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Chris Jordan was pleading with Davis as he appealed, giving it a "come on, man" when the umpire shook his head. When the decision was overturned, there were fist pumps from both Jordan and the staff on the England balcony. Jordan was rewarded for keeping a fullish length, the slight nip doing for Blackwood, who planted that front dog. Captain Denesh Ramdin is the new man, watching from the other end as Marlon Samuels gets away with a horrible flat-footed swipe at Stuart Broad. This could yet be a very good day for England.

Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

"It is a really good review when you think that England have lost one already. Some many times with lbw it is umpire's call. Jordan has bowled nicely, of all the bowlers he looked like he was the one who was going to take a wicket and he has. The clouds have just started to back over and maybe that is having a bit of an effect."

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Gone! The decision is overturned and Jermaine Blackwood is on his way. Chris Jordan just got that to nip a little off the seam, with Blackwood playing all across the line. The replay shows that Steve Davis got it wrong and the ball would have clattered the leg stump. Stuart Broad's drop doesn't prove too costly and England are cockahoop. They are halfway through the Windies batting.

It's hit Blackwood on the knee-roll. No inside edge...

This has got to be very, very close. Chris Jordan to Jermaine Blackwood, batsman playing around the front pad. Looks dead, but Steve Davis says no. I'm reviewing and Alastair Cook is too. High?

Owen from Whitley Bay: Michael Vaughan - we doctored our pitches exactly the same when the Aussies came last time. Dry, spinning pitches when we knew we had Swanny. The West Indies are simply setting their pitches up to play to their strengths, the same as we did. It's a shame we don't get seaming/swinging pitches like Trent Bridge anymore but we stopped them intentionally! So we need to practice what we preach.

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Another chance goes down! This time it's Stuart Broad off his own bowling, Jermaine Blackwood chipping the ball back. Head height, to Broad's left, through the hands and for four. That's three England have dropped on a pitch where chances are hard to come by. Already they have to make at least 13 opportunities to take 10 wickets. To add a a little insult, the boundary brings up the 50 partnership.

Tony Cozier
BBC Test Match Special

"I do not know if the groundstaff know how to make the pitches like they used to. Now they are using the sit down motorised roller and a lot of people feel like that is causing the problem."

Stuart Broad, floppy sunhat on his head, goes through some looseners as Jordan creeps in. Is it a bit early to be lamenting how slow the pitch is? Don't judge until both teams have batted, etc. Having said that, it looks to have all the pace of a wardrobe and the run-rate has not threatened 2.50 all day. When we start talking about " a day for the purists" and "an absorbing day", it usually means the cricket has been a bit turgid. One from it, a wide. Says it all.

Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

"I take quite a reckoning from my little lad who is nine, he turns on the television and sees the Big Bash - he sees the lights and colours and music. He does not turn on the television for Test cricket. Of course it's a much larger market you are looking at but you have got to market and sell Test cricket better to the younger audience and playing on a pitch like this will not do it any good. I am sure the groundsman has done his best."

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James Anderson comes round the wicket to Blackwood, shifting Gary Ballance to a short leg that is just behind square. I'd want a suit of armour to stand there, there's a high risk of the ball being whipped at a fleshy part of the body. Anderson targets Blackwood between hip and head height, with the right-hander weaving to get out of the way. I'll be honest, it's not thrilling stuff.

Ed Smith
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"One of the odd features of this ground is there is a lime green scorecard and in right front of that there is a small one that is changed by hand. The electronic one didn't work for the first couple hours of play."

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Since that Cook drop of Samuels, it's all been a bit flat for England, the ball not looking like to beat the bat, which is slowly getting on top. Samuels, laid back, but in a slightly dozy, rather than a cool way, tickles Jordan for a couple, then plays out the rest of the over with minimal fuss. I wonder if England are thinking they are a spinner short of an attack.

Ed Smith
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"A microcosm of the pitch is the way Blackwood played one of the balls in that over. He played it from the crease more backward then forward and it seemed like he had half an hour it play it. These types of pitches are not good for international cricket."

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Jermaine Blackwood, crouching and squinting, now has a helmeted silly point for company as Anderson arcs some in-swingers towards the timbers. When Anderson drops short, Blackwood leans back to upper-cut over the slips for four. Phil Simmons, the West Indies coach, doesn't even crack a smile. He perhaps still remembers the awful shot that Blackwood played in the second innings at Antigua. It's pretty gloomy out there, I'd bet a penny to a tenner that we won't make it through to the close without seeing a light meter.

Stuart Onslow: Jos Buttler was born in Taunton. So were the Wurzels! Altogether now! 'We've got a brand new wicket keeper..'

Min Patel and Mick Jagger both attended Dartford Grammar School in Kent - Robert in Houston, Texas (also a DGS old boy)

The hard-done-by Jordan continues to shuffle in to Samuels, who is wearing a black baselayer underneath his white playing shirt. Looks a bit village - does he not have a white one? The building that Jordan is running towards looks a bit like a hotel, albeit one that isn't yet fully built and where you'd be lucky to not find a creepy-crawly in your bed. Ooofff, that's horrible from Jordan, Samuels cutting a long hop for four.

Ben Thapa: How long does one man (namely Cook) go without seemingly doing anything useful individually, before things become untenable?

David: Hope the next thing Alastair Cook drops is himself.

Mike Brookes: You can't drop them as an international cricketer!

If England have been winded by that drop, then Joe Root is doing his best to chirp some oxygen back into their lungs. James Anderson responds with a bumper that has Blackwood jack-knifing backwards, with Root asking for "half an hour that, boys". Anderson continues to bend his back as the steel band (or what I think is a steel band) continues to tap out the soundtrack of the day. I wonder when England's next chance will come.

Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

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"Ian Bell at second slip flinched a bit which made Alastair Cook think he was going for it and put him off. It was a very full ball and the slips are standing very close because of the slow pitch - Cook just took his eye off the ball slightly. It should have been taken."