Summary

  • Close - Eng 40-0: Crawley 21*, Lees 18*

  • Tourists lead by 136 runs going into final day

  • WI 411: Brathwaite 160, Blackwood 102; Leach 3-118

  • Mahmood claims first two Test wickets

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

  1. Postpublished at 17:24 Greenwich Mean Time 19 March 2022

    I must be honest I had to Google that one.

    We have players on the boundary edge.

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    Re lifts: Can only be Otis Gibson (lift knowledge required)

    Mike in Manchester

  3. Play to restart at 17:25 GMTpublished at 17:20 Greenwich Mean Time 19 March 2022

    We're going to be getting back under way in five minutes.

  4. Postpublished at 17:19 Greenwich Mean Time 19 March 2022

    My thing with this debate is you don't want too big a name. They can often be more guarded. You want someone who has been there at the top level but still has stories to tell.

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    Surely Farokh Engineer would be handy in a broken lift situation?

    Madeleine, Beverley

  6. Postpublished at 17:16 Greenwich Mean Time 19 March 2022

    It looks like the rain has stopped but there are still no players to be seen at the Kensington Oval.

  7. Postpublished at 17:10 Greenwich Mean Time 19 March 2022

    This picture sums up England's day so far...

    Ben Stokes and Jason HolderImage source, Getty Images
  8. Postpublished at 17:08 Greenwich Mean Time 19 March 2022

    Our chat here in the office has progressed to people we'd most like to be stuck in a lift with...

    I'll take your cricketing suggestions.

  9. Postpublished at 17:04 Greenwich Mean Time 19 March 2022

    Here's the scene in Barbados. Sigh.

    Kensington Oval
  10. Postpublished at 16:59 Greenwich Mean Time 19 March 2022

    Tim Peach
    BBC Sport in Barbados

    More rain blowing through; the covers are back on.

  11. Postpublished at 16:55 Greenwich Mean Time 19 March 2022

    BBC Test Match Special

    CWI chief executive on the low number of local supporters at these Tests: "Our primary school cricket programs are as popular as ever, our digital and social engagement is on the rise and radio coverage is still hugely important to how people follow cricket in the Caribbean.

    " You may not see loads of Caribbean fans in the stands but come the weekend there will be more and there will be more in Grenada. This is also a unique opportunity for people to earn $200-300 in a day and they haven’t done so through the pandemic.

    "The England fans do stand out on this tour but we’ve also seen massive crowds in the Caribbean Premier League and when we hosted the Women’s T20 World Cup, even when West Indies weren’t playing. The passion for and love of cricket still exists."

    You can hear more from Grave on tonight's TMS podcast.

  12. Postpublished at 16:51 Greenwich Mean Time 19 March 2022

    BBC Test Match Special

    Cricket West Indies chief executive Johnny Grave on England Tests being played on tourist islands of Antigua, Barbados and Grenada: "You’d hope Guyana, Trinidad and Jamaica will be visited by England for a Test again.

    "Certainly the T20 World Cup in 2024 will hopefully provide the opportunity for England to play outside of those eastern Caribbean tourist islands.

    "We changed our model and tried to take the politics out of where we play international cricket. We’ve guaranteed every international stadium that they’ll get either a men’s Test match or two white-ball games a year."

  13. Postpublished at 16:50 Greenwich Mean Time 19 March 2022

    Cricket West Indies chief executive Johnny Grave has been speaking to the TMS Podcast.

    He has been asked about some of the issues around the game in the Caribbean at the moment...

  14. Postpublished at 16:48 Greenwich Mean Time 19 March 2022

    Maybe we just have a big game of I Spy?

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    Dave Ross: Perhaps you could rerun text of some of the great test matches instead of this one? Headingley 2019 for example. Maybe when India beat Australia at The Gabba. Anything really that isn't a Jack Leach maiden.

  16. Postpublished at 16:41 Greenwich Mean Time 19 March 2022

    Some of you have been suggesting that when England are batting no-one mentions the flat nature of the pitch. Maybe, maybe not.

    But isn't the point that it's day four now and the pitch still isn't doing anything? You don't mind it being flat on day one or two but not now. That's the issue, for me.

  17. Postpublished at 16:38 Greenwich Mean Time 19 March 2022

    Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent in Barbados

    A largely fruitless session for England. Brathwaite is grinding this innings out.

  18. Postpublished at 16:34 Greenwich Mean Time 19 March 2022

    My girlfriend has gone to see Jersey Boys with my in-laws today. I'm beginning to wonder who got the better deal.

    That was a tough watch.

  19. Postpublished at 16:33 Greenwich Mean Time 19 March 2022

    I can't think of an overly witty handover. My creativity is as slow as West Indies run-scoring today. Here's Matt Henry and I'll be back later.

  20. Postpublished at 16:32 Greenwich Mean Time 19 March 2022

    Tim Peach
    BBC Sport in Barbados

    Kraigg Brathwaite faced 30 consecutive dot balls earlier.