Ben Pathe: Has Marlon Samuels been getting coaching off Geoffrey Boycott? He's gone from hare to tortoise.

Mike Ball: Alan in London is right, Broad's bowling record over the last 18 months is good, not sure what all the hate is about?

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Adil Rashid, clad in his neon yellow substitute's bib, makes himself useful by ensuring that the coolbox is properly stocked ahead of the drinks break. Got to keep busy, haven't you? Chris Jordan, the man whose head would probably have been on the block if Rashid had played, continues to toil away fruitlessly - a no-ball and a single from his latest set.

Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

"I think on slow and low pitches you have to aim at the stumps and hope the batsman make a mistake or one keeps low. I played against Shannon Gabriel in England. He is a big brute of a man, he is huge. I am pretty sure one of his wickets at Lord's was me. I seem to remember he bowled me - I got out at the Pavilion end.

Stuart Broad didn't bowl well this morning despite leaking relatively few runs - he ended up with more misleading figures than those cannily shot '10-week transformation' photos you see on gym billboards. Can he find a more challenging length this afternoon? Bravo continues his steady accumulation with two through backward point.

Test Match Special on Twitter:, external Post lunch session with @Aggerscricket & @GeoffreyBoycott in full flow.

Finally Chris Jordan manages to coax the somnolent Marlon Samuels out of his shell with a fuller delivery outside off that just shapes away - he draws a false shot from the batsman, but the edge trickles away through gully for four runs.

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"I think we have to change the bowling. Try something different, we should give Stokes a bowl. For the batsman the key is whether they can be patient and hold their nerve."

Darren Bravo's defence looks teak-tough as James Anderson gets the ball to swing back with a slightly fuller length - no way through yet for England. "Hang in there, lads!" chirps Joe Root. I can only echo his sentiments as we negotiate one of the less enthralling periods of this Test match.

Tim: I've just had a Eurika moment.....how about bowling at the off stump....with the intention of actually hitting the stumps or at least drawing the batsmen forward. Might just work you know.

Four men wait in the slips, their minds perhaps beginning to wander as Jordan struggles to beat the bat. Bravo plays out five dots and then milks a single into the off side.

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BBC Test Match Special

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"England, if they are honest, will think they should have done far better in these conditions. After you get a delivery like Anderson's to Brathwaite the batsman will would have been thinking to themselves I won't be able to get a run out there but they have not made them play nearly enough. That brilliant early ball would have sent a shockwave through the West Indies dressing room. Not much to follow it up though. England are preying on the West Indies' patience."

Anderson is managing to extract a little more movement than Jordan, but he's going to have to target the stumps if he wants to draw Marlon Samuels out of hibernation mode. The Jamaican frustrates England with another shotless maiden.

Alan in London: Over the last 18 months, Anderson and Broad have been England's best Test bowlers with almost identical records. Broad was also England's best bowler by far on the last Ashes tour. Ridiculous anyone's calling for him to be dropped.

Anthony Cocozza: Are Finn and Tremlett no longer considered good enough? Why? They are both better than Jordan and Broad.

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This is rather pedestrian fare so far from England's bowlers in conditions that should be offering them plenty of assistance. Chris Jordan runs in with plenty of huff and puff and hits the pitch hard, but he hasn't yet got the batsmen playing and missing as you might expect in such humidity. Samuels is off the mark with a dab into the leg side.

Momentary confusion as Marlon Samuels holds one single bail aloft to signal to the umpire which guard he wants. The umpire doesn't get it. Samuels is in no hurry after lunch - he takes his tally of scoreless deliveries to 16 with four more dots.

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"You want to create a certain amount of pressure and doubt, so you need to be getting at least four balls an over where the batsman is thinking I do not like this. When it is just one ball an over it's nice for the batsman. We could bowl better with the medium-fast bowlers we have. We could be creating more pressure. If you keep giving them problems, you give yourself more chance of getting them out."

Did the West Indies batsmen have a big lunch? An extra slice of spotted dick? They've started very sluggishly after the interval, with no runs off the bat in the first three overs. Luckily for them, Chris Jordan abets their efforts to get the scoreboard moving by slinging four byes down the leg side. Ugly.

Ray in Swansea: When batsmen nick it, don't walk and say they didn't "feel it" everyone laughs. Smith's "wicket" and non-review just goes to show, they may actually be telling the truth!

James Anderson got it swinging this morning like Peter Snow's Election Night Swingometer, if you'll permit me a topical metaphor. There's a bit of movement on offer for Burnley's finest after lunch too, and Darren Bravo plays safe - another maiden.