Organisers ease concern of clash between warm-ups and Rita Ora set

Organisers ease concern of clash between warm-ups and Rita Ora setImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Rita Ora will play the pre-match show while Clean Bandit will perform at the conclusionByFfion WynneBBC Sport Journalist at Lord’sPublished58 minutes agoEngland and Australia will be allowed to warm up on the Lord’s outfield before Sunday’s T20 World Cup final after all, having initially being told they could not do so until after a performance by pop star Rita Ora.The singer’s set will begin on the Lord’s outfield at 14:30 BST, half an hour before the toss and one hour before the start of play. This meant that the teams were told they would have to to start their warm-ups on the Lord’s Nursery Ground before getting access to the main outfield after the toss. But a late change has been made to allow bowlers to warm up on the main ground before the performance as well. The ICC has been asked for a comment.Pre-match performances taking place on the outfield are not unusual at World Cups and the same happened at the men’s T20 final in India earlier this year when Ricky Martin performed.The disruption will impact bowlers more, with captain Nat Sciver-Brunt saying the preference is to bowl on the practice wickets next to the match surface beforehand – and while they will still be able to do that, there will be the half-hour gap in the middle when Ora performs.”There’s a few moving parts with the pre-game stuff tomorrow,” Sciver-Brunt reported in her news conference, before the change had been unveiled. “Some of the girls’ faces when we were warming up on the Nursery Ground – people like to bowl before the game on one of the bowl-through wickets. “We had a few chins down. But I guess that’s what you get when you’re playing in a final and there’s lots of other moving parts.” Do Australia have mental edge over England before final?