England v New Zealand: third women’s cricket one-day international – live

1st over: New Zealand 6-0 (Bates 6, Plimmer 0) Bates edges a full ball and picks up four to get the White Ferns under way. Close! Bell gets her outswinger going, draws the drive and nearly takes the edge. Top bowling. Bates gets a couple with a dab down past third.

Here come the New Zealand batters, Suzie Bates walks out in her 184th and last ODI. Can she take a chunk out of this total for her side? Georgie Plimmer is at the other end. Lauren Bell will start with the ball for England. Play!

32nd over: England 172-6 (Jones 27, Dean 15) Mair returns and Jones greets her with another sublime drive through the covers for four. Charlie Dean then gets a full toss from Mair and she paddles it fine for four more! Twelve off the over for England.

31st over: England 160-6 (Jones 21, Dean 9) Three singles and a couple from England as they rotate strike well off Amelia Kerr. Shot! Amy Jones drives in-to-out over extra cover. Lovely timing and placement. That’s the area Charlotte Edwards wants her players to be able to access more of. Amy Jones showing how to do it in style.

30th over: England 149-6 (Jones 12, Dean 7) Amy Jones misses a sweep off Bates but the ball beats Gaze behind the stumps and runs away for four. Four more singles make it eight off the over. Three overs to go, England need some boundaries.

29th over: England 141-6 (Jones 10, Dean 5) More like it from Amy Jones, she powers a drive through the off side off Patel. England need all the runs they can muster, that cluster of wickets really knocked them off their stride.

28th over: England 134-6 (Jones 4, Dean 4) Missed run out! Suzie Bates fluffs the throw from the deep, had she taken it cleanly then Amy Jones was well short of her ground. Bates is fuming with herself, last ODI or not.

27th over: England 127-6 (Jones 2, Dean 0) Skipper Charlie Dean arrives in the middle to join Amy Jones. Patel rattles through a wicket maiden.

26th over: England 127-5 (Jones 2, Gibson 1) England now have two new batters at the crease and seven overs to get as many as possible.

25th over: England 123-4 (Capsey 44, Gibson 0) Dani Gibson joins Capsey. She defends her fist ball from Amelia Kerr watchfully.

24th over: England 117-3 (Capsey 39, Kemp 20) Capsey in particular has been busy since the resumption. She uses her crease well to create room to carve Patel away for a couple. A glide past point brings up the 50 partnership between this pair. Seven runs in all off the over.

23rd over: England 110-3 (Capsey 33, Kemp 19) Amelia Kerr tightens things up for her side, just a couple of runs off her latest. There are ten overs left in the innings now, England have seven wickets left and probably need to look at opening their shoulders.

22nd over: England 108-3 (Capsey 32, Kemp 18) Capsey punches for four off the back foot. Four singles make it eight off the over and the hundred is up for England too – the home side have been the more dynamic of the two since the resumption.

21st over: England 99-3 (Capsey 25, Kemp 16) Another productive over for England, seven runs pocketed off Amelia Kerr’s third over. We’re going to have more spin with Nensi Patel thrown the ball for the next over.

20th over: England 92-3 (Capsey 23, Kemp 12) Rosemary Mair replace Illing. Freya Kemp gets on the front foot and drives down the ground for a couple before taking a single to mid on. Capsey take a single to point and Kemp gets two more into the deep. England are busy and hustling between the wickets.

19th over: England 86-3 (Capsey 22, Kemp 7) England’s total will be recalculated by DLS, it’ll be interesting to see how they approach the next 15 or so overs they have left in their innings. Kemp and Capsey rotate the strike nicely off Amelia Kerr’s looping leggies, five singles off the over.

18th over: England 81-3 (Capsey 20, Kemp 4) It’s Bree Illing with the ball in hand for the White Ferns, she struggles with her line initially, firing two wides down the leg side. Capsey and Kemp both take singles into the off side. Cricket has broken out in Cardiff!

Right then, take two. The players take to the field, its going to be a 33 over game. Freya Kemp and Alice Capsey are in the middle for England. Play!

Still raining in Cardiff, apparently they can still get a game on if they are out there by 5.30pm. So the wait goes on.

May as well get stuck into some FA Cup Final action with Rob Smyth while we wait for the rain to relent:

It looks to be brightening up a little in Cardiff so there is hope they could get back out there this afternoon. I’ll post any updates as we get them.

For any club cricketers out there creaking into another Saturday fixture… let Nigel Martyn* be your inspiration.

*Yep, that one.

Unfortunately we will now lose overs to the rain having had an hour delay to the start of play. Cardiff isn’t alone in languishing under leaden skies, there’s plenty of rain around the shires but Tanya also has some play to supply updates on. Not jealous at all.

17th over: England 77-3 (Capsey 19, Kemp 3) Amelia Kerr brings herself on for a twirl in the gloom. Her second ball is a drag down and Capsey doesn’t miss out, pulling away behind square for four. Capsey then cuts for three, Freya Kemp looks to be hobbling a bit, running in damp conditions is never nice. Time for drinks… I’m not sure we’ll be back for much longer after them mind.

16th over: England 68-3 (Capsey 11, Kemp 2) Knight couldn’t get through to what feels like an inevitable rain delay any moment. Freya Kemp arrives in the swirling rain and gets off the mark with two off her toes. Umpires twitchy but keeping them out there, New Zealand rattling through their deliveries to maximise these conditions.

15th over: England 66-2 (Knight 28, Capsey 11) It is very gloomy out there now, not nice conditions for batting. Rosemary Mair may as well be licking her lips.

14th over: England 61-2 (Knight 27, Capsey 8) Jess Kerr beats Knight on the outside edge but the old pro lines up the next ball properly and drives down the ground classily for four. Rain falling but the umpires are staying out there for now.

13th over: England 56-2 (Knight 23, Capsey 7) Mair serves up a full bunger to Capsey and she slaps it away through midwicket for four.

12th over: England 50-2 (Knight 22, Capsey 2) Jess Kerr switches ends and the keeper is up to the stumps. Pressure on and some spots of rain falling. Capsey gets forward and picks up a couple through cover to get off the mark. We might be in for some rain unfortunately…

11th over: England 47-2 (Knight 21, Capsey 0) Both openers back in the hutch, here’s Alice Capsey at number four.

10th over: England 45-1 (Grewcock , Knight 20) England have done well to only lose one wicket in the first ten overs, Knight has looked the most comfortable at the crease, she opens the face to guide Illing away for four more past point.

9th over: England 39-1 (Grewcock 9, Knight 14) Shot! Mair gives width with her last delivery and Grewcock gets her first boundary with a flash through point.

8th over: England 33-1 (Grewcock 5, Knight 13) Both teams are scrapping away, plenty in the pitch but a fast outfield sees value for shots. A first change coming for New Zealand, Rosemary Mair is replacing Jess Kerr.

7th over: England 30-1 (Grewcock 4, Knight 12) Heather Knight looks in fine touch, Kerr strays onto the pads and is worked away with aplomb to the midwicket fence.

6th over: England 25-1 (Grewcock 3, Knight 8) Another probing over from Illing sees Grewcock nick off but wide of the slips and safe.

5th over: England 21-1 (Grewcock 2, Knight 8) Five dots from Kerr but the sixth is a juicy half volley that Knight strokes away for four. You can’t bowl there to Heather.

4th over: England 17-1 (Grewcock 2, Knight 4) Shot! Knight pounces on some width from Illing and square drives for four in the Cardiff gloom.

3rd over: England 11-1 (Grewcock 2, Knight 0) Jodi Grewcock struggles to lay a bat on Jess Kerr’s outswingers, playing and missing at a couple before nicking one that just lands short of Gaze behind the stumps. Grewcock then drives compactly for a couple down the ground. Hang about, the TV replay shows that Grewcock actually got a feather on the very first ball of the over that was caught by Gaze behind the stumps. Neither bowler nor keeper appealed but there is a clear spike. Curious and Curiouser.

2nd over: England 9-1 (Grewcock 0, Knight 0) Heather Knight arrives early into the piece. Illing is searching for the pronounced movement and slings down a couple of wides. Knight is solid in defence to a couple of balls on the stumps and thats the over, New Zealand on top in tricky conditions for batting.

1st over: England 3-0 (Lamb 3, Grewcock 0) Big swing early up, Kerr gets one to hoop into Lamb’s pad but she’s outside the line. More of the same follows, the ball drifting in from waaaay outside the off stump initially. After four dots Lamb opens England’s account with a drive through cover for three.

Here come the players! Leaden skies in Cardiff but crucially no rain falling at the moment. Emma Lamb and Jodi Grewcock will open the batting, their powder blue kit looking luminous in the lunchtime murk. We haven’t lost any overs as yet but will start to from now on if there ary further delays.

Right, Jess Kerr has the ball in hand. Let’s play!

Charlie Dean admits that England weren’t at their best in Durham and that it is tricky to balance the side with a T20 World Cup looming. “It was important to show that grit (In Durham). To get over the line was really important.”

Lauren Filer and Jodi Grewcock come in for Maia Bouchier and Tilly Corteen-Coleman.

Ali has been casting his eye over the men’s Test set up with a few weeks to go until the first Test of the summer against New Zealand at Lord’s:

The inspection has taken place out in the middle and it currently isn’t raining. We haven’t had any official confirmation of a toss and potential start time yet though…

It is brightening up in Cardiff, the covers are off and the stumps are being put in place. Promising signs ahead of the inspection in five minutes.

Time to get acquainted with one Douwe Egberts. While we wait for news, why not have a read of this week’s Spin:

Tanya is on the County Blog tools, not everywhere is as wet as Cardiff thankfully.

There’s an inspection due at 11:15am. We have an hour before we start to lose overs, Ian Ward and Tash Farrant have got their cagoule and winter coat on respectively. They seem to be hopeful we’ll get some play at some point.