10th over: West Indies 63-3 (Pooran 13, Powell 9) Curran keeping it tight once more, West Indies doing nothing too hasty as they aim to build a platform. Time for DRINKS at the halfway point in the innings.

9th over: West Indies 60-3 (Pooran 12, Powell 9) Powell sweeps consecutive balls from Rashid with surprising delicacy for a man mountain.

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8th over: West Indies 54-3 (Pooran 10, Powell 5) Curran examines the bottom of his bowling boots and scampers in. On the button immediately with a maiden. Marcus Trescothick scribbles in his notebook on the balcony with one of those click-clack biros with the different colour inks.

7th over: West Indies 54-3 (Pooran 10, Powell 5) It’s Adil Rashid time, royal blue towel tucked in his waistband. Powell has his cap on in readiness. A wide wanders down the legside and otherwise West Indies fairly comfortably rotate the strike.

6th over: West Indies 44-3 (Pooran 5, Powell 1) A loose ball for Saqib puts four leg byes on the board for West Indies but a tight over otherwise and nearly removes Pooran’s ankles with a glorious yorker, which is well dug out.

5th over: West Indies 39-3 (Pooran 5, Powell 0) Pooran picks up four first ball, but Jofra follows up with five immaculate pencil point dots.

4th over: West Indies 35-3 (Pooran 1, Powell 0) Saqib gets his reward after sending down two wides and being driven gloriously by Chase for two fours. This is not easy bowling to face.

WICKET! Chase lbw Saqib 13 (West Indies 35-3)

3rd over: West Indies 25-2 (Pooran 1, Chase 5) Lewis swivel-pulls Archer’s second ball for four, but that’s his lot as he immediately is bewitched by some kind of sorcery. Chase nearly falls first ball, slicing another lifter through the slips but just high enough that even Overton on take-off couldn’t grab it. There is, say the commentators, dampness in the pitch.

WICKET! Lewis c Salt b Archer (West Indies 20-2)

2nd over: West Indies 16-1 (Pooran 1, Lewis 4) Saqib continues to make the ball sing, drawing in King and swinging the white ball with gusto, down the legside for five wides, then wide on the off side, before crashing into Lewis’ pads. A third wide before the over is out.

WICKET! King c Livingstone b Saqib 1 (West Indies 6-1)

1st over: West Indies 6-0 (King 1, Lewis 4). Jofra from the Joel Garner end, in his trimmed trousers and loose shirt. Gets movement straight away, troubling Lewis in particular. He picks up four by dabbing through where second slip might have been chewing his nails – not entirely sure that was on purpose.

Out come the players, Archer is drying his hands in the dust – and off we go.

Terrance Hinds has just been handed his first West Indies cap at the ripe age of 32. And very pleased he looks too.

Pitch report

Saqib Mahmood is in a bucket hat channelling his inner Burnage after yesterday’s four wickets. “We don’t make it too complicated, keep it as simple as possible, their batting order is pretty stacked.”

Carlos Brathwaite on what the West Indies unit could do to improve on Saturday’s somewhat wayward performance: “Yesterday as a bowling unit, especially from the Malcolm Marshall End, the seamers gave too much width. Can you be a bit tighter, limit the damage early in the power play, put a bit more pressure on them in overs five and six, and pick up the wickets at the back end?

West Indies XI

England XI

England win the toss and will bowl!

win the toss and will

Preamble