Right then, news from the ground. We've got some updated session times - all working on the assumption there's no further rain.

• Afternoon session: 13:30 (00:30 GMT) - 16:10
• Tea: 16:10 (03:10) - 16:30
• Evening session: 16:30 (03:30) - 19:00 (06:00)

Play could go on to 19:30 (06:30) for slow over rate.

A crumb of validation from the BBC Cricket live text over your wife's birthday.

You've made the right choice, Nick.

Let's turn our attention to Bloemfontein, where England's women enjoyed a successful start to the one-off Test against South Africa.

Maia Bouchier (126) and Nat Sciver-Brunt (128) both scored centuries as the tourists declared on 395-9.

The home side were 17-0 at close on day one, with play set to resume tomorrow at 08:00 GMT - join us for live coverage of that one.

In the mean time, take a read of Ffion Wynne's analysis of the contrasting form of Bouchier and captain Heather Knight.

Stockport's Woodbank definitely the most challenging parkrun in Greater Manchester - bar the brutal Watergrove near Rochdale.

Incidentally, the Kent squad took part in a parkrun a couple of weeks ago as part of their winter training.

Jack Leaning took first place,, external while occasional England international Sam Billings was 14th.

Has anyone encountered a cricketer at parkrun? Jos Buttler has done a couple...

You're locked in now, Nick.

Whether it's cricket or a series of anecdotes from holidays from my early twenties, you're here for the duration.

Stephan Shemilt
BBC Sport chief cricket reporter in Hamilton

Lunch will be taken at 12:30 local time (23:30 GMT), with play to begin at 13:30 if there's no more rain.

We did eventually get a boat out the night before our flight, in what felt very much like a last chopper out of Saigon scenario.

They stuck us in another hotel that had the distinction of having the hot tub from the original version of Love Island.

How many of you can say you've hot tubbed in the same location as Jayne Middlemiss and Strictly's Brendan Cole?

Not many, I bet.

That veggie burger in Auckland airport was the only start of our troubles.

We found ourselves marooned on an island by a storm that was significant enough to have its own Wikipedia page, staying at a bunkhouse where the only sources of entertainment were their two DVDs - a Westlife concert recording and HBO's House of Saddam.

I can't say either are improved by repeat viewing.

Stephan Shemilt
BBC Sport chief cricket reporter in Hamilton

Covers are off again. I fear this may be the pattern for some time.

The only time I've been to New Zealand was when I transited through Auckland airport on the way to Fiji.

While we waited for our plane, my friend ordered a veggie burger from a terminal restaurant and was handed a piece of lettuce in a bun.

We're not all that far away from day three of Australia v India in Brisbane - they get under way at midnight GMT.

After a rain-affected day one, the hosts took control of the Test on day two as Steven Smith and Travis Head scored centuries to take their side to 405-7 at the close.

Five of those seven wickets were taken by the world's number one ranked bowler - Jasprit Bumrah.

Sir Alastair Cook
Ex-England captain on TNT Sports

There is no way that pitch is a 140 all out pitch. England missed an opportunity and it just shows how fine the margins are in international cricket.

If you just off it - whether that is mentally, end-of-seasonitis, Christmasitis, getting on the plane to come home after being away from home for a long time - you can lose the game in a session.