Maia Bouchier falls to the fourth ball of the innings! After dragging a boundary past short fine leg, she toe-ended a drive towards mid-off, where Dar ran in to take a well-judged catch.

No surprises in the England team, which in itself is a surprise of sorts. In times gone by, England playing three spinners at home – four if you count Alice Capsey – would have led to questions in parliament.

England Bouchier, Wyatt, Capsey, Knight (c), Kemp, Jones (wk), Gibson, Dean, Ecclestone, Glenn, Bell.

Pakistan S Ameen, Gull Feroza, Sadaf, Muneeba (wk), Dar (c), Pervaiz, Fatima, Tuba, Rameen, Waheeda, Sadia.

Nida Dar says the pitch looks a bit green and should help their bowlers. Heather Knight says she would have had a bat, so that was a waste of everyone’s time.

Won’t you look at all this sunshine? It can mean only one thing: that for once, England’s international summer will begin in summery weather. They face Pakistan at Edgbaston in the first of six white-ball games: three T20s then three ODIs.

Now look, strictly between us, this isn’t an Ashes summer, so there won’t be quite the same excitement as there was a year ago. But the T20 World Cup in Bangladesh is less than five months away, and England haven’t won that thing since 2009.

You don’t need help from AI to name nine, perhaps 10, of Jon Lewis’s like XI for their first World Cup game. The most open position is at No7, and two of the contenders are likely to play today. Freya Kemp, who is only able to bat at the moment because of her recovery from a back injury, will fill in for Nat Sciver-Brunt at No5. Dani Gibson is likely to be the actual No7.

England are expected to beat Pakistan, though we said the same when they played Sri Lanka a year ago. Jimmy Anderson isn’t the only legend heading for retirement; this is Pakistan’s first series without Bismah Maroof, their leading runscorer in both white-ball codes, who has called it a day after 17 years of international cricket.

The match starts at 2.30pm.