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.

Woolpack Inn York: Has the @ECB_cricket got any clue at all how to select a team? #Clueless.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Full scorecard

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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.

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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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.

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."

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.

Scorecard

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James Pockett: The laptop didn't say the ball was going to swing like this!

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.

Phil Lang: Are England the only team with a tail at the top and bottom of the order?

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.

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."

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."