for Broad, firing one down the leg side from round the wicket and Ramdin obligingly gloves it to the keeper. The captain is removed before lunch.
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"It's a good contest. Jordan is trying to get the ball to shape away to those four slips. Ramdin likes to play to the off-side, but so far he's played nice and straight, nice and late."
WI 226-5 (trail by 173)
A packed slip cordon all rise as Jordan whistles one through Ramdin's defences and through to the keeper, but replays show it coming off the Windies skipper's thigh pad. The Sussex man looks set for a maiden over until Ramdin steers a four - and it's a no-ball to boot. This stand is already worth 34.
We have just under 15 minutes until lunch - when TMS will be discussing "The Real Jimmy" with Anderson's pals Graeme Swann and BBC Radio 1's Greg James, and his agent Luke Sutton.
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Jay: Nathan Kraken could do alright as the first change bowler.
Steve Gibson: Chanaka Whelk-egedara could open the bowling.
WI 221-5 (Blackwood 68*, Ramdin 5*)
Broad goes round the wicket as England resume their short-pitched assault, and Blackwood crashes a good-looking drive through the covers to reach his highest Test score.
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"England are desperate to break this partnership. The closer West Indies get, the more freely the likes of Jason Holder and Jerome Taylor can play. If West Indies can get another 100, it makes the third innings for England a tricky one."
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As promised, here is a picture of Seaweed Man (see 16:05 and 15:15), courtesy of Jonathan Agnew - you can see a video of him dancing on Aggers' Twitter feed.
WI 215-5
After three overs with the old ball and three with the new one, that may the last we see of Anderson in the morning session as he's replaced by Chris Jordan. Blackwood's counting finally lets him down as he takes a single off the fifth ball and Ramdin, who hasn't faced a ball for ages, cuts a four past the slips.
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"Blackwood has played well. England were targeting around fourth stump, but they are now going to go for the short stuff, having hit him on the body. Blackwood's got a real problem because he's trying to play the pull shot into the wind, which makes the boundary a long one."
WI 210-5 (Blackwood 61*, Ramdin 1*)
Broad continues to give Blackwood some "chin music", but the young Jamaican is showing an uncanny ability to count to six as for the fourth successive over, he runs one off the last ball of the over to steal the strike from his captain.
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Al Watson: I am sad to say that I have started to lose interest in the England team of late. Wholesale backroom staff change needed.
Alan Lloyd: Re: 1533. If Chanderpaul was English, everyone would be moaning that he scores too slowly.
Ouch!
WI 209-5
Have England decided Blackwood has a problem with the short ball? Now it's Broad testing the right-hander with a bouncer, and with a helmeted short leg hovering nearby, Blackwood takes a painful blow on the forearm.
He's not wearing an armguard - and so the physio trots out with some "magic spray". And there are several international cricketers who could tell you - you don't want to get a reputation as someone who "doesn't like it up him"...
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Andrew Butcher: West Indies could have contributed to the Crustaceans XI in this match, by picking the one and only Langostino Best.
WI 209-5 (trail by 191)
Blackwood, on 59, is only seven away from equalling the highest score of his brief Test career, an unbeaten 66 against Bangladesh in St Lucia last year. In fact, he's passed 50 in four of his nine Test innings - and failed to exceed 15 in his other five stays at the crease. Anderson unleashes a fearsome bouncer well out of Blackwood's reach, and it pings over the keeper's head for five wides. A single wide of point ensures he continues to hog the strike - Randin has been in for 6.2 overs and only faced 11 balls.
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Joe in Guildford: I'd pick Yabbyjan Singh every time....
Marcus Postlethwaite: Somerset all-rounder from the 1970s/1980s - Nigel Cocklewell.
Follow-on avoided
WI 203-5
After keeping Stokes on for an over, England turn back to Stuart Broad - Blackwood fences at a bouncer, uppercutting it over the slips for four and that shot ensures England must bat again. Another short ball is fended off towards the leg slip/short leg area, and keeper Jos Buttler can't get there in time. Get a bat-pad man in, Captain Cook... Blackwood even risked a run-out as Buttler's underarm throw hit the stumps but he just returned to his ground in time. A single allows him to keep the strike.
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Jonathan Agnew
BBC Test Match Special
"Broad has got to bend his back here and get some rhythm. England have got to seize the initiative in this match and the new ball is the opportunity to do that. But it is odd that they've got a long-off in for the new ball."
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Scorecard update
West Indies 198-5 (83 overs) - trail by 201 runs
Batsmen: Blackwood 54*, Ramdin 1*
Fall of wickets: 19-1 (Smith 11), 42-2 (Bravo 10), 89-3 (Samuels 33), 99-4 (Brathwaite 39), 192-5 (Chanderpaul 46)
Bowling figures: Anderson 18-9-46-1, Broad 17-2-47-1, Jordan 13-4-29-1, Stokes 16-3-41-0, Tredwell 19-9-32-2
England 399: Bell 143, Root 83, Stokes 79; Roach 4-94
West Indies won toss
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WI 198-5
Anderson finds some outswing, Blackwood - whose approach has veered between resistance and rebellion - shoulders arms to one and plays and misses at another, while Jimmy then finds some bounce in the wicket as one rears up and strikes Blackwood on the glove. A leg bye is the only score from a probing over - so it's a maiden.
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Richard Anderson: Any fishy team has to be captained by Warwickshire's Jim Trouton.
We're really looking for crustaceans rather than fish in general...
WI 197-5 (trail by 202)
An interesting move - or a sign of the future? If you expected to see Stuart Broad share the new ball with Anderson, you'd be wrong - as it's Ben Stokes to continue from the Roberts End, perhaps buoyed from catching Chanderpaul. A maiden over - Broad is having a stretch in the outfield - and West Indies need just three more runs to avoid the follow-on.
Drinks break
That's drinks, by the way.
And Aggers has tracked down the big white bird/wampa (see 15:15). Apparently he's "Seaweed Man". He's filmed him and has been trying to put it up on Twitter.
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Sir Viv Richards
Ex-West Indies captain on BBC Test Match Special
"That wicket of Chanderpaul brings England back into the game. Blackwood and Chanderpaul had shown some resistance, but it's in the balance again now. Blackwood is very much an attacking player, and if he gets going we'll see some fireworks."
New ball taken
WI 197-5 (Blackwood 54*, Ramdin 1*)
Despite a "go on skip, give me another one" look from Tredwell, England throw the new ball to their spearhead James Anderson, with three slips and a gully in (to Geoffrey's approval). Skipper-keeper Ramdin is up on his toes to defend well, a single brings Blackwood on strike and he lofts one over mid-off - the ball "plugs" and stops a few inches short of the rope as they run two. A typical cavalier Caribbean shot - or not the approach to take against a new ball?
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Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
"I'd have three slips in for Ramdin and a bat-pad to stop him lunging. That way you can get out on two sides of the bat - it makes the batsman play at the ball and gives you more chance of getting an outside nick."
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New ball available
WI 194-5
Stokes runs in for the 80th over. Two slips for Blackwood - a one-and-a-half, and a fourth. A tentative play-and-miss from the Jamaican entices Cook to bring in an extra slip - there's now men at first, second and fourth. Blackwood guides a two through the covers, and the last ball is hit to mid-on where James Anderson picks it up - and will now exchange it for a new one, which is brought out by fourth umpire Joel Wilson.
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Mikey Knight-Robson: Dare we say it... good captaincy from Cook having those two short covers in for 'The Crab'?
WI 192-5
Captain Denesh Ramdin is the new batsman - he's surrounded by a slip, leg slip and short leg as Tredwell spins down the rest of the over. He survives for now.
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Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
"That was beautifully bowled, gorgeous old-fashioned flight bowling. He just teased it up a little bit more. Chanderpaul came down but he didn't quite get to the pitch of it, so it came out of the meat of the bat but right at breadbasket height."
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Chanderpaul c Stokes b Tredwell 46 (WI 192-5)
Got him! Chanderpaul, four short of his fifty, comes down the track to Tredwell and chips a catch straight to Stokes, one of two catchers posted in the (reasonably) short extra cover area. A big wicket for England, just after Chanderpaul had shown his class by bisecting those two catchers with a cover-driven four. How crucial might that be, just before the new ball?
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Terry Mahoney: Re 14:58. Steve in USA is right. Ray Illingworth's opponents said that he would aim to win the match from the very first ball. Cook doesn't.
WI 188-4 (new ball available in 2 overs)
Stokes to bowl what we expect will be the antepenultimate over with the old ball. The obdurate Chanderpaul jams his bat down on a yorker, which is fielded by Joe Root, who's fielding a yard or two closer than normal at fourth slip, which is perhaps why he's wearing a helmet. With Stokes bowling right-arm over at the left-hander, the two slips are now Cook (effectively at second) and Root (fourth). Just a single from the over.
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Ed Smith
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
"It's been a strange innings: a mixture of patches of dogged defence and a few extravagant shots. Some of his strokes would suggest a calypso carefree innings, but in reality it's been characterised by patience."
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50 for Blackwood
WI 187-4
Blackwood finds the boundary again with - you guessed it - a skip down the track and a smack over extra cover. He then rocks back to squeeze a single through the covers - but a wild throw to the keeper allows them to run an overthrow to bring up the young Jamaican's fourth Test fifty from 120 balls, in only his sixth Test.
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Simon Staniland: Wouldn't have been complete without former Gloucs and South Africa great Mike Proctopus.
Ronky: Jack Mussell would have to be the wicketkeeper for the team.
Mike Poole: Andrew Strauss and Kevin Pietersen are sworn anemones.
WI 181-4 (Chanderpaul 41*, Blackwood 44*)
Stokes, still looking for that reverse swing, has a man catching on the square at short extra cover for Blackwood. Again England find the right-hander's edge... but this time it trickles along the ground to Tredders, still occupying that fourth slip spot where he makes a good diving stop. A scampered single to mid-wicket reduces the arrears to 218.
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Tony Cozier
BBC Test Match Special
"Stokes is asking some questions here. This is a difficult period for the West Indies with Tredwell pegging away his off-spin at the other end. The runs have dried up. How long can Blackwood keep his patience?"
WI 180-4 (Tredwell 17-9-22-1)
Tredwell goes round the wicket to the left-handed Chanderpaul, who's not taking the bait at this time - another maiden. Five overs until the new ball is available.
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Frank in Essex: I'd include anyone that played for Clamorgan.
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Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
"I don't think it was a straightforward easy catch, but at this level, because of the height, it didn't go rocket-fast, you could see it all the way, I think you'd expect to catch more of those than you drop. When you make mistakes like that, it's difficult to win matches."
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Scorecard update
West Indies 180-4 (74 overs) - trail by 219 runs
Batsmen: Chanderpaul 41*, Blackwood 43*
Fall of wickets: 19-1 (Smith 11), 42-2 (Bravo 10), 89-3 (Samuels 33), 99-4 (Brathwaite 39)
Bowling figures: Anderson 16-8-43-1, Broad 17-2-47-1, Jordan 13-4-29-1, Stokes 12-2-37-0, Tredwell 16-8-22-1
England 399: Bell 143, Root 83, Stokes 79; Roach 4-94
West Indies won toss
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Blackwood dropped on 43
WI 180-4
Another life for Jermaine Blackwood, again Stokes is the bowler - but he's not to blame as the right-hander is dropped by James Tredwell diving to his left, standing at about a fourth slip position. (Just two slip in - one at first, one at fourth). A hard chance but one England needed to take. If Blackwood has a favourite shot, it must be the loft over extra cover as earlier in the over, such a waft brought him another four - his sixth.
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Richie Macca: Only two things can survive a nuclear holocaust: One of them is cockroaches, and the other is Shivnarine Chanderpaul!
Chris Parker: If Chanderpaul was English he'd have never been as good, that technique would have been taught out of him, same with Lara.
WI 176-4 (trail by 223)
"A typical Caribbean day", notes Tony Cozier on TMS as the sun beats down, while Graeme Swann feels his telepathic link with Alastair Cook is working as Anderson is off and off-spinner James Tredwell is going to bowl from the Ambrose End - where he's not bowled so far in this game. A maiden means it's still 24 more needed to avoid the follow-on.
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Philippe Garcia: Er, last time I checked pollock, bass & brill all had bones inside, not an exoskeleton. Squid has neither.
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Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"Ben Stokes is just hiding the ball as he runs up to bowl, which normally means there's a hint of reverse swing. James Anderson was just getting it to tail back in to the batsman's pads."
WI 176-4 (new ball available in 8 overs)
After two overs of Broad without making the breakthrough, England turn to fellow right-arm seamer Ben Stokes. When you need a wicket, even a run-out will do - and Chanderpaul takes a slightly risky single to test the arm of the pacey Chris Jordan at backward point. This stand is now worth 77.
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Paul in Wimbledon: Michael Prawn - when he was on song and the cover drive flowing it took a while to 'winkle' him out.
Nigel Roberts: The skipper of any world crustacean XI would have to be Bob Shrimpson.
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Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"If I was in Alastair Cook's shoes, Broad and Anderson have bowled tidily but they don't look dangerous. I'd ask Jordan, Stokes and Tredwell to come in hard for 10 overs and save my strike bowlers - give them an hour's rest."
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WI 175-4
With the new ball available in 10 overs' time, it'll be interesting to see how long England keep Anderson along, given that I'm sure he'll take the new ball. Blackwood nudges Anderson for two, and Aggers leaves the TMS box to get a picture of that white bird/wampa...
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Huw James, Dorset: How about Sea-Urchin Tendulkar?
Adam Hallissey: Douglas Sardine.
James Leatherland, Derbyshire: Tillakaratne Krillshan must be opening the batting.
WI 173-4 (Chanderpaul 40*, Blackwood 39*)
A landmark was passed in that last over - Chanderpaul has overtaken Mahela Jayawardene's total of 11,814 Test runs, putting him seventh on the all-time list. His next target is Brian Lara on 11,953. It's as though the two batsmen have switched personalities, as after that flurry from Chanderpaul, Blackwood adds a gentle single against Broad.
The white bird/wampa is now dancing in the stands. We'll bring you pictures if we can.
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Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"Alastair Cook has got a very off-side-heavy field. The ball is definitely tailing across Chanderpaul. If I was Cook, I'd get square-leg out and get him catching in the gully."
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George in London: Re 14:42. I know Aaron was probably being facetious, but I'd like to see an over or two from Ballance before the new ball. Even if he only lands three or four an over, leg-spin is always challenging to faceā¦
WI 172-4 (trail by 227)
West Indies tuck into Anderson, as Blackwood adds a single and it's Chanderpaul breaking the shackles with a brace of boundaries, driving Jimmy through the covers and cracking another four through point. A two means that having taken 106 balls to score 30, he now has 40 from 110.
Meanwhile, cricket fans in the Caribbean are known for their eccentric costumes, but there's someone at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium dressed in some sort of a huge, full-length white (sheepskin?) bird outfit giving them a passing resemblance to a Hoth Wampa from The Empire Strikes Back. Tauntauns beware.
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Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"If Chanderpaul was English, I wonder if would he have made it to the top...?"
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James Gutteridge: England pace attack desperately needing something different. Plunkett or Finn obvious options but what about Mark Footitt?
WI 161-4 (new ball available in 12 overs)
Anderson's new-ball partner Stuart Broad will bowl from the Sir Andy Roberts End - I nearly typed Andy Roberts bowling from the Stuart Broad End, how England could do with a fiery fast bowler like ex-West Indies, Antigua, Hampshire and Leicestershire paceman Roberts.
Chanderpaul takes a fresh guard, banging a bail into the crease as is his habit - and sees off a maiden over without an attacking shot. As is his habit.
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Mark Solomons, Loughton: Geoffrey Boycott was always a shellfish batsman.
Peter Lofty: Chaminda Bass, Prawn Pollock (double whammy), Brill Tufnell, Squid Lawrence.
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WI 161-4 (Chanderpaul 30*, Blackwood 35*)
A round of applause breaks out around the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium - possibly for the finish of the England supporters' a cappella rendition of "Jerusalem" - but West Indian hearts are briefly in mouths as Blackwood, who struggled to keep the ball down at times yesterday, skies the ball just wide of mid-on and away for four.
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Dominic Walker: Chanderpaul won't go down as a West Indies great as he should because of the way he has scored his runs. Lacks the flair.
WI 157-4 (trail by 242)
James Anderson has first use of the old ball - but his first delivery is a floater down the leg side to the right-handed Jermaine Blackwood, who helps it away for a single. This brings the leftie Shivnarine Chanderpaul on strike, and he's up and running too with a push through the covers for one. Two balls, two singles.
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"The England team of fielders is a brilliant one and should raise the standard in every series. You've got Moeen Ali and Chris Woakes to come in - so the batting order should be really deep. Stuart Broad might find himself at 10 or 11."
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Ralph Brooker in France: Re. 14:33. How many other crustacean cricketers are there (or might there be)? Enough for an XI? I'll start. Trevor Bailey. Wasn't he called 'The Barnacle' prior to becoming 'The Boil'? I miss him.
A challenge for the rest of you - who can join The Barnacle and The Crab in the XI?
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Players on their way out. Aggers thinks yesterday's play was "one for the purists" and may have enticed one or two of the more fairweather England fans out there to go to the beach instead today...
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Steve in Chicago: As an American English cricket fan, it amazes me how overly conservative the English cricket team appears. I'm not sure if it is internally even recognised. Picking players on actions from years ago rather than their most recent trend is so maddening. The lack of confidence from many of the team members is infectious. They need to bring in some new, young players, if only to break the spell and spread a new sense of elan.
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Jonathan Agnew
BBC Test Match Special
"Jordan's slip catch yesterday was absolutely wonderful. If you can have that as a second string to your bow, it can really help keep you in the side."
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"That third innings can become a really tricky one for England, particularly depending on how close West Indies get to their total."
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Jordan preaches patience
TMS also heard yesterday from England seamer Chris Jordan, who feels the wicket is "not the easiest" but feels patience is the key if England are to succeed.
You can watch a full video interview with Chris Jordan on the BBC Sport website.
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Tony: I thought Anderson was going to break Botham's record today but then I realised Chanderpaul was at the crease.
Keep your foot behind the line...
Clearly Ben Stokes wasn't happy with the reaction on social media after he was denied a wicket yesterday when he bowled a no-ball as he had Jermaine Blackwood caught at slip. He later tweeted:
"Tweets about the no ball flooding in, so tomorrow I won't try, bowl 4 foot behind the line and bowl 70mph... then your all happy. Unfortunately when trying hard you can get tight on the line... apologies people, will try to make it up tomorrow."
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"When West Indies have won Test matches here, it's generally been because of Chanderpaul. I think in the 2007 series in England we just couldn't get him out, but we still won the series - and they were competitive because of Chanderpaul."
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Jonathan Agnew
BBC Test Match Special
"I'm full of admiration for Chanderpaul. He's got a wonderful record but he's pretty hard to watch, isn't he?"
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"Yesterday was attritional, with some good bowling but the West Indies really dug in. England have got a ball 66 overs old, can they knock one or two over before the new ball? If they can get Chanderpaul early, I think it could be a score of about 250 for West Indies."
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John Monks: Chanderpaul not too far away from passing Lara for most Windies test match runs. What a class act!
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So, is today the day when Jimmy gets the record? Will England's fans be joyously throwing some shrimps on the barbie with a healthy first-innings lead if they can remove The Crab early on? With West Indies still needing 45 more to avoid the follow-on, is that a realistic target for England - and if so, should it be enforced?
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Aaron, Northants: Give the batsmen who failed to score decent runs if any a chance to bowl, mix things up. "And Ballance gets another wicket" or "Trott with figures of 3-3", turn this Crab into a Crab cake.
Anderson v Botham
For those of you on Anderson-watch, the "Burnley Express" took the first Windies wicket yesterday, having Devon Smith caught behind, but he still trails Sir Ian Botham by two in England's all-time Test wicket-taking list.
With impressively economical figures of 13-8-24-1 yesterday, Jimmy will be cheered by the fact that the second new ball will be available in 14 overs' time - roughly around the time of the first drinks break an hour into play.
Latest score: IT Botham 383, JM Anderson 381.
The Agnew view
BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew feels England are "still in a strong position" - but need to be bolder in their approach.
"I'd like to see them liberate Ben Stokes: tell him to bowl fast, bowl short, bowl bouncers, and if it costs runs it doesn't matter - we need somebody to go in and shake batsmen up a bit. At the moment the four-man seam attack is too samey," he writes.
Read more from Aggers in his BBC Sport website column.
How do you solve a problem like the Crab?
As in just about every England-West Indies series of the last decade or two, Shivnarine Chanderpaul is the man whom, if your life depended on it, you would choose if you had to name one cricketer to occupy the crease ad infinitum.
The Guyana left-hander, sometimes nicknamed "The Crab" for his awkward, unorthodox stance as well as his limpet-like ability to cling on under pressure, has taken 98 balls to score 29 and has found a useful ally in young Jermaine Blackwood, who thrashed his second ball for six but has mostly calmed down somewhat since then. Mostly.
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Afternoon, everyone - it's eyes down for day three of England's Caribbean crusade at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua. Play will be under way at 15:00 BST - we're expecting a prompt start despite an earlier shower.
The game is finely balanced - having resumed at 341-5 at the start of day two, England were bowled out for 399, and have West Indies at 155-4 - but a familiar foe is proving a characteristically tough nut to crack.