150 for Cookpublished at 87.5 overs

87.5 overs

Eng 344-3

Onto the pads strays Joseph - or more accurately, onto the hips - and Cook obligingly tickles it down to the third man boundary. This is Cook's highest Test score since his 263 against Pakistan in Abu Dhabi, back in 2015. He has made two centuries in the interim - 105 against Pakistan and 130 against India - but this has surpassed those totals. Another boundary for Cook, and that's his 150! He waves his bat at the crowd while Root, grin firmly in place, applauds from the balcony.

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

I do think that when England are bowling under the lights they will get the ball talking. Jimmy Anderson won't be spraying it around - he'll find a way of controlling it.

Four more! A weary-looking Joseph, down on the boundary, lets the ball trickle through his fingers as Cook whips Roach off his hip for four. This is wayward from Roach now, successive deliveries sliding wide across Cook, before Cook clubs away a full delivery for a leisurely single. Malan then plays a little edgily at a delivery that hugs off stump, trying to play it down, but it ends up bobbling towards gully, who pulls off a smart stop.

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Joe Root has got his hood up as he chats to Mark Ramprakash. He looks like a moody teenager. Alzarri Joseph is on next and he spears some rubbish down the leg side, which Cook almost falls over as he tries to help it on towards the boundary, before he contents himself with flicking a single off his pads. The Hollies Stand is still going strong as Malan clips a couple through two. Malan tries to get Cook to run three but Cook, having been out there for 262 deliveries, is having none of it. He can stand and watch as Malan pulls, and pulls handsomely, for four.

Bairdy: Regardless of the pitch and quality of the attack, a good score by Malan will do his chances of an Ashes tour no harm.

Patrick Brennan: It gets to the point where you almost want to support the WI just to make a game of it!

Shot! That's lovely from Malan, middling a delivery from Roach that was swinging away from him, and thumping it away to the boundary. The rest of the over is fairly uneventful, Malan chopping down on a delivery and just about avoiding an edge onto his stumps.

Miguel Cummins will take the second over with the new ball and, er, promptly bowls a no ball first up. His first legal delivery isn't much better, either, sliding down the leg side and Malan ignores it. And that's four. Short, wide, and summarily carved through backward point by Malan. This has been a dreadful 15 minutes for West Indies, to go with a middling overall performance.

Jack Mendel: I reckon Aussies secretly organised this WI tour to lure England selectors into a false sense of security before Ashes.

As Cricinfo's Dan Brettig pointed out, external earlier, Australia played West Indies before the 2015 Ashes series. And look how well that went for them...

Kemar Roach is back, two slips and a gully hovering, as Alastair Cook faces up. He gets a wide delivery that swings away from the batsman as it pitches, before Cook gets a boundary off a thick outside edge. That bounced before it went flying past second slip but it was tantalisingly closed to the man's outstretched hand. Edgbaston looks a picture now, illuminated by the lights, as Cook gets an easy single. Now, what's Roach's plan to Malan going to be? Targeting the off stump, by the looks of things, and Malan lets three successive deliveries go past him.

Mike Bell: Body language amongst West Indies players and coaching staff shows they are a long way away from being all in it together. Not a happy group.

New ballpublished at 82 overs

82 overs

Eng 302-3

We're going to take the new ball! Finally. It's taken someone running on from the dressing room with a message from the coach to get them to take the new ball. I mean. It's not great, is it?

A West Indies substitute fielder is hanging behind the boundary ropes, having just been given a very stern message from Stuart Law. Brathwaite gets through his over and Malan, utterly untroubled, slaps everything away. He's the stand-in captain and the substitute fielder comes racing over to him. He's been told to take the new ball.

That was an odd bit of decision-making from Holder and, to be honest, it's tactically poor. Not taking the new ball, taking off the man who has taken two wickets and then having to leave the field with some sort of niggle. And we're going to continue with the spin and the old ball.

Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

This is the most ridiculous passage of play I've ever seen. Before he went off, I felt like shouting to Jason Holder and telling him that he has 10 overs to get back into this Test match.

Stuart Law is not a happy bunny. Stern faced at the best of times, he's got a real look of bemusement on his face. Roston Chase whirls through the rest of the over, Cook bringing up the 300 with a ping off the pads.

Fazeer Mohammed
TMS commentator

Why did he not take the new ball? It just complicates it even further if he's now injured. Coach Stuart Law with his head in his hands is the picture of the day.

Eng 298-3published at 80.3 overs

80.3 overs

Alastair Cook, probably thrilled that he's not having to face that new ball just yet, lets three balls go past him. Jason Holder is really struggling here. In fact, he's going to have to leave the field! He's grimacing and limping a touch, and he's thrown the ball at Roston Chase to complete the over. Stuart Law, the West Indies coach, has his head in his hands. That was a strange few minutes.