Summary

  • England reach 103-8 at stumps - just 10 runs ahead

  • Mayers finishes day with figures of 5-9

  • England 97-7, just four runs ahead, when Lees bowled by Mayers ball that keeps low

  • England 83-6, still trailing by 10 runs, when Foakes was run out for two

  • Bairstow (22) under-edges through to wicketkeeper earlier in same over

  • England were 39-4 - Root (5) nicks to slip & Stokes (4) feathers an edge

  • Lawrence bowled for duck playing no shot to Mayers, Crawley (8) taken at second slip after edging drive in fourth over off Seales

  • Earlier, Da Silva hit maiden Test ton, in 52-run stand with last-man Seales, before West Indies finally dismissed for 297

  • Day three of third and final Test in Grenada

  • Series level at 0-0

  1. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 17:33 Greenwich Mean Time 26 March 2022

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    Mark Eyles: I honestly can’t remember the last time England posted a decent score on pitch that offered something to the bowlers. 500s on roads mean little.

  2. Eng 16-1published at 7 overs

    Trail by 77

    Another maiden by Kemar Roach. Alex Lees has now played out 22 consecutive dot balls.

    He looks fairly solid, and untroubled, at the moment.

  3. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 17:29 Greenwich Mean Time 26 March 2022

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    Charlie Wetton: Not going to pile on hate for Zak Crawley after that but surely that kind of shot shows why he should be batting in the middle order and not opening.

  4. Eng 16-1published at 6 overs

    Trail by 77

    Two false starts to begin the over as people move around behind Jayden Seales' arm just as he's about to bowl. Seales turns around and screams at the fans to sit down - before having a laugh with Joe Root. What is so hard about just sitting down?

    Root is up and running. In trademark fashion too as he goes deep in his crease and steers, off the back foot, through point for a couple. He's avoided that dreaded pair.

    "I don't want to slow the game down," Root says to the umpire at the end of the over. "No, I completely understand," they respond.

  5. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 17:22 Greenwich Mean Time 26 March 2022

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    Cian Davies: England one down again quickly. Take me back to the Strauss and Cook era please.

  6. Eng 14-1published at 5 overs

    Trail by 79

    Alex Lees is watchful, while also a bit tentative and proddy, in defence as Kemar Roach sends down a maiden.

    England won't want to lose many more - if any more - wickets in this afternoon session.

  7. Postpublished at 17:19 Greenwich Mean Time 26 March 2022

    Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent in Grenada

    Once again, it's the stiff drive that does for Zak Crawley.

    This is a strange pitch. The new ball moves around, then there's a quiet period, then the ball goes soft and it's almost impossible to get a defensive batters out, but at the same time it's very difficult to score quickly with it

  8. Eng 14-1published at 4 overs

    Trail by 79

    Joe Root - who is on a pair, don't forget - is able to watch his first ball go by.

    The England needs 116 runs to become just the second Englishman to get 10,000 Test runs. Now would be a good time, Joe.

  9. Postpublished at 17:17 Greenwich Mean Time 26 March 2022

    Ian Bishop
    Former West Indies pace bowler on BT Sport

    Minus 79 for one. Zak Crawley on the drive to Jayden Seales again. Joe Root, zero in the first innings, has a lot of pressure on him now.

    Jayden Seales celebrates wicket of Zak CrawleyImage source, Getty Images
  10. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 3.5 overs

    Crawley c Holder b Seales 8 (Eng 14-1)

    The booming drive again!

    The old set up works a treat for Jayden Seales. He'd been bowling in the channel, almost trying to tempt Zak Crawley, but this time he finds a little bit of movement and the drive takes a thick edge.

    Jason Holder takes a very good catch at second slip, because the ball flew to him.

    Crawley hangs his head. He knows the old nemesis has got him out again.

  11. Postpublished at 17:13 Greenwich Mean Time 26 March 2022

    I've no problem with trying something different, but someone who hasn't played red-ball cricket for three years and Test cricket for 10 years is not the answer.

    Not to mention the fact he struggles to play back to back Twenty20's and ODIs at times now so playing a five-day Test is almost certainly out of the question.

  12. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 17:12 Greenwich Mean Time 26 March 2022

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    Just The Cricket: Only a sith deals in absolutes, Callum. Morgan would empower others, while allowing Root to focus on batting. Worst case scenario? We lose nothing. We may still lose in humiliating fashion but at least we will have tried something different! Sincerely, Root-Basher.

  13. Eng 14-0published at 3 overs

    Trail by 79

    The signs of invariable bounce are starting to become more regular now. Kemar Roach effectively gets one to pea roll along the floor, but thankfully for Alex Lees it is miles outside off stump and he's able to let it go.

    A wild ball down the leg side brings England four to end the over.

  14. From the press boxpublished at 17:10 Greenwich Mean Time 26 March 2022

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  15. dropped catch

    Eng 10-0published at 2 overs

    Trail by 83

    Big appeal for lbw against Zak Crawley as one straightens and hits him above the knee roll on the front pad. Gregory Brathwaite shakes his head and Windies wisely opt against the review with the technology showing it was going a couple of inches over leg stump.

    OH! Chance! A very tough one, mind. Crawley absolutely drills a straight drive back at Jayden Seales and the ball ricochets off his right hand and past mid on and away to the fence.

    Four more to end the over too! It's aerial from Crawley, but he finds the gaps in the covers.

    Crawley scores quickly so he could make significant inroads in this deficit if he gets going.

  16. Postpublished at 17:03 Greenwich Mean Time 26 March 2022

    Tim Peach
    BBC Sport in Grenada

    During lunch, the Queen's Baton (imagine the Commonwealth Games version of the Olympic Torch) was paraded around the edge of the boundary. It'll eventually get on to Birmingham in 124 days' time.

  17. Eng 2-0published at 1 over

    Trail by 91

    England - and Alex Lees - are up and running.

    Kemar Roach goes full and Lees jams down on it and works the ball down towards the third boundary for a couple.

    The England opener felt like he was reaching for the ball in that over, so he asked the umpire for a new middle guard. One to keep an eye on.

  18. Postpublished at 16:57 Greenwich Mean Time 26 March 2022

    Right, the players are back out in the middle.

    How England - and Zak Crawley and Alex Lees in particular - see off this new ball is going to be crucial.

    The tourists trail by 93 after the first innings.

  19. Postpublished at 16:55 Greenwich Mean Time 26 March 2022

    Jonathan Trott
    Ex-England batsman on BT Sport

    Are we giving players the best chances of performing in Test cricket?

  20. Postpublished at 16:52 Greenwich Mean Time 26 March 2022

    Michael Vaughan
    Former England captain on BT Sport

    The biggest meeting for the director of cricket and new head coach will be with Joe Root.

    They'll have to ask "do you have the energy?" because you can still be going out there but you've lost the energy to do it.

    If he's lost even an ounce of love for doing it, he has got to stop. It's not his problem that there might nor be anyone waiting in the wings.