England: Alastair Cook, Mark Stoneman, Tom Westley, Joe Root (capt), Dawid Malan, Ben Stokes, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Moeen Ali, Toby Roland-Jones, Stuart Broad, James Anderson.

West Indies: Kraigg Brathwaite, Kieran Powell, Kyle Hope, Shai Hope, Roston Chase, Jermaine Blackwood, Shane Dowrich (wk), Jason Holder (capt), Kemar Roach, Alzarri Joseph, Miguel Cummins.

Umpire: Marais Erasmus, Sundaram Ravi; TV umpire: Chris Gaffaney.

Match referee: David Boon; reserve umpire: Michael Gough.

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I'd love them to bring out glasses of hot milk and hot chocolate, rather than water, for the final drinks break.

Francis Edwards: Before we begin, does anyone care about these matches? Equivalent to England playing a village team, not good viewing.

Jason Cole: Do you think that it'll be cocoa all round for the last drinks break today?

Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

A pink ball or a red ball, it doesn't change the old school Test match way of just taking a look for a few overs. Everyone is expecting England to win the series 3-0 but you never know in a day-night Test.

Sir Curtly Ambrose isn't feeling too confident about West Indies' chances in this series.

The Windies have lost six consecutive Test series, and haven't won a series since they beat Bangladesh is 2015.

"I am concerned with the way we are playing," Ambrose told the Tuffers and Vaughan Cricket Show.

"I am hoping they can at least win one Test or compete, but, as a realist, I am not too sure they will."

He would know - Ambrose was the Windies bowling consultant from 2013, and oversaw their Twenty20 World Cup victory in 2014.

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Ebony Rainford-Brent
Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match Special

Stoneman is a classy left-hander. He has not got an electric average but he is a bit more mature and, at his age, it might be the right time to come in and settle in. We're desperate to find someone with that balance. Hopefully he has the mentality that he won't be rushed or flustered.

Mark Stoneman is the newest face up at the top of the England batting line-up.

The left-hander passed 1,000 first-class runs in each of the past four seasons, and currently averages 51.08 for Surrey.

He's scored three centuries this season, to go with 16 first-class tons overall, and a tidy 8,692 career runs.

"It's been a long road with some ups and downs along the way, so to get the call was quite a release of emotion and something I'm very proud of," Stoneman told BBC Radio London last week.

"I've had 10 years as a professional so you'd hope I'd have worked things out by now."

Incidentally, the intervals are still called lunch and tea. Despite the fact lunch should be called dinner.

Stephan Shemilt
BBC Sport at Edgbaston

If you didn't look at the clock, you wouldn't know that anything is different. Spectators march up Pershore Road, faster than the gridlocked traffic. Only when you see how many patrons spill out of Sir Harry's chip shop, or notice there are too many drinkers in the Edgbaston Tap for it to be morning do you know the body clock needs to be altered.

West Indies captain Jason Holder: "It looks a pretty true wicket, but hopefully there will be something in it for the bowlers.

"We have played a day-night Test before. Test match cricket is played on the day - whether it's a red ball or a pink ball.

"I'm very confident. We've had three solid games in England so far and our batsmen carry some decent form into this game."

Sir Curtly Ambrose
Former West Indies fast bowler on TMS

This ball doesn't look like it will take much of a shine. It's a tough call whether to bat or bowl first, but I'd bat first. In the daytime, the ball may not do much, but that could change in the evening.

England captain Joe Root: "It looks a good wicket - we will have to see how the pink ball performs. We have to start well and set the tone.

"It's new and exciting, a great opportunity to start off the series strong. Mark Stoneman is a fine player, he's had a fantastic season and I hope he steps up and takes his chance.

"It's difficult when you have such depth in your bowling, we felt Chris Woakes wasn't quite ready. He will have another week to get ready and make sure there's not another injury around the corner."

Here's how today should, in theory, go down:

• First session - 14:00 BST to 16:00
• Lunch - 16:00 to 16:40
• Second session - 16:40 to 18:40
• Tea (or dinner...) - 18:40 to 19:00
• Third session - 19:00 to 21:00

Play can go on until 22:00 but the most likely close of play is 21:30.

Joe Root's coin tossing is as rubbish as ever but, never mind, he's done his job. England have won the toss, and will have a bat first.

As we know, Mark Stoneman will open with Alastair Cook in place of Keaton Jennings. Root reckons he's got a "great game on him". There's no Shannon Gabriel for West Indies.

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That wily sage Paul Collingwood didn't mince his words when asked about the pink ball.

"It will do all sorts in the first 10 overs and then it becomes this soft as plastic thing that you can't hit that doesn't deviate off anywhere," he said.

"It's shocking. It feels like plastic when you hit it. Apparently they don't like using [Australian manufactured] Kookaburras in England because of the weather.

"I played in one four-day game against Worcestershire and the opening batsman was laughing.

"The ball wasn't even coming off the bat. It's just totally different. It was like 'what is going on?'"

Sounds, er, promising...

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The pitch at Edgbaston looks really good. A bat first one, I'd say. Here's a closer look at the pink ball, and the changes that have been made for these day-night Tests.

This is the first international day-night match in England, but the County Championship had a round of day-night matches back in June.

The reaction was mixed, to say the least.

Yorkshire's Tim Bresnan described the whole thing as a "weird day" and the common consensus was that the ball did a bit in the first session and again when the floodlights came into effect.

However, some BBC commentators said the ball became harder to pick up when the floodlights weren't on - with Kevin Howells reckoning the ball becomes duller, softer and bigger due to moisture as the day progresses.

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Hiya! I'll be honest, my experience of the pink ball is limited to a brief 30-minute stint up at Headingley, and watching the Australia-New Zealand Test on the telly. I've got a vague idea of what to expect, but that's about it.

First Adelaide. Then Dubai. And then back to Adelaide, before Brisbane had a go.

And now, it's Birmingham's turn to host some day-night international cricket.

Excited? Confused? Wary? Yeah, me too...

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