Summary

  • Close - WI 288-4: Brathwaite 109*, Blackwood 102

  • Blackwood falls lbw to Lawrence for 102, playing no shot

  • Foakes misses chance to stump Brathwaite on 109

  • Blackwood brings up third Test ton off 207 balls

  • Brathwaite reaches 10th Test century off 278 balls

  • Day three, second Test, Barbados, series level 0-0

  1. Postpublished at 17:39 Greenwich Mean Time 18 March 2022

    Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent in Barbados

    Since those early two wickets, England have failed to make much of an impression.

  2. WI 167-3published at 68 overs

    Brathwaite 65, Blackwood 37

    The England fans burst into a rendition of the Great Escape as Lance Corporal Fisher runs in. Even that bit of enthusiasm doesn't last more than a ball or two. It's so flat.

  3. WI 162-3published at 67 overs

    Joe Root is looking very much the 'latter Man Utd years David Beckham' today with his hair slicked back and held by an Alice band. I reckon Joe would be happy with the comparison. Who wouldn't?

    He spoils his latest over by offering Blackwood a ball to hit from the sixth ball. It has been slapped to the fence.

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  4. WI 156-3published at 66 overs

    Trail by 351

    Matthew Fisher has impressed me in this Test so far. His control has been really good.

  5. WI 154-3published at 65 overs

    Brathwaite 62, Blackwood 27

    The Kensington Oval is as quiet and sleepy as it has been all Test. There's really not a lot to help the bowlers. Root beats the bat with his first delivery but the others are played easily enough.

  6. Postpublished at 17:25 Greenwich Mean Time 18 March 2022

    Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent in Barbados

    After a barren spell for Leach, who was either bowling too full or too short, missing the good length, the captain is giving himself a go.

  7. Postpublished at 17:24 Greenwich Mean Time 18 March 2022

    Joe Root has decided it's time for a go himself.

  8. WI 152-3published at 64 overs

    Brathwaite 61, Blackwood 26

    Is it just me that thinks Matthew Fisher looks like a character from a First World War movie? Or maybe he would play a butler in the 207th period drama made this year.

    Fisher's comeback over is eventful. There's a strong but optimistic lbw appeal, a lovely drive for four and a shout for caught down the leg side.

  9. WI 147-3published at 63 overs

    That one made me chuckle.

    Jack Leach has not been at his best since lunch. There has been a boundary ball in most of his overs. This time Jermaine Blackwood is able to crack him off the back foot through a gap in the off side.

    Matthew Fisher is coming back on.

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    Rest assured I will not be giving you my full postcode.

    Henry from Malvern, inside leg 30"

  11. WI 142-3published at 62 overs

    Trail by 365

    Zak Crawley is wearing two pairs of sunglasses, one over his eyes and another on the top of his blue England cap. Again, why?

    Mahmood bangs in a bouncer but it loops through to Ben Foakes like it was thrown underarm. West Indies have the measure of this docile surface, and the England bowling, at the moment.

  12. Postpublished at 17:13 Greenwich Mean Time 18 March 2022

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  13. WI 136-3published at 61 overs

    Someone has just texted us and included their full postcode. Why? Do you want a postcard?

    It's another quiet over from Jack Leach.

  14. Postpublished at 17:07 Greenwich Mean Time 18 March 2022

    Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent in Barbados

    England will have wanted more than their two wickets so far today given how the pitch is playing.

    West Indies have knuckled down, waited for the ball to get softer, so giving the bowlers less bounce and grip. The bowling won't get quite as threatening until the new ball, unless Saqib Mahmood can find some reverse swing. At the moment he's bowling a bit too short or a bit too full.

  15. WI 135-3published at 60 overs

    Brathwaite 53, Blackwood 17

    Careful, Darran. Has anyone else got experience of the umpiring at Swindon CC?

    Mahmood ends his over with a decent delivery that moves in, takes inside edge and hits Blackwood on the hip. That'll bruise.

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    Get Involvedpublished at 17:03 Greenwich Mean Time 18 March 2022

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    Dale from Swindon 16:33: Don't suppose you are Swindon CC's Umpire? Having played against them a couple of times, it would make sense!

    Darran, Devizes

  17. WI 132-3published at 59 overs

    Trail by 375

    The Kensington Oval "ahhhhhs" in unison as Jonny Bairstow makes a meal of a dive on the boundary edge. He'd sprinted 40 yards to get there but ended up in a heap. It's the second boundary in Leach's over. Runs are coming more freely off the spinner after lunch than before.

  18. WI 124-3published at 58 overs

    England bowlers are single-handedly keeping manufacturers of compression sleeves in business these days. Saqib Mahmood has his on today, Ben Stokes too. It's tidy from the Lancashire bowler who has only conceded 13 runs in 10 overs.

  19. WI 122-3published at 57 overs

    Brathwaite 50, Blackwood 8

    I've given up trying to get into the heads of people who down vote some of our entries.

    Go on. You know you want to...

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    Get Involvedpublished at 16:52 Greenwich Mean Time 18 March 2022

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    Downvoting the laws of cricket is surely the first step towards anarchy.

    Stuart