England and the West Indies drew the first Test on Monday with only 20 of the 98 scheduled overs bowled on the final day at Lord's due to bad light and rain.
Chris Gayle hit an unbeaten 47 and Daren Ganga 31 not out to take the West Indies to 89-0 at stumps, still 311 behind England after only 81 minutes were played.
Gayle hit seven fours from 64 balls, while Ganga had four boundaries in 69 deliveries.
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The second match in the four-Test series starts on Friday at Headingley in Leeds.
The West Indies resumed on 7-0, but rain stopped play only 34 minutes and eight overs later. An early lunch was taken with the West Indies on 42-0.
Gayle scooped the third ball of Steve Harmison's opening over just too high for Owais Shah at short midwicket in a lucky escape.
But Gayle recovered and hit Liam Plunkett for consecutive boundaries, heading to lunch on 24 with Ganga on 9.
First ball after lunch, Ganga hit Harmison for four through third man in a rare adventurous stroke, while Gayle kept attacking Plunkett with occasional success as if the Test could still be won.
As well as playing and missing at his legcutters, Gayle flayed Plunkett for a boundary over the slips and then flat-batted the ball over mid-off to leave the seam bowler with figures of 0-48 off 11 overs.
Monty Panesar, who took Test-best figures of 6-129 in the first innings, came on at the Nursery End seven overs after a 176-minute rain delay but couldn't break through.
On Sunday, Kevin Pietersen hit 109 — his seventh Test hundred — and Alastair Cook 65 to allow England to declare on 284-8 for a lead of 400 runs.
Panesar had earlier taken two wickets to become just the fifth England spinner to take five wickets at Lord's.
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England will have to wait on the fitness of several key players before they name their squad for the second Test against the West Indies.
The hosts are set to be without swing specialist Matthew Hoggard at Headingley, where the second match of a four-Test series starts on Friday, after the Yorkshire pace bowler sustained a groin injury during the drawn first Test at Lord's.
They are also waiting on all-rounder Andrew Flintoff, who didn't make the team at Lord's after suffering a recurrence of his longtstanding left ankle injury.
But first-choice captain Michael Vaughan is set to return at his Yorkshire home ground after being ruled out with a broken finger.
"Matthew is quite doubtful for Headingley but that's why we don't want to announce the squad yet," England coach Peter Moores told reporters after rain had the final say in what was his first Test in charge.
"We want to see how he is tomorrow [yesterday], check our injuries and then announce the squad," he said.
Both Flintoff and Hoggard were set to have fitness tests yesterday, as was Vaughan.
"Michael looks like he'll play," said former Sussex coach Moores. "He will have a severe fitness test tomorrow. Every time he's had a bat there's been a little bit of pain."
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