Jonathan Agnew
BBC Test Match Special

"This is what is called right-arm optimistic from Kraigg Brathwaite."

Denesh Ramdin might just have stumbled on something here. Kraigg Brathwaite has really troubled Alastair Cook in his spell - this time Ramdin nearly stumps him when he overbalances attempting a sweep. Cook responds by pulling for four through midwicket.

Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

"It's been a great day for England. Eight wickets for just under 100 runs and then chase down 140 - as simple as that. If you offered England the option of not having three quarters of their match fee for this scenario they'd have probably all taken it"

Devon Smith - playing the first ever Test match by a Grenadan on Grenadan soil - has had an absolute shocker. Two cheap dismissals and some butterfingered work in the slips. The latest episode in his personal horror show is a drop off a thick edge from Gary Ballance off Marlon Samuels. Samuels laughs it off, which for a man with only 38 Test wickets, is charitable.

Going through the motions now. The game is up. Brathwaite hasn't given too many freebies - a single is all England muster of his latest over.

Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician

"This will be England's first away win since they beat India at Eden Gardens in 2012."

Trying to stop these England batsmen with the part-time spin of Marlon Samuels - Test strike rate in excess of 100 - is like trying to stop a steamroller with a pop-gun. Ballance shaves a further three runs off the rapidly dwindling deficit.

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"I hope this gives England confidence to go and win in four days in Barbados. There's been a lot of stress for the players after the World Cup. I know it's a different game but England as a team would have felt it. I hope the players raise their game even further than this and win really well."

Brathwaite continues. Ballance sweeps for a single.

Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician

"Gary Ballance is the third fastest player to a 1,000 runs for England. It's taken him just 17 innings.

"Herbert Sutcliffe took 12 and Len Hutton 16 but he's ahead of Wally Hammond (18), Andrew Strauss (19) and David Gower (20) among others."

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I don't think we're going to see Bishoo again - he's being patched up on the boundary rope as Samuels continues to send down some tweak. Ballance sweeps to go 1,000 Test runs, then Cook cuts Samuels streakily over the slips for four.

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West Indies have given this up, you sense, and have turned to a bit of experimentation now - part-time offie Kraigg Brathwaite gets a bowl. It's not a bad set at all - the second ball absolutely does Cook, lucky not to get a feather behind. A maiden.

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"These two have worked hard for their 50s and can see the finishing line. They are now liable to get the match over quite quickly."

The skipper knocks Marlon Samuels to mid-off and now it's his turn to raise his bat for fifty, his fifth half-century in eight innings. England on Easy Street now.

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"Gary Ballance doesn't have a huge range of shots but he knows his game and his limitations. He's mentally strong and is a good player. It's very hard to shake him from his comfort zone."

Gary Ballance goes to his fifty and brings up the 100 partnership with a remarkable shot, a bended-knee slap in front of square on the off-side. The Yorkshireman, brimming with the confidence of a man averaging 66 in Test cricket, piles on the punishment with a cheeky uppercut over the slip cordon. England breaking into a canter as the finish line looms.

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England 101-1 (30 overs) - target 143 (from maximum of 59 overs)

Batsmen: Cook 49 (95 balls, six fours), Ballance 48 (83 balls, five fours, one six)

Fall of wickets: 2-1 (Trott 0)

Bowling figures: Roach 7-1-18-0, Gabriel 6-3-10-1, Holder 1.4-0-11-0, Samuels 7.2-0-30-0, Bishoo 8-0-32-0

West Indies 2nd innings: 307 all out (Brathwaite 116; Anderson 4-43)

First innings: West Indies 299; England 464

Match scorecard

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It's like an episode of General Hospital in the West Indies camp at the moment. Jerome Taylor has a shoulder injury, Jason Holder has ankle ligament damage and now it looks like spinner Devendra Bishoo has a problem with his finger. Real selection problems for Phil Simmons ahead of the Barbados Test.

Gary Ballance, a man who does tend to mix nuggety defence with occasional spurts of aggression, reduces the deficit by lofting Marlon Samuels back over his head for a clean-as-a-whistle six and then cutting him for four behind point.

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Gabriel keeps pounding in, he's bowled with good pace and endeavour in this match but he hasn't really carried the same threat as the absent Jerome Taylor. Cook blocks out another maiden.