Summary

  • England slip from 249-3 to 279-8

  • Crawley 76, Sibley 50, Stokes 46

  • Crawley adds 98 with Stokes

  • Three wickets for Gabriel

  • West Indies led by 114 on first innings

  • First Test, Southampton, day four

Live Reporting

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  2. Eng 151-2

    Lead by 37

    I'd love to know what he'd done to deserve that.

    When things are this quiet and you're batting for your place in the team, you really don't want to get out in dozy fashion. Crawley drives one back into the stumps at Denly's end. Had Joseph got a finger on the ball - and he wasn't far away - Denly would have been miles out.

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  4. Eng 149-2

    Denly 29, Crawley 22

    West Indies skipper Jason Holder, fielding with two floppy hats on his head, doesn't look too unhappy as Chase bowls a quiet over. This pitch isn't offering a lot at all.

  5. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport at Southampton

    It's a sleepy afternoon in the warm sunshine. That's not to say it isn't competitive, because West Indies are making England work hard, but the hosts are happily blunting the attack.

    Stalemate in the stillness, with less movement around the near-empty stadium than normal. Neither side will be displeased. We're just waiting for something to happen...

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  6. Eng 148-2

    Lead by 34

    I assume they're good mates both coming from Kent which would would hopefully rule out any of those shenanigans.

    The pair come through for a tight single in this over but both make it comfortably. Crawley gives Denly a thumbs up after he made his ground.

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    I wonder if either of these batsmen will try to run the other one out...

    Ryan from St Ives, Cornwall

  8. We all know what'll happen next but Denly and Crawley are batting really well in the afternoon sunshine.

  9. Alison Mitchell
    BBC Test Match Special

    I thought that was coming over the top for six at one stage.

  10. Eng 145-2

    Denly 29, Crawley 18

    You all disappoint me.

    Denly plays a textbook aerial straight chip to Chase that would have been four but for some good fielding on the rope.

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  12. Eng 143-2

    Lead by 29

    How did Graham Onions only play nine Tests? A disgrace.

  13. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport at Southampton

    Joe Denly has played more Tests than Neil Fairbrother, Chris Tremlett, David Lloyd, Colin Milburn, Graham Onions, David Steele, James Taylor, Adam Hollioake, Lord Tennyson and Ivo Bligh.

  14. Eng 143-2

    Good question. Long way to go yet but both are playing well here. Someone is going to have to miss out.

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  16. Eng 142-2

    Denly 27, Crawley 18

    Jason Holder won't want Roston Chase to leak runs here. He wants his spinner to hold an end while the seamers rotate.

    Denly sweeps for four before Crawley even gets the reverse out.

    Six from the over.

  17. Phil Tufnell
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    Fantastic shot. He got into it beautifully. Hardest shot to play that but he executed it brilliantly. Poised and didn't try to hit it hard.

  18. Eng 137-2

    Denly 22, Crawley 17

    Crawley is clearly made of smart stuff because after getting that fine delivery he leans on one and unleashes a perfect on-drive for four.

    Next ball soft hands prevent any chance of a catch in the slips.

  19. Phil Tufnell
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    Bit of a lazy shot, he sort of just fell forward.

  20. Eng 131-2

    I was just about to write that Crawley was beginning to look confident at the crease but he's just been beaten completely by a fine delivery from Roach.

    Roach, still wicketless in the match, will bowl a lot worse and take a hat-full