Thank you Jamie. Alastair Cook is on strike and, head-scratchingly enough, it's going to be Marlon Samuels to open the bowling after tea...

Now we have all manner of statistics for you regarding Alastair Cook and the pursuit of three figures but we shall not burden the skipper further for now, and let's hand over to James Gheerbrant to describe the final session.

Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

"I think England are in a fairly decent place to be on this pitch. I don't think it's a 500 pitch, I think it's a 350 pitch. The dismissal of Joe Root was very disappointing though."

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Jonathan Agnew
BBC Test Match Special

"I like the way Moeen has played. He's come out and played really refreshingly."

England 151-4 (56 overs) after winning the toss

Batsmen: Cook 60 from 170 balls, Moeen 37 from 80

Fall of wickets: 0-1 (Trott 0), 38-2 (Ballance 18), 38-3 (Bell 0), 91-4 (Root 33)

Bowling figures: Taylor 10-5-24-0, Gabriel 8-2-21-1, Holder 11-3-24-2, Samuels 14-5-24-0, Permaul 13-1-58-1

Match scorecard

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Moeen is certainly my favourite modern day England player but no-one bats as beautifully as David Gower in my opinion Graeme. Cook runs Permaul down to third man for a solitary single. We've had 31 overs in the session, 80 runs have been scored and just the one wicket lost. A better session for England.

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Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

"Moeen bats like a bearded David Gower. The England management are trying to fast-forward this bowling, but his batting has always been his strong suit."

Gabriel tests Moeen with a well directed short ball that is well defended, but then blots his copybook by erring down the leg-side and Moeen helps it to the boundary. A clever, well-pitched up final ball tempts Moeen to drive but there is no contact. Time for one more over before tea.

Jim Rusling: It's great to hear Tino Best - I've known he was a great guy since my 48th birthday when West Indies had a warm up match v Sri Lanka A at Shenley. He had an aggressive reputation which was totally dispelled by an elderly gentleman who told me that he had been in the nets asking his 8- and 10-year-old grandsons to bowl to give him net practice. Later when the West Indies team were using the pitch for practice the players and management reluctantly allowed me (barefoot) to bowl one ball at Mr. B.C. Lara. What a birthday!

The fifty partnership arrives from 133 balls, the first time this pair have batted together in a Test match, as Cook flicks Permaul neatly away for two more.

Mike France: Amazed at the low percentage of balls that would hit the stumps. Is it a modern thing? What is wrong with "they miss, I hit"?

Lots of increasingly reddening skin amongst the large English contingent but they will be happy with this burgeoning partnership between the two contrasting left-handers. Just the single to Cook from the final ball of Gabriel's over.

Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

"Permaul looks as if he just rushes things a little bit. He's bowling two or three poor balls an over. He just needs to slow himself down and concentrate on his release."

The lively Permaul bustles in again but Moeen is not going to miss out on the opportunity to increase the run rate, hoisting the spinner for two boundaries over the leg-side field.

Martin in Kent: Enjoying listening to the commentary on TMS and the insight from 'Mind them Windows' Tino! My cricket club Teston (in Kent) is due to be playing Lashings on 5 June to officially open our new pavilion! We understand Tino may be playing. The windows are double glazed so hopefully not in danger!

Gabriel sweating up in the paddock but it's another maiden and he's been economical, just the one boundary coming from his bowling so far.

James in Sevenoaks: Go on Cooky, let's go and convert into a big one now, so we will only be debating about one opening spot for the New Zealand/Australia summer.

First Ed Sheeran and then Adele on the PA system, it's not just West Indian fast bowlers that have disappeared, where's the reggae? Another fluent cover drive from Moeen with that expansive backlift of his sends Holder to the boundary, the fourth he has conceded thus far.

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"If these two can just hold themselves together and make solid runs until tea, you just sense that the tenor of the body language will balance out a bit. But if you make a mistake and go into tea five down, the dynamic changes."

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Big Gabriel only bowled four overs before lunch but he's back. The rate had improved to 14 per hour but it will go down again now. Not the most attacking of fields as he bowls his first delivery to Moeen, there is a man on the mid-wicket boundary. There is an appeal for caught behind as the ball nips back and slips between Cook's bat and pad but nothing doing.