Anderson moves to 501 Test wickets
First England bowler to reach 500
Anderson bowls Brathwaite & Powell
Powell 45, S Hope 35*
England 194 - first-innings lead of 71
Stokes 60, Roach 5-72, Holder 4-54
Three-Test series level at 1-1
Malan c Dowrich b Roach 20 (Eng 63-5)
Gone! England came out in a flurry, but in these conditions there's always a chance there's a ball with your name on it. Dawid Malan is the man to go (yes, yes, we know he's one of the three trying to prove themselves), undone by some good bowling by Kemar Roach. Round the wicket, angle in, hold the line to take the edge. Could Malan have done better? Footwork?
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Matthew Birch: If Joe Root is at the crease, what is the likelihood that England have made less than 40 runs?
Clive Temple: Prove the area of Alistair Cook's palms is less than that of Geoffrey Boycott's paternal mothers apron. Show your workings.
Three slips and a gully in place for both of these left-handers, HQ pretty full despite the filthy weather. Jonny Bairstow, next man in, waits on the balcony as Gabriel appeals when Malan is hit on the front pad. That's pitched another set outside leg stump. Ominously for the Windies, Ben Stokes is batting like Garry Sobers. A high-elbowed drive goes straight of mid-off for four.
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I know TMS often talk about this as a figure of speech if a No.11 batsman is a complete rabbit. But at Lords yesterday I was sitting near the ground staff and as Shannon Gabriel walked down the pavilion steps and came out to bat sure enough they started the roller and how right they were to do so. I wonder when they’ll start the roller for the remainder of England’s innings?
Andrew Walsh
Malan 19, Stokes 18
I'm receiving correspondence that it is raining in various places. Beaconsfield, Abingdon. I've no idea where they are so don't know if the wet stuff will soon arrive at Lord's. Kemar Roach round the wicket, met by Ben Stokes with the sort of cut shot that would win a sword fight. England look like they might be keen to play a few shots.
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Nick White: Spirit of cricket, or play to the rules? Discuss.
Mike Jones: The corridor of uncertainty is more psychologically challenging than physically, discuss.
Trail by 71
Gabriel has a side-to-side run-up, lumbering in down the slope. No swing, but he's not that sort of bowler - more the type to bang it in. When there's width, left-hander Malan takes the opportunity to drive square for a couple. The outfield is sluggish, as you'd expect, but a crunching drive from the final ball of the over rattles to the extra cover fence.
Phil Tufnell
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
West Indies were quite comfortable yesterday, then the rain came in and it went round corners. It doesn't quite feel as humid today; it's a bit chillier.
A ripple of applause as the players emerge. It's still as dark as an outhouse at Lord's. Definitely a time to be bowling. Dawid Malan is taking guard, with Ben Stokes at t'other end. Both men have 13. Shannon Gabriel, shoulders of a man who has left the hanger in his shirt, has the ball.
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Cllr Sam Stopp: England are searching for conventional top five and can't find one. Why not find more all-rounders a la Stokes and Ali?
The bell has been rung. Aggers says that Swanny's style was "polite. Between a tinkle and dinger."
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Alec Stewart
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
I just don't think the pink ball is good enough yet. You talk to the players - it's a struggle for the fielders when the ball gets a few overs old. Depth perception for the batsmen is that much harder and the bowlers can't shine it the way they would like. If it goes gun barrel straight after 20 overs it becomes a batting-fest.
I'm with you, David. I'd actually take it a stage further. If the pink ball is good enough for day-night matches, then it must be good enough for all Test cricket? That way bad light would never be a thing. Not everyone agrees, though...
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David Gooding: Why don't they switch to pink ball when lights come on. Day-night cricket with different colour ball.
Steven's cricket exam that we mentioned at 10:52 is getting a lot of attention. We may need examples of some of the questions.
Alec Stewart
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
If you're 250-1 you'd probably say you are seeing the ball fine but it you're 40-4 it's a different story. It doesn't matter if a side need 50 to win or it's going to be a boring draw - you still need to be consistent with what is acceptable light.
All of the covers are off, there are some West Indies players going through some warm-ups. Their brilliant whites are illuminating the gloom. Graeme Swann is going to ring the five-minute bell. I'm told that he's shadow-ringing in preparation.
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On the subject of rain stopping play
We came off for rain at Salesbury CC, a very pretty ground in Lancashire, and decided amongst ourselves there was no prospect of completing the match; the Umpire came into our dressing room and saw half of us were already changed – he said “we might get back on yet” and pointed out the window towards the square...just as a duck landed on the huge puddle that now covered the pitch. Match was abandoned there and then.
David Pierrie, Southport
Alec Stewart
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
Yesterday it was like day-night cricket with how dark it was and it goes to show it is possible to get more play in when the weather is like that. Credit to the umpires for allowing it.
Shares your concerns, Steve. Are they personal, or a worry for how England's batsmen might perform in conditions that suggest the ball will swing like Austin Powers?