6.47pm: Right, that's a wrap from us for tonight. Stay close to the site for Vish Ehantharajah and Alan Gardner's analysis from Trent Bridge, and keep an eye on the T20 Blast scores with the quarter-final line-up due to be finalised tomorrow night. Until then, thanks for your company through the day.
Ollie Pope is speaking to Sky Sports: "A really good day, but we feel like we left a couple out there which is a good sign... it's such a quick-scoring ground, the outfield is lightning here. I've put in a fair bit of hard work before this series and know how they try and attack us as a seam attack. They dropped a couple of catches which was handy... trying to put them back under pressure but also trust my defence. It's just the nature of the way we play as a team... I didn't run down the wicket once today. You know if you can beat the infield, it's four. Things weren't clicking for me in the county stuff before this. It was about trying to trust my defence as best I could. A lot of it was just the temperament... just having that clarity, how I want to start my innings. [Technical changes?] Sometimes my front leg was going across, closing myself off a little bit. [Hitting short cover?] They've got guys bowling up at 90mph. Sometimes for me it's about forgetting about the field. [Overthinking it] is when I get myself into trouble. [No-look reverse-sweep?] I don't know why I put my head down... [Pitch?] Be interesting how it plays, whether it quickens up a little bit. The big thing for me is that nicks still carried to the slips."
6.35pm: A bizarre day of Test cricket... England raced to the fastest team fifty in Test history inside 26 balls and continued to chug along at nearly five an over for the rest of the day, despite regularly throwing away wickets. There were some shockers along the way but they've still posted a very healthy total... West Indies will rue their missed chances, not least their drops off Ollie Pope, whose sixth Test hundred will take the headlines.
Sampath Bandarapulli from ESPNcricinfo's stats team: "England's 416 all out is their highest opening-day total at home since World War II. It is also their second-highest opening-day score since WW2, behind the 506/4 vs Pakistan in Rawalpindi in 2022."
Jabba: "I remember the awe when England scored 407 all out on day 1 of the Edgbaston 2005 Ashes test. We can't treat this as mundane. Different attack I know (though no McGrath!)" -- Very, very different!
Shoaib Bashir c Holder b AS Joseph 5 (6m 4b 1x4 0x6) SR: 125.00
Raff: "Phenomenal over rate late in the day. THAT's entertainment for us Cricinfo followers."
BigSearle: "So what you're all saying is that we played badly and still got to 400 effortlessly?"
This will be the final over of the day.
END OF OVER:88 | 6 Runs 1 Wkt | ENG: 410/9
- Mark Wood12 (27b)
- Shoaib Bashir1 (2b)
- Jayden Seales15-1-90-2
- Alzarri Joseph15-1-92-2
Surya: "Probably one of the worst batting performances for a 400" -- I know exactly what you mean. England have been anything but ruthless... yet have 400 in a day after being inserted
Bashir walks out at No. 11.
CR Woakes c Holder b Seales 37 (59m 48b 3x4 0x6) SR: 77.08
Jayden Seales will share the second new ball.
dM: "Low intensity? 400 plus after being put in on the first day has to fall into the realm of unusual." -- Absolutely, but two spinners -- including one part-timer -- being knocked around was decidedly low-key!
END OF OVER:87 | 7 Runs | ENG: 404/8
- Mark Wood11 (25b)
- Chris Woakes33 (46b)
- Alzarri Joseph15-1-92-2
- Kavem Hodge10-0-44-2
SK: "Where is the declaration, Ben? Boooo!"