10th over: India 70-8 (Rana 9, Varun 1) Varun Chakravarthy arrives in the middle with some Indian fans spotted making an early exit from Trent Bridge. Make em pay, Varun.<\/p>\n
Share<\/a><\/p>\n Remember when I said I reckon England are thirty runs short? Yeh, they\u2019re ruined going to win by three figures.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Share<\/a>WICKET! Arshdeep Singh c Buttler b Rashid 4 (India 68-8)<\/p>\n Buttler doesn\u2019t mess about with this one, India are eight down!<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 9th over: India 66-7 (Rana 8, Arshdeep 2) Tongue should have another but both Sam Curran and Jos Buttler leave the steepling catch from Arshdeep to each other! I think Curran called and then pulled out at the last. A rare blip for England in this innings.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>WICKET! Shivam Dube c Buttler b Tongue 2 (India 63-7)<\/p>\n Tongue returns and he picks up Dube! An under edged pull through to Buttler, India are collapsing in a heap in Nottingham.<\/p>\n England’s Josh Tongue celebrates after taking the wicket of India’s Shivam Dube caught out by England’s Jos Buttler. Photograph: Andrew Boyers\/Action Images\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a015.22 EDT<\/p>\n 8th over: India 60-5 (Rana 7, Dube 2) Shivam Dube is now out in the middle, surely India\u2019s last hope? Will Jacks takes the wicket and goes for just three runs off his second over.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>WICKET! Tilak Varma st Buttler b Jacks 3 (India 60-6)<\/p>\n Jos Buttler looks sheepish as he completes the stumping off Jacks with Varma missing with his charge\u2026 DRS shows the keeper just about had the ball in his gloves when he whipped off the bails. India lose another and Buttler\u2019s blushes are spared.<\/p>\n India’s Tilak Varma is stumped out by England’s Jos Buttler off the bowling of England’s Will Jacks. Photograph: Andrew Boyers\/Action Images\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a015.23 EDT<\/p>\n 7th over: India 60-5 (Varma 3, Rana 6) Rashid replaces Archer after that electric opening spell. Rana times one beautifully off his pads for four. Six off the over. Have I mentioned how much I enjoy Damm Cerveza and Lemon on a warm July evening? I bet a free case tastes even better\u2026<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 6th over: India 54-5 (Varma 2, Rana 1) Will Jacks rattles through a quick and cheap over, just two runs off it. England are cock-a-hoop. Anyone mind if I crack open a Damm Cerveza and Lemon* and some dry roasted? It feels appropriate.<\/p>\n *Surely The Guardian has done a piece on this as the drink of the summer? I\u2019m open for commissions and sponsorship\u2026)<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 5th over: India 52-5 (Varma 1, Rana 0) Will Jacks is coming on to bowl and it is Harshit Rana is out there for India, they\u2019ve torn up the batting card!<\/p>\n Share<\/a>WICKET! Axar Patel c Buttler b Archer 10 India 52-5)<\/p>\n Axar Patel counterattacks, charging Archer and getting four through the off and then ramping with style to get SIX!<\/p>\n Gone! Archer has the last laugh with his second wicket of the over, he nicks off Patel and gives a word or two to send him away with. England have five wickets inside the PowerPlay!<\/p>\n Share<\/a>WICKET! Shreyas Iyer c Bethell b Archer 5 (India 41-4)<\/p>\n Archer can\u2019t believe his luck as Iyer clips a leg stump half volley straight to Bethell at deep backward square!<\/p>\n England’s Jofra Archer celebrates after taking the wicket of India’s Axar Patel caught out by England’s Jos Buttler. Photograph: Andrew Boyers\/Action Images\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a015.24 EDT<\/p>\n 4th over: India 41-3 (Iyer 4, Axar Patel 0) Axar Patel is promoted to number 5 for India. Has he been told to steady the ship?<\/p>\n Share<\/a>WICKET! Ishan Kishan c Bethell b Tongue 13 (India 41-3)<\/p>\n Out! Kishan pulls flat but straight to Bethell on the boundary rope. England have three inside the PowerPlay!<\/p>\n England’s Jacob Bethell takes a catch to dismiss India’s Ishan Kishan off the bowling of England’s Josh Tongue. Photograph: Andrew Boyers\/Action Images\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a015.24 EDT<\/p>\n Kishan climbs into a short ball from Tongue and it clears the fence\u2026<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 3rd over: India 33-2 (Kishan 6, Iyer 4) The crowd aren\u2019t kept down for too long following Sooryavanshi\u2019s dismissal, Shreyas Iyer arrives and flicks Archer off his pads in style for four. Phew, breathless stuff at Trent Bridge.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>WICKET! Vaibhav Sooryavanshi c Buttler b Archer 13 (India 29-2)<\/p>\n Archer bowling serious gas, Ishan gets an edge that flies over the keeper for four. A single brings Sooryavanshi on strike\u2026 OUT! Archer gets his glove with a well directed bouncer at the armpit clocking 90mph, the teenage wonder is on his way!<\/p>\n England’s Jofra Archer and Jos Buttler celebrate the wicket of India’s Vaibhav Sooryavanshi. Photograph: David Davies\/PAShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a014.48 EDT<\/p>\n 2nd over: India 24-1 (Sooryavanshi 13, Kishan 1) Ishan Kishan at first drop. He gets a single off his first ball and will thus be on strike to Archer next over. Booooo!<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a014.39 EDT<\/p>\n WICKET! Abhishek Sharma c Salt b Tongue 10 (India 23-1)<\/p>\n Tongue drives a shorter ball into the surface and Abhishek can\u2019t beat Salt on the upper cut, England strike!<\/p>\n England\u2019s Josh Tongue celebrates the wicket of India\u2019s Abhishek Sharma. Photograph: David Davies\/PAShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a014.51 EDT<\/p>\n Josh Tongue starts with a full bunger that Abhishek smashes for SIX. A single to the next ball\u2026 SIX! Sooryavanshi clears his front leg and whips a length ball into the crowd. He mishits a drive next ball to get a single. \u201cHappy with one\u201d chuckles Stuart Broad on the tv commentary.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a014.51 EDT<\/p>\n 1st over: India 9-0 (Abhishek 3, Sooryavanshi 6) Abhishek swipes two into the off side to get India going. Its all the lead up to the main event though. The crowd comes alive as a quick single brings Vaibhav Sooryavanshi on strike. Archer treats him to a rapid bouncer that the Kid tries to hook for SIX but doesn\u2019t connect\u2026 he does with the next though! Vaibhav slams Archer for SIX over point second ball! Incredible shot.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a014.51 EDT<\/p>\n Here comes Abhishek Sharma and Vaibhav Sooryavanshi. They ain\u2019t going to die wondering. Jofra Archer is opening up for England. Play!<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a014.51 EDT<\/p>\n England post 201-7<\/p>\n Sam Curran drives the final ball for two to finish on 41 off 24 balls and haul England over 200, just. I have a feeling the home side are twenty to thirty runs short on this wicket. We shall see very soon.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>WICKET! Jofra Archer run out (Arshdeep Singh) 5 (England 199-3)<\/p>\n Jofra Archer slugs a welcome four into the leg side and then gets a single to get Curran on strike. Curran leaves a wide yorker that skims the tramlines. Well bowled. Archer then sacrifices himself coming back for a second run that was never there but it means Curran is on strike for the final ball\u2026<\/p>\n Jofra Archer of England is run out. Photograph: Matt West\/ShutterstockShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a014.32 EDT<\/p>\n WICKET! Will Jacks run out (Patel\/Ishan Kishan) 14 (England 192-6)<\/p>\n Big mix up between Curran and Jacks attempting a second run and Jacks is the man to be run out by a distance.<\/p>\n England’s Will Jacks is run out by India’s Ishan Kishan. Photograph: David Davies\/PAShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a014.28 EDT<\/p>\n 19th over: England 192-5 (Curran 38, Jacks 13) Excellent penultimate over from Prince Yadav. Just seven runs off it and he sees Curran spilled on the boundary. One more to come, Yadav finishes his set of four with figures of 2-30. Decent.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 18th over: England 185-5 (Curran 32, Jacks 12) Sam Curran\u2019s golden little knock continues, he whallops the hat trick ball from Rana through the covers for four and then hacks another through cover. 15 off the the over in total, England have twelve balls to go tonto.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 17th over: England 170-5 (Curran 18, Jacks 12) Will Jacks enters the fray and marmalises two SIXES right away! Clears the front leg and smites through the leg side. 18 runs and the wicket off the over!<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a013.59 EDT<\/p>\n WICKET! Phil Salt c Arshdeep Singh b Patel 70 (England 158-5)<\/p>\n Salt slots Axar Patel for SIX but perishes next ball attempting the same! Axar threw it wider and Salt top edges to deep point. Salt did well to catch up, he was on 17 off his first 19 balls but then hit 53 off his last 25. Still, he falls with a crucial final few overs to go.<\/p>\n India’s Axar Patel celebrates the wicket of England’s Phil Salt. Photograph: David Davies\/PAShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a014.31 EDT<\/p>\n 16th over: England 152-4 (Salt 64, Curran 18) Sam Curran playing a decent cameo, he hangs back and slaps a Varun google down to long on for four.<\/p>\n Egypt v Argentina is a thriller by the way. I\u2019ll forgive you a sneaky peek. I\u2019d never do such a thing though, cut me and I bleed bilateral T20.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 15th over: England 143-4 (Salt 62, Curran 11) Three singles off Arshdeep before Salt has enough and lumberjacks a length ball into the leg side on the breeze for SIX. Too full in the follow up from the bowler and Salt bunts for four more. 15 off the over, England\u2019s run rate rising to over nines. Five overs to go, they need at least 200 on this wicket I reckon.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 14th over: England 128-4 (Salt 50, Curran 9) Salt brings up his fifty off 36 balls to warm applause from the home fans at Trent Bridge. Axar whistles through a tight over though, just six off it in total for England. Arshdeep is coming back for India.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 13th over: England 122-4 (Salt 48, Curran 5) Salt pulls Prince Yadav for four and Shivam Dube has another shocker in the field to gift Sam Curran four with a failed pick up at midwicket. Salt needs to go on to a big one here for England.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 12th over: England 111-4 (Salt 42, Curran 0) Harshit Rana gets two in two and will be on a hat-trick at the start of the next over. Banton upper cut an easy catch to Varun and walked off bemused at why he did such a thing. Sam Curran is coming out to join Phil Salt, England teetering.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a013.39 EDT<\/p>\n WICKET! Tom Banton c Varun b Harshit Rana 0 (England 111-4)<\/p>\n Banton goes first ball!<\/p>\n India’s Varun Chakravarthy takes a catch to dismiss England’s Tom Banton off the bowling of India’s Harshit Rana. Photograph: Andrew Boyers\/Action Images\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a014.29 EDT<\/p>\n WICKET! Jacob Bethell c Sooryavanshi b Harshit Rana (England 111-3)<\/p>\n Bethell is well caught by Vaibhav in the deep, India celebrate with relish.<\/p>\n India’s Vaibhav Sooryavanshi takes a catch to dismiss England’s Jacob Bethell off the bowling of India’s Harshit Rana. Photograph: Andrew Boyers\/Action Images\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a014.30 EDT<\/p>\n 11th over: England 104-2 (Salt 40, Bethell 8) Salt drives Axar Patel over cover for four and then takes a single into the off side. Bethell sweeps for four to bring up England\u2019s ton. Two more singles makes it 12 off the over.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 10th over: England 92-2 (Salt 34, Bethell 2) SIX! Varun slams a short ball into the pitch but it sits up nicely for Salt who finally nails one over midwicket. He blows out his cheeks in relief. Thar she blows. Salt opens his shoulders to hit through the line and pick up four down the ground. Four more, poor bit of fielding from Prince Yadav at deep point, the spin on Salt\u2019s cut shot making s fool of him.<\/p>\n Ten done. Salt and England needed that last over but I still have them down as second at the halfway stage.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 9th over: England 74-2 (Salt 17, Bethell 1) Jacob Bethell off the mark with a leg glance to his first ball. Phil Salt is stinking the place out a little, he has 17 off 19 after being flummoxed by a slower ball bouncer and then finding the fielder with a full blooded pull shot.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>WICKET! Harry Brook c Abhishek Sharma b Prince Yadav 16 (England 71-2)<\/p>\n Brook slaps Prince Yadav over extra cover for a one bounce four but the bowler gets his revenge with the next ball! Brook swipes into the leg side and sends a towering catch into the deep where Abishek Sharma clings on! The England captain on his way.<\/p>\n India’s Abhishek Sharma catches out England’s Harry Brook. Photograph: David Davies\/PAIndia’s Prince Yadav celebrates the wicket of England’s Harry Brook. Photograph: David Davies\/PAShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a013.27 EDT<\/p>\n 8th over: England 67-1 (Salt 16, Brook 12) Leggies from Varun Chakravarthy now. Buttler and Salt combine for eight runs off it but still can\u2019t find the fence. This is becoming a problem for England.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a013.18 EDT<\/p>\n 7th over: England 59-1 (Salt 14, Brook 6) Shivam Dube starts with a slower ball bouncer that is way too wide and called so. Salt muscles one down the ground, I don\u2019t think he\u2019s middled one all innings. Sure enough he gets a toed end on the next and it squirts away for four. Brook clips for two into the leg side, England have only hit six boundaries so far and Buttler hit four of those.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 6th over: England 49-1 (Salt 8, Brook 3) Not much Buttler could have done with that torpedo tbh. Harry Cherrington Brook replaces him out in the middle. This\u2019ll be a quiet few overs\u2026 not. Having said that, tight fielding from India means there are only singles and one mistimed pull from Brook for two off the rest of the over. PowerPlay done, India on top.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>WICKET! Jos Buttler b Prince Yadav 36 (England 43-1)<\/p>\n Prince Yadav yorks Jos Buttler with his very first ball! Sayonara!<\/p>\n England’s Jos Buttler is bowled out by India’s Prince Yadav. Photograph: Andrew Boyers\/Action Images\/ReutersYadav celebrates. Photograph: Andrew Boyers\/Action Images\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a013.11 EDT<\/p>\n 5th over: England 43-0 (Salt 6, Buttler 36) Rana changes ends but Buttler don\u2019t care, he kabblamoes his first ball over the leg side for SIX. Brutal. Buttler then snaps those wrists on a yorker and somehow gets it back down the ground for four. A single brings Salt on strike for the final ball of the over, he has a wild swish at the last ball and completely misses, throwing his head back and screaming some effing and jeffing up into the blue Nottingham skies. It\u2019s not happening for him at the moment.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 4th over: England 32-0 (Salt 6, Buttler 25) Axar Patel into the attack, beats Buttler with some extra bounce first ball. Slam! Buttler launches the next ball over the bowler\u2019s head for SIX. Buttler picks up two through the covers and then swishes a pull through the vacant leg side for four. 13 off the over.<\/p>\n \u201cEvening James, evening everyone. I\u2019m looking forward to following the OBO today, in and around various other sporting events this evening. Fingers crossed for a good shoot out between Archer and The Kid later on!\u201d<\/p>\n Girds loinded for this indeed Neil Withers (who thank the Lord is still\u2026)<\/p>\n \u201cCan I get a shout out to my Royal Society of Chemistry cricket club team mates? We\u2019re currently propping up the Cambridge Business House League division four<\/a> on nul points – sadly our sole win so far this season was a friendly!\u201d<\/p>\n If you OBO it, the wins will come \u2013 I think it was Kevin Costner who said that?<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 3rd over: England 19-0 (Salt 6, Buttler 12) Buttler manages to get four over mid off with a miss hit off Arshdeep. The bowler follows up with two extremely wide yorkers, one of which is called a wide. Pressure building on England\u2019s openers\u2026 Buttler gives it the full shoulder shimmy and slams a pull shot over midwicket for four. Twelve off the over in total.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 2nd over: England 7-0 (Salt 5, Buttler 2) Harshit Rana starts with two dots and then Buttler gets England away to ironic cheers with a bunt for a single to mid on. Salt then collects their first boundary with a clip off his pads for four. Two singles down the ground make it seven off the second over. Quiet start for England.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 1st over: England 0-0 (Salt 0, Buttler 0) Trent Bridge looks an absolute picture on this sunny July evening. Arshdeep starts accurately, pinning Salt on the crease for three dots in a row and then zeroing one onto his shin. It looked leg-sidey in realtime but India like it enough to send it upstairs\u2026 NOT OUT \u2013 it pitched outside leg.<\/p>\n Close again! Nearly a carbon copy with the fifth ball, Salt beaten for pace again, luckily for him it was swinging down past leg stump. BEATEN! What a first over from Arshdeep Singh and India, Salt nearly cleaned up with the final ball, it swings back and misses off stump by a gnat\u2019s eyelash. A lesser spotted T20I maiden to begin proceedings.<\/p>\n India’s Arshdeep Singh unsuccessfully appeals for LBW against England’s Phil Salt. Photograph: John Mallett\/ProSports\/ShutterstockShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a013.12 EDT<\/p>\n Righto, here come the players. Jos Buttler and Phil Salt to open up for England with the bat. Arshdeep Singh for India with the ball. Let\u2019s play!<\/p>\n Jos Buttler makes his way out to bat. Photograph: Matt West\/ShutterstockShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a012.39 EDT<\/p>\n Pre game reading:<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Teams:<\/p>\n Vaibhav plays again (hooray) and Prince Yadav is in for Ravi Bishnoi. England are unchanged from Manchester.<\/p>\n England: Phil Salt, Jos Buttler (wk), Harry Brook (c), Jacob Bethell, Tom Banton, Sam Curran, Will Jacks, Liam Dawson, Adil Rashid, Jofra Archer, Josh Tongue<\/p>\n India: Abhishek Sharma, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Ishan Kishan (wk), Shreyas Iyer (c), Tilak Varma, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Harshit Rana, Prince Yadav, Arshdeep Singh Varun Chakravarthy<\/p>\n Share<\/a>India win the toss and choose to field<\/p>\n Ravi Shastri\u2019s voice sonic booms around the entire midlands region as Shreyas Iyer and Harry Brook carry out the toss. Iyer calls the coin correctly and inserts England. Curious and Curioser. The pitch looks like a road and there are short boundaries either side, maybe India just fancy themselves to be able to chase whatever England set them?<\/p>\n
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