West Indies' first-Test centurion Nkrumah Bonner is going to bowl some spin with five minutes to go before tea.

England are racing towards tea. Lawrence now cuts Permaul, the West Indies spinner offering far too much width. The fifty partnership is up in just 69 balls. The game has a whole different feel to an hour ago.

Delia Smith should give Joe Root a call because he could do anything at the minute, even keep Norwich in the Premier League. Jason Holder is a very good Test bowler but Root just waits for the ball and calmly guides it through two despairing fielders in the gully.

Tim Peach
BBC Sport in Barbados

One benefit of these two not playing is that they can now head to the bar during play.

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Eng 120-2published at 55 overs

55 overs

Root 70, Lawrence 20

Oh hello there! Dan Lawrence that is lovely, lovely stuff. A skip, a swing and a flick of the wrists sends Veerasammy Permaul into the stands.

Joe Root swept for four earlier in the over too. This may be the increase in intensity many of you called for.

Jason Holder looks how most bowlers would feel after running in on this pitch - a week after the road in Antigua. He throws the ball down into the dirt in his follow-through. The groundstaff of the Caribbean must love batting.

Tim Peach
BBC Sport in Barbados

There are plenty of customised England flags on display here, but this is by a long way my favourite. More of a cricket man, myself

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This ground is many things but it is not the hostile Kensington Oval England teams have endured in the past. The DJ may have stopped his music at the start of the over but the England fans continue to belt out Sweet Caroline a cappella.

It's like Edgbaston but sunny.

Sir Curtly Ambrose
Former West Indies bowler on BT Sport

I couldn't quite understand the risk for that run. John Campbell is normally quite a good fielder. Jason Holder has hands on his head.

That's a chance! Dan Lawrence, blood pumping after the boundaries, goes for a crazy single. Had John Campbell taken the ball cleanly rushing in from mid-on the England batter would have been in real trouble. In the end a fumble allows Lawrence to scramble home.

There are hands on top of maroon West Indies caps around the field.

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David Gower
Ex-England captain on BT Sport

They were both nicely timed by Dan Lawrence. I'll take any money that Jason Holder hasn't been hit for consecutive boundaries in this series yet...In fact I've just had it confirmed that's the case, so I won't have to empty my pockets to anyone.

This might just be the shot of the day Dan Lawrence! A Jason Holder floaty loosener is punched back past his bootlaces.

The next ball is clipped to the fence too with a wristy flourish. Lovely batting.

Lawrence gets off the mark with a pushed couple. We're seeing a lot of aerial shots of Barbados on the TV coverage today which is not making me even a little jealous as I sit here in rainy northern England.

Jonathan Agnew
BBC cricket correspondent in Barbados

Alex Lees will be disappointed with that having battled away for so long. It was a soft dismissal having done the hard work. He'd put himself under pressure to up the rate given how slowly he scored this morning.

This partnership is worth 14 runs from 30 balls and Dan Lawrence hasn't scored any of them.

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Jamie Sheehan: Dan Lawrence needs to channel his inner Jack Leach now and let Joe Root get a big hundred. If Root and Lawrence are still there at the close, England will have had a good day.

You know those days when Joe Root just looks like he's going to get a hundred from the very start? Yep. It's one of those.

This time he sweeps Veerasammy Permaul to the boundary before milking three more runs from the rest of the over too.

Who do I speak to about a campaign to get Freddie Flintoff on a fiver note?

Tim Peach
BBC Sport in Barbados

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As a sign for how much cricket means to Barbados, the man on the $5 note is former batter Sir Frank Worrell.

Lawrence already looks busy, using his feet to the spinner Permaul. He's grinning with Root at the end of the over about something or other. The Essex man looks relaxed at least.