By Tom Fordyce
19th over: WI 74-2
Oram, black sweatband on his right wrist, beats Marlon outside off with a useful swinger. Marlon bides his time and then connects with a boomer of a cover drive for four.
18th over: WI 68-2
Scotty Styris on for a wobble, and it's an accurate one at that - just a brace of singles. Marlon Samuels off the mark.
From Sam in Kent, TMS inbox: "Doesn't Paul Nixon look like a catfish?"
17th over: WICKET - Sarwan c McCullum b Oram 19, WI 66-2
Wicket falls
What a snag from Brendon behind the timbers - Sarwan gets an inside snick and McCullum almost turns himself inside out to go back the way he's come and pouch it one-handed.
16th over: WI 66-1
Franklin's getting a purple pasting - Gayle nearly decapitates him with a howitzer return drive for four before Sarwan joins in the fun with a sweet straight drive for four more.
From Rosco in Newport, TMS inbox: "Seen the film Gremlins? You should never feed Adam Gilchrist after midnight, or expose him to sunlight."
15th over: WI 53-1
Better from Oram - just one off the over to Sarwan, who quite rightly seems to be trying to get Gayle on strike.
14th over: WI 52-1
Gayle must have been raging - he launches into Franklin and belts him for three lusty fours - one over the top and straight, one like a rocket past Styris at cover and the third a whistler behind point. Three slips become none rather quickly.
13th over: WI 40-1
Another change from Stephen Fleming - that's Flimming to Kiwi readers out there - and it doesn't work. Jacob Oram is put away for a lovely four through extra cover by Sarwan before he clips another two.
NB For those of you who pointed out the missing 7th over, I've done a little conjuring trick and it's back in. Incredible over, too - Elvis came on for a spell of leg-breaks and bowled Lord Lucan with the ball of the century. Sorry you missed it.
12th over: WI 32-1
James Franklin into the attack, and Gayle's eyes light up - he'd been waiting for a joust at Bond, but Franko will do. Wallop - one crashing back-foot drive is stopped by cover. Wallop Mk II - the next sizzles through point for four.
From Scotty in Southampton, TMS inbox: "On the animal subject, I think Scott Styris looks like the Penguin from Batman. It's the nose."
11th over: WI 28-1
Just a wide off Mase, which leaves him on 0-14 from his six overs so far.
10th over: WI 27-1
Gayle didn't enjoy that - Bond rattles one into his thigh, and Kool Kat is left hopping. Reckon there'll be some revenge brewing for that one.
9th over: WI 24-1
Ramnaresh Sarwan in to join Gayle, who welcomes his new partner with two long-armed pulls through midwicket for four. Lucky on the first one though - Peter Fulton got a palm on it, but tipped it round the post instead of clinging on.
8th over: WICKET - Chanderpaul c Styris b Bond 4, WI 14-1
Wicket falls
That's been coming - with three slips in, Bond dips one away from Shiv at pace, and it's all he can do to edge it to Scotty S at second slip.
From Andy in Tooting, TMS inbox: "The idea that Gayle blinks like a sleepy leopard brought forth in my office which cricketers looked like animals. We came up with Gilchrist looking like a bat - it's the ears."
7th over: WI 11-0
Maiden from Mase again - right-arm over, ball pitching on middle, the angle taking it away from the lefties with a little extra bounce .
6th over: WI 11-0
Good little battle between Gayle and Bond - two more big swingers, and that's enough for Gayle to lope down the track and casually clout the next one over mid-off for the first four of the day. Didn't get hold of it, but the long arms and mighty blade did enough.
5th over: WI 7-0
Maiden from the Mase. Crowd still limited at the Sir Viv Stadium, although there are some England fans here. Three of them are passing round a bottle on sun-cream, with one paying particular attention to greasing up his toes.
4th over: WI 7-0
You wouldn't fancy facing Bondo at the moment - he's bowling just short of a length on middle and making it sizzle past the top of off. Chander scampers a quick single, understandably keen to get the hell out of there.
3rd over: WI 6-0
Tight from Mason. If you haven't seen him in action before, he's tall and semi-skinny - too long to be able to sleep comfortably in an ordinary-length bed, but narrow enough to have no issues with the width of a single berth.
2nd over: WI 5-0
Lord alive - Shane Bond's swinging it like Tom Jones here - massive movement in the air away from the left-handed Gayle. Gayle being Gayle, he shows zero fear, and blinks slowly like a sleepy leopard.
1st over: WI 2-0
Michael Mason opens up for the Kiwis, with Chris Gayle on strike. Bit of movement off the pitch and Gayle gets going with an edge along the ground to second slip's left. Chanderpaul then flicks behind square for another single.
1415 GMT:
Pitch chat: it's looking hard and bouncy. In other words, potentially a useful batting track with not so much early moisture as we've seen on the other islands. Some bafflement in the stands that pacey Jerome Taylor has been dropped by the Windies in favour of batsman Lendl Simmons - we'll see...
1405 GMT:
News from the middle in Antigua - New Zealand have won the toss, and Stephen Fleming will take a bowl.
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