England: Tammy Beaumont, Maia Bouchier, Alice Capsey, Nat Sciver-Brunt (c), Amy Jones (wk), Alice Davidson-Richards, Bess Heath, Charlie Dean, Sarah Glenn, Lauren Filer, Mahika Gaur.

Sri Lanka: Chamari Athapaththu (c) Imesha Dulani, Harshitha Madavi, Hasini Perera, Hansima Karunaratne, Kavisha Dilhari, Anushka Sanjeewani (wk), Oshadi Ranasinghe, Udeshika Prabodhani, Achini Kulasuriya, Inoka Ranaweera.

England stand-in skipper Nat Sciver-Brunt on Sky Sports: "I was planning to bowl! Bess Heath comes in to make her debut and she is an exciting player so we are excited to see her.

"100 caps for myself is really special, and now I have to captain as well. Lauren Winfield-Hill gave me a special cap and I made my debut alongside her so that was a nice moment.

"I think the young bowlers are excited. Mahika Gaur and Lauren Filer are exciting bowlers and we have some young batters with a lot of talent. Hopefully they can do their thing today."

Sri Lanka captain Chamari Athapaththu on Sky Sports: "I have been very proud of my bowling unit and I think it will be a good day for them today.

"I think a shorter game helps us because we played such good cricket in the T20 series."

We will have 31 overs a side, with one bowler able to bowl seven overs and the rest able to bowl six.

The powerplay will be six overs.

There is also a debut for young wicketkeeper-batter Bess Heath!

At a much brighter-looking Leicester, Chamari Athapaththu wins the toss and chooses to have a bowl - unsurprising, given the conditions and the delays.

A bit of news before the toss is that Heather Knight is unwell, so Nat Sciver-Brunt will lead the side today on her 100th ODI appearance.

Good news, at last!

The toss will take place in five minutes' time!

Right, we'll try again.

The next inspection will be in 10 minutes' time. It does look drier there now.

The rain is still falling, so the pitch inspection has been delayed by a further 15 minutes.

Yep, the rain has fallen again so there's been a further delay.

The next pitch inspection will take place in just under 45 minutes' time.

We'll be back with you whenever we get the news from that.

Aatif Nawaz
BBC Test Match Special commentator

It's still drizzling out there so I'm not sure the pitch inspection is going to yield anything particularly positive at this moment in time. The groundstaff are working hard to get the water up off the covers, but the umbrellas are up at the moment.

Well, that sounded promising - but unfortunately...

Henry Moeran
BBC Test Match Special commentator

Sue Redfern is marching out on to the ground to take a look. We should have an idea when we'll be under way quite soon. We are just on the cusp of a weather system, so will have to keep everything crossed.

This is how things are looking for the rest of the afternoon.

The latest we can start at 20-over game is 17:08.

There will be a pitch inspection at 13:15, and we will bring you the news from that as soon as possible.

Fingers crossed!

Henry Moeran
BBC Test Match Special commentator

It's like a mist at the moment - like we are sitting in a cloud. We do hope it will clear away in the next hour or so and we will see some cricket.

Some good news! The rain seems to have eased and the mop up operation has started.

It will still take a while to get the outfield ready for play but it's something.

There is still no movement. But the ground staff have said that they will need at least an hour and a half after the rain stops to make sure that the ground is playable.

Image source, @RafNicholson

Cricket journalist Raf Nicholson: The rain has eased up slightly at Leicester, but prospects of play still seem rather remote - it’s damp, mizzly and misty.

Katherine Sciver-Brunt
Ex-England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

England have experimented and looked at some new talent. There would have been pressure on youngsters making their debuts in this series but they've done well.