Egg and bacon umbrellas at the ready - rain is forecast at Lord's today on the first day of the fourth TestPhotograph: Tom JenkinsThe morning is a wash out, but if the rain holds off for half an hour or so that should be enough for the water to drain and for play to beginPhotograph: Tom JenkinsStuart Broad signs tickets for young fansPhotograph: Tom Jenkins
Spectators shelter under the tree in the Coronation Garden by the statue of WG Grace. They ought to get into the ground - Pakistan's skipper Salman Butt has won the toss and play is about to startPhotograph: Tom JenkinsAlastair Cook is on a tightrope early on. First up he's dropped off Mohammad Amir's bowling ...Photograph: Tom JenkinsHe also survives an lbw appeal ...Photograph: Tom Jenkins... and is given out (caught behind off Amir's delivery) by umpire Billy Bowden, only for the decision to be overturned upon appealPhotograph: Tom JenkinsAndrew Strauss was less fortunate. He was bowled by an inswinger from Mohammad Asif for just 13Photograph: Tom JenkinsKevin Pietersen, Jonathan Trott and two of the coaches look out from the players' balconyPhotograph: Tom JenkinsThe floodlights come on as the dark clouds come over againPhotograph: Tom JenkinsJust eight balls after Strauss's dismissal, the umpires look at their light-meters and decide conditions are unfit for playPhotograph: Tom JenkinsDrizzle and low light prevent any further action, leaving England on 39-1 at the end of the first day after 12.3 oversPhotograph: Tom Jenkins
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