Max Cant Wait Until Tonight

England v Sri Lanka – live!

Given the apocalyptic predictions for today's weather, it was a bonus to get any cricket at all. Mizzle held things up in the morning and torrential stuff finished things off before the tea interval. In between times 23 overs were managed as Sri Lanka advanced from 81 for four to 177 for nine, sufficient overs for Chris Tremlett to reinforce the mighty impression he has created, with career best figures of six for 42.

They were sufficient also for Stuart Broad to continue his struggle to make any sort of impact other than occasionally on the body of opposing batsmen; and for Sri Lanka's lower order to be let off the hook by some indifferent captaincy and another brave performance from the wicketkeeper Prasanna Jayawardene, who made 43.

England have been presented with a pitch in Southampton that is the antidote to all those bland, consistent surfaces around the world that appear to have the half life of uranium in their rate of deterioration. Raising the mower blades a smidgen offers the bowler something with which to work and provides a challenge to the techniques and fortitude of batsmen.

Morning world! The good news? The weather forecast for the Rose Bowl is great - 24C and sunny. The bad news? That's the Rose Bowl, Pasadena. But there's better news from Southampton, as well – it's rained already this morning, the clouds have cleared and it looks pretty bright. Play should start on schedule, though there will be interruptions this afternoon .

Skies looking bright in Southampton, and the players are coming out. They're likely to be going back in again in a few minutes, but hopefully that'll be at the end of Sri Lanka's innings rather than the next rainfall. "'...it's just a passing shower'? Sri Lanka's tour may be shorter than India's and they're hardly covering themselves with glory, but there's no need for that Mr Gower," writes Gary Naylor.

"This is about 50 runs to many for the result to be other than a draw," says Richard Jones, "and if there's big swing out there we may even see Srilanan pressure by the end of the day." If we get the forecast sporadic outbreaks of rain this afternoon, and with more on its way on Monday, the draw has got to be by some way the most likely result, even if England are routed by a wildly-swinging ball today.

9th over: England 22-2 (Cook 10, Pietersen 4) Another lovely shot from Cook, who pulls a hip-high delivery from Welegedara away for a princely four. "One phrase you don't hear much any more is 'he's got the Indian sign over him' for Strauss and KP's demon bowlers," notes John Starbuck. "Not quite PC these days but you could be saving it up for later this year?" Yeah, I'm not sure we'll be seeing a lot of it but you never know.

Merci Chérie: Max - Can't Wait Until Tonight (2004)

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