Key events
Here is Ben Stokes being typically upbeat about the situation.
As for the match, Ali Martin wrote a preview so that I don’t have to.
Preamble
Geoff Lemon
Hello all. Not much of a turnaround from the Lord’s Test, so not much time to catch our breath, but here we are in Leeds. It has been a febrile few days of culture conflict after Australia’s contentious stumping of Jonny Bairstow near the end of that match, but let’s not forget that before all of that guff we had ten days of quality cricket and ended up with two brilliant denouements. This match is well placed to be the third.
Either that or everybody will be overtaxed by recent events and one team will fall over on morning one.
Green grass on the pitch but that doesn’t necessarily mean a lot here, where it can quickly become very good for batting. There’s some rain forecast for days three and five at this stage, but that can soon change.
Play: 11am BST/8pm AEST
