35th over: England 87-4 (Stokes 8, Bairstow 1) Thank you Jonathan, great stuff and good morning from 3am dirty-wet Manchester. I paused in the kitchen for a Boxing day spoonful of trifle just as Joe Root went fishing outside off stump - I don’t think there’s a link. Anyway, here we are again: Stokes improves the addition slightly by pulling Starc for four off the last ball of the over.

34th over: England 82-4 (Stokes 4, Bairstow 0) Stokes continues to wander down the pitch to bowlers who seem to relish the prospect. Boland is the paceman on this occasion who roars an appeal for leg before with Stokes in no-man’s land. England in quicksand.

And with that, I shall hand you over to Tanya Aldred. Catch you here tomorrow!