Tea West Indies 127 for 4 (Bonner 3*) trail England 311 (Bairstow 140, Seales 4-79) by 184 runs

England's bowlers finally made inroads after West Indies threatened to run away with their first-innings pursuit, sending the hosts to tea four wickets down.

West Indies had been cruising in response to England's 311, thanks to the bright start made by openers Kraigg Brathwaite and John Campbell as England failed to penetrate with the new ball.

Chris Woakes conceded 23 off his first three overs and, after seven, he had gone for 41 so it was welcome relief for him when he snared the wicket of Jermaine Blackwood moments before a second squally rain shower for the day swept across the ground and brought about the break.

Spinner Jack Leach had bowled five comparatively tight overs until Campbell clubbed him for four over extra cover and Brathwaite thundered a six down the ground in Leach's sixth as West Indies' opening swelled to 83. But it was Craig Overton who made the initial breakthrough with a short ball down the leg side that tempted Campbell into a pull and brushed the glove on the way through to keeper Ben Foakes to punctuate West Indies' brilliant start.

As Shamarh Brooks took West Indies into the nineties with consecutive boundaries off Overton, Ben Stokes entered the attack in the 23rd over to bowl for the first time since suffering a side strain during the fourth Ashes Test in Sydney.

A single off Stokes' first ball brought up Brathwaite's fastest Test fifty - off just 62 balls - but Mark Wood ended Brathwaite's knock on 55, the West Indies captain chasing a wide delivery that went directly to Overton at gully. Then Stokes removed Brooks, edging to Joe Root for a simple catch at slip, and suddenly West Indies were looking nervous on 111 for 3.

Foakes put down a difficult chance diving low to his left off Blackwood, who was yet to score when he got an inside edge to a Wood delivery which found the keeper's glove but failed to stay there as he went to ground.

Blackwood, eventually caught in the gully by Overton , was given not out by umpire Joel Wilson amid hearty appeals from the England side, who swiftly reviewed. UltraEdge confirmed Blackwood had indeed laid bat on ball before it struck his thigh pad and looped to gully.

Earlier, Jonny Bairstow had expanded on his first-day century to take England past the 300-mark that had eluded them since August 2021, but West Indies set about unravelling his good work and at lunch were 44 without loss, Brathwaite going along at a run-a-ball as England's new-look attack struggled for direction.

England resumed at 268 for 6 with Bairstow on 109 but, with the ball only six overs old, West Indies had designs on wrapping up the innings quickly. They did so before lunch, but not before Bairstow had reached 140 and taken the England total into elusive territory.

Jayden Seales came on in the fifth over and struck with his fourth delivery, an excellent short ball that touched Woakes' glove and sailed through to keeper Joshua Da Silva, ending his seventh-wicket stand with Bairstow at 71.

Seales then made it two wickets in three balls when Overton stabbed a length ball towards short leg, where the crouching Nkrumah Bonner took a roundabout catch via his midriff, thighs and eventually hands.

Bairstow continued to accumulate, driving Jason Holder with aplomb through cover moments before feeding him a return catch that bobbled out of Holder's hands. Bairstow, on 126 at the time, could do little wrong, scampering through for a quick single off the last ball of the over and comfortably beating a direct hit to make his ground, then threading Seales for four through third to carry England past 300.

He was eventually last man out, top-edging Alzarri Joseph high over backward point, where Holder scrambled around and pouched an excellent catch.

Seales finished with 4 for 79 to be the pick of the West Indies bowlers, while Holder remained economical with 2 for 24 from 21 overs, which included 11 maidens. Joseph and Kemar Roach also took two wickets each.