Dropped catchpublished at 29 overs

29 overs

Ire 143-4

A leading edge from Porterfield and it loops up to short cover where Root, lunging at full stretch, cannot cling on to it. No luck for Rashid yet following his five wickets at Bristol.

Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

Some people might not have heard Sam Billings speak since he's fairly new to the England team. I can confirm he sounds exactly like Prince Harry. He looks a bit like him too - there's a similar tinge to his hair.

The pitch completely bathed in spring sunshine as Root keeps the boundaries at bay, just a sprinkling of singles conceded.

Rashid has only bowled four overs but already he has gone for three boundaries, Porterfield stroking the latest of them through the cover region.

Francis Edwards‏: Bairstow gives what Buttler doesn't - consistency. I know he's occasionally great, but no surprise he got dropped by Mumbai. 

Root is running back to his mark between deliveries, not that it's far. He must have plans for this evening. The Ireland scoring worm graphic is meandering rather than rising rapidly as the high scoring innings do.

Let's rewind to when Liam Plunkett took his first - and so far only - wicket of the day, as Andy Balbirnie is trapped lbw.

The spinners are rattling through the overs but there's a rotter from Rashid - a half-tracker that Wilson latches on to and pulls for four. The halfway stage of the innings and the required rate is already above eight.

Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

The only time you see Joe Root happy is when he gets a wicket. He gave it the Brett Lee chainsaw celebration there.

Gary Wilson, who made only three in that 2011 match I will keep referring to, is the new batsman. In fact, the highest score after big Kevin's 113 was 47.

No magic yet from Rashid, thick of beard himself of course, four successive singles conceded and the brow is slightly furrowed.

Will Porterfield's ticking along at a reasonable rate, helped by shots like this.

Ire 109-3published at 22 overs

22 overs

220 more runs to win

What a shot from Niall O'Brien, dancing down the pitch to Root and flipping it down the ground into the white bench seats in the pavilion, startling the somnolent members enjoying the afternoon sunshine. 

Ollie Bartlett: England want to get Bairstow in their XI. They are looking at Root to bowl Ali's overs, which would create a batting berth for him.

Adil Rashid, who did the bulk of the damage to the Irish batting the other day in Bristol with 5-27, comes into the attack from the Nursery End. His opening ball is driven calmly by Porterfield to the boundary, only the third since Stirling's dismissal.

Joe Root sends down the widest wide of the day, barely pitching on the cut strip, but that target looks a little distant for the Ireland batsmen.

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

It looked high and perhaps going down leg, but Balbirnie fell over at the crease and the manner of his posture made it look worse than it was.

The gritty left-hander Niall O'Brien is the new batsman and he gets going immediately with a drive into the covers, which Alex Hales hauls in from the boundary to restrict the batsmen to a single.