Early lunch

Remarkably, the umps evidently think there is a glimmer of hope of some cricket at Edgbaston today. Rather than a 10am call-off like yesterday they have decreed that the players will take an early lunch at 12 o'clock and then a further decision will be made.

The outfield is not the lake that it was this time yesterday but it would still be an amazing effort by the groundstaff - and require a seriously strong and sustained drying wind - to get the ground playable today.