Mention of left-handers has got me thinking... what issues do you left-handers face which do your head in? I imagine there's a long list. Let's be having those too...

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

"After losing two early wickets, England dug in so much that they almost dug a grave yesterday. Whereas Jonassen played freely without fear, the England players will feel they weren't able to express themselves and got into a rut."  

Did you know it's International Left-Handers Day today? You do now...

So, in honour of 10% of the world's population, of which I am not, who is your favourite left-handed cricketer?

Mine? Easy... Brian Lara with the bat, Wasim Akram with the ball.

Let's get cracking on that now - use#bbccricket,, externalsend a text to 81111 or email tms@bbc.co.uk. The BBC Sport Facebook page is also open for business.

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England captain Charlotte Edwards and her team seem happy ahead of a tough day's play in the warm-up. 

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There's been a lot of love for Meg Lanning's captaincy. BBC Sport's Kalika Mehta was at the ground yesterday, and she wrote: "Lanning may have been playing her first Test as captain but she proved why, at 21, she became the youngest player - man or woman - to lead Australia.

"Despite the rain lessening the movement off the pitch, her rotation of the visitors' front-line bowlers and clever field placings kept England constantly on the back foot."

You can read more of that here.

Mel Jones
Former Australia batter on BBC Test Match Special

"The pitch is going to turn more, so that's going to be exciting heading into days three and four."

England will hope to exert the same sort of control with which they were throttled by Australia. 

In all England played an astonishing 436 dot balls of the 513 deliveries the team faced, with Anya Shrubsole recording a 46-ball duck.  

If the rain doesn't happen, England have a lot of work to do to claw their way back into the game. They will be looking to Katherine Brunt and Anya Shrubsole to take early wickets with the new ball.

First thing's first... the weather. I'm afraid it looks pretty bleak for today.

BBC Weather's Helen Willetts says: "The game may start dry but the forecast is looking stormy with interruptions from showers and, more likely, thundery rain and torrential torrents. There is a high risk of lightning and thunder with temperatures around 22C.

"Looking at the charts you would say a washout may happen but the storms are a bit hit and miss at the moment."

Morning all... 

It was a terrible day for England on Wednesday. They were bowled out for just 168, meaning they conceded a first innings lead of 106 to Australia.

It was slow going too - a run-rate of 1.98 did nothing to inspire confidence in the team's chances of pressing for a victory in the final two days of this match. If Australia complete the win, they will be one T20 victory away from lifting the urn.

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It's now or never for England Women. The Ashes are slipping from their grasp and they're holding out for a hero to rescue their summer.