England v West Indies: live

Skittled: Kirk Edwards (left) was clean bowled by James Anderson for just seven runs Photo: ACTION IMAGES

Over-by-over commentary of the first day of the second Investec Test match between England and West Indies at Trent Bridge. 

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Can Stuart Broad become England's all-time highest wicket-taker? Would he deserve to sit atop that illustrious pile? Is Twitter for idiots? Email me alan.tyers@telegraph.co.uk with your views 
 

13.25 Steve Finn's being interviewed on the telly; he seems a bit down not to be in the team today, but as Broady points out, "Finn would get into any other Test side in the world." There's no doubt it's hard to get into this eleven. They showed Finn earlier on the balcony. Would he be better off bowling for Middlesex against Lancashire at Aigburth? Another fellow on the fringes of the England team, Ajmal Shahzad, took two wickets in his first five balls as a Lanky yesterday...

LUNCH: WI 84/4 (Chanderpaul 19* Samuels 9*) West Indies won the toss and batted, but must have regretted it right away. England were excellent. James Anderson bowled beautifully and took two wickets. He also clung onto two catches at slip off his buddy Stuart Broad; the first of them was a beaut. Broad bowled very well, as did Tim Bresnan; and the West Indies top order, sorry to say, was outclassed. Anderson had two chances go to ground between second and third slip, while Marlon Samuels was given out lbw and (correctly) reprieved on review, so it could have been even worse. Such hope as there is for Windies lies with the current partnership of 21* between Shiv Chanderpaul and Samuels, but this was England's morning beyond any question. Join me shortly and we'll see how things go after lunch.

OVER 27: WI 84/4 (Chanderpaul 19* Samuels 9*) In what I imagine will be the last over before lunch, Broad bowls a very rare poor ball, too legside, and Samuels helps it on its way to long leg for four. A single, then Shiv blocks one and West Indies have limped through to lunch without further damage.

Geoffrey Lippitt: "I agree with Andrew Holgate at over 23, it seems to be used to for exactly the purpse he says. Now Broad, yes he could become the highest wicket taker if he remains fit but I would rather it were Jimmy. He is inspirational a lot of the time and if the selection for a place were between the two of them I would want Jimmy."

OVER 26: WI 79/4 (Chanderpaul 19* Samuels 9*) Good start from Swann, on the button right away, and bowling with a nice shape. But Samuels plays the over impressively, using the bat and moving his feet. He strokes a drive through mid -off for four, and then hits hard down the ground to pinch the strike off the last ball of this over as well.

OVER 25: WI 74/4 (Chanderpaul 19* Samuels 4*) Well, no change in this over as Broad bowls a niggardly, remorseless set of pacy line and length. Samuels gets a single off the last ball.

OVER 24: WI 73/4 (Chanderpaul 19* Samuels 3*) Bres keeps Samuels honest with another tight over. Just one off it. Time to get Swann on before lunch to the left-handed Chanders?

OVER 23: WI 72/4 (Chanderpaul 19* Samuels 2*) More excellence from Broad, he pushes Shiv back and Der Crabber doesn't quite get a hold of a hook. Single, then Broad beats Samuels outside offstump and this pair are clinging on by their fingernails as England hunt what would surely be the killer wicket. Still, this pair showed a lot of fight and class at Lord's, so West Indies are not done yet. Shiv drives for a coulpe.

Andrew Holgate says: "I don't see the point of Twitter. I just seems to allow people, who would normally be largely ignored for being stupid, to air their views and cause controversy. Take Joey Barton (please someone take him!). He's an idiot yet the media go mad over his comments on Twitter. They shouldn't. They should just ignore him and let him be the small fool that he is. On another note, strange how the days of hoping for rain have gone away for England. Now we just want solid sunshine to batter all who stand before us. I say us, I mean them, but a childish part of me still believes I could make it as a Test player."

OVER 22: WI 68/4 (Chanderpaul 16* Samuels 1*) This is an excellent spell from Tim Bresnan. He's dragging Samuels across the stumps, most of the balls seaming back in, but there's the odd one that nibbles away. Quality maiden and the pressure is right on for Samuels.

OVER 21: WI 68/4 (Chanderpaul 16* Samuels 1*) England have got a plan for Shiv, and they are going about it well. Broad's banging it in from around the wicket, and then slipping in the occasional full one. Shiv now edges said delivery through where fourth slip would be. England have got Belly stationed at leg gully; Shiv hooks the ball into the ground and straight to him.

OVER 20: WI 64/4 (Chanderpaul 12* Samuels 1*) Marlon Samuels hit on the pads by a straight one. He shuffles across and tries to work it to leg. Hit on the pads and given out by Aleem Dar. He asks for the review - and quite right too. That looked high, to me. Decision overturned. The ball was going well over the stumps, good use of technology.

OVER 19: WI 64/4 (Chanderpaul 12* Samuels 1*) Marlon Samuels comes to the crease, wearing a jumper. Standard. It looks boiling out there, to these English eyes at least. He gets off the mark right away. And now poor old Shiv is hit in the...well... "in the Chanderpauls" as my colleague Giles Mole puts it. It looks a nasty one. As if there could be a nice one. Long delay as he gets such treatment as medical science has devised for being hit in the plums with a 85mph hard rock. Broad all over these West Indians.

WICKET! Powell c Anderson b Broad 33 Broad comes on to give Jimmy Anderson has a rest, and that's bad news for the West Indies, because it means he goes into the slip cordon at third slip... which is exactly where Powell now edges a good length ball. Jimmy pouches another one and West Indies are all over the place like an Essex girl on a hen do. That's a shame for Powell, who had played well so far, but the warning signs were there that his concentration was starting to go. FOW 63/4
 
OVER 18: WI 63/3 (Kieran Powell 33* Chanderpaul 12*) Bit of a silly pull from Powell, he doesn't really get in the right position and ends up just flicking the ball up in the air over the keeper/slips via the top edge. Strauss runs back from slip but it lands safe. Shiv clips a full one off his pads for four.

OVER 17: WI 58/3 (Kieran Powell 33* Chanderpaul 8*) Oooh, the best laid plans.... Jimmy Anderson comes around the wicket to Shiv Chanderpaul. Shiv gets off the mark with a drive, aided and abetted by some village fielding by Ali Cook. After a couple of bouncers, against which Shiv does not look too comfortable, Jim plays his ace: that one that angles in and nibbles away. It finds the edge of the great stonewaller's bat, but it flies between second and third slip, with neither Swann nor Bresnan getting a hand to it. I'm marking that up as a drop, the second off Anderson's bowling this morning in that second/third slip area. That's the delivery England have been searching for against Chanderpaul, so frustration for bowler, captain and coach. Can Shiv make them pay?

OVER 16: WI 50/3 (Kieran Powell 33* Chanderpaul 0*) Well played by Powell in that over. Leaves the good ones, and when Bresnan gets too full, he dinks the ball off his legs to bring up the West Indies fifty with a boundary.

OVER 15: WI 46/3 (Kieran Powell 28* Chanderpaul 0*) Jimmy Anderson greets Shiv with a snorting bouncer that flicks his arm guard and just flies over the slips. Wow, that would have been a disaster for West Indies if HE had gone first ball. Another brilliant over from Jimmy Anderson, who is just too good for these West Indies boys I am afraid. Now it's time for a round of Cricket Legend Weather Trivia, Sir Ian Botham versus David Ivon Gower..... where's the hottest place in the UK today? Fort William, according to Sir Ian.

DRINKS West Indies 42/3 We have a drink after that wicket. 14.3 overs. After the brief interval, it'll be Shiv Chanderpaul to face three more balls of Anderson's over, with West Indies once again needing him to save their bacon.

WICKET! Bravo c Swann b Anderson 7 Oh dear. Now it's officially a bad morning for West Indies. Anderson comes around the wicket, Bravo drives loosely at a wide one, it pings to Swann chest-high at second slip and he does the necessary. FOW 42/3
 
OVER 14: WI 42/2 (Kieran Powell 28* Darren Bravo 3*) Another lovely shot from Powell, this time off Bresnan, this time through the offside to give him another four. He's got some shots this fellow. Can he stick around long enough to hurt England with them? Looks like Jimmy Anderson is going to bowl the next one, that'll be his eighth over of the morning. Fitness as well as everything else.....

OVER 13: WI 37/2 (Kieran Powell 24* Darren Bravo 2*) Anderson continues. Nasser Hussain has a theory, about Jim having developed a new delivery with a scrambled seam. I think the idea is that it looks like an inswinger, but isn't. Scrambled seam or not, Kieran Powell shows his talent there with a sweet flip of the legs for four when Jim gets too straight.

OVER 12: WI 33/2 (Kieran Powell 20* Darren Bravo 2*) England make their first bowling change of the morning as Tim Bresnan comes on. He starts with a maiden, ball six of which is a snorter that nips away from Bravo and beats him.

OVER 11: WI 33/2 (Kieran Powell 20* Darren Bravo 2*) Touch of good fortune for Powell in that over when he inside edges Anderson past his stumps, picking up a streaky four.

OVER 10: WI 29/2 (Kieran Powell 16* Darren Bravo 2*) Broady continues, and Bravo's off the mark as he drives to mid off for two. Broad round the wicket. Pressure on this young pair. Powell's 22, Bravo 23. A lot of talent on display, but little experience. Come on West Indies! Dig in fellers.

Millfield's own Tony Blackburn. As a boy.

OVER 9: WI 26/2 (Kieran Powell 16* Darren Bravo 0*) Jim slants the ball across Bravo to start with, then makes him play. Windies one more wicket away from a full-blown crisis here. I'll tell you who else went to Millfield School. Tony Blackburn. Sophie Dahl. Police drummer Stewart Copeland. Victor Chandler. It's a dream eleven waiting to happen.

WICKET! Edwards b Anderson 7 Oh man, you can't say that didn't look likely. Edwards doesn't get his stuff together at all, leaves a great big gap between bat and pad, and Jimmy Anderson seams the back ball through it. For breakfast. Edwards prodded forward half-heartedly, the bat wasn't really coming down straight, and that is the end of that. Shame, I hate to say it, but Mr Edwards does not look a Test number three to my eyes. FOW 26/2.

OVER 8: WI 26/1 (Kieran Powell 15* Kirk Edwards 7*) As well he might, having seen the batsman's weakness against the short stuff at Lord's, Broad tries Powell out with a couple of bouncers. The proud son of the West Country is not tempted.

OVER 7: WI 24/1 (Kieran Powell 13* Kirk Edwards 7*) Nice couple from Edwards, punch through mid off. Anderson is hard to get away this morning.

OVER 6: WI 22/1 (Kieran Powell 13* Kirk Edwards 5*) Lovely shot there from Powell as he creams Broad away for four, no foot movemenet, all timing. Hey, how about this? Powell went to Millfield School, where he was a contemporary of Surrey skipper Rory Hamilton-Brown. According to our sources, Powell did not play cricket at the school! Anyone confirm this?

Here's this from the school's website: "Many Millfieldians go on to play at county level, and the School can count among its alumni David Graveney, England stars Simon Jones, Ben Hollioake, Craig Keiswetter and West Indies' Kieran Powell."

Leetle beet of zee news: "The ECB today announced that Yorkshire wicketkeeper-batsman Jonny Bairstow has been awarded an England increment contract for 2011-12." Well done young'un. I hope he trains on.

OVER 5: WI 18/1 (Kieran Powell 9* Kirk Edwards 5*) Edwards is in rotten form on the tour so far, and he looks in a right pickle here. He edges Anderson. Tim Bresnan, diving to his left at third grabber, cannot hang on. Drop. Shame Jim can't field there off his own bowling. Kirk Edwards' set up looks all wrong: feet pointing to mid off, and sure enough, Jimmy Anderson tries him out with the inswinging yorker. It hits the pads alright, but going down leg. And the ball runs away for four leg byes.

OVER 4: WI 10/1 (Kieran Powell 9* Kirk Edwards 1*) Edwards leaves a ball perilously close to his stumps, then tries to leave another and finds the ball hit his bat. Looks a nervy customer, but he's off the mark at the end of that first over.

WICKET! Barath c Anderson b Broad 0 Just back of a length from Broady, and the ball seams away. Adrian B fences at it, not toally convincing. Well, not at all convincing, because he's edged that to third slip. Anderson takes a blinder, one-handed! He and the rest of the cordon have come in close due to the slow nature of the pitch, which makes that even more impressive. Splendid reactions. Best-fielding England fast bowler ever? Must be. Adrain Barath, who promised so much with that ton on debut at the Gabba but has failed again here. FOW 9/1
 
OVER 3: WI 8/0 (Barath 0* Kieran Powell 8*) Several indippers to Barath in this maiden over from Jim; perhaps he likes him more for the lbw than the nick. Struck on the pads several times in that over, albeit no major appeal as yet.

Oliver Budniak writes: "Twitter + KP = one massive headache, luckily it is a well known fact Ibuprofen was invented in Nottingham." I'm not so sure that's well-known, or even true, but fair enough.

OVER 2: WI 8/0 (Barath 0* Kieran Powell 8*) Short leg for Broady, and he bowls nice and full. It prompts a delish cover drive from Powell that purrs away for four. But the next ball, Broad finds an outside edge that drops a yard short of Strauss at slip. At least a yard, in fact. Further indications that this is a slow old deck, because that was a genuine 'snick'. It ran away for four, though. Puddingy bouncer in the over, too.

Gareth Butler writes: "I would like to say that there is something disconcerting about the picture of Jimmy at the top of the page. It feels like he is looking into my soul." I agree. It is disturbing, which is why I picked it. I'm messing with YOUR MIND Mr Butler.

OVER 1: WI 0/0 (Barath 0* Kieran Powell 0*) Anderson is bowling his outswingers agasinst the breeze, which is odd. Maybe Broad called dibs on ends on this, his home patch. The pitch looks really slow, some of these hardly carried through to the keeper. Ball four swings a bit, into right-handed Barath, who is hit on the pad. No run in the over.

10.58 So the players are out, Jerusalem blares. Jimmy has the new pill in his hand. Will he get it to swing?

10.56 Here's Derek Pringle on the KP business; and on the television, David Lloyd is quoting Donovan. Lovely.

10.55 Wow it looks nice at Nottingham. Have we been following the row involving KP and Nick Knight? Poor Knighty. What it is about sportsmen and Twitter? IT has a siren call for making a berk of themselves, doesn't it? Who wants to be our first emailer of the day. You can slag off KP, or Nick Knight, if you like. Or regale us with tales of Nottingham days of yore. It's a broad church here.

10.45 Mikey Holding identifies Greg Chappell, Javed Miandad and Sir Geoff as the three batsmen he least enjoyed bowling to. For Shane: Sachin. Sir Beefy: Sir Viv, obviously. Who would you least like to bowl to/bat against in Tests? Among current players, I reckon I'd least like to face Steve Finn.
10.41 It looks a lovely day for a bat at Trent Bridge. But Anderson won't be too worried about that; he is now the complete bowler, who can take wickets in any conditions. Here's our man Oliver Brown's interview with him.

10.40 Yay! Shane Warne is working for Sky.

10.36 West Indies win the toss and will bat. They include Shillingford and Rampaul for Edwards and Gabriel. England are unchanged. Can TT Bresnan make it 13 from 13? Yes, I reckon.

10.35 I quoted the Jimmy Anderson stat at you, but how's this for a record? West Indies have played eight at Nottingham, won four, drawn four. Yeah, but philosopher's axe, innit? Should this West Indies team even be called the same thing as the iteration with Viv, Malc, Gordon, Curtly etc in it?

10.30 Good morning all and welcome to our live coverage of the second Test at Trent Bridge.
West Indies put up a game fight for almost all of the match at Lord's, and a lot of people are hoping that they can build on that to be even more competitive in this game. Sorry to be a Debbie Downer, but I don't see it panning out like that. I reckon it might be the ole one-step forward... routine for West Indies, and on a ground where England have an excellent recent record, I fancy the home side to give West Indies a good old fashioned doing in this game.

Large parts of that belief are formed by the record of Jimmy Anderson at this ground: the Burnley swing king has four five-wicket hauls in his five Tests at Trent Bridge. His last three Test matches here? 25 wickets at 12. That's going to be far too good for the West Indies flaky top order. And never mind Jimmy, here's MP Vaughan tipping Stuart Broad to become England's all-time leading wicket-taker. Not in this match, obviously.

It is not just his skill levels but his competitive nature. He had a fire in his belly that I like in a bowler. All bowlers need to have that desperation to succeed. He hates being hit for runs and it is good to see a bowler show passion even to the extent of questioning the umpire when he doesn’t give runs as leg byes. 
 

Team news and toss as soon as I have it.