LIVE: England building lead after rain halts play

Zak Crawley falls arsenic Scott Boland strikes!

The bustling speedy draws an borderline and Alex Carey gloves the ball.

Poor light, lingering rainfall and a moving shot are making batting highly difficult astatine Edgbaston.

The English person mislaid Ben Duckett and present Crawley without the summation of a azygous run.

They are 2-27 successful the 10th over.

A week aft taking a sublime drawback astatine gully successful the World Test Championship final, Cameron Green has done it again.

The young all-rounder has lunged debased to nonstop Ben Duckett connected his mode with a phenomenal catch, Pat Cummins taking the wicket.

"He is simply a genius successful that gully region," Nasser Hussain said connected Nine's coverage.

"He is simply a large unit, but helium gets down and takes astir everything."

Duckett is retired for 19 and the English are 1-27 successful the ninth over.

A large improvement astatine Edgbaston arsenic play resumes aft the rainfall delay.

England is 0-26 with Ben Duckett connected 18 and Zak Crawley seven.

Moeen Ali's instrumentality to Test cricket is going terribly with the seasoned spinner lamenting costly bowling, a 25 per cent simplification of his lucifer interest and a deteriorating finger.

Not lone did Moeen registry 2-147 from 33 overs successful Australia's archetypal innings astatine Edgbaston, the 36-year-old was fined for applying an unauthorised drying cause to his spinning finger.

Disappointing scenes astatine Edgbaston arsenic play pauses for a rainfall delay.

England is 0-26 from 6.5 overs with Zak Crawley connected 7 and Ben Duckett 18.

Australian skipper Pat Cummins, who was mid-over erstwhile the determination to spell disconnected was made, is intelligibly frustrated astatine the call.

"It looks to beryllium a passing shower, truthful hopefully we're backmost to unrecorded play precise soon," says Nine's Aaron Finch.

Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett are astatine the crease for the opening of England's 2nd innings.

Pat Cummins has the caller stone and England is starring by 7 runs.

Pat Cummins rocks onto his backmost ft and pulls Ollie Robinson, lone to nonstop the shot down the pharynx of Ben Stokes.

The Aussie skipper is gone for 38 and the tourists are each retired for 386, meaning the English person a first-innings pb of 7 runs.

"The past fractional hr killed america a spot — there's nary uncertainty astir that," says Nine's Mark Taylor.

"But this Test is acceptable up beautifully.

"The bully quality is that Nathan Lyon volition get thing retired of this track.

"The atrocious quality is it would person been bully to person a pb of astir 40 oregon 50.

"But the game's connected parity, it's a second-innings crippled and they're ever amusive games."

The Aussies mislaid their past 4 wickets for lone 14 runs, coughing up a large accidental to get a first-innings lead.

England volition statesman its 2nd excavation aft the luncheon break.

The English are up and about!

Shortly aft removing Usman Khawaja, the hosts scalp Nathan Lyon for 1 and Scott Boland for a duck.

Josh Hazlewood joins Pat Cummins successful the mediate arsenic England clings to a 15-run first-innings lead.