Alice Stainer: Brave stuff from Broad. Be brilliant if he could banish the fear of looming fast red balls and show 'em what he is really made of.

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Cracking cover drive from Broad brings him a boundary as Gabriel pitches one up, true stand and deliver stuff with an expansive follow through. The trouble is he may not get many more in his own half now, but he picks up another four by deliberately cutting one over the slips. This is more like it from the big left-hander.

Jack Mendel: If England cannot comfortably get 400/500+ batting first vs the West Indies 'attack', I'm worried we'll lose every Test this summer.

As expected from a man who has admitted to nightmares about being hit in the face again, Broad is subjected to the short stuff from Taylor. He ducks one, wears another on the shoulder and sways inside of a third successive bouncer. After two ducks in the series, he's then off the mark with a single into the vacant leg-side. Not fazed so far.

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"It's awkward for Jos Buttler, when you get to eight down like this. He doesn't know what he's going to get from Stuart Broad. I think he has to look to play positively."

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Buttler is trapped on the pad by Gabriel but there is no review and replays show the ball to be going over the top in any case. Just the seven runs added this morning so far. That 350 seems a bit distant.

Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician

"The catch of Chris Jordan was Denesh Ramdin's 199th dismissal in Tests."

England 247-8 from 93 overs (resumed on 240-7)

Batsmen: Buttler 3, Broad 0

Fall of wickets: 0-1 (Trott 0), 38-2 (Ballance 18), 38-3 (Bell 0), 91-4 (Root 33), 189-5 (Moeen 58), 233-6 (Stokes 22), 240-7 (Cook 105), 247-8 (Jordan 3)

Bowling figures: Taylor 17-8-35-1, Gabriel 13-2-38-2, Holder 16-4-34-2, Samuels 27-5-53-1, Permaul 20-1-86-1

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Andy: Wonder if Buttler said to Jordan, might as well review as Broady would only waste it!

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"Stuart Broad used to play wonderful shots with a flowing backlift, not unlike Garfield Sobers. But he's not the Broad of old, his bottle has gone. If he can get it back, he's a devastating lower-batsman."

The new batsman is Stuart Broad. Now then Stuart, Cook has ended a run of 35 innings without a Test century, can you end that sequence of 61 innings without one? Remember that 169 against Pakistan? Let's see that flowing cover drive again.

There's no snicko and no Hotspot but the third umpire Steve Davis has sound and he's given it. Only two wickets left now for England.

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Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"It was away from his body and his pads, so if there's a noise he must have nicked it."

Jordan has flicked one down the leg-side to the keeper seemingly but he has asked for a review, after a review of his own with Buttler.

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Pete Naylor: Imagine if Robson got picked to replace Trott in place of Lyth. Whole of English cricket on Twitter would explode, no doubt...

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Another tremendous English contingent at the Kensington Oval today. They're watching Shannon Gabriel steaming in from the Joel Garner End. Buttler playing himself in nicely and he collects two with a neat leg glance. Sam Robson has scored a century for Middlesex in the Championship today against Durham.

Is he going to come back to the England top order? Unlikely isn't it? Or is it? So was Trott returning as an opener.

Jordan picks up two more off paceman Jerome Taylor with a turn to leg. He's still waiting to improve on his Test best of 35 scored on his debut against Sri Lanka last year, but he's yet to be dismissed for less than double figures. Taylor still struggling with the radar a fraction.

The nonchalant figure of Marlon Samuels, in his red-rimmed sunglasses, has four balls to complete the over from last night that yielded the wicket of Cook, and Jordan picks up two with a stylish drive through the covers.

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Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"It's a tantalising day. If England can get to 280-290 I think that could be enough here. I think England could bowl West Indies out for less because there's a weakness in the head of some of the batsmen and there's bit in the pitch to work with. If England can put pressure on them they will buckle."

Jos Buttler is yet to get off the mark having faced nine balls, and he walks out to the middle with Barbados-born Chris Jordan. As Oolon says, it could be entertaining if these two get going. The cloud has built up but it still looks like another nice day for batting.