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Jermaine Blackwood (AFP)
Jermaine Blackwood (AFP)

North Sound - Jermaine Blackwood has continued to ride his luck in defying England as the West Indies reached 234 for six in reply to the tourists' first innings total of 399 at lunch on the third day of the first Test on Wednesday

The teams have stopped for lunch at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua.

Reprieved when he offered a slip catch off a no-ball delivered by Ben Stokes on the second evening, Blackwood enjoyed another moment of good fortune half-an-hour into the day when on 43 as James Tredwell failed on hold to a difficult chance diving to his left at gully. Stokes was the suffering bowler yet again.

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