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It's right-arm pace from both ends with Ellyse Perry beginning proceedings at the Southern End. Two slips and a gully in, with a right-to-left (or leg-to-off, should you prefer) breeze assisting her outswinger. Beaumont gets England up and running with a single.

David Wallace: Winfield and Beaumont need to keep us waiting a long time for Sarah Taylor - until lunch at least!

Schutt's second delivery to Winfield stays low and is taken by keeper Alyssa Healy on the second bounce. The Yorkshire opener confidently sees off a maiden over.

Megan Schutt to take the new ball from the Northern End. Tammy Beaumont and Lauren Winfield opening for England. Let's play!

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Jim Maxwell
BBC Test Match Special

They first tried to play a Test match here 60 years ago and it was washed out. But this is a great venue for the first pink ball day-night Test in the history of women's cricket.

Charles Dagnall
BBC Test Match Special

We're not behind the bowler's arm here - we're square on, and we're in our own little tower.

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"God Save The Queen" is first up, sung not only by a female singer in front of the microphone, but also sung lustily by the England support staff in rather close proximity to the TMS effects mic! "Advance Australia Fair" gets a big round of applause from the stands.

Here are the teams resplendent in their whites, all ready for the first women's Test since... the last England-Australia Test at Canterbury in 2015.

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The players are out, there are some preliminary speeches happening - we're almost ready for the anthems.

Charles Dagnall
BBC Test Match Special

The weather forecasts for the next four days are good.

The friendly confines of the North Sydney Oval will hold special memories for some of the England side - for it was here that they defeated New Zealand to lift the Women's World Cup in 2009.

Of the XI on duty that day, England have three players who are still in the squad - Sarah Taylor, Laura Marsh and Katherine Brunt. Jenny Gunn missed the final with injury, while a very young Anya Shrubsole, not long past her 17th birthday, was also in the squad.

Test Match Special also have two of that winning XI in the commentary box for this Test - victorious skipper Charlotte Edwards and seamer Isa Guha.

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A bit of housekeeping - the Aussies like to do things a bit differently with their day-night Tests, compared to that one against West Indies at Edgbaston a few months back. Basically, they swap the intervals over so there's a shorter break after the first session, and a longer one between the second and third sessions.

So, for this Test, it will be:

• First session - 0330-0530 GMT
• "Tea" - 0530-0550 GMT
• Second session - 0550-0750 GMT
• "Dinner" - 0750-0830 GMT (for those of you following at home in the UK, prime time to grab your breakfast)
• Final session - 0830-1030 GMT

As usual, there's an extra half-hour available if they've not bowled the requisite overs in time. However, in women's cricket they generally bowl their overs a heck of a lot quicker than the men, as there's more spin bowled, and far less time wasted in the field.

England opener Lauren Winfield on TMS: "Opening the batting is sometimes challenging - sometimes you have to ride the new ball, sometimes you get off to a flier. It's about understanding each other's needs out there. We've had different batters in form throughout the order, so we've got flexibility."

So, some tough selections for England - teenager Sophie Ecclestone is preferred to fellow slow left-armer Alex Hartley, while Fran Wilson and Georgia Elwiss both play in the middle order, so there's no room for the experience of Jenny Gunn.

In case you've not got a microscope to hand, here are the teams in slightly larger print for you (the England team sheet's numbers are clearly not in batting order, so their order is a bit of a guess):

Australia: Nicole Bolton, Beth Mooney, Alex Blackwell, Ellyse Perry, Elyse Villani, Rachael Haynes (capt), Alyssa Healy (wk), Tahlia McGrath, Jess Jonassen, Amanda-Jade Wellington, Megan Schutt.

England: Lauren Winfield, Tammy Beaumont, Sarah Taylor (wk), Heather Knight (capt), Natalie Sciver, Fran Wilson, Georgia Elwiss, Katherine Brunt, Laura Marsh, Anya Shrubsole, Sophie Ecclestone.