Tony Cozier
BBC Test Match Special

"The umpires are now coming on to the field belatedly. I reckon they should get going soon. Just get that cover off and let's go. They are not moving the small cover, the umpires are walking off."

The umpires are coming out to have a look, but Geoffrey Boycott is predicting an early lunch, rather than an imminent start. It is not raining, so I'm not sure why we are mired in inactivity. The calypso music continues to play, but that's the only action we have.

Tim Hames: Any England Test team before with high aggregate top test scores 294, 226, 156, 235, 200, 120, 85, 35, 169, 108, 81?

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"10 minutes ago we were talking about crowds around the world disappearing and look at this. People have taken the day off work, England fans have taken time off work and come out here and there is nothing going on."

Matt Warwick: Buttler/Ali/Stokes are all fine. I can understand giving Trott a go. But how is Jordan the third best seamer in the country? I just don't get it.

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"There is no rain and no players. What an earth is going on down there? People are sat out. Wimbledon would have had the covers off now and the players playing."

Tony Cozier
BBC Test Match Special

"It's not raining. They could be playing now."

Ben Thapa: I would bat Buttler 8: he's the kind of striker who can attack from anywhere. Demoting Stokes to 8 last summer was a disaster.

I'm enjoying this debate on he make-up of the England team (admittedly, it's a debate we have at the start of every Test match, but there seems to be more variables here). Is the selection of Stokes and Moeen really causing consternation? Surely the identity of the openers and the third seamer are more under question?

Steve: I wish a reporter would ask Moores and Cook exactly under what conditions would they play Lyth or Rashid?

Rob, you've thrown a curveball there. So is the issue that Stokes and Moeen do not form England's best attack? Moeen is the number one spinner, no? If you wanted a batting all-rounder who acts as the fifth bowler, is Stokes not the man?

Rob Meech: Buttler should bat seven to allow an extra bowler. That's the issue; not him batting below Stokes and Moeen.

Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

"I'd have taken the risk with Trott, but I'm not sure how his technique can be successful against the new ball when he's walking about the crease. He's got to be still at the crease or he'll keep snicking off. I don't see how he will be opening the batting when Australia roll into town. England have gambled on Trott but if it doesn't work, they could be in a quandary."

David Jackson: We have the batsmen but either don't play them or don't know their best place in the batting line-up. A much worse problem is our two best fast bowlers aren't getting any younger and I cannot remember the last time they took the opposition apart, let alone in tandem. None of our up-and-coming fast bowlers of the last couple of years look like they will be world beaters and with the Ashes just round the corner I find that much more worrying than whatever batting woes we are perceived to have.

Tony Cozier
BBC Test Match Special

"There was a time when England would come to the West Indies and get beaten by Barbados over and over again."

Geoffrey Boycott replies: "Not when I was playing, they didn't."

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Hasan Hussein: Belting sunshine across the UK and we have a rain delay in the Caribbean. In the garden with the suncream ready.

I'm interested to see this criticism of Buttler being down to bat at eight. Personally, that's where I would have have him. Moeen and Stokes both have Test hundreds and have batted at six for most of their short careers. Ultimately, though, it probably doesn't really matter which order those three bat in.

Gabriel: Buttler set to bat at 8. Do England trust him yet in Tests?

Simon: So Butler to bat at 8 in an ultra conservative "get a draw at least" line up. Why bother taking Lyth/Rashid?

There's calypso music being played in Grenada, which isn't really in keeping with the mood at the ground. The groundstaff hover, ready to remove the covers and get us going should the rain relent.

The players had emerged from the pavilion, pristine in white like an army of ice-cream men. The field was set, James Anderson had the ball, Kraigg Brathwaite had taken strike. And then, the rain returned and the players sprinted for cover.