Another maiden from Samuels, as much for the batsmen not wanting to get out as anything else. That bowling action is far from classical shall we say.

The England captain is still going for his shots, however, one top edged sweep off Permaul lands safely for two, but another is out of the middle of the bat and brings him a seventh boundary.

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Ralph Brooker: Recovering from an operation (liver out) and am on a drab diet for two months. Have been ordered to stop smoking (three weeks now). Loving the cricket as always but the inevitable foody references (liquorice allsorts) get me salivating. I'm dreading buffet bowling and, above all, the throwing of pies when the left-armer comes on. Could we come up with a metaphor with less calories and protein in it, please!

Samuels is rattling through them, and Cook, who has gone 35 innings without a Test century, calmly plays out a maiden.

The England 100 comes up in the 36th over as Moeen clubs Permaul into the leg-side for a boundary, the seventh conceded by the slow left-armer.

Tony Cozier
BBC Test Match Special

"Samuels is an underrated bowler. He's done a good job for the West Indies in several Test matches, and he's doing a good job here now."

Samuels is performing a useful role here, he is quickening up the over rate. He has taken 38 Test wickets in his 58 matches with a best of 4-13 but surely here there would have to be some alarming errors of judgement for him to improve on those figures?

England selectors have announced that Yorkshire's Adil Rashid and Durham's Mark Wood will complete England's 13-man squad for the one-day international against Ireland next Friday in Dublin.

Leg-spinner Rashid and fast bowler Wood will return home early from the West Indies to join up with the rest of the England ODI squad.

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England ODI squad: James Taylor (capt) (Notts), Zafar Ansari (Surrey), Jonathan Bairstow (WK) (Yorkshire), Sam Billings (Kent), Tim Bresnan (Yorkshire), Steven Finn (Middlesex). Lewis Gregory (Somerset), Alex Hales (Notts), Adil Rashid (Yorkshire), Jason Roy (Surrey), James Vince (Hampshire), David Willey (Northants), Mark Wood (Durham)

Ben: Even for the form he was in Root was due a soft dismissal. The others need to step up now.

Beth: Such a stupid dismissal. Didn't try to hit it and just dangled the bat. Not what you would expect from a man in form.

Permaul sends down another full bunger to release the pressure, although it was delightfully struck through the covers for four by Moeen.

Not the most confident of starts for Moeen Ali either, trapped on the pad by Permaul, but when Samuels returns to the attack with his innocuous looking non turning off breaks from round the wicket, both left-handers are determined to get fully forward and not make any mistakes.

Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

"It's a real throwaway. It was short and wide from the spinner, Joe Root has just really lazily dangled the bat, he's not even tried to hit it, he's just tried to run it down. For man in such form, that's lazy."

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Oh Joe. That was very un-Root like, it was an airy waft off the back foot to a short one that turned and it feathered an edge to a jubilant, and astonished, wicketkeeper-captain behind the timbers. No world record-equalling seventh score of fifty plus for the young Yorkshireman.

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Is Cook's luck beginning to change? He is due. His cut shot brings him four but it is off the inside edge narrowly past the stumps and the fifty partnership arrives from 83 balls.

Jamie Morgan: Does anyone else think Trott went out to the WI to help Cook believe he wasn't the worst player in the team? It's worked wonders.

James Gutteridge: Some beautiful leaves in this innings so far. Total cricket.

Some liquorice allsorts from Permaul, some sharp spin wide of off-stump but two full tosses that are both confidently swept to the boundary by Root, closing in on this world record of successive scores in excess of 50.

The Prince of Wales in Fleet are in attendance, or some of their patrons anyway, according to one St George's flag. Taylor is up around 90mph again but no problems for Cook, who is content to play out a maiden, the eighth of the innings.

Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician

"Alex Hales has 639 runs so far this season - the second most runs ever before the end of April."

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Lots of movement in Permaul's action, nothing like Paul Adams, but all manner of twisting, wriggling parts. Not much spin yet though and all fairly comfortable for the two well set batsmen.

Luke Howles: If England decide to drop Trott, it would be a complete injustice to not select Adam Lyth.