England v West Indies, third Test, day four, Edgbaston

Two overs to go, Samuels continues, and for the third successive over Bell takes a single off the second ball, and Finn sees off the rest of the over.

A rather strange bowling change (unless it's light-enforced) as Best is off after one over and Narine returns. A single from Bell brings Finn on strike, I'm not entirely sure who's protecting who here...

The two no-balls and the wicket extended that over to nine minutes, so I take back what I said about finishing before 1930... Bell dabs Samuels for a single, Finn is solid in defence for the rest of the over.

Whether or not you approve of the practice of sending in a night-watchman to protect a number seven batsman, that's what England have done - and with James Anderson rested/rotated/whatever, Steven Finn is the man charged with surviving the rmaining 4.4 overs. The tall paceman shoulders arms as the ball sails over the stumps, and then tries to flick one from middle and leg off his pads - they run a leg bye. Bell gloves a single down the leg side.

Bairstow drills a two wide of mid-on, before a short and wide delivery from Samuels is fiercely cut to the point boundary for four. A single takes him to 18, and we have five overs left. If the spinner stays on, we may even get them in before 1930.

Lovely shot for four by Bell, threading a full-length delivery through the covers. He keeps the pose for a second or two - not as long as Tino Best did earlier today. Bell then smacks a well-run two to mid-wicket.

Bairstow steers Samuels for four wide of long leg, with half-an-hour (or seven overs) left in the day, there are not a lot of people still in the ground but a hardy few have stuck it out all day.

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Bell pushes Rampaul for a single, there are two slips, a gully and a helmeted short leg in for Bairstow who has to endure a bit of "chin music" before he adds a single to his score.

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Bell pushes Samuels for a single to mid-on, Bairstow can't beat the infield and is then beaten outside off stump as he tries to hammer one past the man at silly point. Plenty of chat out there from both teams.

Bairstow hammers Samuels for a four back past the bowler, we've still got 11 overs left to bowl tonight unless the weather intervenes.

Rampaul has a short leg in for Bairstow, who had a bit of a going-over by Kemar Roach in the last Test. Rampaul doesn't have Roach's pace, but fires in a couple of bouncers anyway, and switches to bowling round the wicket. Bairstow guides a single to fine leg to become the latest England batsman to nick the strike.

Jonny Bairstow is the new batsman, his first ball is a rather strange full toss which he pushes away for a single off his legs. And then England hearts are in mouths as there's an appeal for a catch behind against Bell, but it just sailed past his defensive prod.

Panto villain Best is replaced by the burly Rampaul at the City End, although nobody seems to have told a young boy in the stand who's still chanting "Tino!" Bell tries his late cut shot again, it reaches the man at fourth slip on the bounce. (There's a first slip, a fourth slip and that's it). But Bell executes the same shot, and Aggers fears West Indies will rue not having a third man when he's hitting fours as easily as this.

Samuels replaces Narine at the Pavilion End, and Barath has been taken out of the firing line, there's no short leg in now as Pietersen drives hard, it's half-stopped at cover and they run one. Bell returns the favour with a single, then Pietersen brutally clubs a couple of long-hops, first for four and then for a single. Bell nicks the strike again, a single ends a profitable over for England.

In contrast with Pietersen's assaultn on Narine last over, Bell is on the defensive against Best - who's exhibiting signs that he could join Andre Nel and our old friend Sreesanth in an "Angry Fast Bowlers/Pantomime Villains XI" when he follows through, picks the ball up and threatens to throw the ball at Bell's stumps, even though he wasn't attempting a run. A bouncer - and a serious "glare" at Bell - end a maiden over.

Single from Pietersen, then Bell is taking a defensive approach against Best, having to withdraw his bat at the last minute as the paceman stifles an appeal for a catch behind.

Spinner Sunil Narine continues from the Pavilion End, it looks like he's blowing on his hands to warm his fingers in order to grip the ball better. Pietersen finds the gap with an accomplished cover drive wide of the man at short extra cover, before flicking a single to long-on.

Best to bowl the rest of the over he started about 35 minutes ago. Rather predictably, his first ball is a bouncer, which Bell ducks. The Warwickshire man gets the scoreboard ticking again with a single to fine leg, and Pietersen sees off the rest of the over. Aggers on TMS thinks Best is "a great actor, a real showman, and ought to get a job doing Shakespeare or something."

Bell is milking Narine for fun here, late-cutting for three with aplomb. Pietersen adds a single, and Bell pinches the strike once again.

A single takes Pietersen to 49, but Bell, on 48, is poised to overtake him. A quick single to mid-on off the lastt ball ensures he keeps the strike - "my answer to that is be better at counting," is the view of Geoff Boycott, who could never be accused of not being able to count to six...

Having retrieved the ball from the boundary last over, Rampaul trots up to the City End to continue his spell, Pietersen prods a single before Bell is momentarily discomforted when he inside-edges the ball onto his pads. Bell tries to look for his favoured late cut, but there's a man at fourth slip/fine gully designed to cut that shot off. A beautiful cover drive, one of the shots of the day, brings him four, and a more brutal slash past gully means that's four more. The next ball is short, Bell pulls it for four and not even a double somersault by Tino Best on the mid-wicket boundary can prevent another boundary. Bell is really feasting on Rampaul here - the burly paceman may have done a bit of feasting himself in his time...

That bizarre one-over spell of Samuels is ended as Sunil Narine has switched ends to the Pavilion End - Bell goesfor a big hit, but it's just wide of Rampaul, who's not the sveltest of cricketers, at mid-on for four.

"What's changed in the light? I think somebody's had a word in their ear," muses Boycs on TMS as Ravi Rampaul finally gets to begin his over from the City End. Kevin Pietersen forces a single to deep backward square leg, Bell waits for a short ball which sits up to be hit and is hammered through mid-wicket for four. A well-timed late cut brings him four more past gully, and a single allows him to retain the strike - certainly England aren't having too much trouble seeing the ball in this light...

Marlon Samuels to begin the evening session with his part-time off-spin from the Pavilion End. He's not yet bowled today, but gave a very entertaining interview for the TMS podcast last night. Single each from Bell and Pietersen, then the umpires confer at the end of the over - presumably about the light.

Sammy fires one down which beats KP's back-foot prod, misses the off bail by inches and beats keeper Ramdin standing up to the stumps, as England run a bye. But that's the only score from the over, so it's a maiden.

Aggers will be speaking to former England spinner Ashley Giles at tea, who's now director of cricket here at Warwickshire as well as an England selector - and was the bowler involved in the famous Tino Best "mind the windows" dismissal back in 2004!

Bell signals to the dressing room between overs, as if he's got something wrong with his helmet, wants a new helmet or something like that, but Pietersen sparks a ripple of applause from the crowd as he laces a four through the covers to take England to three figures. Sammy keeps it tight for the rest of the over.

Ground staff are making a pre-emptive move towards the covers - always an ominous sight - as Narine continues to wheel away from the City End. "If he was a bird, he'd be a great-crested-something," notes Aggers on TMS as Bell rocks on the back foot before steering a three which can't quite reach the cover boundary. Pietersen drills a single to long-on, and Narine has a decidedly ordinary 0-29 from six overs.

Umpire Dharmasena dons a pair of glasses (not exactly sunglasses, they're the orangey sort that are the colour of Lucozade and are meant to enhance the natural light) as Sammy is on the verge of sending down a maiden to Bell, until the Warwickshire man manages a single off the last ball.

Bell dabs a quick single to points, putting the pressure on the fielder who over-runs it and they make their ground safely. Pietersen nurdles one to fine leg, and there's a menacing dark cloud still making its way actoss the ground, but it's stayed dry so far and we're 20 minutes from tea.

Bell tries to nudge Sammy down to fine leg and they run two leg byes. The Warckshire man prods a single into the covers, before he has to sit down at the bowler's end and remove something from his boot, with the assistance of mpire Kumar Dharmasena. KP prods a single, Bell straight-drives and a misfield by Rampaul at mid-off allows another single.

Lovely shot from Bell, a fluent straight-driven four brings a warm ripple of applause from his home crowd. A single takes him to 12, Narine's not been a huge threat so far (if that's not a commentator's curse...)

Sammy replaces Best, who's been used in two brief bursts from this Pavilion End, Pietersen steers a three wide of mid-on and Bell taps a quick single. Ramdin is standing up to the stumps to Sammy's relatively gentle medium-fast seam.

Pietersen helps himself to a two and a single against Narine, there's not a great deal of turn out there. And as England found this morning, there isn't necessarily a lot in this pitch for the bowlers, full stop.

Simon Mann on TMS will have the listeners reaching for their Boycott Bingo cards after mentioning uncovered pitches to Geoffrey, while Bell isn't tempted to flash at one outside off stump from Best, but eventually tucks into a low full toss, punching it to the extra cover boundary for four. And as I suspected, it'll be tea at 1610 BST unless we go off for rain or bad light before then.

KP tries to flip an off break from Narine down the leg side, it's signalled as four even though the TV replay indicates it didn't hit his bat (or indeed anyone). "Without the floodlights, we'd be off for bad light," notes Simon Mann on TMS. Pietersen defends well against Narine's twirlers, before knocking a seemingly effortless four through mid-wicket. He has 18, Bell has two.

Pietersen steers the shaven-headed Best for three, he can't be the easiest bowler to face in these murky conditions, and Bell sees off the over.

Dark clouds, both literal and metaphorical, descending over England, and here comes another - it's the last of the Mohicans, "mystery spinner" Sunil Narine (technically classed as an off-spinner), on from the City End. As Geoff Boycott on TMS points out, Bell didn't exactly cover himself in glory against Saeed Ajmal in Dubai and Abu Dhabi... he manages to get off strike with a single. Pietersen, who probably faced Narine in the IPL, adds a single of his own.

New batsman Ian Bell defends his first ball, the ball flicks off his pad and trickles just  wide of the stumps... is it pessimistic to think that we could soon be writing about "only rain can save England"? Bell is off the mark with a single off his legs, that's the fifty up for England.

Presumably Ashley Giles or whoever has gone down and put 50p in the Edgbaston electricity meter as the floodlights are slowly coming on. Pietersen belts Sammy for his first four, through the covers, England push the singles as Cap'n Strauss and his predecessor as skipper look to rebuild for England.

It is decidedly darker than it was earlier - there are some heavy clouds approaching from the west, and we were warned that there may be showers this afternoon. KP rotates the strike with a leg bye, Strauss guides a two to long leg where Tino Best fields, cheered by a posse of fans down in that corner of the ground.

Kevin Pietersen is the new batsman, he pushes his second ball for a single, leaving his partner Strauss on strike. Fourth umpire David Millns runs out to give a light meter to umpire Dharmasena - uh-oh. He takes a reading from the Pavilion End. But they haven't even put the floodlights on yet... they were put on yesterday when it was not as dark as this!

Another loose ball from Rampaul is dealt with by Strauss as he powers it to the cover boundary. With the West Indies only having three seamers, how long before we see "mystery spinner" Sunil Narine?

A change of bowling at the Pavilion End as captain Darren Sammy replaces Tino Best. He keeps it quite tight until the last ball of the over when Trott powers a four wide of mid-on.

If you're just joining us (where have you been?), you missed an entertaining first session today - and you can read all about how Tino Best broke the world Test record score by a number 11 batsman on the BBC Sport website.

Short and wide from Rampaul, Trott gives it the treament and that's four square of the wicket, though not quite with Tino Best-style gusto. Rampaul's line is a bit off today, the next ball is down the leg side and Trott punches it through mid-wicket for two. A single takes him to 13, he's overtaken Strauss who has 11.

Strauss and Trott push a couple of singles against Best, the atmosphere here at Edgbaston has quietened down a bit after the fireworks we saw from Best when he was wielding the willow earlier. Strauss steers a comfortable three through the covers, bringing a light smattering of applause. Trott dabs a single to cover.

Strauss pushes Rampaul for a single, Trott lets one go through to the keeper. Sedate start by England, and the draw looking the favourite result by far.

Strauss knocks Best for a single, allowing new batsman Jonathan Trott to begin his methodical preparation of taking guard. The Warwickshire man is off the mark in front of his home crowd with a straight-driven four.

Best holds his head in frustration as Strauss tries to tickle one down the leg side and it doesn't quite carry to wicketkeeper Ramdin. Best then sends down a fast, high full toss, not a beamer as it wasn't above waist height (though not by much), Strauss looks as though he lost sight of it and pulls away at the last minute (his forearm unprotected by an armguard) - that really would have hurt if it connected anywhere. Maiden over to Best.

It's right-arm seam from both ends as Ravi Rampaul opens up from the City End, and Strauss lets a couple go by outside off stump, only adding a single to his score.

Tino Best to take up the attack for West Indies after his heroics with the bat - and somewhat predictably, his first ball is a bouncer to Andrew Strauss (and a no ball to boot). The England skipper makes a late decision to veer away from a lifter, then picks up three with a rather fortunate edge past gully. HIs partner Alastair Cook is off the mark by poking a single into the covers, and Strauss punches a quick single. England trail by 420, so still need another 271 to avoid the follow-on.

Best moves to 90 with a single off Onions, who's replaced Finn at the City End, Ramdin adds another to move to 107, and Best rotates the strike well with a back-foot jab past point. Scrappy cricket from England as Prior concedes a bye with one which bounces off his gloves, and Best guides the last ball for a single off his legs - he's up to 92, and the crowd are loving this. The stand is worth 140.

Ramdin and Best help themselves to singles against Trott, fairly easy pickings from them, and this is now the third highest last-wicket Test stand of all time (135), after those joint leaders on 151 we mentioned earlier.

Boycs on TMS laments the lack of part-time bowling options among England's batsmen, perhaps momentarily forgetting the option of Kevin Pietersen's off-spin, but Finn persists with his round-the-wicket attack. Best and Ramdin add a single apiece, then Best is back at his swashbuckling, er, best, with a scything four through point to take his score to 88. Another baseball-style swing-and-a-miss, with both feet off the ground, keeps the crowd on the edge of their seats. Best ducks a bouncer.

And England look like they want to go off for lunch... but clearly don't know the new Test playing regulations! Lunch can be delayed for up to half-an-hour, by the way, as we're nine wickets down, but will be taken immediately if a wicket falls between now and 1330 BST.

Bresnan's off as England take pace off the ball and turn to Jonathan Trott's right-arm medium pace. Will Ramdin and Best get after the part-timer, or is this a cunning ploy as they won't want to get out to such a seemingly innocuous bowler? Ramdin tucks a single off his legs, Best steers one past cover point for a single. Field comes up for thelast ball of the over, and Ramdin can't quite get him away so it's just those two singles from the over.

Finn continues from the City End, Ramdin pushes a single to mid-off, then there's a break in play as Best calls to the dressing-room for something... a Windies reserves runs on with a chest guard which Best straps on before resuming his innings. His first ball with the chest guard is a bouncer as Finn switches to bowling round the wicket.

Ramdin pushes Finn for a single through square leg. Best, on 70, is five short of the highest score by a number 11 (75 by Zaheer Khan) in Test cricket - he steals the strike once more with a single off the lastt ball.

Bresnan bowls, Best drives firmly but straight to deep mid-off, and sees off a rare maiden over.

And a reminder that it's "Ask the Analyst" with Simon Hughes on TMS at lunchtime, on the subject of whether the West Indies fast bowlers of the 1970s and 80s were faster than today's top pace bowlers - tweet your questions to @aggerscricket or @tmsproducer for the lunch interval.

Steve Finn replaces Swann at the City End as they desperately search for a wicket to end this entertaining last-wicket stand. "I think England may have learned a lesson here - don't take any opposition lightly," notes Aggers on TMS. Ramdin flicks a single off his legs, Best rotates the strike competently, then Ramdin turns a four between the boundary fielders at deep mid-wicket and long leg. He's into the (nervous?) nineties. Finn then strays down the leg side, Ramdin helps it on its way and he's up to 95 - that's the century partnership! Incredible.

Best forces Bresnan for a single off his legs, a Ramdin pull for one rotates the strike, and Best weaves away from a bouncer as though he's been a top-order batsman all his life. Best defends the next ball, and Bresnan has a bit of a word after that one. Best has 65, Ramdin has 86 and England look like they've run out of ideas.

Rapid over from Swann, Ramdin and Best help themselves to a couple of singles apiece.

An interesting point from Simon Mann on TMS - with the game reduced to three days, a team may be forced to follow on if it's only 150 runs behind (rather than the usual 200). Bresnan appeals for lbw against Best as the ball trickles down the leg side and they run a leg bye. Ramdin pushes a single, Best digs out one from right in the blockhole before guiding one off his toes down to Jonathan Trott at fine leg. Ramdin ducks a bouncer, and this is just reward for the sprinkling of fans who have made it down to Edgbaston today - they've been seriously entertained, and the sun is still shining.

Swann has three close catchers, an orthodox extra cover and five men on the boundary for Ramdin, who late-cuts for three. Same field  for Best, who prods a gentle single to the man on the point boundary. Ramdin sweeps and misses, Prior - who's nursing an eye infection if you remember - misses it down the leg side and they trot through for a bye. Best edges a two past slip and nurdles a single to fine leg to move to 60 (from 61 balls).

Single from Ramdin, then Swann comes round the wicket to Best, who tries an aggressive pull shot which would have blasted short leg fielder Alastair Cook into several thousand pieces. Thankfully for Mrs Cook, her husband remains unscathed as Best failed to connect. And he's uncharacteristically watchful for th rest of the over.

Ramdin pushes Bresnan for a two, while Phil Tufnell on TMS wisttfully dreams of how he'd have felt if he'd ever scored a Test fifty. (Tuffers averaged 5.10 in Test cricket, with a highest score of 22 not out). A single takes Ramdin to 76, Best chances his arm again with a powerful drive and that's 11 fours for the number 11.

Best gets his sweep shot out of the locker for the first time, sweeping Swann for a single before Ramdin - who's going to be overtaken soon if he's not careful - jabs a single past short leg.

Graeme Swann replaces Onions at the City End - there are men on the boundary at long-on and long-off, and plenty of windows behind them. Ramdin sweeps a single but the field stays back for Best. Swann tosses it up, and Best belts another four through the covers! There's a Barbados flag being waved in the crowd, and Best cuts another four wide of point, bringing up the fifty stand - of which Best has contributed 45!

Best slams Onions for four with an off-drive, holding the pose as though he's modelling for an MCC coaching video! The number 11 then lashes another four through the covers, suddenly he's on 37 (out of a stand of 43). Best fluently shoulders arms to a lifter, before another attempted drive goes straight to extra cover.

Ramdin pushes Finn for a single, Best goes for a flashing cut-swipe and misses! Finn responds with a bouncer which Best, grinning like a Cheshire cat, ducks. We're wondering whether England should bring Graeme Swann on, and try to revisit the "mind the windows" scenario... Best pushes a quick single to Jonny Bairstow at backward point, and he's pinched the strike once more!

Ramdin nudges Onions for a single, while Best keeps plugging away with an edge for four between second slip and gully. Another edge, four more, takes Best to 28 - his highest Test score - and there's now a man in at fourth slip/fine gully. Best has one first-class fifty to his name, and may be eyeing up a second!

Ramdin pushes Finn for a couple through mid-wicket, while Aggers on TMS reveals that Sir Viv Richards is chuckling at Best's batting at the back of the box. Finn cuts Ramdin in half with a beaut of a delivery which nips back and whistles past his stomach. Aggers also had a close escape last night, after he was presented with a bill for over £1,800,000 for his fish dinner...

Best crashes Onions for another four through extra cover, there aren't many fans in the ground yet but those that are here are being royally entertained by Tino, who's batting like a traditional tail-ender of the 1950s or 60s! He sees off the rest of the over with an accomplished forward defensive, what's he doing at number 11 on this evidence?

Best whacks Finn down the ground for four, giving the lanky Middlesex seamer a piece of his mind after doing so! Best is clearly enjoying this - "we're going to have some fun with Tino today," notes Michael Vaughan on TMS, as he ducks under a bouncer, before a flashing drive brings the number 11 four more! England summon a fielder to short leg, Best clips a single off his legs to bring up the 300 for West Indies, Ramdin can only fend off the last ball so Best gets the strike again!

The TV pictures predictably replay the famous "mind the windows" moment from 2004 when Andrew Flintoff egged Best on to slog Ashley Giles, and he was then stumped by a couple of yards. Graham Onions, dubbed an "ordinary bowler" by Marlon Samuels, takes the second over of the day. Best takes aim at  the windows of the executive boxes at the City End but swishes and misses, before pushing a more fluent two through mid-wicket, and another double past point. A single off the last ball takes Best to seven, he's nicked the strike again!

The last Windies batsman is Tino "mind the windows" Best... there are plenty of windows in this new pavilion/media centre for him to aim at... he turns his first ball for a single off his legs, and Ramdin is happy to rotate the strike, but Best nicks the strike by pushing the last ball for a single.