Let's do this, then. 30 minutes until lunch. Play.

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Izzy Westbury
Middlesex captain on BBC Test Match Special

"It will be a very interesting session. If England bowl Australia out within 10 minutes or so, they will have to face 10 minutes themselves."

Charles Dagnall
BBC Test Match Special

"Megan Schutt tends to shape the ball away, Ellyse Perry will take the ball away. Holly Ferling is much more of a hit-the-deck bowler."

Ebony Rainford-Brent
Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match Special

"I think Sarah Coyte will be very dangerous. She's very dangerous, just nagging with that full length, and I think she'll get a bit of nibble off the wicket."

The TMS team are debating which of the Australian bowlers will trouble England when the hosts bat...

I might have to set the video for this...

So, let's remind ourselves about the state of play.

First of all... Australia batted for an entire day on Tuesday. We've not said that much this summer.

They closed on 268-8 with Jess Jonassen 95 not out. England's Anya Shrubsole is one wicket away from her maiden Test five-wicket haul.

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And there is the confirmation. We will have play at 12:30 BST.

I still want your office cricket pictures though...

Ebony Rainford-Brent
Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match Special

"This is what Test cricket is all about. It's being able to switch on and switch off and keep focused. It's a big day for Lauren Winfield - we haven't seen her open the batting often for England."

Charles Dagnall
BBC Test Match Special

"We can sense they will start at 12:30 because children are being lined up beside the changing rooms ready to wave the flags as the players enter the pitch."

My colleague, James Gheerbrant, is a fan of office cricket. He tells me that he used to play a game at school on carpet tiles. As the lunch break progressed, they'd remove a carpet tile to simulate a wearing pitch. Superb.

Heather Knight is writing a column for BBC Sport this summer, and she recently gave us a little insight into what happens when the rain begins to fall.

Knight said: "Charlotte Edwards can be seen sighing after reaching in her pocket for her phone several times an hour, only to realise it's not actually there because of the International Cricket Council's anti-corruption measures, external which mean that all phones have to be removed from the dressing room.

"Katherine Brunt is usually making a large amount of noise somewhere, whether it is in celebration of a game she's found - such as trying to putt a golf ball into an empty coffee cup, external - or if she's arguing that she's losing at cards because everyone else is cheating. (Brunty's a terrible loser!).

"The Hoof (Anya Shrubsole) will often be frowning at Katherine making so much noise as it distracts her from her Sudoku. I'm usually found filtering between reading the paper, trying and failing to make people laugh, playing cards or doing some running bat repairs."

This. Is. Superb.

Some news for Australia fans... Delissa Kimmince has been ruled out of the Southern Stars’ T20 squad for the Women’s Ashes due to a lower back injury. Queensland all-rounder Grace Harris will replace Kimmince in the squad for the T20 component of the series.

On the subject of the umpires - both Neil Mallender and Alex Wharf would love to bowl under these leaden skies. Between them they took more than 1,000 first-class wickets. Both men played for England too, although only a handful of times each.

The umpires have decided to have another look at conditions at 12:15 BST, with the view of play getting under way at 12:30. Lunch will still be at 13:00.

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England captain Charlotte Edwards, speaking to TMS, adds: "There's no terrors in the pitch and we had to work hard for our wickets. If we play straight, we should bat well."