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
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If the day-night format is to continue, could someone please get the drunken soccer fans from chanting the same song for hours on end. I won't be following this match any more, and if this is the future of Test cricket, it will be without me.
Phil Taylor
Somerset all-rounder Peter Trego agrees with you, Phil.
The hosts started off the day slowly, with many of you questioning why they're not playing in T20 mode. But after half an hour or so, the boundaries were flowing.
Dawid Malan looked comfortable at the crease last night, and continued to do so today. The Middlesex-man reached his Test half-century. His first in Test cricket, from 112 balls.
Stephan Shemilt
BBC Sport at Edgbaston
I reckon Dawid Malan has left himself 35 runs short of definitely booking himself a ticket to Australia. If he'd got a ton, what he does in the rest of the series probably wouldn't have mattered. Now, if the rest are low scores, his position will be up for debate. He probably needs one more good knock.
That's lunch, incidentally, with England on 449-4. Dawid Malan gets a few conciliatory slaps on the back from his team-mates as he gets back to the dressing room.
That session was all about Alastair Cook, though. I'll leave you with the moment he reached his fourth Test double century, while Kal Sajad takes you through to tea.
Ebony Rainford-Brent
Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match Special
Malan will be disappointed. He just lost a bit of concentration, but he's batted brilliantly.
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Malan c Blackwood b Chase 65 (Eng 449-4)
Where's that come from?! On the stroke of lunch, Dawid Malan has got out! Roston Chase speared one in, it may have been drifting away from Malan a touch, he chased it and ended up popping a simple catch to slip. That's a classic off-spinner's dismissal, and it has come at an absolutely rubbish time for Malan, who would have been eyeing three figures.
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Exceptionally played Cookie. I had to win a battle for the TV last night with other family members wanting to catch up on Masterchef. The joke that they were already watching a 'Master Chef' fell on deaf ears...
Jake, Broadway
Just seen my favourite fancy dress of this Test - two blokes dressed in their pyjamas, complete with fluffy dressing gown, pillows and a teddy bear. Excellent showing. Jason Holder brings himself back on as this first session winds down, and he gets the ball to angle in towards Cook. Cook responds with a hearty drive that beats three fielders, and allows him to pick up a couple, before he pulls a delivery from outside off stump into the mid-wicket boundary! What a shot that was - it was short, wide and Cook had plenty of time to thrash it away.
Stephan Shemilt
BBC Sport at Edgbaston
The temperature is causing two chaps next to man to cradle paper cups of something warm. On the row in front, an older chap in a thick green jacket drifts in and out of sleep - impressive when it's this cold.
Cook 207, Malan 65
Umpire Erasmus has a quick word with Jason Holder as Roston Chase begins his latest over. That's a little too wide from the off-spinner and Cook lets his bounce past him, before he gets behind a straighter delivery and prods it back to the bowler. Cook then cuts, and cuts nicely, but it's just a leisurely single.
Ebony Rainford-Brent
Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match Special
That was excellent bowling from Roach. I feel for him, he is putting in the effort.
Roach 28-8-86-2
That's a lovely delivery from Kemar Roach, angling in towards Cook before seaming away at the last moment as Cook dangles his bat out. Cook then whacks a delivery back to the unfortunate fielder at third man, and the fielder gets a loud, ironic cheer from the Edgbaston crowd as he completes a diving stop this time around. That's a tidy over from Roach, with just a single coming from it.
Ebony Rainford-Brent
Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match Special
Alastair Cook's concentration is incredible. He has come out today, marked his guard and gone about things in the same way.
Image source, Getty ImagesCook's highest score incidentally, is the 294 he made at this ground against India in 2011. That score took him 545 deliveries, in 773 minutes, and was, if memory serves a real grind fest before he holed out. Roston Chase whirls through a maiden.
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Kevin Ticehurst: Well batted Cookie, a superb double ton. One of the greatest batsman this country has ever produced. Simples.
Daniel Johnson: England's best ever opener.
Cook 203, Malan 65
That's Cook's fourth double hundred of his Test career, and his second at Edgbaston. Time for England to get working on that cloning machine. He keeps his total edging forward as he pops a single into the leg side, before Malan sees off the rest of the over.
Eng 437-3
Alastair Cook, on 198, faces up to Kemar Roach - and he reaches his double century courtesy of a misfield! Cook went after a wide one, slapping it into the air and just beyond backward point, before the fielder down at third man let the ball slip straight through his hands and away for a boundary! Cook has a wry grin on his face as he watches the ball hit the rope before raising his bat to Edgbaston, who stand and applaud.
Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
I don't think we found out much about the pink ball yesterday. We probably will later when Broad and Anderson get the ball in their hands.
Cook 198, Malan 64
Roston Chase whizzes through another over, that's all going very tidily before Dawid Malan laces the final ball of the over through the gap at mid-wicket and into the boundary rope. He's played very well through that area today.