West Indies v England: third Test, day one – live!

LIVE – Updated at 13:34

Over-by-over report: Join our team of writers for updates from the opening day of play in the third and final Test in Grenada.

It must’ve been a tricky call – big first-innings runs are helpful – but the best of the bowling conditions are likely to be today.

We’re now taking a closer look at the pitch and there is indeed grass, along with some moisture! Let’s see. MA Butcher, meanwhile, is wearing loafers with bare feet. Still, he’ll always have that square-cut six against Australia in 2001.

Love a debut. All that work, pain and suffering, then a moment. Beautiful.

The Windies huddle had a big round of applause a short while ago, so wonder if Anderson Philip, the right-arm seamer from Trinidad, is making his debut. Toss in five mins.

Other hand, I enjoyed Saqib Mahmood’s performance in Barbados, and think he’s got a big future in the side because his kind of skiddy reverse is useful not just in England but the subcontinent too.

If someone could please revelate me: what’s the point of leaving out Branderson to have a look at new players, to bin Fisher for Overton? Get it I do not.

Mark Butcher confirms there are “thick patches” of grass on a length, and Daniel Harris confirms that there are mustard chinos on David Gower’s legs. Butcher adds that Kemar Roach was imploring the groundsman not to shave the pitch, so perhaps it’ll do something,

Don Draper didn’t teach us much – we were self-regarding, self-mythologising bores long before we knew him – but his – well Teddy’s – vort that nostalgia “literally means ‘the pain from an old wound’” gives an interesting insight into contemporary Britain.

We’ve been deep in a nostalgia trap these last few years, people reminiscing fondly, not just about