This session, we're hearing, will be a two-and-a-half hour job, finishing at 20:10 BST. Ben Stokes finishes off the one ball remaining in his over, and Chris Jordan will bowl the first full over after lunch. Marlon Samuels is looking a little edgy as he creeps towards three figures, dangling the bat hesitantly at a swinging delivery outside off. Good over from Jordan, just a leg bye from it, and the new ball is available...

Wonder how well Marlon Samuels lunched? He's bound to have a few butterflies in that stomach, as he contemplates the three runs he needs to reach a seventh Test hundred. Will he get there? Let's find out...

Tricky Dicky: Aren't the selectors missing an opportunity as usual? This is not the Windies team of the 70's and 80's. They are not a top side. We have passed up an opportunity to look at the likes of Mark Wood, Adil Rashid, Adam Lyth etc. What are we going to learn about Stuart Broad? We have bigger tests to come in the shape of New Zealand and the Aussies. When do these guys get a chance if not in this series? We won't beat the Aussies if we don't find better players.

Meanwhile - and you may not want to hear this - while we wait for the clouds to part and the cricket to resume in Grenada, there's an IPL match going on in Bengaluru.

AB De Villiers, Virat Kohli, Brendon McCullum, Mitchell Starc, MS Dhoni and Suresh Raina are all in action as Royal Challengers Bangalore take on Chennai Super Kings, and the only precipitation over there is raining sixes - Chennai are 177-7 after 19 overs of their innings.

But you don't want to watch that wham-bam nonsense, do you? I know we can count on you to stick with the sophisticated subtleties of Test match cricket.

You're still there right? Guys? Guys?!

Thank you Stephan, and greetings to you all on a day that so far has been mainly about lunch and the weather - much like an awkward lift conversation with a work colleague who you don't usually talk to.

I'm hoping to take you through an uninterrupted afternoon session of scintillating sunshine and scintillating cricket. Come on, this is the West Indies. It can't be too much to ask, can it?

BBC Weather's Jacob Cope: "This rain shouldn't last long with sunshine returning soon but there are more showers out there. Hopefully they'll miss St George's. Thursday looks drier and sunnier but then Friday may bring thunderstorms. Top temperatures will be around 28°C."

Right, despite the lack of action, this has been good fun. It's time for me to clear off, with James Gheerbrant coming in soon to talk you through the afternoon session... hopefully.

Marc Fulcher: Must admit I'm one of the guilty party for the sneaky emails at work...head down at the desk quickly jotting down a few notes to the TMS team, making out I'm busy compiling emails for "business".

Jonathan Swithinbank: How the tables have turned, I was 13 and actually at the game when Alex Tudor stranded himself on 99, now I'm the one grabbing glances at the BBC's live text and unable to watch it!

Ben: This must be the only sport in the world where time is lost because the players need to eat at a set time!

BBC Radio Test Match Special

So, lunch is about to be taken. Please, please don't ask me why they schedule a 40-minute break when the players have already been off for half an hour, because we'll all get frustrated together.

Anyway, during the interval, Test Match Special will be playing the second part of James Anderson: The Wicket Man. Tune in, because it's a roaringly good listen.

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Listen up, KP watchers. Your man has been back in action today, and he's hit his first fifty of the County Championship season, scoring an unbeaten 53 before Surrey declared on 207-4 in their second innings against Glamorgan to set the hosts a target of 352. Glamorgan are going well though - they're 112-0.

In Division One, it looks like a draw is in prospect in Birmingham. Warwickshire, chasing 379 to beat Hampshire, are currently 203-4. Varun Chopra is five runs short of a century.

Nottinghamshire v Yorkshire is also heading for a draw. Trailing by 13 runs on the first innings, they are 351-7 in their second dig, with Chris Read unbeaten on 81.

Seb Horner: Poor Samuels - got me wondering though, what's the longest total time taken to reach a 100, including delays, end of plays etc?

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Rob in Bristol: Geoffrey Boycott needs to relax, we are a team in the midst of rebuilding and we have enough talent to make things happen. Does anyone remember the improvement England showed after the 2002/3 Ashes and how we improved to the point we beat Australia at home in 2005? Be patient and let our boys find their feet.

Martin: A Test series away in the West Indies should have been an ideal opportunity to blood one or two. We need an answer to our opening batsmen problems and if Cook has not fired up by the start of the Ashes are we going to drop him just as we did for the World Cup? I feel sure the Aussies will beat us in all departments unless we start looking at what else is out there!

I'm hearing a rumour that the rain has stopped, but lunch is being taken at 17:00. Play will resume 40 minutes after that. We are in for a long old evening.

Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

"If it was left to me I would completely disassociate one-day and Test cricket. There may be a few players that played both but I would move away from our current thinking that there is a link between Test and one-day cricket and you build from the top. It was proved in the World Cup that it does not work. I would pick young players like Jason Roy - exciting players who know how to smack the ball. Then you do not need to rest Test players because they are not playing so much cricket."

John: Many years ago, when I was in the Army, I was an office manager who would set up a small black and white TV in my office to watch the home test matches, no sound of course, and I would get regular 'checks' of the score by the Commanding Officer, either by telephone or by making an excuse to come down and see me. His name, Lt Col Ashton-Wickett RA, how appropriate.

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Bangladesh are closing in on a third straight win against Pakistan in their ODI series. Azhar Ali's tourists were bowled out for 250 batting first, and in reply the hosts have raced to 225-2 after 37 overs, with Soumya Sarkar hitting his maiden ODI ton, bringing up the milestone with a straight six.

Wondering why we're not talking about the live action? It's raining again in Grenada, with no sign of a let-up. We've been off for about 20 minutes, having had only 8.5 overs after the start was delayed for an hour. In that time, West Indies pushed their score along to 210-5.

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"The intention was to rest players for this Test series. I can prove it if need be. Then people started to worry about their jobs from Paul Downton to Moores and Cook and they changed their minds after a dismal World Cup. I would not have changed my mind. As well as resting bodies and minds of players ahead of a heavy schedule against New Zealand and Australia, you could test certain other players."