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.

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.

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."

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?

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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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.

Mikey Knight-Robson: Dare we say it... good captaincy from Cook having those two short covers in for 'The Crab'?

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.

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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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.

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.

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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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.

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.

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.

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?"

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.

Frank in Essex: I'd include anyone that played for Clamorgan.

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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