7.30pm And there it is. It's all over, red rover. What a shambles. New Zealand have been robbed on a technicality, thanks largely to the half-hour lunch break that ate up 30 minutes of the best weather we've had all day.
"In the end it was just the rain, it was getting ridiculous. We had to be consistent," says the umpire, Steve Davis. "We've got two teams out there struggling to stand in slippery conditions." He adds that the fact that the result was so close should not be a factor in the umpiring decision. "Common-sense is okay when the playing conditions don't cover it." So that clears that up then.
What a glorious advert for one-day cricket, you could almost think it's a conspiracy to hasten the demise of the format. Either way, it was fun in between the showers, but the ending was the biggest shower of the lot. Thanks for tuning in, we've been Andrew Miller and Brydon Coverdale, with Will Luke loitering in the press box.
7.15pm This is a right royal farce. No-one's officially announced that the match is over, but seeing as the boundary rope is being packed up as we speak, I think the few remaining spectators might as well give up hope now.
Six more balls, and we've got a match. England look quite happy to call it quits now, the umpires have a discussion, and that - incredibly - is that. On come the covers, though McCullum doesn't want to go anywhere. New Zealand needed to be on 134 for 2 after 20 overs to win this match - which would have been a perfectly obtainable seven runs in the over.
Ian Botham, quite rightly, is doing his nut about the half-hour break between innings. There are about 15 minutes of playing time remaining in this game, but you can hear the wind howling through the covers as they are being brought on.
Someone needs to give the camera a wipe. It's properly misted over
Plus, two old Sri Lankan foxes still going strong, an umpiring howler, and KP's English identity - all in our round-up of the on-field performance highlights from July
New Zealand finished their tour of England on a good note
Periodic fits of morality do cricket good, and the uproar over the Grant Elliott run-out might well do so, but perhaps not for the reasons that first come to mind
Umpiring howlers, a new twist on the reverse sweep, and more runs than you can shake a stick at - in our round-up of the on-field performance highlights for June
It was a day of records and near-records at Mannofield Park in Aberdeen, as a rampant New Zealand team totally outclassed a threadbare Ireland by a record ODI margin of 290 runs
