Eng 320-6published at 45.4 overs

45.4 overs

The biggest of the lot! Full toss sent miles. Moeen has hit six sixes in eight balls.

Eng 314-6published at 45.3 overs

45.3 overs

Incredible hitting. Moeen has taken 36 off his last seven balls.

Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

They are bowling it right into the slot for Moeen Ali. It's the sort of length he is looking for.

Eng 308-6published at 45.2 overs

45.2 overs

Will the Windies learn? They can't keep bowling in Moeen's arc. If they do, they will need a fielder 15 rows back.

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Eng 301-6published at 45 overs

45 overs

1-6-6-2-4-6

There's no stopping Moeen now. Keen to avoid disappearing over the leg side, Cummins goes wide of off stump, only to be edge for four. Then the last ball disappears over square leg for another maximum! 25 off the over!

Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

Good striking from Moeen. It is starting to look like England will get 330 plus now, potentially 340.

50 for Moeen Alipublished at 44.3 overs

44.3 overs

Eng 289-6

And again! A carbon-copy, this time to bring up Moeen Ali's half-century from only 41 balls. Remember, he arrived in the midst of England losing 3-11.

Eng 283-6published at 44.2 overs

44.2 overs

This is a game from Moeen. Cummins delivers into the slot, Mo wallops it over for a maximum.

Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

Woakes has played the type of innings you don't see often. He's used his brain and is playing old school. He's not come out and just recklessly played his shots. It's been impressive.

Jason Holder is six-foot-massive. With a bit of training, he'd make a decent big guy in WWE. How come he doesn't bowl 90mph+? It seems like he's got a bit of pace left in the locker, concealed by the run-up of a man on the treadmill's lowest setting. England are barely wasting an opportunity to score. 325 possible?

Vic Marks
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

Moeen has gone from 'promising Mo' to 'good, old Mo' in such a short space of time. He's so modest. He was talking about how he couldn't hit sixes like the other lads in a press conference recently. He'd just hit five sixes in his innings! He's like that - he's so self-effacing.

Yep, it would be. We can keep having free hits until we die if necessary. On the subject of high-stakes fictional cricket, we're getting lots of shouts for Lagaan. I've not seen it, but it sounds tasty. Moeen is feeling it here, giving it some flat-batted humpty at every possible opportunity, while Woakes lofts Jerome Taylor down the ground for a one-bounce four.

It's so strange to see how close the flats at one end of the ground are to the action. Residents on their balconies are fielding at long-off. You could get a Chris Gayle thwack landing on your sofa. Also, if you live there, what's stopping you disrupting the cricket? "No, I refuse to keep still while the bowler is running in". Chris Woakes looks ready to tickle the gas here. He and Moeen have ridden England through that mini-wobble.

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Cricket has made plenty of appearances on screen - Sloggers, Outside Edge, that episode of Dad's Army that had the Fred Trueman cameo - but I'm struggling to think of any fictional cricket matches that had high stakes. I mean, is there a cricketing equivalent of Escape To Victory?

Glen: I think Buttler is wasted down the order. Bring him in at two or three and let him do damage there!

Ben Wire: Stuck in the M4 diversion at Newport. TMS keeping us sane. Need Moeen to bat this out.

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Now then. I'm told that Ambridge v Darrington is something to do with the Archers, and that it is quite high stakes. Is it true that Darrington arrived in the pub this past Friday?