Oh, skipper. What's the old cliche? "There's no such thing as an easy slip catch." Well, this is one of the easier ones and it's gone down, giving Marlon Samuels a life. Widish from Chris Jordan, Samuels throwing the kitchen sink and getting only a thick edge, the ball travelling to the right of Cook at first slip, about hip height. The captain gets two hands to it, but never comes close to catching the it, the ball dropping to the turf and allowing the Windies to take a single. An under-pressure skipper has to take those.

Indeed it is Anderson, still swinging the ball, albeit with the radar slightly skewed towards the leg side. On the England balcony, Paul Farbrace is slumped in his chair like a man auditioning for a part in the Royle Family, while Ottis Gibson sips from the tiniest tea cup you have ever seen. Either that, or it just looks small in his giant hands. Uneventful over.

Tony: David Gower, born in Royal Tunbridge Well, where both Shane MacGowan & Sid Vicious both resided for a while. All three born in 1957.

Juxtaposed: Nasser Hussain was born in Madras like grammy award winner AR Rahman of Jai Ho fame from the film Slumdog Millionaire.

Tim Keogh: Andrew Strauss, Alex Hales both played as youngsters at Gerrards Cross Cricket Club - as did Joe Keogh, singer of Amber Run.

Ooohhh, a pretty rank ball from Chris Jordan almost gets him a second wicket. A wide full toss, moving away from Blackwood, who throws his hands through it. The ball flashes between those two gullies, past the dive of Ben Stokes and away for four. James Anderson goes through some arm-loosening exercises at mid-on, the man with more wickets than any other England bowler looks set to pick up the attack from t'other end.

Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician

"England have had a number of teams that have gone into a match with 10 players having scored fifties, but never all 11. However, at Lord's v India last year, Plunkett got a fifty making all 11 in that team having a Test 50. The England team at Lord's and Nottingham last year had 9 players with Test 100s in them."

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The players are back after their brew break - Chris Jordan will be bowling to Jermaine Blackwood with two slips and two gullies sniffing an edge.

Nick currently in Copenhagen: Freddie Flintoff is in esteemed company from Preston - Jessica Taylor from Liberty X, Ken Nicol from Steeleye Span and the seminal British thrash metal band Xentrix.

When a man isn't on the live text, he's sent to the shop to get the biscuits in. I've done my bit - chocolate and digestives. Snacks will be important in this marathon final session of the day. We could be playing until 23:30 if the light holds.

Right, it's time for me to bid you adieu and leave you in the capable hands of Stephan Shemilt...

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Michael Anderson on TMS: "I can't claim much credit. When your son's playing for England you don't step in - you just leave the coaches to it. Jimmy used to come down and watch me playing on weekends. Every evening when I came home from work we would play out in the garden, and he wouldn't let me give my wicket away - he would always made sure he got me out. I think when he was 16 or 17, he shot up to six foot and started bowling fairly quickly - then I realised that he might have something."

Michael Anderson on TMS: "I'm very proud. It was a long wait - it was such a flat wicket in Antigua. For the whole family to be together when he did it was fantastic. It was such a good delivery to get the [record 384th] wicket, and quite appropriate that Cooky took the catch - their careers have followed a similar path."

Following remedial work Finn is starting to believe he has a lasting solution - thanks largely to watching video footage of him at his best.

"I came back to England and had to realign everything, but it's not easy once you've grooved bad habits," he said.

"It's taken a long time, but this running thing could be the last piece in the puzzle.

"You can see when I was running up as a carefree 21-year-old, I just legged it to the crease - it was natural. As I've had to think about other things, there's been tension that has come into my run-up."

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Steven Finn has given a remarkably candid interview today that is just reaching us. In it he identifies the decision to shorten his run-up a couple of years ago as the source of his bowling problems - but blames nobody but himself.

"The short run got canned quite quickly after it came in," he said. "I think that's what cocked me up really - looking back at it, coming off a short run made everything tense and made me force bowling quick.

"It worked for a brief time in New Zealand. I didn't quite have the feeling of bowling well, but I was getting the results - so it was masked over.

"The short-term fix wasn't a fix to the long-term problem. It's taken a bit of unravelling, but it's no-one's fault other than mine."

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"You felt that England looked a little stronger and well equipped for this surface. The West Indies batting and bowling is patchy. In all honesty it should be 102-2 not 102-4. Then they would have thought, having been put into bat on this pitch, they were doing ok. On this surface patience is key and this West Indies side are not known for that. They can play nicely for 25 minutes but then have a wild swipe. They do not have the resistance or adaptability to play this type of game. They play well and then do something rubbish."

So England with the upper hand after two sessions of the first day, although the West Indies have battled hard and shown admirable resilience at times.

It was a session of two halves. For the first hour England looked toothless, but the wickets of Darren Bravo and Shivnarine Chanderpaul in quick succession have given the scorecard a much more pleasing look for the visitors.

Stay tuned to TMS at tea time. they have a special guest - none other than James Anderson's dad - Michael Anderson. A proud man, no doubt.

Moeen to deliver the last over before tea. Blackwood brings up the West Indies' 100 with a single to deep square, and he, alongside Marlon Samuels, makes it safely through to tea. England will be relatively happy with that session, though.

Will in Altrincham: Jimmy Anderson and Jonny Marr both live near Altrincham.

Ian Mills: Cliff Richard and Suresh Raina are both from Lucknow!

James Marshall: The small town of Bellshill in Scotland is where Mike Denness came from. Along with pop star Sheena Easton, Sir Matt Busby and Ally McCoist.

Giles in Leicestershire: Stuart Broad attended Oakham School. So did Jay Kay of Jamiroquai.

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Stokes, his meaty biceps girded with ink, continues. He has his arms aloft in appeal-cum-celebration when he produces an absolute pearler that cuts Blackwood in half like a magician's assistant. But there's no edge there, much to his chagrin. And then he gets Blackwood driving recklessly outside off. Bit of afters between the two as well, clearly no love lost out there.

Ollie in Sheffield: Joe Root's hometown of Sheffield has a rich musical history. Arctic Monkeys and The Human League to name two.