That escalated quickly.

Matthew Henry
BBC Sport at Headingley

It's raining again.

Matthew Henry
BBC Sport at Headingley

The covers are coming off.

There is, though, a line of dark clouds heading our way.

We're a few minutes away from lunch. No word yet on a restart or even an inspection.

You'll know as soon we we do hear something.

Michael Vaughan
Former England captain on BBC Test Match Special

WinViz has England at 44% and Australia at 56%. I would have it the other way around. Number six has been a good position for both sides - Ben Stokes and Mitch Marsh. They are the only two players who have looked to time the ball consistently. Most players have looked like they can get in but haven't timed it. I think this pitch will get slower over the course of the game.

Phil Tufnell
Former England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

The conditions have fallen in England's lap under overcast skies. There will be a bit of juice in the pitch as well. They will want to get out there and get into the Australian tail and I'm surprised England's player haven't been out there helping with the mopping up!

Welcome to summer in Yorkshire...

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Tom Mallows
BBC Sport at Headingley

It’s stopped raining so I went down to take a closer look at the square.

There is still plenty of mopping up to do before we see any play.

There are huge pools of standing water on the covers, with blotters slowly moving up and down trying to remove as much as possible.

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Jim Maxwell
BBC Test Match Special

Glenn McGrath's time. When he and Warne bowled and suffocated the opposition, even when Australia had a bad day they always kept them in the game. Australia play powerful, winning cricket more than most and in the 90s they did that.

More from England's Nat Sciver-Brunt, speaking to BBC Sport: "From our perspective it doesn’t feel like the gap between us and Australia is that big but when the results have played out it does look bigger and obviously the last Ashes in Australia it went from bad to worse after the Test match.

"The gap isn’t about the skill, it’s about the mindset so we’ve worked really hard on that as a group. We’re in a really good place with it and with that win we can trust it even more."

On tonight's game: "In a T20 there might be five or six little moments that can shift momentum from one way to the other.

"That’s the perspective we’re taking rather than every game is a must-win game – of course it’s a must-win game, otherwise we’re going to lose the Ashes.

"Trying to break that down and make it seem not so big is the most important thing for us."

We'll have live text commentary from tonight's game at Lord's - with in-play clips - and you can watch extended highlights from 23:00 BST on BBC iPlayer.

We're still hoping for some cricket today at Headingley and it is starting to look a little brighter now.

We can only hope that the rain stays away from Lord's this evening with England needing to beat Australia in the third T20 of the multi-format women's Ashes to keep the series alive.

The tourists lead it 6-2 but England won the second T20 earlier in the week.

All-rounder Nat Sciver-Brunt has been speaking to BBC Sport ahead of tonight's match...

"We were pretty excited and buzzing about the win and hopefully getting ourselves on a role through the series now.

"It's so hard to look too far ahead because we’ve got to play one game, one ball, one moment at a time. When you get too far ahead of yourselves you don’t look at the small details that mean a lot."

This is still the scene at Headingley as the mopping up continues. Quite a few of the crowd have taken their umbrellas down and given the plastic seats a wipe so things are improving.

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Jim Maxwell
BBC Test Match Special

The SCG is a huge part of my life, I've been a member since I was 11. The Adelaide Oval is great, it's really well adjusted to different sports.. Of the grounds I like in Australia, those are the two.

Jim Maxwell
BBC Test Match Special

I think the match in Melbourne against West Indies after he came back from Sri Lanka. He got like 6-42 in the second innings and bowled Richie Richardson. He was extraordinary.

I'd seen him on other occasions but, from that moment, I thought he was special. It didn't surprise me (his Old Trafford Ashes debut), the first ball, yes. He bowled a beautiful delivery that hipped and dipped and turned.

Alex Hartley
Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

England haven't lost two Tests because of Bazball. It's because they haven't been clinical in key moments, especially with catching.

Daniel Norcross
BBC Test Match Special

This is a bizarre series. There's an alternative world where England are 2-0 up. These matches have fluctuated more than Test matches I've seen previously with the shifts in momentum.