West Indies v England: second Test – live!

• Second Test, day four over-by-over updates from St George’s
• Curtly Ambrose backs Marlon Samuels’ salute at Ben Stokes
• Poll: was the salute to Stokes disrespectful or harmless fun?
• IPL: Rajasthan Royals v Royal Challengers Bangalore – live!
• Email simon.burnton@theguardian.com or tweet @Simon_Burnton

3.15pm BST

130th over: England 396-7 (Root 126, Jordan 6)

Root scores his 2,000th Test run, and it’s not one he’ll remember for long, being as it is the most humdrum of singles off Bishoo. Jordan gets one too, off the final ball, allowing him to resume his battle with Gabriel post-haste.

3.12pm BST

129th over: England 394-7 (Root 125, Jordan 5)

Ooof! Crikey! Gabriel bowls at Jordan – fast – and he nervously fends it into the top of his pad, whence it bounces into the air and down onto the foot of off stump. The bails remain unmoved by the experience, and he’s therefore free to lean back and pummel the next through midwicket for four.

3.07pm BST

128th over: England 389-7 (Root 124, Jordan 1)

Bishoo bowls to Buttler, who hits it back towards the bowler. “Catch it Bish!” cries Ramdin. Fat chance: by the time the bowler’s flung a hand out to block the ball, it’s already rocketing over the rope. The attempt to do it again next ball was, in hindsight, regrettable.

3.03pm BST

That’s fine bowling. Buttler, having just thwacked the previous ball for four, tries to repeat the trick, is deceived by the flight of the ball and is emphatically stumped.

3.02pm BST

127th over: England 382-6 (Root 122, Buttler 9)

So much for speedy run-accumulation: Gabriel’s disciplined bowling brings a single to Root off the second ball, and little else. “Controversial reference to the third series of Blackadder, presumably suggesting it was the best,” writes Bob Miller. “While it was great, the second was clearly the best. Now I’m off to Hampton Court to stand at the end of a passage and pretend to be a door.” The second is also excellent, and the fourth is splendid. The first was a bit rubbish, mind.

2.56pm BST

126th over: England 381-6 (Root 121, Buttler 9)

England clearly want to score quite quickly this morning, as is evident from a seven-run Bishoo over, featuring as it does three singles, a couple of twos and one lonely dot ball at the end.

2.52pm BST

125th over: England 374-6 (Root 119, Buttler 4)

Gabriel gets the day under way, and Root adds another run to his total. Sky are, meanwhile, absolutely obsessed with the Marlon Samuels-Ben Stokes salute. I mean, it was quite funny, but to cricket commentators it’s like Richard Pryor, the Dead Parrot sketch and the third series of Blackadder rolled into one.

2.45pm BST

As West Indies get their morning gee-up from Curtly Ambrose, the two batsmen take to the field. The sun is shining, weather is sweet. Action imminent.

2.39pm BST

We’re due another early start today, so action should be just five little minutes away.

2.23pm BST

It was chanceless, precise and assembled with such timing on a surface that had flummoxed pretty much everyone who had batted on it before him that he might have been using an atomic clock where others were still on the sundial.

The Guardian’s own Mike Selvey there, on Joe Root’s century. And what a fine thing it indeed was, a ruby in the dust, a Monet in the charity shop, a Mozart in the primary-school-remedial-recorder-lessons-for-the-musically-illiterate.

2.15pm BST

Simon will be here shortly. In the meantime, here’s what Thursday’s centurion Joe Root had to say about England’s prospects:

Joe Root has every hope that England can kick on and win the second Test against West Indies, after his first overseas century headlined a positive day for the visitors.

Root’s unbeaten 118 came with England posting a 74-run lead at the end of the third day while the score of 373 for six was also down to some impressive batting from England’s top order.