Key events<\/p>\n
Half century! Harry Brook 50 from 19 balls<\/p>\n
10th over: England 111-1 (Buttler 46, Brook 50) Axar Patel is having a mare. Starts the over with two more sixes from Brook, banging him dead straight. Four runs behind point, then five wides past the keeper! Sanju Samson should have stopped that, Axar trying to bowl tight into the pads to deny Brook room to swing his arms, but straying fractionally. The over costs 25! England are on for 200+ at this rate. I thought we were about to mention a Buttler fifty, but Brook has beaten him there.<\/p>\n
There have only been three England 50s faster than 19 balls (Moeen, Livingstone, Buttler) and three others from 19 balls (Salt, Salt, Bethell). So Brook is right up there.<\/p>\n
Share<\/a><\/p>\n 9th over: England 86-1 (Buttler 45, Brook 31) Brook is looking very good when he makes contact. Smacks Prince Yadav over mid off for four. Buttler follows up with a boundary that takes him past Alex Hales\u2019 mark of 14,449 runs in all T20 cricket. Buttler is about 100 runs short of Chris Gayle in second spot, and about 300 short of Kieran Pollard in first, but Hales and Pollard are both still current players on the circuit, so the race continues.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 8th over: England 73-1 (Buttler 39, Brook 25) Here\u2019s Shedge, with some modest looking medium pace, but he dishes up four dots in a row to Buttler. Beats the scoop, makes him miscue the pull. Then some support on the backward point boundary saves Shedge from conceding four, only two as Buttler deflects the ball. Last ball? Shedge has done very well! A single to cover.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 7th over: England 70-1 (Buttler 36, Brook 25) Five balls from Axar Patel without a six is as many as Brook is prepared to tolerate. Skips down to the last ball from the left-arm spinner and pings it over the cover rope.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 6th over: England 61-1 (Buttler 34, Brook 18) Ohhh dear. Shivam Dube makes rather of a hash of that catch attempt. Prince Yadav has Brook smacking one straight up in the air, Dube has ground to make up towards deep third, but loses his bearings vis-a-vis the ball in the sky. Twisting, turning, like a paper figurine strung on a mobile, he in the end doesn\u2019t get a hand to the ball as it comes to rest untouched.<\/p>\n What does Harry Brook do? He carts the next two balls over the leg side for six.<\/p>\n That over costs 17, the last went for 15, so England end up with a good Powerplay after a poor start.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 5th over: England 44-1 (Buttler 33, Brook 3) Now the ramp to the other side of the pitch! Arshdeep\u2019s third over, Buttler taxes the first ball for four. That ball isn\u2019t full either, it\u2019s quite short, but the batter gets a touch on it. Now six, smeared over deep mid. A brace, and pinches the strike again last ball of the over with a single. Keep waiting, Harry.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 4th over: England 29-1 (Buttler 18, Brook 3) There\u2019s the scoop from Buttler, simply placing the bat in place and allowing the ball to do the work, which it does for four. Prasidh Krishna though gets the following ball to keep low, that\u2019s interesting, it crashes into Buttler\u2019s thigh from a short length. Not so a couple of balls later, as Krishna dishes one up full outside off, and Buttler creams it down the ground for six. An off-side wide to follow. Late single means that Buttler keeps strike, maybe the former captain is trying to make sure that the new bloke gets a few minutes to calm down. A dozen from the over.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 3rd over: England 17-1 (Buttler 7, Brook 3) Buttler finally gets a shot away, decent pull shot against Arshdeep to the fence, but it\u2019s the only notable score from the over, and a quiet start for England extends to half the Powerplay.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Andrew Cosgrove emails in. \u201cI have spent most of the day stuck in a Bengaluru traffic jam, so like you I chuckled to hear that the Indian coach has been delayed. Presumably over here they get a police escort to clear the road ahead (although there\u2019s only so much that can do, I suppose). I\u2019ve been discussing with my (Indian) partner, maybe it would have been worth trying Sooryavanshi at 3 or 4 to take a bit of the pressure off. What do you think?\u201d<\/p>\n I\u2019d say that in many ways there\u2019s less pressure as an opener, because you don\u2019t have to adapt to different match situations. The Kid has a clear plan to hit big as early as possible, so doing that with the field up is in his favour. He\u2019s more devastating against pace than spin, so opening makes it more likely that he\u2019ll get pace. And he\u2019s not been cowed by facing big-name bowlers, so there\u2019s no real downside. Just that it\u2019s not as easy to launch bowling on varying pitches around the world as it is on IPL pitches.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 2nd over: England 10-1 (Buttler 1, Brook 2) Giant ugly swat at the ball from, who else, Harry Brook. Misses the lot. Ishan Kishan has had the gloves taken off him today by Samson, but he\u2019s still trying to play wicketkeeper from cover, appealing for a catch and then lobbying for a review. The captain ignores him, and Brook had missed it on the replay. Brook off the mark next ball pulling two.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>WICKET! Salt c Shedge b Krishna 6, England 8-1<\/p>\n Prasidh Krishna, who is both the giant and the beanstalk, opens up from the other end, and the first boundary of the day comes via a Phil Salt straight drive. Nothing huge or wallopy, as is often his wont. Crisp past the bowler. But that\u2019s as good as his day will get, as he lines up the next ball and whacks it out to deep square leg, and while there are only two boundary riders allowed so early in the innings, he has found one of them on the full. Shedge on debut takes the catch.<\/p>\n Prasidh Krishna celebrates taking the wicket of Phil Salt. Photograph: Graham Hunt\/ProSports\/ShutterstockShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a010.15 EDT<\/p>\n 1st over: England 4-0 (Salt 2, Buttler 1) Another quiet opening over for England with the bat. Arshdeep Singh is swinging the ball with his left-arm efforts, and neither Salt nor Buttler tries anything expansive.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Looks like we\u2019re finally going to get a game.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Teams – The Kid is out<\/p>\n Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has indeed been dropped for the first time in his career, with Samson coming back, and Suryansh Shedge making his debut. His surname doesn\u2019t rhyme with hedge, if you\u2019re wondering, it\u2019s pronounced more like Shed-geh.<\/p>\n Dawson comes in for England, spinning all-rounder.<\/p>\n England India Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a010.11 EDT<\/p>\n Harry Brook says he wanted to bat anyway, so happy days. Iyer says the wicket won\u2019t change much, so presumably India want to know the task ahead of them with the bat.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>India win the toss and will bowl<\/p>\n Shreyas Iyer calls heads correctly, and there\u2019s a small bump in fortunes for India.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n There we have it: the toss will be 45 minutes after the scheduled time, then a shortened break before play, which will start 30 minutes after the scheduled time.<\/p>\n Photograph: Graham Hunt\/ProSports\/ShutterstockShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a009.40 EDT<\/p>\n Footage on the telly of India\u2019s players arriving at the ground. We\u2019re waiting on revised start times.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Also remarkable, considering the adventure that is travelling by road in Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi, Bengaluru, that Indian teams still consistently reach the ground on time in all of those places, but had to come to England to get a bad enough traffic jam to keep them from playing.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Start delayed<\/p>\n This is a comical one. The start of this match will be delayed. Not because of rain, not because of lightning. Not because of bees. Not because of stray crossbow bolts. No, the start of this match will be delayed because of\u2026 traffic.<\/p>\n The Indian bus is stuck in traffic, and the players couldn\u2019t get to the ground in time.<\/p>\n Who would have predicted that the cricket ground nestled between two motorways, miles outside of the nearest town, with no reasonable means of getting there by public transport, would have problems with traffic?<\/p>\n Ah well, good thing there\u2019s an Ashes Test scheduled there next year, no doubt that will go swimmingly.<\/p>\n
Phil Salt
Jos Buttler +
Harry Brook *
Jacob Bethell
Tom Banton
Sam Curran
Will Jacks
Liam Dawson
Jofra Archer
Adil Rashid
Josh Tongue<\/p>\n
Sanju Samson +
Abishek Sharma
Ishan Kishan
Shreyas Iyer *
Shivam Dube
Tilak Varma
Suryansh Shedge
Axar Patel
Prince Yadav
Arshdeep Singh
Prasidh Krishna<\/p>\n