The second half is under way at The Hawthorns. No sign of the weather improving, mind.

Simon Stone
BBC Sport at the Hawthorns

Their team may not be the best but you have to give praise to the West Brom fans.

They were noisy before the game, louder after Salomon Rondon's goal and after a brief break following Jamie Vardy's equaliser have made themselves heard again.

There is no disguising either, the spirit being shown by the home players, which is in stark contrast to the awful performance against Huddersfield on their last outing at the Hawthorns a couple of weeks ago.

Just one minute added on. A very watchable and entertaining half of football in the driving rain.

A couple of decent goals - particularly Jamie Vardy's strike - as well.

Dion Dublin
Ex-Aston Villa striker on BBC Final Score

West Brom 1-1 Leicester

Jamie Vardy is livid. He thinks he's got his second of the afternoon, only for the flag to go up. Ben Chilwell's pass is met by the England man and steered into the bottom corner. The flag is up right away and replays show that's quite right too. Clear daylight between Vardy and the last defender

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West Brom striker Salomon Rondon scampers clear on the counter attack and his deflected shot loops up over the bar. Audible gasps from the home fans inside The Hawthorns.

Jamie Vardy with another chance as he finds himself in the box, only to fail to get a shot away and loses possession.The England international is then booked for a cynical tackled from behind on Allan Nyom

Leicester have the upper hand now.

Kieran Gibbs makes a vital clearance from Ben Chilwell's high cross while shortly afterwards Shinji Okazaki brings a smart near-post save out of Ben Foster.

Jamie Vardy then has the ball in the net when he pokes home Chilwell's low cross into the box but the assistant referee had already raised his flag.

Dion Dublin
Ex-Aston Villa striker on BBC Radio 5 live

West Brom 1-1 Leicester

Vardy just went and the ball from Mahrez is that good that Vardy doesn't need to look at the goal. He just watches the ball over his shoulder, strikes it cleanly and hits the back of the net.

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A bit of a coming together between Harry Maguire and Grzegorz Krychowiak which sees the latter sprawled on the turf.

The Polish midfielder is not best pleased and vents his frustration at both Maguire and the referee. No action taken by referee by Bobby Madley.

Once again Jamie Vardy springs the West Brom defence, and chases a ball over the top.

This time Baggies goalkeeper Ben Foster is off his line in a flash to snuff out the danger.

Danny Mills
Former England defender on BBC Radio 5 live

West Brom 1-0 Leicester

It's a great start by West Brom. Salomon Rondon gets across his man because he knows the cross is going to come in. They've got to hang on of course, but that could be 24 points. Then they'd be three or four more points off it. The way things are going, who knows?

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A brilliant tip on to the crossbar from Kasper Schmeichel.

Grzegorz Krychowiak's sweetly-struck effort from the edge of the box takes a deflection off a Leicester player but Denmark goalkeeper Schmeichel stretches and dives to get fingernails on it.

West Brom firmly on top here.

Leicester quickly look to get themselves back on level terms. Riyad Mahrez curls a high cross into the area in the direction of Jamie Vardy.

The England striker stretches his neck in a desperate attempt to his head on it but is unable to get a decisive touch.

At the other end the ball drops to Chris Brunt just outside the box, however he snatches at the shot and fires well wide of goal.

A well-worked move by West Brom culminates in Kieran Gibbs teasing a high cross into the box. Salomon Rondon is lurking with intent (is there any other way of lurking?) but Kasper Schmeichel saves.

Demarai Gray sees a deflected shot loop into the stands which forces an early corner. Riyad Mahrez fails to beat the first man with the flag kick though and West Brom clear.

West Brom's players have a group huddle, Jamie Vardy has a quirk slurp of an energy drink before the final strains of The Liquidator play out over the public address system.

And we are under way at The Hawthorns.

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John Roder
Match of the Day commentator

West Brom v Leicester (GMT 15:00)

While there continues to be speculation over the future of Alan Pardew the consensus is almost universal about West Bromwich Albion's fate this season.

Eight points from safety with nine matches remaining, the Baggies somehow have to undergo an astonishing improvement if they are to avoid relegation.

Leicester, despite their indifferent results of late, have an excellent record at The Hawthorns.

Jamie Vardy scored in each of their three previous Premier League victoriesat West Brom, all of them winning goals, so he and Leicester will fancy their chances of inflicting another defeat on the Premier League's bottom side.

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Some fresh-faced youngsters are enthusiastically waving flags on the pitch at The Hawthorns with the players assembling in the tunnel. We are just 10 minutes away from kick-off now.