Summary

  • Rain ends play early

  • Anderson removes Brathwaite in third over

  • Eng 514-8 dec: Cook 243, Root 136

  • Malan 65, Chase 4-113

  • Edgbaston; first Test of three

Live Reporting

Amy Lofthouse and Kal Sajad

  1. Cricketers who sound like service stations

    Phil Tufnell
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    Roston Chase sounds like a service station on the M4.

  2. Eng 348-3

    Jason Holder is bringing himself on at the other end - presumably he's OK after a bit of trouble with his leg yesterday. He pushes successive deliveries across Cook, who holds his bat out of the way and watches them go safely by. He doesn't play at anything he doesn't have to, and that'll be another maiden.

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    Question for Andrew Samson: Could you settle a family argument about whether it is Root or Cook who has scored more Test runs by Root’s current age? Thank you. Keep up the good work

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  4. Eng 348-3

    Stuart Law is clutching a bottle of water furiously in his hands as he watches Dawid Malan drive his first few deliveries to the fielders. This is a cracking opportunity for Malan. He acquitted himself well last night to see off the new ball and, if he can tough out this opening spell, there's a score to be made on this track. Probably not playing shots like that, mind, as the Middlesex man is tempted into a flirt at a wide delivery outside off stump. He misses and that's a maiden.

  5. Impeccably observed by the Edgbaston crowd. The sun has peaked back out as Alastair Cook and Dawid Malan make their way to the crease, ready to resume on 153 and 28 respectively.

    It'll be Kemar Roach to get this second day going.

  6. Graeme Swann
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    England should look to get 550-600 quickly, get West Indies in and bowl them out twice.

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  7. Jason Holder and Joe Root are leading their sides out onto the field. There will be a minute's silence first in memory of the victims of yesterday's attack in Spain.

  8. Fazeer Mohammed
    TMS commentator

    It happens too often in West Indies cricket that they have a horrible first day, then have to try and pull it back. England are already racing away and they have got powerful batting to come.

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    MayasMoments: Is the Windies bowling very poor or is the England side's batting just too good? A little bit of both I would say.

  10. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport at Edgbaston

    It smashed it down an hour ago in Birmingham, enough rain to need an ark, casting serious doubt over the start of play. As quickly as the wet stuff came, it cleared off. It's cracking the flags now, but more rain threatens later.

  11. Weather watch

    I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but this forecast is getting grimmer every time I look at it...

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    Nathan Clissold: I fancy England to bat all day, reach 600 runs and put WI in to bat for the final hour under the lights.

  13. Meanwhile, down at the other end...

    England's continuing search for an opener partner has taken them to Mark Stoneman - the 12th man to take up this position since Andrew Strauss retired in 2012.

    He hit two boundaries and then, er, got this to deal with...

    And as for that equally troublesome number three position, currently occupied by Tom Westley?

    Well.

  14. Cook just seems to keep on breaking records and this one, for my money, is one of the most impressive.

    Most Test runs in England graphicBBC Sport

  15. Michael Vaughan
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    I don't think we'll be talking about a triple hundred for Cook because England will have declared by then. They'll look to be bowling at West Indies around that twilight zone in the final session.

  16. 'The jury is still out'

    For Alastair Cook, who wandered off the field at 21:30 last night with an unbeaten 153 to his name, the jury is still out on the pink ball.

    "I can't see this not being a success in other parts of the world, but whether we need to do it in England is a different matter," Cook said after the match.

    "We'll know more about the ball two or three years down the line.

    "We'll then be able to see how it reacts in all kinds of situations, but I thought it was a good ball."

  17. Graeme Swann
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    It wasn't for lack of trying - West Indies didn't let their heads drop - but the talent's not there. Alastair Cook and Root will never score easier hundreds, not in county cricket, not in second team cricket.

  18. Highlights time

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  19. Michael Vaughan
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    West Indies were poor; England were very, very good. Yesterday was a very difficult day to captain that West Indies side - they bowled both sides of the wicket and made it very easy for the England batsmen.

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