Interesting how this plays out with an older ball vs the new ball Australia had for that period at Edgbaston.
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Was that one over?
Going off 
Already raining
No refund now, day wasn't a washout.
Usually needs about 25 overs to not get a refund.
Just as well they spent 15 minutes rolling the pitch.
I can’t remember the exact rules but there’s different levels of refunds depending on the number of overs bowled i.e. less than half you get half your money back.
Australias session for me.
I can’t believe in 2023 we haven’t figured out a way to cover grounds in such a way that no water gets on the outfield during rain delays. That’s the bit that always kills getting the game restarted, making sure the outfield is good to go.
Sri Lankan ground staff are amazing at covering the ground and restarting play as soon as possible.
Sri Lankan ground staff are amazing at covering the ground and restarting play as soon as possible.
Also he doesn’t look great against the short ball but short ball theory against Head is a bit of a waste on this pitch. He’s accumulated pretty well against it, unless England’s plan is to make sure he doesn’t score fast rather than really focus on the best way of getting him out.
I think it's full refund under 15 overs.
Covers coming off again.
Honestly doesn’t look like it’s doing too much, pretty early swing and that’s about it.
Accumulated 15 runs pretty quickly here.
Marsh gone
What a way to go.
Marsh goes for 22 says Morgan as it says 28 on the screen right in front of him. He’s not a great pundit.
Surely you get Wood on before it gets too dark. Especially if you want short stuff at Head.
I think it’s already too dark for that type of pace, not sure I’d want to test the umpires on that.
England in that weird position when they probably don’t want to knock over all them in these conditions because they wouldn’t want 30 mins of batting here.
Batsmen often feck up leaving Woakes.
The swing Wood got on the ball before the wicket was ridiculous.
tricky chase this might turn out to be. 200-240 is tricky if rain sticks around.
Looks like variable bounce is coming into to it as well.
another thing is, England will have to pitch it up to extract swing, which may also mean higher scoring rate.
Very fun series this.
Wood’s bowling fast and going to the boundary fast too.
quick 30 odd from likes of Starc and things change.
Bairstow is so lame. That was 100 % his catch.
Bairstow no confidence leaving it to a fielder
Heck of a catch with the helmet on, no idea what Bairstow was doing.
That was shocking from Bairstow.
Dropping Foakes and giving Bairstow the gloves has probably cost England the Ashes. He’s been poor as a keeper and it’s also affected his batting.
What time can they play till, is it 7pm?
Aussie really handing this test to England.
Think they're fighting well in really tough conditions.
Also think they might have enough.
Why review that? It's pointless.