Summary

  • Anderson traps Abid lbw to move to 599 Test wickets

  • In morning session, Buttler dropped Masood off Anderson

  • Third Test, day four, Ageas Bowl, Southampton

Live Reporting

Amy Lofthouse and Kal Sajad

  1. Jimmy's bouncing up and down, getting himself loosened up, while Dom Bess is also having a few practice bowls.

  2. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    The cover is going away. I don't want to see it again. I don't ever want to see it again.

  3. Off comes the hover cover...

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    RE: Josh L (14:44 BST), you're sounding a lot like people who were saying we shouldn't host a World Cup because of our weather. This is England, weather being odd is our speciality: it can make or break a series, and is impartial, we should embrace it for keeping a proper five day Test alive.

    Ben in a pub in Newbury

  5. So, fingers crossed, we should be OK this afternoon.

    Southampton weather

  6. This was the scene two hours ago - huge credit to everyone at the Ageas Bowl for getting this all sorted.

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  7. Yep, confirmation that tea will be taken very shortly, and there's 52 overs left in the day.

  8. The restart will be the final session of the day, so I'm assuming that means they're taking tea now?

    We can go until 19:30 tonight, so that's a three hour, 45 minute session. I'll be needing a coffee.

  9. Restart at 15:45
    Breaking

    Cricket!

  10. I think there's an inspection going on right now...

  11. It's been a busy few days for the groundstaff.

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  12. There's another dirty great raincloud approaching the Ageas Bowl...

  13. 10/10 style points for our own Henry Moeran - both the shot and the shoes.

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    Josh L: Anyone starting to feel like the Ageas Bowl was the worst place to put a cricket pitch in the entire world? Rain to Bowl like Moth to Flame!

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  16. Phil Tufnell
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    It does go through a team, the old dropsies. It's contagious.

  17. As I said yesterday, Jimmy will find this funny in about 20 years time, but Jos Buttler's facial expressions throughout this mess are superb.

  18. Er, there's a big grey cloud looming at the Ageas Bowl.

    It might pass them by, actually. Weather. It's just guess work, isn't it?

  19. As there's nothing happening, I've spent a very happy half hour or so going through BBC Radio 2's Britpop tributes from a few years back.

    Sophie Ellis-Bextor's cover of Pulp is one of the all-time greats. If there's no more cricket, I'm just going to turn this into a music page.

    (There will be cricket. Have faith.)

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  20. Further inspection at 15:00
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    The wait goes on.