England vs South Africa LIVE: Cricket score from first Test at Lord’s after Ben Stokes dismissal today

Apart from a couple of flutters outside his off-stump Ollie Pope picked up where he left off this morning and worked the ball around the ground to collect an additional 10 runs since lunch.

Ben Foakes came and went after a full, sharp delivery from Anrich Nortje found a gap between bat and pad to rearrange the stumps.

The covers have come out and play doesn’t look likely to resume anytime soon.

Stuart Broad has pulled that off brilliantly. A couple of words with the umpire about the weather conditions in between overs sees them start looking up at the sky,

The rain starts to fall and the decision to bring the players off is taken.

It was quite gloomy out there and Broad in particular will be pleased that he doesn’t have to face any short bowling for a while.

32nd over: Stuart Broad is the new man at the crease. He sees out the final two deliveries of Nortje’s over but takes a short ball to the chest for his efforts.

He’ll be expecting a few more of these before his innings is done.

Broad isn’t known for hanging around long so expect some fireworks to come sooner rather than later.

Ben Foakes has gone! In the gloomy light Anrich Nortje sends down a quick delivery and gets the ball to nip back into the batter. Foakes gets an inside edge on the ball but can’t keep it out and the stumps shatter to pieces.

31st over: The conditions for batting are far from ideal. It’s cloudy, grey and a bit muggy. Pope is seeing the ball well though and pulls Rabada into the leg-side for two.

There’s almost a run out opportunity but Pope sends Foakes quickly back into the crease and the danger passes. That’s the last thing England would want right now.

30th over: Foakes flicks Nortje away to fine leg for a single after the paceman strays down the leg side. A wide short ball then draws Pope into a wild cut shot that he misses out on.

This might be a tactic from South Africa. Nortje fizzes down a bouncer to Pope who awkwardly hooks it into the gap at square-leg for one.

It’s a definite tactic. Two sharp short balls to Foakes ends the over with the batter ducking under the last delivery.

29th over: Pope collects another couple and England continue to tick away, slowly accummulating runs.

Rabada gets one to hold it’s line with a delivery just wide of the off-stump and Pope dangles his bat out there and is lucky to avoid nicking one. He knows it was a loose shot and has a word with himself to concentrate.

The last delivery of the over sees Pope rock back and cut the ball away. A fumble in the gully region brings him another two and England earn four from the over.

28th over: Anrich Nortje is given the nod to open up from the other end and teases Foakes with a couple of balls wide of the off-stump.

Nice! Ben Foakes leans over to the offside and punches a stroke through midwicket for his first boundary of the innings. That’s a confident shot from England’s no. 7.

27th over: Ollie Pope dinks a forward defensive into the offside and kicks off the morning session with a single. Ben Stokes was dismissed on the final day of the morning session so England’s wicketkeeper, Ben Foakes, has joined Pope at the crease.

Kagiso Rabada gets the ball to move a touch off the seam and angles a couple into the pads of Foakes. An inside edge onto the pads brings Foakes his first run and Pope endes the over with a nice punch through cover point for a couple.

Lots of talk in the build-up to today’s play was about ‘Bazball’ and England’s new found aggressive style of play.

Since Brendan McCullum and Ben Stokes took over the leadership of the test team England have won each of the four tests they’ve played ending a run of one in from their last 17 matches.

All four of those wins have seen England chase down scores in the fourth innings of the game but with South Africa winning the toss this morning they were faced with a new challenge.

How to remain aggressive and imposing whilst setting a first innings total?

Their efforts have been hit-and-miss. 100-5 at lunch isn’t great but Ollie Pope has looked solid and if he can form a partnership with Ben Foakes this afternoon England could still turn things around.