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No play on day 3

England are being made to wait for their chance to finish off the West Indies, day three was a washout.

Rain began to fall around an hour before play was meant to start, but it did stop, an early lunch was taken, and play was scheduled to begian at 1:30pm. However, the showers returned, and continued throughout the afternoon until play was eventually abandoned at 5pm.

Play is expected tomorrow, though it will probably not be without interupptions, some more rain is forecast. The West Indies are currently struggling at 22-2 following on, and are without Ramnaresh Sarwan after he sustained an injury in the field.

England 570-7 declared
Kevin Pietersen 226, Michael Vaughan 103, Matt Prior 75
Cory Collymore 2-110, Daren Powell 2-153

West Indies 149
Devon Smith 26, Dwayne Bravo 23, Jermaine Lawson 23*
Ryan Sidebottom 4-42, Liam Plunkett 3-35

West Indies 22-2
Darren Ganga 11, Chris Gayle 9*
Ryan Sidebottom 2-12

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