Rain break

First one-day international.

Preview

It is pouring down. "The worst rain I have ever seen," says a lady who has witnessed storms in half a dozen tropical locations.

To the close

Inspections, five and a quarter hours of what television calls "fill" - interviews with the umpires, criticism from Ian Botham, the most tabloid of all the ex-cricketers, sympathetic tut-tutting from David Gower, on-field questions from Nick Knight and the very-much-to-the-point from Nasser Hussain who says: "The spectators just want to get on with their lives." Am I pleased I stayed home.

Abandoned at 3.15 but the watchers get (most of) their money back. They deserve a bonus for patience.