India vs New Zealand, Final - Live Cricket Score, Commentary

10.10 am local - Building up

Little surprise that the wet weather in Southampton has lasted exactly the length of a Test match. It's bright and sunny in Southampton currently, promising a fascinating final day's play ahead that will give us the inaugural WTC winner. Or winners, depending on how this day goes.

Thank goodness for this reserve sixth day in place, which will allow us to make up for some of the overs lost to rain, bad light, wet outfield and just cricket things in general. Else we would have been sitting in our homes wondering just what the weather has against our sport. We can still do that by the way.

Yesterday was a whole lot fun. India started the day with slightly wrong lengths but Mohammed Shami, who didn't take the new ball once again, showed just what could have been. A four-wicket burst from the pacer that helped India keep the deficit to 32. Kaushik Rangarajan sums up the Shami factor in this fantastic piece. Rob Johnston takes you through the ebbing-and-flowing day in his match copy and leaves us with this line: "Perhaps the sixth, and final, day will have one more twist in the tale as well." We hope so too, Rob.