It hardly helps ease the sense of enervation that Marlon Samuels is perhaps the world's most languid bowler - a man so relaxed that you half expect him to break off in his delivery stride to stifle a yawn, or light a big cigar. He manages to resist that urge for now as he sends down an over that yields one more single for Alastair Cook.

Finally, we're going to have a bit of pace. Jerome Taylor is the man who has been summoned to deliver it. He bowled too wide earlier today but he starts off a little straighter in this spell. Moeen plays out a watchful maiden.

Nick Hall: Scared to look and listen. Switch off for one hour then see how the Captain is going. A phenomenal century if he can convert.

Not much happening for West Indies here, just going through the motions. Moeen takes a single off Samuels.

Si Lomas: These last couple of hours captaincy from Ramdin has been shocking, completely let game drift and handed initiative to England.

England are taking control here. Moeen drives Permaul to deep cover for three more.

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"Once again the West Indies are letting a very good position slip. It happens so frequently. Permaul has leaked runs."

Moeen and Cook continue to add runs to the score with the casual ease of a shopper adding groceries to the trolley. Moeen goes to the treats aisle and helps himself to a big six with a slog-sweep off Samuels that takes him to his fifty.

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"Ramdin as a captain can't afford to let Permaul bowl with this field. He has to get him bowling fuller so he can get the batsman driving. They have to be more attacking."

Permaul has gone at over four an over today - he just hasn't been able to stem the flow of runs, a real black mark for a front-line spinner. He gifts Cook another boundary with a short and wide ball that is dispatched to the point fence.

"Keep going, Marly," Denesh Ramdin chirps as Marlon Samuels sends down another non-event over. Look Denesh, Marlon can keep going, but the rest of us are slightly losing the will here. Kindly put a fast bowler on, would you?

Ed Stockton: I think boxing is possibly the only sport less appropriate than cricket to hear Taylor Swift playing over the tannoy.

It's all pretty easy for England at the moment against this spin duo. Moeen and Cook milk a couple more singles off Permaul.

More from Samuels, a bowler who really ought to be only occasionally called on as a novelty, but instead has been inexplicably overused, like rectangular plates in restaurants. Moeen dots a single out to deep cover.

Permaul continues. He really does have an extraordinary action, a frantic blur of flailing arms and elbows, like a magician trying to escape from a straitjacket. He's not been entirely accurate today either, too many short balls, and he's lucky that Moeen only pulls his latest freebie for a single.

I must say I'm rather confused by the use of Samuels after tea, and indeed throughout today - he's now sent down twice as many overs as Shannon Gabriel, who bowled beautifully this morning. Moeen gets three with a slightly mistimed drive through the covers.

Harry Cunningham: The last thing we need is a Cook century against this second rate attack to paper over the cracks until the Aussies destroy him.

Rob Meech: Does anyone else yearn for the days of Vaughan and Trescothick getting us off to a rapid start? This is so sedate.

Spin from both ends as Veerasammy Permaul takes the ball from the other end. Again, Cook takes a single into the covers and Moeen blocks out the rest of the over. Deja vu.

Cook is immediately up and running with a single to deep cover. Moeen blocks out the rest of the over.

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