Tony Cozier
BBC Test Match Special

"Holder's school coach Ezra Moseley,, external 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."

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.

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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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.

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!?

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.

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."

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.

Matthew Coote: You just wonder if Cook's batting would benefit from him not being captain. He just seems lost.

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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.

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.

Kevin Harris: I have my doubts about these crustaceans being able to bat - they often get caught in the nets.

So Blackwood survives. Earlier in the over he collected the first boundary of the afternoon session with the nudge down to fine leg.

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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The ball-tracker shows the ball would have hit leg stump, but not full enough to reverse the on-field decision. On we go...

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...

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.

Thank you Mitch. Chris Jordan is going to take the cherry after lunch, with Jermaine Blackwood and Jason Holder at the crease.

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.