West Indies v England: second Test – live!

• Second Test, day two over-by-over updates from the Grenada Test
• Marlon Samuels mocks Ben Stokes’s sledging after opening day
• Email john.ashdown@theguardian.com or tweet @John_Ashdown

2.44pm BST

hosing down in grenada.

2.42pm BST

Charidee time: “Any chance of a charity request plug for a friend of mine?” begins Steve Pye. “Gareth Morris is running the London Marathon for the Save the Rhino charity, running over 26 miles dressed in a rhino costume weighing nearly two stones. He is insane, but his heart is in the right place. And you wouldn’t want to upset a rhino, would you?”

2.40pm BST

The bad news from Grenada is that it’s raining again. Play was due to begin 15 minutes earlier today, but that’s gone for a burton I’m afraid.

2.15pm BST

And here’s what Marlon Samuelshad to say for himself:

“Ben Stokes basically is battling himself because he’s just coming into cricket and I’ve been around for a while. It’s obvious the English boys don’t learn because whenever they talk to me I continue scoring runs. But they keep on talking, I guess they can’t help it. I kept on telling him that but I probably have to tell him something different because he’s not listening. He keeps talking to me but it keeps me motivated and keeps me batting.”

2.15pm BST

Hello all. So: what to make of day one? Advantage England, probably, but only just. This looks to be a difficult pitch to score on, but not one that, at the moment at least, is going to bring flurries of wickets. West Indies resume on 188 for five; tourists will be hoping to restrict them to under 300. Whether they manage that or not will depend to some extent on Marlon Samuels, who batted brilliantly yesterday and begins the morning six runs short of his century.

Here’s Mike Selvey’s view of the first day:

England may be happy enough with the position in which they find themselves after the first day of the second Test that started an hour and three quarters late because of a sequence of irritating showers and was curtailed by the sun sinking towards the Caribbean sea and the light closing in.

The 70 overs that were possible saw West Indies reach 188 for five, despite having struggled to make headway on a sticky pitch that made timing difficult and a grabby outfield that held up all but the most sweetly struck shot.