It's misty and grey and just downright grim in Bristol. The mizzle is all around the grounds, obstructing the view of the houses in the distance, while the wind is blowing the flags at full pelt. All the big covers have been brought out and, it has to be said, it doesn't look promising.
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Amy Lofthouse is doing more reporting on weather than cricket at the moment...
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Amy Lofthouse
BBC Sport at Bristol
It is, I'm sorry to say, properly miserable out there.
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Very, very grim in Bristol now. The sort of weather that makes you wonder if we'll see play again today.
Shafali Verma kind of burst on the scene pretty quickly, she batted with Danni Wyatt in the Women's T20 Challenge where she really made an impression. I was commentating on that game and I contacted her father after to find out where she'd been all this time!
But there are so many more Shafali Vermas out there. We just need to find them.
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The track and the square is covered in Bristol. Tea should be done at about 16:25, but it seems unlikely they'll be back out by then.
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Snehal Pradhan
Ex-India seamer on BBC Test Match Special
We have seen a different Deepti Sharma since the rain break, but I think it's the bowling that has allowed her to play that way. She loves a cover drive and she loves a sweep, and she's been given enough width to get a few boundaries away.
Ah, it's raining quite heavily now. Common sense prevails and tea is taken.
India trail England by 82 runs.
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Tea will be taken at 16:10 BST. I mean we have no idea why, seeing as they were off the pitch for so long because of rain.
On that note, I'm afraid to say it's drizzling again and the grounds team are lurking by the boundary.
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Alex Hartley
England World Cup-winning spinner on Test Match Special
What's remarkable for me is the pressure that India were under when they came back out to bat, but Shafali Verma hasn't even noticed. She hasn't changed her approach at all.
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And that's where we got to when the rain came.
India are 83-1 in their second innings, still 82 short of making England bat again.
With the scene in Bristol looking grim, we're going to leave it here for now. We'll be back if there is any more action.
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But then it was the Shafali Verma show.
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Brunt got in the action again at the start of the India second dig...
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Before Katherine Brunt and Anya Shrubsole produced these two beauties to give England the chance to enforce the follow-on.
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Sophie Ecclestone got to work on the India lower-order first up...
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Just joining us? Where have you been?
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Perhaps we should relocate to St Lucia?
They are under way in the second Test between West Indies and South Africa, with the visitors already reduced to 35-2.
You can follow that one here.
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Amy Lofthouse
BBC Sport at Bristol
It's misty and grey and just downright grim in Bristol. The mizzle is all around the grounds, obstructing the view of the houses in the distance, while the wind is blowing the flags at full pelt. All the big covers have been brought out and, it has to be said, it doesn't look promising.
Post update
Amy Lofthouse is doing more reporting on weather than cricket at the moment...
Post update
Amy Lofthouse
BBC Sport at Bristol
It is, I'm sorry to say, properly miserable out there.
Post update
Very, very grim in Bristol now. The sort of weather that makes you wonder if we'll see play again today.
Post update
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Snehal Pradhan
Ex-India seamer on BBC Test Match Special
Shafali Verma kind of burst on the scene pretty quickly, she batted with Danni Wyatt in the Women's T20 Challenge where she really made an impression. I was commentating on that game and I contacted her father after to find out where she'd been all this time!
But there are so many more Shafali Vermas out there. We just need to find them.
Post update
The track and the square is covered in Bristol. Tea should be done at about 16:25, but it seems unlikely they'll be back out by then.
Post update
Snehal Pradhan
Ex-India seamer on BBC Test Match Special
We have seen a different Deepti Sharma since the rain break, but I think it's the bowling that has allowed her to play that way. She loves a cover drive and she loves a sweep, and she's been given enough width to get a few boundaries away.
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Rain stops play & tea taken
Ind 83-1
Ah, it's raining quite heavily now. Common sense prevails and tea is taken.
India trail England by 82 runs.
Post update
Tea will be taken at 16:10 BST. I mean we have no idea why, seeing as they were off the pitch for so long because of rain.
On that note, I'm afraid to say it's drizzling again and the grounds team are lurking by the boundary.
Post update
Alex Hartley
England World Cup-winning spinner on Test Match Special
What's remarkable for me is the pressure that India were under when they came back out to bat, but Shafali Verma hasn't even noticed. She hasn't changed her approach at all.