Despite his hopes for Saturday's first session, Finn said it was "obviously frustrating" that England were not able to take the new ball with thick cloud cover overhead on Friday evening as the umpires ruled the light had become too poor.

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With the ball moving about under cloud cover and half the side gone for 183, Hampshire were in danger of wasting Carberry's enterprise.

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Following the wash-out at Headingley and the six-wicket thrashing in Bristol, Gayle opted for action with the ball after winning the toss as heavy cloud circled the long queues battling to get inside Edgbaston.

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If there had been just one puffy trawler, a little tugboat of a cloud, even so much as a cotton ball of vapor against the blue, he would have hoped.

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Amateur video show by Russian television depicted a white streak of light like the cloud from a jetliner quickly expanding to a large white ball that eventually sent shock waves throughout the city of Chelyabinsk.

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Over by the street-vendors, setting up their food stalls to tempt the hungry and exhausted, young men kick a ball about until the last of the light fades, scuffing up a cloud of dust with every footfall.

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Much of the cloud cover visible at the start of play quickly dispersed and Cook hit his first ball - a weak Johnson loosener - for four.

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