It's not Curran, Jordan Clark comes into the attack and Nick Gubbins tries to hook his first ball into the leg side from well outside off but getting a huge top edge which, thankfully for him, drops safely.

Four byes follow from Clark's second delivery, again due to some real late swing after the ball comes off the deck, with Ollie Pope unable to cling on diving to his right.

Gubbins plays and misses at the next and then sees his outside edge beaten by Clark from the fuller next ball before Gubbins defends the final delivery into the leg side.

Matt Fisher is asking some questions here, getting the ball to come back at these left-handers, but not quite enough.

Nick Gubbins moves to 23* with a single and will be on strike as Tom Curran returns from the other end.

Nick Gubbins picks up a single off Tom Curran to bring Jake Lehmann onto strike.

The Australian lefty gets off the mark with a glorious cover drive, perfectly-timed, which sends dozens of children scampering down the stands in the hope the ball will pop over the hoarding.

Sadly for them it does not.

Another four byes as Tom Curran slings one down the leg side and though Ollie Pope gets a glove to it, he can't prevent the ball racing to the fence.

A single gets Ali Orr off the mark at the 10th attempt and brings up the Hampshire 50 before Nick Gubbins is struck outside the line, to muted appeals, to end the over.

Matt Fisher has his head in his hands and Ollie Pope has a rueful grin.

Fisher has got this ball to Ali Orr to come back an absolute mile, it beats off stump and then swings wildly back towards the leg side and Pope is unable to gather despite diving full length to his right as it races away to fine leg for four byes.

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Matt Fisher is getting the Hollywood treatment as he retreats to field at long leg, with school children in fluorescent tabards flooding down the stands in search of an autograph.

RSI from signing his name is a real concern here. One to watch.

Tom Curran sends down a no-ball from his third delivery to buy him some more time before Nick Gubbins produces a glorious drive down the ground for four to long-off.

Curran replied by beating the outside edge and Gubbins clips the final delivery through mid-wicket for another four, beating Sam Curran's slide to the rope, to take Gubbins onto 20*.

Nick Gubbins rolls his wrists to pick up the first boundary of the day off Matt Fisher, clipping off leg-stump to the deep square rope, across the soggy outfield.

A single takes him to 12*.

The track is every bit as green as it was yesterday, of course.

Testing conditions for batting, but the wet ball won't help the bowlers either.

Mark Church
BBC Radio London commentator

Ground staff do work hard, across the country, amazing how much work they get through.

When I arrived this morning it wasn't actually raining but the covers were all on, they knew it was coming, and it means they were able to mop up quicker.

Whoever does Ollie Pope's laundry is going to be working overtime tonight, the ball is hooping about after hitting the deck and he's flinging himself around like Jordan Pickford in a goalmouth scramble trying to prevent extras.

Toby Albert picks up a couple with a push off the second ball of Tom Curran's first full over of the day to move to 16*.

Nick Gubbins clips Matt Fisher's second ball to fine leg for a couple and then does the same two balls later for another two.

The deficit is under 400, important psychological milestone, of course...

The umpires have already had a conflab as it's drizzling and a couple of umbrellas have popped up.

Matt Fisher will bowl the first full over of day two.

First runs of the day are byes as Tom Curran gets one to shape away, well away, from Toby Albert.

Ollie Pope, keeping wicket, can't corral it diving across first slip.

We made it, people.

Tom Curran has four balls of his aborted over to bowl.

Nick Gubbins and Toby Albert in the middle. It's very murky and the lights are on.

Let's enjoy it while we can...

The final cover is being hauled off... we're going to get some play.

I implore you to tune into BBC Radio London via the watch and listen tab at the top of the page.

The children are greeting the umpires like a One Direction concert, according to Mark Church of BBC Radio London.

Ugh. Not good. It seems the 13:45 BST restart might be pushed back slightly, by how long remains to be seen.

There is another shower of rain lurking on the radar, but the track remains uncovered for now and the players are out there in whites on the boundary edge.

You raise an unfortunate point, Steven. Hopefully some parents will be badgered into bringing them back later in the day.

For now they can enjoy watching the Surrey bowlers going through their paces and the final covers being removed from the outfield.