Phil Tufnell
Former England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

The trouble with Dan Lawrence is his technique. It can get into the umpire's mind if it hits the player it's going to be pretty adjacent. You don't want to give any tells to the umpire of what you're trying to do sometimes.

And immediately, Lawrence is relieved of all pressure with the easiest of singles out to deep cover.

Come on! That's just too easy.

Yep, going over the top.

A good ball, nipping back in to Lawrence, but he survives.

There's no bat, but it's hit him above the knee roll...

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An early breakthrough?

Dan Lawrence plays all around a straight one from Aistha Fernando, is given on field, but this looks high. It's definitely worth a review.

Can anyone help Kate out with an answer here?

A quick internet search of "Clive Lloyd and pigeon", unsurprisingly, doesn't offer very much.

Daniel Norcross
BBC Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

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Sri Lanka will look to target the stumps with Lawrence, he likes to turn the face of the bat and that opens up lbw.

Dan Lawrence is struck on the pad, drawing a stifled appeal, with the ball quite obviously missing leg stump.

Strange start from Sri Lanka. They've just gifted some easy runs with those fielders out on the boundary, there's very little pressure on either batter in what should be bowler-friendly conditions.

Asitha Fernando starts for Sri Lanka, and Ben Duckett drives out to deep cover for two.

They have two sweepers out on the boundary already...

Finally!

Sri Lanka make their way out to the middle, followed by Duckett and Lawrence.

The visitors could only bowl four overs of spin yesterday because of the light but with the murky grey clouds today, they'll be looking forward to giving their seamers a go at last.

I feel for Sri Lanka here, by the way.

It's dry, but it definitely does not look even remotely close to cricket weather. It's cold, it's windy, it's grey.

Long-sleeved jumpers are a must.

I didn't add that picture of the batters in stilts, by the way.

I hate them. They absolutely terrify me.

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Cheers, Mike.

Quite an effort to keep a cricket live text going for more than two hours without any cricket. He's earned his lunch break.

Anyway, 10 minutes to go! Ben Duckett and Dan Lawrence will resume with England 214 runs behind.

Right then, almost time for the players to come out, and that means it's time for the designated rain bloke to get off the live.

I'm off to submerge myself in the Manchester Ship Canal, because I am one with the water.

Here's Ffion Wynne to take you through some actual cricket.

Question: I was umpiring an under-13s club game and at the start of the game, the opposition umpire told me that he'd only just started umpiring this year because his son was in the team and he had very little previous cricketing experience before now. My team were chasing 120 off 20 overs and had reached 85-8 with eight overs left, we were in for a close game. I was at the bowler's end when my team's best player, who was going nicely, attempted a flamboyant cover drive and missed it by about half a foot. The bottom of his bat did hit the ground though, and it went through to the keeper. Naturally, because there was a noise and at their age, some of the players started to appeal. I didn't comment on the ridiculousness of their appeal, I just didn't say anything. This is where the difficulty began. I became aware of some celebratory noises and my batter asking, "Am I really out?" It took me a few seconds to realise that the square leg umpire had given him out and told him, "We all heard you hit it, so don't argue". My batter walked off, shaking his head in disbelief. What should've happened?

Answer: The square leg umpire has no authority to give him out, only stumped or run out. The batter shouldn't have been out, that's all there is to it.

Question: Earlier this season, we had a disagreement. In a 45-over game, there's a nine-over limit per bowler but unfortunately, we didn't have a league umpire. One of our bowlers took a wicket from the third ball of the over, the batter was caught at cover and walked off. As the new batter entered the field, the scorers pointed out that the bowler was now in his 10th over. What should have happened?

Answer: Well, there's nothing you can do. That actually happened to me in Cardiff once, a Glamorgan game. It was a limited-overs game and someone bowled an extra over. I completely forgot, I must've been enjoying the game too much.

But as far as the game was concerned, nothing happened. It was just recorded as an over.

Question: It's the final over before an interval, and it's bowled and the umpire calls "Over", so play stops. But during the interval the umpire is informed that he or she miscounted, and there were only five valid balls bowled. What happens at the beginning of the next session?

Answer: Nothing. The scorer will record it in their record books as a complete over, as six balls, even though only five were bowled. That's it.

Right then, here's the playing conditions for today.

The afternoon session will run from 13:15-16:00 BST, tea will be the usual 20 minutes, then the afternoon session will be played from 16:20-19:00, but with an extra half hour permitted to complete a scheduled 82 overs for the day.

So theoretically we'll only lose eight overs from the typical 90 - I'd consider that somewhat optimistic, but you never know...

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Question: If a batter hits a shot that is going for six, but it hits a passing pigeon and then drops to the fielder at cow corner, is it considered out or is it a dead ball?

Answer: It's out. There was a Test match in Australia many years ago where Clive Lloyd hit a pigeon and it was still given out. But it's just an act of God, really. It could be a passing anything, you can't control that.

Trees are an exception. They are in the ground, the pigeon is in the air. There are rules in place for trees, which are pre-arranged and both sides are aware.