Summary

  • Fourth ODI, Lord's - Australia lead five-match series 2-1

  • Australia win delayed toss and bowl first

  • Match was due to start at 14:00 BST before more rain

  • England unchanged; Head, Inglis and Zampa replace Short, Green and Hardie for Australia

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Live Reporting

by Mike Peter

  1. Sam Drury
    BBC Sport at Lord's

    Just like that, the covers are coming off.

    Maybe, just maybe, we will get to see some cricket in the not-too-distant future.

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    Jon, Croydon: Pavarotti could play the heavy roller.

    I'd have certainly enjoyed his rendition of Supersopperfragilisticexpialidocious.

  3. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    There's some sweeping up going on out there, which is a bit encouraging! It was quite a shower that and I'm afraid it would have damaged a lot of the good that was done over the hour-and-a-half before that.

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    Ben, Stockport: Re Paul 13:54 - I also looked up at the Manchester sky today with a wry smile given the weather in London; and whilst we’re at it, come Sunday when it will be raining in Bristol, Manchester will also be sunny. Just a shame it’s been so abysmal when England have been in town this summer…

  5. Sam Drury
    BBC Sport at Lord's

    Covers on, ground staff off - trudging rather than singing or dancing - and now we wait.

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    John H, Warminster: I like your idea of the cricket ground staff musical, Mike. Perhaps one of them could dress as Mary Poppins and ride the Super Sopper side saddle for added effect.

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    Paul, Lancashire: It is only a week ago that people were saying that the ECB should not schedule cricket matches at Old Trafford in September because of the weather. Well just to let all you Manchester haters know that today we have beautiful blue sky and a big fat sun, the game would have started at 12:30 had they been playing up here.

  8. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    What a shame! We were all set to go!

  9. Sam Drury
    BBC Sport at Lord's

    OK, now it's raining...

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    Mark, exasperated Hampshire fan: This treatment of John Turner is and absolute joke. If you are not going to play him, then he could have been back at Hampshire and played 3 championships games, 2 on fairly flat pitches and in 1, they even used a kookaburra! If you want to develop fast bowlers, then allow the to play.

  11. Sam Drury
    BBC Sport at Lord's

    It has suddenly become very gloomy at Lord's and although I don't think it's actually raining yet, the main hover cover is back on.

    Hopefully just a precaution.

  12. Sir Alastair Cook
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    Alex Carey's been outstanding with the bat for Australia in this series, so it's almost a no-brainer to pick him.

  13. Teams

    England: Phil Salt, Ben Duckett, Will Jacks, Harry Brook (c), Jamie Smith (wk), Liam Livingstone, Jacob Bethell, Brydon Carse, Jofra Archer, Matthew Potts, Adil Rashid

    Australia: Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh (c), Steven Smith, Josh Inglis (wk), Marnus Labuschagne, Alex Carey, Glenn Maxwell, Sean Abbott, Mitchell Starc, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood

    As Harry Brook said, England are unchanged with Jofra Archer playing consecutive games.

    Australia make three changes, with Head, Inglis and Zampa replacing Matthew Short, Cameron Green and Aaron Hardie.

  14. England captain Harry Brook: "We'd have had a bowl.

    "I think we did great in both innings [in Durham]. We recognised a couple of overs where we could apply a lot of pressure and we took that opportunity.

    "Same team. Jofra's an awesome performer, hopefully he can put in the same performance today."

  15. Australia skipper Mitchell Marsh: "A change of coin and a change of luck! I thought we were pretty good at Durham and only outplayed by a few pretty good partnerships at the back end. The series is still alive."

    On the return of Adam Zampa, Josh Inglis and Travis Head to the side: "We are all good - you welcome that experience. Alex Carey is still in as a batter. Alex has been fantastic for us and deserves his place in the team."

    On being back at Lord's, where Australia's players were embroiled in a feisty Ashes Test last summer, and walking through the Long Room: "I might join them for a cup of tea later!"

  16. Ebony Rainford-Brent
    Former England batter on BBC Sounds

    I feel with these overhead conditions, Australia will fancy getting that ball swinging early here.

  17. Australia win the toss and bowl

    Mitchell Marsh calls heads and wins the toss.

    Australia are going to have a bowl, with the match set to start at 14:00 BST.

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    Ben: I don’t know why people are complaining, any cricket is better than no cricket.

  19. The England players are enjoying some of sort keepy-uppy based warm-up. Jos Buttler, ruled out of this series through injury, is out there with them.

    There's an elaborate punishment system involving ear flicking going on.

  20. Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    The situation here at Lord's is that the roller is going up and down, rolling the pitch. Both sets of players are out there, loosening up. We are just waiting for the umpires to say that we can have the toss at 13:30 BST.