Summary

  • Opening day of World Test Championship final in Southampton

Live Reporting

Stephan Shemilt, Ffion Wynne and Kal Sajad

  1. Amy Lofthouse
    BBC Sport at Bristol

    I don't want to put the mockers on but the mizzle is getting stronger...

  2. These covers are the real deal now, sheets and all. This doesn't look good at all, I hate to say.

    Umbrellas are popping up around the stands and more grey clouds are ready to pounce.

  3. Ind 57-1

    Cross adjusts her messy bun - very nicely, I must add. You've got to balance messy and effortless but also looking tidy at the same time.

    And as I get carried away with hair chat, the covers come back on. Boo.

  4. Ind 56-1

    Sharma wants a second run - not surprising as she is one from 41, but Verma turns it down. Who needs singles when you can just hit fours?

  5. Oh and now the rain is back.

    Not heavy enough for the players to go off, but just enough to warrant a few towels being stuffed into pockets to dry the ball.

  6. Isabelle Westbury
    Ex-Middlesex captain on BBC Test Match Special

    It was a rising delivery. Verma had a stab at it. First slip was a little too wide.

  7. Ind 56-1

    Sharma 1, Verma 45

    A simple defensive shot up to mid-off to end an eventful over, as they often are when the prodigious Verma is at the crease.

  8. Ind 56-1

    It's all happening now after what felt like a thousand dot balls! Verma nicks one behind, just past a diving Heather Knight slip and runs away for another boundary.

  9. Ind 52-1

    Outrageous from Verma, yet again. She has taken one step down the track and launched Cross back over her head for four.

    In the words of Isabelle Westbury, how do you even do that?!

  10. Kate Cross is on to bowl and has none of Ecclestone's ponytail disruption - she's gone for the messy bun look. A classic.

    CrossGetty Images

  11. Ind 48-1

    Sharma 1, Verma 37

    You can see the strength of the wind blowing Sophie Ecclestone's long ponytail all over the place. Long-hair-in-cricket problems, I know the feeling.

    Sharma drives nicely but finds a sprawling cover fielder.

  12. In amongst the maiden-fest, we can bring you Shafali Verma's late-cuts that have had us all drooling.

  13. Isabelle Westbury
    Ex-Middlesex captain on BBC Test Match Special

    Verma has played immaculately, nice clips off the legs, drives through the covers. Then all of a sudden, bang, she swings for it.

  14. Ind 47-1

    Sharma, naturally, blocks out the rest of the over. A familiar sight.

  15. Ind 46-1

    Shafali Verma lets out a little bit of frustration as she takes a huge heave at Katherine Brunt and completely misses.

    Brunt shakes her head which basically means, what on earth are you doing?

    But there have been a lot of dots recently, so I'm not surprised to see that from the 17-year-old.

  16. Ind 46-1

    Henry's prediction is correct, this morning's hero Sophie Ecclestone is into the attack.

    Bowling in her woolly jumper, she bowls a tidy maiden over. Deepti Sharma now has one from 33 balls.

  17. Day one washed out
    Breaking

    New Zealand v India - World Test Championship final

    The weather wins! But we do have a reserve day, thankfully.

    NZgett

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  19. Henry Moeran
    Test Match Special

    We might not be too far away from seeing spin.

  20. Ind 46-1

    Katherine Brunt attempts a short ball but Verma is having none of it - it's wide of off-stump and she just watches it go past.

    Another maiden.