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Simon Lassam: Can someone make sure Jimmy and Broady haven’t gone and booked a summer holiday. Turns out, we still need them.
West Indies 232-8 at close of play day two
Da Silva 54 not out & Roach unbeaten on 25
Pair share unbroken stand of 55 for ninth wicket
West Indies were 128-7, trailing by 76, when Mayers (25) was caught mid-on off Stokes
Woakes takes three wickets after lunch - Bonner (4) bounced out, Holder (0) caught on pull and Blackwood (18) lbw
England improved after poor opening hour when hosts reached 50-0
Brathwaite (17) and Brooks (13) out lbw to Stokes and Mahmood respectively
Opener Campbell caught down leg side for 35 off Overton
Third Test, day two, Grenada
Three-Test series level at 0-0
Timothy Abraham and Sam Drury
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Simon Lassam: Can someone make sure Jimmy and Broady haven’t gone and booked a summer holiday. Turns out, we still need them.
Jonathan Agnew
BBC cricket correspondent in Grenada
That first hour is not what England were looking for. They've beaten the bat a couple of times, but it's certainly not offering as much help as yesterday, and England haven't put the ball in the right place enough. For the West Indies, it's not merely a safe start, it's a positive one.
Well that was not what we were hoping for from England.
West Indies have serenely cruised through until the first drinks break.
John Campbell a little eager to get off the strike to Ben Stokes as he sets off to take a single with a dab into the off side.
Never a one there and Kraigg Brathwaite sends him back, and Campbell quickly offers profuse apologies to his skipper.
Stokes continues to keep it tight. Two runs from the over.
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Re: Mark at 14.25. Very harsh. We have Jofra Archer, Ollie Robinson and Mark Wood missing. Remove the best three bowlers from other teams, for a fair comparison.
Tim, Surrey
Kraigg Brathwaite, a more slight figure at the crease compared to John Campbell, looks like he is the kind of mood to stick around for the long haul again.
He's more than happy to see out a maiden from Saqib Mahmood with a mixture of defensive prods and careful leaves.
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England's bowlers simply have no patience to stay on a line & length and rightly being punished. Project reset is becoming a shambles.
Raj in Fleet.
Joe Root having a tactical chit-chat in the slips as Ben Stokes works his way through another over largely targeting the stumps.
His final delivery is full and swings in a touch but Kraigg Brathwaite jabs his bat down and the ball squirts away on the leg side allowing him to take a single.
Stokes, who is wearing a support on his left knee, has momentarily left the field at the end of that over. Let's hope it is nothing too serious.
Tim Peach
BBC Sport in Grenada
When you're on a relatively small island, large buildings can have many uses. This is just down the corridor from our commentary box.
Ian Bishop
Former West Indies pace bowler on BT Sport
Not great bowling, to be honest. There is enough in the pitch to be hitting a good length.
Things are quickly going a little awry for England here.
Back-to-back boundaries for John Campbell as Saqib Mahmood gets his sums wrong with his first two balls to the West Indies left-hander.
Short and wide outside off-stump and Campbell thwacks it away to the boundary through point. Next ball Campbell clinically cuts another even shorter, even wider, delivery to the rope.
Slightly aerial with that second shot but he was in control of it.
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If there was a cash prize for bowling a pretty, unthreatening 7th stump line with a little swing with the new ball, Chris Woakes would be quids in wouldn't he.
Ade
Relatively plain sailing for West Indies thus far.
Chris Woakes, inevitably, withdrawn from the attack as Ben Stokes is thrown the ball by Joe Root in an attempt to contrive a breakthrough.
Stokes, with his hair slicked back like Don Corleone, largely keeps it full and tight to the stumps.
At the end of Stokes' over Root has a brief chat with a slightly sulky Woakes, giving him a bit of reassurance.
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Si: If Woakes cannot take wickets on this, then he never will, should be tailor made for him. No way should be taking wickets at 52 a piece here! As English conditions as will get abroad.
Michael Vaughan
Former England captain on BT Sport
Chris Woakes needs to go out there and imagine he's playing in Birmingham. The management have picked him as the senior bowler and the leader of the attack and he has to step up.
Jonathan Agnew
BBC cricket correspondent in Grenada
That's the first time, in the 10th over, that we've seen the ball beat the bat. Good bowling from Mahmood.
That's a bit more of what Joe Root wants here from Saqib Mahmood.
His first ball of the over beats the outside edge of Kraigg Brathwaite who had to play at a delivery which pitched around off and nipped away.
Around the wicket to John Campbell later in the over and the West Indies opener gets forward decisively to block.
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The Retrospective: The pitch was definitely more of a minefield yesterday morning than it has appeared so far today. Not nipping around like it was.
John Campbell is a picture of balance as he capitalises on a slightly over-pitched second delivery from Chris Woakes and creams the Warwickshire all-rounder through the covers for four.
That was a glorious shot by the left-handed West Indies opener.
Woakes finds a better length, darting the ball across Campbell, in the remaining four balls.
Jonathan Agnew
BBC cricket correspondent in Grenada
West Indies have had the better of the opening salvos so far because England haven't made them play enough.