England v Australia LIVE: Updates from fourth ODI as rain delays toss

It’s bad news at Lord’s just 12 minutes before the game was due to start and the covers have gone back on, the stumps have come out of the ground and it looks like there will be another delay.

Here is a reminder of the England team:

Australia have won the toss and Mitchell Marsh has -unsurprisingly – declared they will have a bowl first in the grey overcast conditions at Lord’s.

Adam Zampa, Josh Inglis and Travis Head come into the side in place of Cameron Green, Aaron Hardie and Matt Short.

The covers are now fully off, the toss will take place at 1.30pm and the match will start at 2pm.

Good news from Lord’s – assuming there is no further rain, the toss will take place at 1.30pm BST.

43 overs a side. Eoin Morgan says the pitch looks good and firm, with the famous drainage system doing the job on the outfield, too.

It’s looking a lot more optimistic than it was even half an hour ago, the umpires are out and the covers are being taken off.

Here are some pictures of the ground from earlier:

For the first time today since the ground opened, there is sign of movement and the covers are being slowly rolled up.

We are a long way from actually getting any play underway, but it is a good start.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but the covers are still well and truly on and unmoved and it is continuing to drizzle fairly consistently at Lord’s.

No sign of play in the immediate future, but hopefully it will brighten up this afternoon.

Brook raised eyebrows with some of his comments after England’s loss in the series opener in Nottingham, reflecting on some loose dismissals by saying: “If you get caught somewhere on the boundary or in the field then who cares?”.

Some interpreted that as a flippant approach to what is being billed – and priced – as an elite contest, but he suggested there had been a misunderstanding of his words.

“I think people took that a little bit the wrong way. You’ve got to go out and play fearlessly and almost have that ‘who cares?’ attitude but that’s not a ‘who cares if we lose?’ attitude,” he said.

“We all want to win, but you don’t want to go out and have that fear of getting out. You’ve seen it so many times in the Test environment, at the start Stokesy (captain Ben Stokes) was getting out caught at mid-on which is unheard of before, so you’ve got to go out with that fearless attitude and try to take it to the bowlers.”

The toss should have taken place at 12pm all going smoothly, but it has been delayed, no idea how long for so far as he rain has not let up.