Summary

  • Rain ends play - Burns 20*, Denly 14*

  • Gabriel removes Sibley in second over

  • Rain & bad light - 17.4 overs bowled

  • First international cricket since March

  • Captain Stokes won toss

  • England leave out Broad & Woakes

  • First Test, Southampton, day one

Live Reporting

Matthew Henry and Kal Sajad

  1. Michael Vaughan
    Ex-England captain on Test Match Special

    These aren't really conditions for chin music. They are the conditions where you'll have to pitch the ball up and hope for a little nibble away.

  2. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    All being well, we'll shortly see the captains. Ben Stokes coming out to toss the coin for the first time. There's no doubt about what the winning captain will be doing first. He'll bowl, of course.

  3. It didn't take long for us to be talking about cricket not getting back on the field quick enough after the rain.

    The covers are now coming off.

  4. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    Suddenly it has got incredibly warm.

    And it's stopped raining. Where are the umpires? There's no reason now why they can't be moving on with things.

  5. It's still raining here outside my flat in Leeds but I am reliably informed the drizzle has stopped in Southampton...

  6. Get Involved

    #bbccricket

    Neil Symons: Listening to Aggers' voice and the worries of the world go away.

    Simon Jones: Could there be anything more British than Test match cricket finally getting the go-ahead - and then the start being delay by rain?

  7. As Steph says, we've waited months for cricket. We can wait a few more hours.

  8. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    It's the lightest of drizzle, it's very frustrating. The kind of drizzle that if play was going on the umpires wouldn't come off.

  9. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport at Southampton

    We've waited so long for some cricket, so we might as well wait a little longer. It's actually pretty bleak here. Not so much the rain, but the heavy clouds, which are necessitating the need for the floodlights. All of the square is covered. We might be a while...

  10. There's a West Indies flag with the Black Lives Matter logo flying in the window of the team's dressing room.

    This series means so much for so many reasons.

    Cricket has to help bring change.

  11. Michael Vaughan
    Ex-England captain on Test Match Special

    I've just seen the biggest team huddle ever from England. They've had to have their team huddle while socially distanced. It was huge.

  12. There is still some activity out on the outfield but a lot of the players are in the dressing room as the drizzle falls.

    Ben Stokes has his feet up. It doesn't look like captaincy has changed him. Sam Curran is next to him with a face mask around his chin.

    The 'new normal'.

  13. Carlos Brathwaite
    West Indies all-rounder on Test Match Special

    It is a pleasure to be here. It's a duty for us as sportspeople to bring some normality back to the world. Hopefully we can get under way and bring some good back to the game and to the world.

  14. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    A week ago I looked at the weather for this week and thought 'wow it looks beautiful, we'll have a lovely time in Southampton' and yesterday it all went wrong.

  15. You're not the only one.

    It's so good to be back. I don't care if it's raining. This is cricket and we love it.

  16. Get Involved

    #bbccricket

    Longbob Jimshanks: Cheers @bbctms something in my eye...

  17. What's the weather forecast?

    It's not great but there should be some play.

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  18. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    It's wonderful to have live cricket back after a bizarre and unsettling period in our lives. Inevitably we have a delay, though - I'm looking up at some heavy-looking skies. It sort of sums up the atmosphere here - a little bit eerie.

  19. Goosebumps all over as TMS opened with that intro from Captain Sir Tom Moore...

  20. It's raining - toss delayed

    Ah.

    Don't you just love cricket...?