2.10pm Yikes. It’s begun raining now.
2.05pm Eoin Morgan has won the toss, and the London Spirit will bowl first. They’re unchanged from the side that lost against Birmingham Phoenix.
Sam Billings says he’d have liked to bowl too, given the choice. One change for the Invincibles. Saqib Mahmood is out “with a little niggle”, which is sad because I was really looking forward to watching him bowl. Jordan Clarke comes in for him.
Oval Invincibles: 1 Jason Roy, 2 Sam Curran, 3 Sunil Narine, 4 Will Jacks, 5 Sam Billings (capt & wk), 6 Colin Ingram, 7 Laurie Evans, 8 Tom Curran, 9 Nathan Sowter, 10 Jordan Clarke, 11 Reece Topley.
London Spirit: 1 Zak Crawley, 2 Josh Inglis (wk), 3 Dan Lawrence, 4 Eoin Morgan (capt), 5, Joe Denly, 6 Ravi Bopara, 7 Mohammad Nabi, 8 Roelof van der Merwe, 9 Blake Cullen, 10 Chris Wood, 11 Mohammad Amir.
1.57pm The crowd at Lord’s has swelled to 13,500 or thereabouts, we’ve just heard.
Kumendra : “How’s the weather here? ” — Grey and overcast, but the rain is staying away for the moment.
1.45pm Afternoon, everyone. The Oval Invincibles have just wrapped up an impessive win in the women’s verson of the London derby. Which way will the men’s game go? The Invincibles got their campaign off to a winning start against the Manchester Originals, but the London Spirit are yet to get points on the board. We should have a cracking contest, provided the weather holds up at Lord’s, where the skies are rather murky at the moment.