West Indies 749-9dec v England 600-6dec & 6-0
England face the challenge of batting through the final day to save the fourth Test against West Indies.
Skipper Andrew Strauss and Alastair Cook will resume on 6-0, some 143 runs behind after the hosts declared their first innings on 749-9 on Sunday.
The hosts will be pushing for a win to secure the series with one match to go.
However, taking 10 wickets on a flat Kensington Oval wicket will be a tough task so a draw looks the likely result unless England suffer a big collapse.
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By Tom Fordyce
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606: DEBATE
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"If we lose this one, I'm applying for Australian citizenship."
Simon, Luxembourg via the TMS inbox
1341: Tremendous levels of optimism filtering through from you lot via email and the like - admirable that is. I would suggest rarely has a day's cricket been more set up for an England collapse in Test history, though. I mean, come on, it's only slightly less inevitable than Steve Harmison's recall and subsequent failure with the ball in the final Test isn't it?
"Right then, Straussy and Cook to put the hammer down this morning, a quick slog to 300 by lunch and an attacking declaration. Jimmy to rip through them in the last two sessions... who's with me?"
Will Faulkner via the TMS inbox
"The gameplan right now should be to bat for a draw, blood the new guys in the final test and hope for a win to square the series. Clearly we need five bowlers and one of them won't be an unfit Sidebottom."
AndieRae on 606
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1335: Afternoon all, and if some of us are a little weary after other sporting endeavours in the past few days, let us concentrate minds on the Battle of Bridgetown. I say battle - on the four days so far, batsmen have gorged themselves like Henry VIII at his 18th birthday celebratory banquet - but today could be a nasty little tester for England. On one hand, the pitch is flatter than a steamrollered pancake; on the other, England's deficit is still 143. And the memories of that 51 all out are still horribly fresh...
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