Back in the room and on air are Connor McNamara and Paul Grayson and Sale are back in Leicester's half.

Still no way through for them until Marcos Ayerza spills a pass on halfway.

Off air again on 5 live as the power failures strike at the AJ Bell.

Have no fear, pictures still available for us and this is set up for a cracking finish now.

Cagey stuff now from both sides as they try to keep each other at bay.

Can this game get more bizarre?

Still more than a quarter of it to go and it could go either way.

Leicester miss a change to capitalise from an attacking line-out and Sale can clear.

This was the scene about 20 minutes ago when a thunderstorm forced the players from the field.

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Well, that is quite bizarre.

Danny Cipriani goes for a drop-goal. His attempt skews well wide and out toward the corner.

Two Leicester players collide with each other and try and get the ball and Nev Edwards nips in to dot it down.

We go upstairs and Stuart Terheege rules no try and a 22 drop-out. I think Leicester have got away with that one... 

...and we're off again after a break of 11 minutes.

Leicester players back out on the pitch and going through some warm-ups (or is it re-warm-ups?).

Sale still in the dry in their changing room and a huddle, probably just to keep warm more than anything else...

Two of England's Grand Slam winners Joe Launchbury and Elliot Daly return to the Wasps starting line-up, alongside Matt Mullan who skippers the side.

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Daly returns in place of Charles Piutau, who has a hamstring injury, while Josh Bassett comes in on the left wing and George Smith returns to the back row.

Wasps still have one England man missing, joint-captain James Haskell.  

Wasps: Miller; Wade, Daly, S Piutau, Bassett; Gopperth, Robson; Mullan (capt), Johnson, Cooper-Woolley, Launchbury, Myall, Young, Smith, Jones.

Replacements: Festuccia, McIntyre, Swainston, Cannon, Hughes, Hampson, Jackson, Macken.

An update for you, of sorts...

Newcastle leave stand-off Andy Goode on the bench for his final game against his former club Wasps.

Goode, 35, who came out of retirement in December, had already announced his exit after this game, but has to settle for a place among the replacements as Mike Delany is fit again.

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Elsewhere Michael Young plays his 100th competitive game for the Falcons in a side showing four changes from the one which took a bonus point at Bath last Friday.

Centre Adam Powell and winger Alex Tait come into the backline while lock Sean Robinson comes into the forward pack. 

Newcastle Falcons: Hammersley; Tait, Harris, Powell, Watson; Delany, Young; Vickers, McGuigan, Vea, Green, Robinson, Wilson, Welch (capt), Latu.

Replacements: Lawson, Rogers, Cusack, Hogg, Sinoti, Takulua, Goode, Agulla.

While we wait for play to restart at the AJ Bell Stadium, we will turn our attention to the second game of the day, as 11th placed Newcastle welcome 3rd placed Wasps.

The hosts still have some work to do to secure their Premiership status for next season.

The Falcons have lost their last four games and are currently four points above bottom side London Irish.

Wasps, meanwhile, have suffered just one defeat in their last nine games in all competitions.

Dai Young's side are unbeaten in their last five meetings with Newcastle, having eked out a 9-8 win over the Falcons at the Ricoh Arena last month.

Stay tuned for the team news.

Paul Grayson
Former England fly-half on BBC Radio 5 live

So, play is suspended.

Have I stumbled into a county cricket live text by mistake with rain stopped play?

Don't worry, we're experienced campaigners here at filling breaks in play....

"It's not my choice, my hands are tied," says Tom Foley to the players on his microphone.

He's taking them off and down the tunnel and the clock is stopped at 53:36.

This is real Sunday morning park stuff now out there in this weather.

Sale find some more territory as Leicester wheel that scrum and they're on the edge of the visitors' 22.

More thunder and lightning above and Tom Foley is chatting to both skippers saying he may have to take them off the park if it continues.

Harry Thacker's line-out takes a huge swirl in the wind and misses both lines of jumpers.

Scrum awarded to the home side as the hail continues to fall.

A brief power failure at the AJ Bell was the reason behind that break in commentary.

I can sympathise for the boys on that press bench right now. I've been there on a day as unpleasant as this one and there really is no hiding place from the elements!

Oh dear! Sounds like that crash of thunder just then has knocked BBC Radio 5 live off air.

Don't worry, we can still see what's happening as Sale clear their lines from inside their own 22.

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