West Indies v England: second Test, day four – live!

LIVE – Updated at 13:59

Over-by-over report: Join our writers for the latest from Saturday’s play at Kensington Oval in Bridgetown.

In other news. it’s been raining this morning in Bridgetown. Another unexpected blow for the travelling masses. The covers are off now, but the start has gone back by a quarter of an hour.

Another view of the captaincy comes in from Andy Flintoff (“not that one”). “If this were a few years ago,” he argues, “then my choice for replacement captain would have been Anderson, who if I recall correctly, has stood in in the past. Now he’s being eased out of the set-up, then it’d probably have to be Stokes or Broad, as long as they don’t fall foul of my namesake’s failings which were to bowl themselves too much and indirectly shorten their Test careers.”

“So far, this Test has been the cricketing equivalent of Mogadon,” says Jo Pridmore. “Kill me now...!!”

“To be fair to Root,” says Gary Naylor, “if he had the two blokes to bowl at their own ends, he’d look a world-beater.” Marshall and Garner? In the immortal words of Kirsty MacColl, well so could anyone. “He has been more attacking with his field placings than is usual and I’m not sure you can overrule your most experienced bowler when he says it’s not worth a review.” When you’re the captain, you can overrule anyone. And there was nothing to lose with that review – at worst, it was going to be umpire’s call, wasn’t it?

And here’s John Starbuck, joining the campaign. “Yes, Root isn’t up to it,” he says, “so why don’t we take a leaf out of the Aussies’ book and appoint a senior fast bowler to lead the team properly? Broad really fits the bill, as a good analyst of the game, willing to put in the hard yards but also swap the bowling round to suit