Jacob Bethell is thrown the ball by Harry Brook. Will Australia target the 20-year-old left-arm spinner?

You bet they will. Cameron Green waits for a flatter one and then pummels it from deep in the crease to the mid-wicket boundary.

Steve Smith cuts the final delivery of Bethell's over for two.

Brydon Carse, pistons bulging, bustles into the crease looking to extract something out of the pitch. Not a man, you sense, who holds back while bowling.

A boundary-less over for the Aussies as Steve Smith, 30* off 50 balls, and Cameron Green, 26* off 32 balls, look to strengthen the foundation of the tourists' innings.

Ryan Campbell
Former Australia wicketkeeper on BBC Test Match Special

Right now, it's an interesting part of the game. I reckon Australia are feeling quite confident! They have established a partnership between Steven Smith and Cameron Green and we know how big Green can go. I am thinking Australia are looking at 330 or 340 here!

Steve Smith goes down and slog sweeps the first ball of Adil Rashid's next over for four. It's aerial but there's no man there so it's a low-risk shot from Smith.

Australia content to work the ball into the gaps for the much of the over after Harry Brooks moves square leg back.

Cameron Green bookends the over with a boundary as he backs away and then thumps a drive into the ground through the covers for four.

Matthew Potts, who must be very familiar with Lumley Castle as a Durham player, continues.

It's another testing over as he beats the outside edge a couple of times. Australia content to knock the ball into the gaps, and farm the strike, in these middle overs.

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Good shout, Ali.

I've been fortunate enough to play at the ramparts of Bamburgh castle. Fantastic ground, and usually a good crowd watching on a Sunday.

Adil Rashid rattles through an over. Steve Smith and Cameron Green milk four singles off it.

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Jason

A bit of communication mix-up between Steve Smith and Cameron Green as the pair look to take a second off a ball worked down to fine leg by the former off Matthew Potts. Both men have to turn on their heels to make their ground.

Smith, incidentally, is 17 off 37 balls.

Ben Jones
CricViz analyst

Steve Smith only scored 11 runs from his first 30 balls. He's faced 30+ deliveries 76 times in ODI cricket - only twice has he had fewer runs at that stage of his innings.

Adil Rashid into the attack for England after drinks as we see some spin for the first time today. If the seamers have found movement, so will the spinners, goes the old cricket adage.

Rashid's first delivery is dragged down and Cameron Green us his reach and muscles it to the fence for four.

Steve Smith tentatively edges one on to his pads a couple of balls later as Rashid finishes the over well.

As my esteemed colleague Matthew Henry pointed out at 13:27, the Riverside at Chester-let-Street is overlooked by a castle.

There are, of course, plenty of non-international cricket grounds in the UK - and beyond - which have castles as part of their backdrop.

Would welcome any more suggestions, and pictures.

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Steve Smith survives a couple of testing deliveries from Jofra Archer to finish the over before the players need drinks.

Sam

Mark Wood
England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

When I bowl against Steven Smith, I do not notice his movement as much. Now that I am sat up here, I think, wow, he does a lot more than I actually remember!

Steve Smith rather flamboyantly steps across his stumps and attempts to ramp Jofra Archer, only to lose his balance and tumble backwards on to the turf. Smith chuckles to himself.

A few balls later and Smith flicks Archer off his pads for four. England have a leg gully in place, but it goes wide of him.

Mark Wood
England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

I wasn't actually expecting that to be a yorker from Brydon Carse! It's probably as much a surprise to Cameron Green as it was to us.

A bit of blot on Harry Brook's copybook. England think Brydon Carse's over is done but his final ball is signalled as no-ball.

It turns out England have three fielders behind square on the leg side. Oops.

Carse bowls Cameron Green on the free hit via drag on. It is, of course, not out.

A change of bat for Steve Smith as Harry Brook summons Jofra Archer back into the attack.

Archer is full and straight to Cameron Green - possibly a tad overpitched - and the Aussie all-rounder drives it down the ground. Harry Brook gives chase and prevents the boundary.

The England quick finishes with a bouncer, which Green bobs out of the way of.

Alex Hartley
Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

Jacob Bethell is at the backward point and if there's anyone who's going to take a blinder in this team, it's him. But it's fallen just short there!

You've set me off here, Matthew.

Mexico's cricketers used to play at the foot of Chapultepec Castle in Mexico City. It even prompted Emperor Maximilian, who lived there before the Mexican revolution, to join in the odd game.

Anyway, a fine bit of fielding by Jacob Bethell denies Cameron Green a four off the bowling of Brydon Carse.

Carse's penultimate delivery beats a tentative defensive prod by Steve Smith, and draws a nod of approval as well.