Summary

  • Pope and Buttler share unbroken century stand for fifth wicket

  • Burns passes 50 but caught at slip by Cornwall

  • Roach bowls Stokes, Root run out for 17 by Chase direct hit

  • West Indies, who won toss, remove Sibley in first over

  • Third Test, Emirates Old Trafford, day one, series level at 1-1

  • Watch Today at the Test at 19:00 BST

Live Reporting

Jack Skelton

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

    West Indies can't attack because of the session that they've had.

  2. Daniel Norcross
    BBC Test Match Special

    That would have gone straight to third slip and it's flown to the boundary. Jos Buttler got away with that.

  3. Eng 251-4

    Well there's the risk/reward of taking on the new ball.

    Jos Buttler drives at wide-ish ball and nicks it - but straight through a gap in the cordon for four.

    Kemar Roach flashes that rueful grin once more.

  4. Eng 247-4

    Kemar Roach is on target first up, ducking it in towards Ollie Pope's pads but the set batsman taps it away into a gap for one.

  5. How's stat?!

    Andy Zaltzman
    Test Match Special statistician

    Jos Buttler's half-century came up off 104 balls with two sixes and four fours. It is his 17th score of 50+ in Test cricket. It's only his second though in 24 innings and 13 Tests going back to the start of last summer's Ashes series.

  6. How do England play this?

    New ball always dangerous but can also ping off the bat.

  7. new ball

    New ball

    Eng 246-4

    That's that for the spinners.

    Jason Holder calls for the second new ball.

    Kemar Roach will bowl with it first up.

  8. 50 runs

    50 for Buttler

    Jos Buttler crawled to 18 before two big sixes off Rahkeem Cornwall helped kick him into gear.

    It's been tremendous accumulation since and he punches a couple more through cover to bring up a fine 50.

    Can he keep it going?

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

    It is just a sign of a bowling attack that has played three Tests on the trot. It is their own wrongdoing that they haven't changed the team. They've got to take the new ball.

  10. Still no. Another over of Roston Chase.

  11. Eng 244-4

    Pope 84, Buttler 49

    Ollie Pope does some more scampering to pick up a single and Jos Buttler does the same to move to 49.

    Jason Holder is back on the field - time for the new ball?

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

    West Indies desperately need wickets and I just don't understand the theory behind not taking the new ball.

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    Jack Allum: Really impressed with Pope - he hasn’t gone into his bunker once. He is a “busy” player as well. If he can’t hit a boundary he looks to scamper about. Just what I like.

  14. Nope. They're going to stick with off-spinner Rahkeem Cornwall for now.

    Kemar Roach does look to be loosening up though.

  15. Eng 242-4

    Will West Indies take the new ball straight away?

  16. Daniel Norcross
    BBC Test Match Special

    That is a beautiful shot. He used his feet and he is not allowing Roston Chase to settle at all.

  17. Eng 241-4

    Too good.

    Ollie Pope advances down the pitch and hits it straight back down the ground for four.

    Real authority in that.

  18. Wrists. Ridiculous wrists.

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    I really hope this innings is the start of the real Jos Buttler in test cricket. I really hope it isn't a flash in the pan that keeps him in the side for another two series with nothing to follow.

    James, Wimbledon

  20. Eng 236-4

    Run rate 2.99

    Jos Buttler pushes through point off the last ball and picks up a single to keep the strike.

    Just one over to go under West Indies have the new ball available. But is Shannon Gabriel fit enough to give it a blast alongside Kemar Roach?