

Thursday 19 December 2013

England v West Indies: live

Over-by-over commentary of day four of the first Investec Test match between England and West Indies at Lord's.

England v West Indies: live
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And finally...: Shivnarine Chanderpaul is caught LBW to Graeme Swann for 91 runs during the fourth day of the first Test at Lords  Photo: GETTY IMAGES
England v West Indies: hosts frustrated as Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Marlon Samuels drop anchor
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Going nowhere: Shivnarine Chanderpaul continued to frustrate England on day four of the first Test Photo: GETTY IMAGES
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Keeping them waiting: West Indies' batsmen were buckling until the arrival of Shivnarine Chanderpaul Photo: GETTY IMAGES
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• Gutsy West Indies scrap to 345
• Broad took three in the day to make 11 in the match
• England chasing 191, but close on 10/2


STUMPS England are 10/2 chasing 191 to win We had a feeling that last little session of 18 minutes could be tricky for England, and so it has proved. Kemar Roach steamed in and removed Strauss, as well as nightwatchman Anderson. England are still favourites going into the final day, but the West Indies have given themselves an outside chance of a glorious smash-and-grab here. Shiv Chanderpaul once again showed the way with the bat, but the whole team scrapped all the way to get to 345, and it has set up a possibly intriguing finish. Thanks for following it with us, join me tomorrow morning at 10.30am and we'll see how it all pans out. Goodnight.

OVER 4: ENG 10/2 (Cook 0* Trott 0*) Fantastic cricket at the end of the day! Trott comes in and he is so, so close to being back in the hutch for a first baller. He shuffles across, plays back and is struck bang in front. Given not out - but West Indies review. And I can see why: that was going to smash into the stumps. But it hit him just outside the line. By a tiny fraction, Trott survives, and there's no further damage in the Kemar Roach over. That is stumps.

Wicket WICKET! Anderson c Ramdin b Roach 6 Lifting ball from Roach and it brushes past Jimmy Anderson's jumper... as well as a bit of glove on it. (But we needed hotspot to be able to say that with certainty). That's a superb decision by the umpire. Anderson does not review it., and the nightwatchman has not done his job. FOW 10/2

OVER 3: ENG 10/1 (Cook 0* Anderson 6*) Anderson faces up to Fidel Edwards. Plenty of meaningful glares and stares from both men. Anderson takes a single off the first ball of the over - not sure if that is what a nightwatchman is for. Cook survives, leaving quite well. One ball hoops back in and passes very close to the offstump.

E-mailHywel ap Rees writes: "John Terry will be there with his England cap ready to change into his whites. He also has a West Indies cap just in case."

OVER 2: ENG 8/1 (Cook 0* Anderson 5*) One of my most beloved incidences in cricket: a quickie steaming in for a couple of overs right at the end of the day after a team is bowled out late. No batsman in the world would want to be out there now... and indeed England have sent Jimmy Anderson in to protect Trott et al. Great stuff from Kemar, skipper couldn't ask for more, he's absolutely tearing in. Couple of no balls, and then an edge that Anderson knows nothing about goes for four. That doesn't matter. It's all about getting one more tonight. Come on West Indies. All-out attack.

Wicket WICKET! Strauss c Powell b Roach 1 Come on West Indies! That's the game. Darren Sammy sticks a second gully in, and he is rewarded right away as Kemar Roach produces a great delivery that rears up a bit after pitching to take the should of Strauss' bat. Caught by Powell in the gully. Should have dropped his hands on it. But the skipper is back in the hutch. FOW 1/1

OVER 1: ENG 1/0 (Strauss 1* Cook 0*) Nasty lifter from Fiddy second ball, well played by Strauss. No swing for him as yet. A single to the England skipper, and Cook survives his one ball.

18.10 Let's see these Windies quicks tear into England here and make this a horrible 20 minutes for Strauss and Cook. Here comes Fidel Edwards. Two slips, gully, third man. That's a very conservative field, no? No short leg? Come on Darren, get in their faces.

END OF INNINGS That is a game effort from the West Indies. They have put on a very respectable 345 all out and set England a target at least. England need 191. I had thought that once Shiv went it would all crumble pretty quickly, but the West Indies managed to put on another 84 after their batting kingpin-crab fell. A gritty 43 from Ramdin and an aggressive 37 from Sammy have kept them in the game. Stuart Broad picked up four today to give himself 11 in the match. Three for Swann, and one each for Anderson and Bresnan. I think West Indies can be quite proud of the way they battled today. England were a bit too wide with their lengths at times, but plugged away pretty gamely. Now the England openers have 20 minutes or so to survive. Maybe West Indies can set some nerves a-jangling with a couple of wickets tonight....

Wicket WICKET! Gabriel b Swann 13 That's all she wrote: Swanny tosses one up, Gabriel has a huge slog, misses and is bowled all over the place. FOW 345 (130.5 overs)

OVER 130: WI 344/9 (Fiddy Edwards 9* Gabriel 13*) Gabriel ducks and avoids some short balls from the Brezzer. Good man, well done. A maiden though. Not certain if that really helps the Windies cause.

OVER 129: WI 344/9 (Fiddy Edwards 9* Gabriel 13*) Decent from Fiddy, he flicks the Swann ball down to long leg for a couple. And then he takes a risky two to long off and his partner is desperately close to being run out at the non-striker's end. After eleventy million replays, third unpire Asad Rauf decides that he can't be sure Graeme Swann had broken the wicket before Gabriel got his bat across the line. Given not out, rightly so I think. In a way, Windies might have been better if he had got out and they could have had half an hour at England tonight. Lead is 189.

OVER 128: WI 340/9 (Fiddy Edwards 5* Gabriel 13*) Bres beats Fiddy with a belter, far too good for the West Indies tailender. Single off ball five and Gabriel survives the odd one.

OVER 127: WI 339/9 (Fiddy Edwards 4* Gabriel 13*) Double change as Swann comes on to see if he can rip or buy one of these out. Good old fashioned number 11 shot from Gabriel as he slogs a four to cow corner. Rides his luck otherwise and Windies are still hanging on in there.

OVER 126: WI 335/9 (Fiddy Edwards 4* Gabriel 9*) You'd imagine that Broady won't get that second five-fer now (I certainly hope he won't, because that would mean this pair have been piling it on). Bresnan replaces him, Fiddy aims and misses with a few big drives. Surely only a matter of time now... Although not in this over: that's a maiden.

OVER 125: WI 335/9 (Fiddy Edwards 4* Gabriel 9*) Another run-out half-chance goes begging for England as Fiddy goes for a very quick (trans: suicidal) single, but Belly cannot gather on the leg side. Now Gabriel slogs Anderson away for a couple.

OVER 124: WI 332/9 (Fiddy Edwards 3* Gabriel 7*) Broady, who has four in the innings, hunts the wicket he needs to get on that honours board a second time in the match. Jaffa from Broad that completely beats Gabriel - wasted on thee and so on - but that sound on the way through was bat hitting pad, not the edge. Now Gabriel drives on the up, just wide of the bowler. More frustration for the England man when Gabriel gets just enough on a leg-side one to get four down to long leg.

OVER 123: WI 326/9 (Fiddy Edwards 2* Gabriel 1*) Just reward for Anderson, who has bowled pretty well. Earlier in the over, he'd unsettled Edwards with a bouncer that hit the shoulder of the bat and flew over the slips. Gabriel, coming in on a king pair, survives his first ball and then turns a single away off his second. Lead is 171

Wicket WICKET! Ramdin b Anderson 43 Snorter from Jimmy Anderson: full, straight, quick, nipping back off the seam and that cleans Ramdin up. Possible hint of an inside edge, maybe. Anyway, that knock was a decent effort by the keeper, he has at least helped give his team a very, very outside chance in this match. FOW 325/9

OVER 122: WI 324/8 (Ramdin 43* Fiddy Edwards 2*) Huuuuuu-ggggggge appeal for lbw from Broad, but Ramdin inside edged that onto his pads. Good shout, umpire Erasmus. Dinesh celebrates his reprieve by slapping the ball through cover for four.

OVER 121: WI 320/8 (Ramdin 39* Fiddy Edwards 2*) Sharp bouncer from Jimmy Anderson, but Fiddy plays that nicely enough. Single to each batsman.

OVER 120: WI 318/8 (Ramdin 38* Fiddy Edwards 1*) Quick (trans: idiotic) single from Fiddy, who pushes it to Bairstow at cover and sets off. Gone for all money had he hit, but he didn't hit. Nice drive from Ramdin for a couple.

DRINKS: The lead is 159. Surely not enough. If West Indies had a mystery spinner, then game on. In fact, probably about double what they'd need. Tickets tomorrow are a tenner for adults, and a fiver for over-65s.

OVER 119: WI 314/8 (Ramdin 35* Fiddy Edwards 0*) Just one off the Anderson over, to Ramdin via a cut. That's drinks.

OVER 118: WI 313/8 (Ramdin 34* Fiddy Edwards 0*) Fidel Edwards comes to the crease - that wicket was on ball five - and is the subject of a lusty lbw appeal first ball. Nope, he hit that. England don't review. Quite funny. He absolutely middled that. I guess the bat was really near the pad, almost tucked into the top of it likesay. Maybe Broad didn't see that clearly; otherwise that was the daftest lbw appeal you'll ever see. 158 the lead

Wicket WICKET! Roach c Bell b Broad 4 And that makes 11! Chalk up another one to the Notts blondie. Roach flashes and is comfortably caught by Belly at point. FOW 313/8

OVER 117: WI 312/7 (Ramdin 33* Roach 4*) Anderson returns. Kemar Roach is off the mark with a four as he runs the ball down to third man to beat the game effort of Bairstow.

OVER 116: WI 307/7 (Ramdin 32* Roach 0*) Quite like Sammy as a player, and as a captain, but that does look pretty dim when you see it on the replay. Earlier in the over, he'd gone big on a hook and got a top edge. Oh well. At least he got some runs on the board. Stuart Broad has ten wickets in the match, the third Englishman to do so at Lord's v West Indies after Bailey and Trueman. Super effort from him - his first Test ten-fer - and you would now fancy England to knock these last few over very quickly. The lead is 152

Wicket WICKET! Sammy c Prior b Broad 37 Bwa-ha-ha. What's the opposite of a captain's knock? Sammy, having thrown the bat at everything that moves, plays a bizarre shot to a bouncer and gets himself caught behind. It was very high and wide outside off stump, and he tried (I think) to flick it over the slips. He succeeds only in feathering the edge through to Prior. FOW 307/7

OVER 115: WI 305/6 (Ramdin 31* Sammy 36*) Sammy's going for it, he's looking pumped now. Shot-a-ball stuff now. Seven from this over as he goes past his partner's score. Lofted drive down the ground gives him four off Bresnan, slash through cover for two, and then an uppish pull for a single. You don't get the sense that Sammy will be there for a long time. But it might be a good time.

OVER 114: WI 298/6 (Ramdin 31* Sammy 29*) Four singles off the Broad over and West Indies are getting themselves into something approaching the beginnings of a hint of a competitive position here.

OVER 113: WI 294/6 (Ramdin 29* Sammy 27*) Ten runs off that Bresnan over from Sammy, some of them by hook, and some definitely by crook. An authentic straight drive, and then a powerful cover drive, give him a pair of classy fours. But he is very lucky to get away with an ugly heave, no foot movement, that goes miles in the air and lands safe behind point. Still, two more to the total.

E-mail Geoffrey writes: "Bearing in mind the lack of expectation that the press generally have expected from the WI on this tour they have played well against the No 1 side. They have provided the spectators with a game. We need the WI to be great again for the sake of Test cricket."

OVER 112: WI 284/6 (Ramdin 29* Sammy 17*) A long delay in this Broad over as England implore the umpires to change the mis-shapen ball. They succeed, but not before some odd-couple "you bowlers... you batsmen" banter from Nick Knight and Sir Ian Botham that makes me want to beat myself to death with this very keyboard. Early signs are that the replacement ball should do a bit more, Broady getting one to seam away sharply. Just one off the over.

E-mailWrites Brian: "I take it back. After six dull draws the challenger has beaten the champion with an exciting manoeuvre to forestall his threat to give checkmate, and WI and England have also beefed up their aggression. Spectators of the world’s two greatest kind of games can brighten up again."

OVER 111: WI 282/6 (Ramdin 28* Sammy 16*) Good over for West Indies. Maybe they need to change tactics a bit, now that Shiv has gone? Perhaps Sammy should go for his shots, try to get them up to 200 ahead and go for the win? I can't really see them defending a total of 150, or batting for long enough to secure a draw. I reckon that once this partnership is broken, it's all over. Anyhoo, there's ten off this over. Two lovely shots from Sammy, one down the ground and one through the covers, both giving the Windies captain four runs. Add in a two at the start of the over and that's a handy ten runs. Lead is 127

OVER 110: WI 272/6 (Ramdin 28* Sammy 6*) Broad comes on. And he is greeted by a creamy backfoot drive from Ramdin second ball. Great comeback from SB, squaring Ramdin up next nut.

OVER 109: WI 268/6 (Ramdin 24* Sammy 6*) Interesting choice from Strauss he starts with Tim Bresnan from the Pav End. It looks like the crowd are warming up as well, they're roaring (well, loudly murmuring) Bres to the wicket. It's a good over. Ramdin gets off strike first ball, and Bres tests Sammy with some accurate stuff. He gets the ball to nip up the slope dangerously. Big lbw shout but Aleem Dar, rightly as almost always, says that it's too high. Well, I'm putting words into his mouth. He just says that it is not out; but it was too high.

OVER 108: WI 267/6 (Ramdin 23* Sammy 6*) Sammy handles the Swann over pretty well and picks up a couple.

16.00 Still pretty murky out there, but the floodlights are doing their job. The England players aren't exactly rushing out after tea. If they can break this partnership quickly, they are into a genuine tail, three number elevens by the looks of it: Roach averages 10, Edwards 6, and new man Shannon Gabriel, who has a FC average of five. Swann to resume.

TEA: That was hard yakka for the England bowlers, but they have the big prize: the wicket of Shiv Chanderpaul just before the interval. WI 265/6 (Ramdin 23* Sammy 4*) There were just 53 runs in the session, for two wickets. West Indies lead by 110 and the worry for them is that their tail might get blown away and undo all the brave work in the first two sessions of the day... We'll find out how it all goes down in a few minutes...

OVER 107: WI 265/6 (Ramdin 23* Sammy 4*) Broad, who has been off the park for long periods this session, bowls the last over before tea. He squares Sammy up and beats him, there's just one off the over and that's the tea interval.

OVER 106: WI 264/6 (Ramdin 23* Sammy 3*) You don't need me to tell you that the dismissal of Chanderpaul was the key wicket, and the risk for West Indies now is that their long tail gets rolled over quickly. Can skipper Darren Sammy be the man to stick around? He gets a ripper second ball, big off-break, and he looks uneasy on the back foot as he defends. He gets off the mark with a two past slip, and then a single through mid-on. Even the most resolute batsman can make a mistake, and that pre-meditated, muffed sweep wouldn't have looked out of place in England's winter efforts v Pakistan.

Wicket WICKET! Chanderpaul lbw Swann 91 The bowling change has done it, and Shiv Chanderpaul misses out on what would have been a richly deserved century. First ball of the over, Chanderpaul gets down to sweep and misses it. It looks a very good shout to me, and it is given. Hitting leg stump. Shiv asks for the review, but to no avail. That was clipping, but good enough. Yet again Swann has a wicket in the first over of a spell. FOW 261/6 and the West Indies lead is 106

OVER 105: WI 261/5 (Chanderpaul 91* Ramdin 23*) Ooof. This is hard yards for the England bowling "unit". And indeed for the lone OBO-er. Trott continues against Chanderpaul. Out of nowhere, he gets one to bounce a bit and hits Shiv on the glove as he goes to cut. Can England conjur something up? Swann is going to have a twirl before tea.

OVER 104: WI 260/5 (Chanderpaul 90* Ramdin 23*) Two from Ramdin, who is looking pretty solid, off Anderson.

OVER 103: WI 258/5 (Chanderpaul 90* Ramdin 21*) Shiv's into the 90s with two off his fellow stonewaller Trott.

OVER 102: WI 256/5 (Chanderpaul 88* Ramdin 21*) Anderson raps Ramdin on the pad with a ball that seams in. Marais Erasmus says no. England briefly consider the review but think better of it; and rightly so. That never looked quite right. Possibly hit outside the line, suggestion that it was too high as well. Randim drives him for three into the offside and picks up three. Anderson's starting to tick. He has a word with Shiv Chanderpal: save your breath, mate. Now Anderson beats the outside edge, and that doesn't help his moody any. He gathers a defensive shot and mimes to throw it at Ramdin's head. Ramdin covers up, as well you would, if someone was apparently going to throw a cricket ball at your face from ten yards. Poor behaviour from Anderson.

OVER 101: WI 252/5 (Chanderpaul 87* Ramdin 18*) Trotty is on with his dobblers, just one off the over but no real suggestion of a lapse of batsmanic concentration.

OVER 100: WI 251/5 (Chanderpaul 87* Ramdin 17*) Anderson maiden to Chanderpaul.

OVER 99: WI 251/5 (Chanderpaul 87* Ramdin 17*) Single to Chanders. Off the last ball of the Bresover, Ramdin drives it back down the ground and Bresnan gatthers. He hurls it, with no purpose, at the striker's stumps. Ramdin calmly bats it back at him. The umpires have a little word with Ramdin. I suppose techincally you're not meant to hit the ball a second time unless it is in self-defence. The ball would have hit the stumps, not Ramdin (albeit that he was back in his ground). Could that be given out for obstructing the field? I guess it could. That would be cruel and unjust.

OVER 98: WI 250/5 (Chanderpaul 86* Ramdin 17*) A trademark nudge into the legside gives Shiv another single, and takes the Windies up to 250. Just one off Anderson's over.

OVER 97: WI 249/5 (Chanderpaul 85* Ramdin 17*) That's a super over from Tim Bresnan, the best from him for a while. He's getting some serious nip-back into Ramdin and cuts him in half a couple of times. On one occasion, a loose drive just misses; on another, an inside edge saves Dinesh 'Ramjam' Ramdin from lbw.

OVER 96: WI 248/5 (Chanderpaul 84* Ramdin 17*) Anderson replaces Broad and sees his first ball driven handsomely back down the ground for four. But Jimmy is not disheartened and keeps the ball nice and full. Beats the bat but no edge. England have done pretty well today without being quite at their best. That said, they could have bowled Windies out had some of these wafts been nicks....

OVER 95: WI 242/5 (Chanderpaul 84* Ramdin 11*) Whatever he was supping in the drinks interval has got Dinesh Ramdin going! He cuts Bresnan for two, misses with a legside clip, then gets hold of one through the legside for another two. Now a bit of a streaky three through third man as he drives hard at a not especially effective Bres. Expert analysis: Mikey Holding "would rather have a bowler who takes five for 100 than a guy who takes 1 for 20". I like Tim Bresnan, but I'd rather face him than Steve Finn if I was a Test number seven.

DRINKS: WI 235/5 (Chanderpaul 84* Ramdin 4*) This time yesterday I was at a wedding in Milan. It's not a PATCH on this Ramdin knock. He has plundered four runs from his 33 balls.

OVER 94: WI 235/5 (Chanderpaul 84* Ramdin 4*) A single to each batsman off Broad, and that is drinks.

OVER 93: WI 233/5 (Chanderpaul 83* Ramdin 3*) It's all got a bit TMS in the Sky comms box: Bumble and Sir Ian are talking about the growing of Pinot Grigo grapes in the North of England. Meanwhile, Bresnan bowls another maiden. Slightly tighter line in that over which I like, and he gets Ramdin to play and miss off the last ball of the over.

OVER 92: WI 233/5 (Chanderpaul 83* Ramdin 3*) Super ball from Broady, full, and it just shapes back into Shiv. Hit bang in front, but the inside edge saves him. It looks Baltic at Lord's: there's a woman there wrapped up in two blankets with one over her head. Two singles in the over.

OVER 91: WI 231/5 (Chanderpaul 82* Ramdin 2*) Bresnan replaces Anderson and that's a maiden as well. Slow fare at the moment. Bres hasn't really made Ramdin play at enough of them for my liking.

OVER 90: WI 231/5 (Chanderpaul 82* Ramdin 2*) Shiv shoulders arms and is hit on the pads by StuBo. Big appeal, turned down by Mr Erasmus. Don't be seduced, Straussy! Don't let Broad woo you with those big cow eyes. It's a trap! That was going over by a good few inches. The rest is a bit too wide.

OVER 89: WI 231/5 (Chanderpaul 82* Ramdin 2*) No ball from Jim. Now Ramdin tries to work Anderson into the legside, makes a hash of things and gets a leading edge. It balloons back over Jimmy Anderson's head for two runs.

OVER 88: WI 228/5 (Chanderpaul 81* Ramdin 0*) Broad has been commendably full in the last couple of overs, but you can have too much of a good thing and that's a half volley which Shiv turns away to midwicket for a boundary.

OVER 87: WI 223/5 (Chanderpaul 76* Ramdin 0*) Shiv takes a single off the first ball of the over, and Anderson has five at the new man. It would seem that Ramdin is not quite picking the inswinger. He's struck on the thighpad.

OVER 86: WI 222/5 (Chanderpaul 75* Ramdin 0*) That's the ticket from Broady, it took him a couple of overs to find his line and length but he's done for Marlon Samuels with a classic swinging ball. Broad has nine in the match and a maiden Test ten-fer is in his sights. Ramdin comes in, and is immediately being asked questions. Three good full bals have him groping and plopping forward unconvincingly.

Wicket WICKET! Samuels c Swann b Broad 86 First ball of the Broad over, Samuels had edged a ball through third man, albeit in quite a controlled way. But the third ball of the over is a peach, a bit fuller than previously, swinging away and Marlon drives at it without moving his feet. One of the very few poor shots he has played, but he's paid the price and the edge is gathered without alarm by Swann in the slips. FOW 222/5 Shame that there was no ton for Marlon, I thought he was excellent this morning.

OVER 85: WI 218/4 (Chanderpaul 75* Samuels 82*) That's a maiden from Anderson. Better, tighter line to Shiv.

E-mailGeoffrey Lippitt: "I am already worried having witnessed the debacle in Dubai but I suppose even 300 should be gettable "

OVER 84: WI 218/4 (Chanderpaul 75* Samuels 82*) Another meh few deliveries as Broad doens't make the batsmen play enough, but then he tightens his lines and looks more dangerous. Two off the over.

OVER 83: WI 216/4 (Chanderpaul 74* Samuels 81*) Anderson getting something out of this new ball but Shiv is able to leave too many of the deliveries in that Anderson maiden. That's a rare bad over from Jimmy with a new cherry.

OVER 82: WI 216/4 (Chanderpaul 74* Samuels 81*) Stuart Broad, I need hardly add, is sharing the new ball, and Shiv takes a single off the first delivery. Now Marlon has an airy swipe at one. He misses. It was a no ball anyway. How about this? Marlon Samuels' favourite cricketer... is Nasser Hussain!

OVER 81: WI 214/4 (Chanderpaul 73* Samuels 81*) Now here comes Jimmy Anderson from the Pavilion End. The Northerly breeze and the cold conditions mitigated against swing in the first hour this morning. Will the new ball swing? Well, there's some big hoop off that first delivery, albeit once the ball has passed the batsman. Good full length from Jimmy, but well handled by Marlon: playing the ball nice and late. He connects nicely with the last ball of the over and gets two into the offside.

OVER 80: WI 212/4 (Chanderpaul 73* Samuels 79*) Chanderpaul to face. Nice quicker ball from Swann, the same bustling slider that Darren Bravo left so unwisely. Shiv blocks it. Tight maiden.

13.40 Swann's got a slip, a short leg and a man on the drive. WI are 212/4 and lead by 57.

13.38 England will bowl one over with the old ball and then get stuck in with the new ball. Swanny will deliver the odd over.

13.35 Here come the umpires. Shiv and Marlon are out on the park, standing by the boundary rope in front of the pav, waiting for their opponents. After a short delay, the England team emerges.

LUNCH There were 29 overs in that session, and West Indies picked up 92 runs without losing a wicket. They go in at 212/4 (Chanderpaul 73* Samuels 79*). Shiv was much as you would expect: resolute, patient, only really looking in trouble when running between the wickets. Marlon Samuels was extremely impressive, curbing his natural instincts to play a knock of real maturity. He had some problems against the short ball, and was hit on the head, but he stuck to his guns and has hit some nice shots as well. England have done okay, but the ball has neither swung nor turned, and they will hope that the new cherry (due in just one more over) can be the game-changer. West Indies' morning, without doubt, but when all is said and done, they still lead by just 57 and England will feel that a couple of wickets with the new ball will mean victory. Join me in a few minutes and we'll see if England can break this partnership...

OVER 79: WI 212/4 (Chanderpaul 73* Samuels 79*) A single for each man off Bresnan and that's the end of the session.

OVER 78: WI 210/4 (Chanderpaul 72* Samuels 78*) Samuels uses his feet well to Swann, no big shots, and just one off the over. I reckon there will be time for just one more before the luncheon interval.

OVER 77: WI 209/4 (Chanderpaul 72* Samuels 77*) Nice over from Bres, but with scant reward. He beats Chanders outside off stump, and then tempts Samuels into an unwise hook. The ball lands safe. The short ball has been Marlon's weakness this morning. Bres over-pitches last ball of the over and Shiv drives that back down the ground for a boundary.

OVER 76: WI 203/4 (Chanderpaul 67* Samuels 76*) Swann's back on. Samuels uses the feet nicely to drive into the onside and pick up two. Couple of singles to go with and that's comfortable for the visiting side. Their score moves over 200, and the lead is now 48

OVER 75: WI 199/4 (Chanderpaul 66* Samuels 73*) Mikey Holding says "if Shiv was a really great player, he would have played out that last over of the first day" rather than exposing the number ten. He advances the argument that Shiv doesn't win many Test matches, which is indicative of the quite widely-held view that Chanderpaul plays for himself first and his team second. I think it's harsh: think how many more matches they would have lost without him.. Anyhow, here he is clipping Bres away for a couple off his pads.

OVER 74: WI 197/4 (Chanderpaul 64* Samuels 73*) Three singles off the Trott over. I wish you could have seen it; it was majestic. It wasn't.

OVER 73: WI 194/4 (Chanderpaul 62* Samuels 72*) Bresnan tries Shiv out with a short ball, but that's meat and drink for the little back-foot maestro. He's pulled it away with a crisp crack. Four. And then a most rare occurrence: Bres, round the wicket, gets Shiv to aim a wild and woolly back foot drive at a ball that he misses totally.

OVER 72: WI 189/4 (Chanderpaul 57* Samuels 72*) Two off an especially trundly over from Trott. One is so slow and low that it almost creeps under Marlon's bat. Two off the over.

OVER 71: WI 187/4 (Chanderpaul 56* Samuels 71*) Bresnan replaces Swann. Tight stuff. One off it. I like how Sky have now taken to branding days of the week. What is everyone else doing later on "Sky One Sunday"?

OVER 70: WI 186/4 (Chanderpaul 56* Samuels 70*) Time for one of the less inspiring tracks on the England album: it's the B-side filler that is "Jonathan Trott on before the new ball." Weirdly, he almost suckers a wicket first delivery, as Samuels unwisely plays back to a full ball. It nips back and only an inside edge saves him from being plumb lbw. However, that's as good as it gets for Trotty: after a single, he then serves up his mandatory bad ball, short and wide, and Shiv dinks it through third man for four.

OVER 69: WI 181/4 (Chanderpaul 52* Samuels 69*) Swann to Samuels. Beats the bat and hits him quite high on the pad with a turner, the first one Swann's really got to go so far today. Lovely use of the feet to come down the ground and stroke the ball past the bowler for four. And then an even nicer example of the species next ball as well! Well played Marlon. Two crisp, technically correct boundaries. That loathsome Paddy Power advert about 'Greggos Traitorelli' punctuates televisual procedings. Jingoistic, dullard dross.

OVER 68: WI 172/4 (Chanderpaul 52* Samuels 60*) Shiv half-leaves, half-dabs at the ball and gets an inside edge that runs away for four runs past first slip. That inelegant, rather lucky boundary brings up his 50. That's his second half-century of the match, and indeed his fifth consecutive Test innings with a 50. He clips a length delivery away for two off the last ball of the over.

OVER 67: WI 166/4 (Chanderpaul 46* Samuels 60*) Der Swanner continues, and as Samuels dabs the ball away for two through third man, the 100 partnership comes up. Solid defence from Samuels for the rest of the over.

OVER 66: WI 164/4 (Chanderpaul 46* Samuels 58*) Bresnan will bowl the first over after drinks. Split field, looks like England will try to bowl straight at the stumps here. Touch short from Bres, and Shiv gets up nicely to work it through point off the back foot. Classy shot for four.

DRINKS: That's a good first hour of the day for West Indies, who are 160/4 (Chanderpaul 42* Samuels 58*). Shiv has left the ball where possible, and only looked like getting out when running between wickets. Marlon Samuels was hit on the side of the head by a bouncer, but has shown good guts to weather the storm and also play a few attractive shots. England could have had two run outs had they been more accurate.

E-mailJoshua Judd says: "Lahore Cab driver this morning says Chanders the block-merchant like Geoffrey B on a bad day. Does Mr. Tyers agree?" You say it like it's a bad thing, Joshua. I love a good blocker, me.

OVER 65: WI 160/4 (Chanderpaul 42* Samuels 58*) Graeme Swann comes into the attack, but I suspect Andrew Strauss will be wishing he hadn't bothered. First ball is short and wide, clattered to the cover boundary by Marlon for four. That boundary means England will have to bat again. Same delivery is equally poor, and gets the same treatment. Oh dear. Swanny looks like he is cold, and maybe having a hard time gripping the ball. Samuels drives, and that bump-ball will warm the bowler's fingers.

OVER 64: WI 152/4 (Chanderpaul 42* Samuels 50*) Bres bounces Shiv, but he'd need a step-ladder to reach that. Some of those balls outside off-stump are also far too wide to interest friend Shiv, and that's a pretty innocuous maiden.

OVER 63: WI 152/4 (Chanderpaul 42* Samuels 50*) Jimmy slips a bouncer to Marlon, who goes for it with gay abandon. Wild swing and a miss. But nothing wrong with his shot a couple of balls later: overpitched, nice drive down the ground to mid off and that brings up a gutsy 50 for the West Indies man. Well played.

OVER 62: WI 148/4 (Chanderpaul 42* Samuels 46*) England make their first bowling change of the morning as Broad comes off and Bresnan comes on. Samuels singles, and then Bres gives Shiv a few chances to practice his leave-alone. He's, like, really good at it.

OVER 61: WI 147/4 (Chanderpaul 42* Samuels 45*) Oh Shivnarine! How could somebody be so good at something so difficult (Test match batting) and so bad at something so simple (shouting 'yes' or 'no')? He pokes to mid on, and sets off without a care in the world. Samuels is rooted to the spot at the non-striker's end, and Chanders has to turn and get back. Phew. He's safe. Earlier in the over, Shiv had edged one, but with such soft hands and so little pace in the pitch, it didn't even get close to carrying. He also played and missed in the over. Things are looking a bit more likely for England in the last two overs. Maiden.

OVER 60: WI 147/4 (Chanderpaul 42* Samuels 45*) First moment of excitement of the morning - especially for Marlon Samuels, who has ducked into a Stuart Broad bouncer. Clattered on the side of the head. He smiles at Broad, trying to make out that it's all water off a duck's back. However, a nervy dab at the next ball suggests otherwise. That could have gone anywhere really, but it ends up being angled into the ground a running through the slips for one. After a single from Shiv, Marlon shows that he's got some minerals by taking on a short ball. Hooked it for four, thanks in part to some so-so fielding by J Trott on the boundary. And now another short one! And Marlon unfurls a brutal hook. Another four. That was some proper Caribbean cricket there, and ten off the over.

OVER 59: WI 137/4 (Chanderpaul 41* Samuels 36*) Anderson tries some short stuff to both batsmen. Two singles off the over. England are trying to get the ball changed. Here comes Tim Robinson, the fourth umpire with that little gauge thing. Nothing doing for England. I expect they'll keep chipping away on that.

OVER 58: WI 135/4 (Chanderpaul 40* Samuels 35*) A single for Shiv, and Broad also now has a leg gully and a man back as he prepares to bowl to Samuels. Something of a bluff, though: a full straight one first up that Marlon drives nicely for a couple. Then the short ball, but dealt with. WI trail by 20.

OVER 57: WI 132/4 (Chanderpaul 39* Samuels 33*) Anderson sticks a leg gully in and a couple of men back and it looks like he is going to back up those words to Samuels with some action. The first two balls of the over are short and hostile, and Samuels does pretty well to keep them down. He doesn't seem to be loving it, but he's still there. And then Samuels dabs it to midwicket. He sets off for a single, but Shiv fails to respond to the call.... KP swoops and flicks at the stumps but misses. Shiv would have been out by three yards. He really is a Bubble Boy, is Shiv. Thinks only of his own game at the crease.

OVER 56: WI 130/4 (Chanderpaul 38* Samuels 32*) Oof, that was close. Broad finds the edge of Samuels' bat but it drops short of the slips. Three singles in the over make ten runs for the first six overs of the morning.

OVER 55: WI 127/4 (Chanderpaul 37* Samuels 30*) The batsmen trade singles, and Anderson trades a few words with Samuels. Might not be a bad tactic, try and get the batsman riled up, perhaps provoke him into a rash shot. Samuels has been very circumspect this morning. There's no help at all from the conditions, but Anderson nevertheless manages to nibble the last ball of the over off the seam and beat Chanderpaul.

OVER 54: WI 125/4 (Chanderpaul 36* Samuels 29*) Broad's got three slips and a gully, point and a mid-on and mid-off to Chanders. Given the batsman's stance and prediliction for playing square, I think they could move those straight men round a bit. Decent bouncer from StuBo but Shiv has all the time he needs to duck under that. A single off the last ball of the over as Shiv plays a rare false-ish shot, inside edge into the leg side.

OVER 53: WI 124/4 (Chanderpaul 35* Samuels 29*) Too straight from Anderson and Marlon Samuels helps that through mid on for three. Anderson tries a short ball to Shiv but it sponges up for an easy tuck off the hips. Single. This has the hallmarks of being a slow day.

OVER 52: WI 120/4 (Chanderpaul 34* Samuels 26*) Broad from the Nursery End. That's a second maiden of the day, but not a threatening prospect for Chanderpaul. Shiv is quite happy to leave several balls outside off. Only one delivery in the over is sufficiently straight to engage his attention; he blocks it.

OVER 51: WI 120/4 (Chanderpaul 34* Samuels 26*) Good start from Jim, as ever these days. He finds the outside edge of Marlon Samuels' bat first ball, but it falls short of Bresnan in the slips. The last ball of the over is the inswinger and prompts some "Ooohs" from the slips, but it was a bit too wide to really threaten. Maiden over to start the day.

10.58 Jimmy Anderson will bowl the first over of the morning to Marlon Samuels. The England slips look distinctly chilly.

10.55 England players coming out: can they nick a wicket or two in this gloomy morning sesh?

10.45 On your tellies now, Ward and Mike Atherton are discussing Shiv. They're showing how his technique has changed from three videos in 1994, 2000, and 2012. When he started, very sideways on, bottom sticking out a mile; compare to today's entirely front on, upright set up. Chanders says that he has changed that stance because he fears the lbw. Looking on the pitch map at the balls he leaves (ie a lot of them), England's bowlers are not going to have much luck bowling over the wicket across his bows. They fancy getting him nicking off, but I don't see it myself on a slow pitch. I reckon they'll try bowling a bit straighter today.

10.40 Looks pretty parky and cloudy at Lord's. Brighten your morning by listening to Goochie talking to Ian Ward about the importance of training drills? No? Suit yourself. On an unrelated matter, I think it's incredibly harsh that people are saying Shiv doesn't play for the team, that he scores too slowly, etc. What's the bloke supposed to do, surrounded by the feckless shower that is the West Indian batting line up? I'd say that ten thousand Test runs at an average of 50 means he can play how he damn well pleases.

10.35 Nasser points out that the Windies had a pretty good day yesterday bar one moment (well, nine balls) of madness. Barath got a snorter from Bresnan, but then Kieran Powell brainlessly hooked Broad right down the throat of deep backward square before a horror run out of Kirk Powell, all three of those wickets going down with the score on 36. Oh, Windies. Why you frustrate so?

10.30 Good morning and welcome to a grey and chilly London for day four of the Lord's Test. Tyers here to talk you through the action, if that's not too strong a word with Shivnarine Chanderpaul at the crease, unbeaten on 34 overnight and yet again holding his team together (for the time being at least). There might well be some breaks for bad light and/or bad weather today, but England will feel that if they can shift Shiv then they should wrap this up today. The alternative would be to rattle through the men at the other end, starting with Marlon Samuels, who played against type with a responsible 26* yesterday evening.

Here's Scyld Berry on the Guayanese phenom.

Mercifully for the coffers of the ECB, Chanderpaul took root a second time. If the batsman himself had not asked for a review when Marais Erasmus gave him lbw, the board’s accountant would have run to the middle and appealed to the umpire to pardon Chanderpaul and keep the game alive for a fourth day.

Here's a selection of the best pictures from yesterday.

Simon Hughes, meanwhile, runs the rule over the current West Indies attack and finds toilers where once were terrors.

"The tables have turned. It is England who now have the battery of pace men who can make the ball talk."


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