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.

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."

Geoff Kidd: Bet any Aussies watching this are falling off their stools with laughter. #shambles.

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?

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."

Listen to TMS commentary via the audio icon (available in UK only).

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.

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."

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.

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."

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."

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.

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."

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.

West Indies/Royal Challengers Bangalore batsman Chris Gayle on Twitter:, external Run through this batting line up Bobby Taylor. No Kevin Pietersen, it's possible!

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."

Listen to TMS commentary via the audio icon (available in UK only).

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.

Comedian and cricket writer Andy Zaltzman on Twitter:, external 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:, external 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.

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.

Cricket writer Daniel Brigham on Twitter:, external 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?

"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.