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James Wallace
Winter is coming here.
Hello and welcome to the start of England’s epic winter of cricket. To start things off, a three match T20I series followed by three ODIs against New Zealand. Today’s match will begin in about half an hour in Christchurch.
Don’t call it an Ashes warm up game. No honestly. Don’t mention the A word at all. Jacob Bethell gets a sparkling ton against the Black Caps today? Pay it never mind, there’s a T20 World Cup on the horizon, all roads do not lead to Perth on the 21st November. Ahem.
The coin will be tossed shortly but we already know the sides with both teams confirming their XI’s in advance.
New Zealand: 1 Tim Seifert (wk), 2 Rachin Ravindra, 3 Tim Robinson, 4 Mark Chapman, 5 Daryl Mitchell, 6 Michael Bracewell, 7 James Neesham, 8 Mitchell Santner (c), 9 Kyle Jamieson, 10 Matt Henry, 11 Jacob Duffy.
England: 1 Phil Salt, 2 Jos Buttler (wk), 3 Jacob Bethell, 4 Harry Brook (c), 5 Tom Banton, 6 Sam Curran, 7 Jordan Cox, 8 Brydon Carse, 9 Liam Dawson, 10 Adil Rashid, 11 Luke Wood.
It’s early for a Saturday morning here in Blighty but if you are tuning in then give us a shout in the usual way.