WICKETpublished at 16:51 British Summer Time 15 April 2015
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.
England 116-3: Ballance 44*, Root 32*
Tourists recover from 52-3
Cook 13, Trott 4, Bell 11
WI 295: Blackwood 112*; Tredwell 4-47
First Test, day three, Antigua
First innings: England 399
Mark Mitchener and James Gheerbrant
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.
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."
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.
Jay: Nathan Kraken could do alright as the first change bowler.
Steve Gibson: Chanaka Whelk-egedara could open the bowling.
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.
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., external
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.
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."
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.
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.
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"...
Andrew Butcher: West Indies could have contributed to the Crustaceans XI in this match, by picking the one and only Langostino Best.
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.
Joe in Guildford: I'd pick Yabbyjan Singh every time....
Marcus Postlethwaite: Somerset all-rounder from the 1970s/1980s - Nigel Cocklewell.
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.
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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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
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.
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...