Windies are getting off to a flier now! Siders is getting some tap.

Wheres Plunkett when you need him - you know what you'll get with him.

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Mark.

So much for the flyer,34-3 now.Sidebottom and Hoggard in these conditions should be far too good for this line up and so it is proving.

I know, went for a snack, came back and missed 2 wickets. Like you said so much for the flier. England are off to one now!

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Mark.

55-4 now with Harmison joining in the fun.

All on the 2 players with technique now,Chanderpaul and Bravo.

Not currently watching as the wife is watching The Goonies on TCM.

On a side note,it looks like the hero of the last game Monty won't be needed in this innings.Not very often that you can be man of the match one game and surplus to requirements the next.

I hope the weather will hold out! As I look out of the window theres a fine mist enveloping everything.

England will want to bowl the windies out as quickly as possible, to hopefully negate some of the bad weather and leave themselves with a chance of winning the match.

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Mark.

Well with the Windies at 77-4, England have given themselves a good chance - conditions seem just right for the seam bowlers.

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They do Ern,i wonder how long it will be until Collingwood is given a chance to exploit the conditions with his wobblers.

Cheshire? Why, it was wet at times yesterday but not for too long. Very nice today.

Harmison is usually a can't be bothered fielder but today he was doing diving stops and rolls and looked like a spring chicken while showing off to his home crowd. I couldn't believe my eyes. If he is capable of fielding like this then surely he should do it in all other Tests.

I thought Harmison had a decent reputation as a fielder: good enough at catching to field at gully and fast enough (and with a good enough arm) to be excellent on the boundary.

Panesar was a joke today though: the highlights showed one through his legs and one all but underneath him to his right... and either would have been stopped by any decent fielder at schoolboy level. I was under the impression he'd sharpened up his act a lot... but his outfielding was even worse than Prior's wicket-keeping.