England, still looking to correct their course after the winter’s Ashes defeat. could still progress with defeat by Scotland but it would require a series of results to go their way. <\/p>\n
The Scots are in a similar position, likely needing to win to hold onto hopes of progressing.<\/p>\n
England have named an unchanged team, with Tom Banton keeping his place over spare batter Ben Duckett.<\/p>\n
Banton, who has been out for two in both innings in the tournament so far, and Brook were both dismissed tamely chipping catches off West Indies spinner Gudakesh Motie on Wednesday. <\/p>\n
It came as England, who came into this World Cup having won 10 of their past 11 T20s, lost six wickets in succession against spin in the middle overs.<\/p>\n
“I can’t give insights into the mentalities of other guys, but sometimes it can creep in a little bit,” said Salt, who thrashed 30 from 14 balls before the slide.<\/p>\n
“The differences between playing in bilateral series and tournament play, they are two different things, but the main takeaways from that game were we did possibly bat a bit too tentatively.”<\/p>\n
The match will be played in Kolkata – the same day as Scotland host England in the Calcutta Cup in the Six Nations.<\/p>\n
The rugby union trophy originated in the city, at Calcutta rugby club, formed of British expats who melted down silver rupees to create the silverware.<\/p>\n
“It’s obviously a pretty cool day for everyone,” said Scotland bowler Brad Wheal.<\/p>\n
“We just want to go out there and do our country proud. <\/p>\n
“So it’s a big day for Scottish sport and obviously a massive opportunity for both teams to get a big win going ahead.”<\/p>\n
Scotland have played both of their matches so far at this World Cup in Kolkata – a defeat by West Indies<\/a> and a convincing win over Italy<\/a> – which should give them an advantage.<\/p>\n They impressively reached 90-0 in 10 overs before rain intervened when the sides met at the last T20 World Cup in Barbados.<\/p>\n England travelled from Mumbai on Thursday and trained on Friday evening, though many of their players have experience of Eden Gardens from the Indian Premier League and past internationals.<\/p>\n Salt was an IPL winner with Kolkata Knight Riders in 2024 and has scored five fifties in nine T20 innings on this ground. <\/p>\n “Usually it’s ever so slightly on the slower side and it’s a bit tennis ball bouncy,” Salt said.<\/p>\n “I think very much it’s been a new ball wicket from my days playing here and at the same time the power play is crucial. <\/p>\n “If you win the powerplay here you’re in a great position.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England, still looking to correct their course after the winter’s Ashes defeat. could still progress with defeat by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-425011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}