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23rd over: India 120-3 (Kohli 45, Shreyas 6) Curran does continue and almost bags another scalp as he bangs the ball into the pitch, drawing a leading edge from Shreyas that just drops short of backward point.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnother outstanding over from Sam Curran,\u201d says Eoin Morgan. In a perfect world, those two would be in charge of this 50-over side \u2013 Curran as captain, Morgan as coach.<\/p>\n
Share<\/a><\/p>\n 22nd over: India 118-3 (Kohli 44, Shreyas 5) Brook springs a surprise by taking Jacks off and bringing back Rashid. Kohli takes a single and Shreyas doesn\u2019t mess about, going inside-out to drive over extra-cover for four. India have so many captains in this team: Rohit and Kohli, who used to run the show; Gill, who does so now; and Shreyas, who does so in T20s.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a009.46 EDT<\/p>\n 21st over: India 111-3 (Kohli 42, Shreyas 0) Sam Curran, who so often makes an impact with bat or ball, has changed the game here. He came on after 16 overs with India sailing along at 103-1. Since then, India have made 8-2 off five overs. Are they England in disguise?<\/p>\n Share<\/a>WICKET! Ishan Kishan c&b Curran 1 (India 111-3)<\/p>\n Curran strikes! And again it\u2019s a toe-end job as Kishan, befuddled by a bouncer, can only pop it back to the bowler.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 20th over: India 110-2 (Kohli 41, Kishan 1) Jacks, not content with defeating one old gent, is bothering the other. Coming round the wicket with his off-breaks, Jacks fires one in and draws Kohli into a Harrow drive. Jacks has 2-0-6-1, so maybe the decision to dump Liam Dawson was harsh but wise.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 19th over: India 105-2 (Kohli 37, Kishan 0) Sam Curran is still bang on the money with his 57 varieties of seam. Only one run off the over and still none from the new batter, Ishan Kishan. His name, by the way, is not the rhyme you might assume: at the toss, Shubman Gill called him I-SHAN Kishn.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 18th over: India 104-2 (Kohli 36, Kishan 0) Sky have Ravi Bopara commentating and he\u2019s just made a good point about that dismissal. There was no fielder on the 45, as the pros say \u2013 at short fine leg \u2013 which may have lured Rohit into the sweep.<\/p>\n Correction: a replay shows that it wasn\u2019t a top edge, it was a toe-end. So maybe Jacks deceived Rohit in the flight.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a009.29 EDT<\/p>\n WICKET! Rohit c Buttler b Jacks 24 (India 104-2)<\/p>\n The breakthrough England badly needed! Will Jacks comes on and does the business. Rohit, after getting away with top-edging a couple of pulls, does the same with a sweep and gives Jos Buttler the simplest of catches.<\/p>\n Jos Buttler takes the catch to dismiss Rohit Sharma. Photograph: Steven Paston\/PAShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a009.35 EDT<\/p>\n 17th over: India 103-1 (Rohit 26, Kohli 35) Kohli has been asking questions with his urgency and one of them is this: what have you got, Harry? The answer for now is Sam Curran, who \u2013 long before Brook\u2019s time \u2013 bowled well to Kohli as a teenage Test rookie in 2018. Curran, bowling to Rohit, starts so well that Kohli doesn\u2019t get to face him in this over: it\u2019s a maiden!<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 16th over: India 103-1 (Rohit 26, Kohli 35) The usually steady Atkinson comes up with a bag of licorice allsorts, straying down the leg side to concede four leg-byes and a wide. There are two dots in there too, but when Atkinson tries a yorker, Kohli dismisses it with a straight drive that bounces up and over the bowler\u2019s head. That\u2019s quite an altitude.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Drinks: India cruising<\/p>\n 15th over: India 90-1 (Rohit 23, Kohli 29) Kohli, who usually prefers to keep his bat upright, suddenly slog-sweeps Rashid for four. Like the cut in Rashid\u2019s previous over, it was brutal. And that\u2019s drinks with India\u2019s old guns firing nicely.<\/p>\n Virat Kohli thumps a boundary. Photograph: Graham Hunt\/ProSports\/ShutterstockShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a009.15 EDT<\/p>\n 14th over: India 84-1 (Rohit 23, Kohli 24) Atkinson is bowling well enough to bother the usually serene Rohit. He starts this over by going past the edge and finishes by finding it as Rohit skies a pull \u2013 but it lands harmlessly between two fielders at deep backward square.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 13th over: India 76-1 (Rohit 21, Kohli 23) All three of these veterans are in the mood, no mean feat when you\u2019ve played a million games. Rashid, tossing the ball up nicely, gets a moral victory over Kohli by finding his inside edge. But Kohli has the last laugh for now, picking the googly and dispatching it with a savage cut.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a009.03 EDT<\/p>\n 12th over: India 73-1 (Rohit 19, Kohli 17) Atkinson continues and Rohit suddenly accelerates by playing his signature shot, the front-foot swivel-pull for six.<\/p>\n The next email has the subject line \u201cRolling Stones\u2019 tongue symbol,\u201d surely an OBO first. \u201cKeith Richards,\u201d says John Starbuck, \u201conce denied that the tongue logo was based on Mick Jagger\u2019s. It\u2019s supposed to be the tongue of Kali and therefore a nod to Indian culture.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a009.04 EDT<\/p>\n 11th over: India 64-1 (Rohit 12, Kohli 16) Brook brings on his spinner, Adil Rashid, who is as much of an old stager as these two batters. It\u2019s like going to see the Rolling Stones.<\/p>\n Rashid starts strongly, allowing only three singles, but England need wickets.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 10th over: India 61-1 (Rohit 10, Kohli 15) Yes, Kohli is up for this all right. After treating Atkinson with respect in the eighth over, he is dismissive now, hitting two fours of different stripes \u2013 a funky swing over midwicket and an old-school cover-drive, with a tuck for two in between. The powerplay ends with India on top \u2013 even though Rohit has been crawling along in the slow lane. He has made 10 off 18 balls, handing the spotlight to his partners, who have 46 off 42.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 9th over: India 50-1 (Rohit 10, Kohli 5) Brook keeps Jofra Archer on, hoping he\u2019ll nab Kohli again after getting him plumb LBW for 5 on Tuesday. Kohli looks as if he\u2019s acutely aware of it too, moving his feet decisively and driving for four down the ground.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 8th over: India 44-1 (Rohit 9, Kohli 0) So that was a textbook start from Gus Atkinson: 1-1-0-1. And hre comes Virat Kohli, greeted by a banner saying \u201cI\u2019ll buy you dinner Virat, if you don\u2019t retire\u201d. Not sure it will make all the difference.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>WICKET! Gill c Duckett b Atkinson 31 (India 44-1)<\/p>\n The big one! A change of bowling, and a fine catch, do the trick. Gill sees a half-volley outside off. His eyes light up but his feet aren\u2019t quite there and his drive is uppish. It heads straight for Duckett, who takes it very coolly, just in front of his right shoulder.<\/p>\n Gus Atkinson makes the first breakthrough! Photograph: Gareth Copley\/Getty ImagesShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a008.47 EDT<\/p>\n 7th over: India 44-0 (Rohit 9, Gill 31) England need a spark, a great catch or a direct hit or a bold bit of captaincy. Brook keeps his faith in Archer, who keeps Gill honest with three dots and a single, helped by a fine stop in the covers from Duckett. Archer again bothers Rohit with a lifter as a pull turns into a leading edge, but it doesn\u2019t fly upwards and England are still empty-handed.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 6th over: India 42-0 (Rohit 9, Gill 30) This is now a one-man show. Saqib Mahmood persists with his full length, making it all too easy for Gill, who tucks him away for four, four and three. After making 11 off his first 17 balls, Gill has added 19 off the past five. He\u2019s in a league of his own.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 5th over: India 30-0 (Rohit 9, Gill 19) Good again from Jofra, who keeps Gill in the crease and reels off four dots. But the fifth ball is too full and Gill helps himself to an on-drive for four. The sixth is good enough to keep most batters quiet, but Gill\u2019s eye is in now and he turns a length ball into a long hop, cutting it for four with princely timing. This could be another long afternoon for England.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 4th over: India 22-0 (Rohit 9, Gill 11) Mahmood starts his over with a couple of dots. Gill, often so classical, responds by dancing down the track and blasting a drive over cover. Start Me Up!<\/p>\n Mahmood hits Gill\u2019s pad and the umpire shakes his head. Brook opts to review, unwisely, as there was an inside edge that could be heard in London.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 3rd over: India 17-0 (Rohit 9, Gill 6) Archer continues, pitching full, finding swing, troubling both these master batters. Then he goes short, rushing Rohit into a top edge, and the catch is dropped by Gus Atkinson at long leg. Archer has been so unlucky, in all formats, since he returned from the IPL.<\/p>\n Gus Atkinson drops the catch from Rohit Sharma. Photograph: Graham Hunt\/ProSports\/ShutterstockShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a008.21 EDT<\/p>\n 2nd over: India 11-0 (Rohit 4, Gill 6) Another lesson from Tuesday might be: don\u2019t stray onto Shubman\u2019s pads. Saqib Mahmood gives him a straight half-volley and pays the price as Gill\u2019s wrists do the rest. But Saqib too finds the edge of Gill\u2019s bat as another controlled nick squirts away for a single. Rohit comes to the party with a languid push for three, well retrieved by Harry Brook, two inches from the Toblerone. Dinesh Karthik reckons it should have been given as a four, so bear it in mind if England win off the last ball.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 1st over: India 3-0 (Rohit 1, Gill 1) Archer\u2019s first ball is in the corridor of uncertainty and Rohit Sharma edges it, safely, for a single. That gives the strike to the alarmingly in-form Shubman Gill. Archer greets him with a wide \u2013 something England kept dishing up on Tuesday \u2013 but then he\u2019s back on the money, swinging the ball and drawing a thick inside edge, then another outside edge. A pretty good start for England.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n The players are out there and Jofra Archer has the ball. He\u2019s having to do a lot of work these days.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n The first email comes from an old friend. \u201cAt least,\u201d says Brian Withington, \u201ctoday\u2019s match format denies any opportunity to play Tuchelball by parking the bus with ill-judged defensive substitutions mid-game, even in the most unlikely event of England\u2019s other foreign coach being tempted to exhibit such craven behaviour.<\/p>\n \u201dUnlike in Test cricket, you can\u2019t even pack the boundary areas either and desperately try to buy a wicket with a barrage of short stuff. Just need to get the selection right up front, play well, be brave and demonstrate astute captaincy throughout. Easy game really.<\/p>\n \u201dWhat could possibly go wrong?\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a007.56 EDT<\/p>\n England have a problem \u2013 well, lots of them, but the most pressing one is at the top of the order. They have somehow turned Ben Duckett into Alastair Cook, making steady runs while his opening partners come and go.<\/p>\n Since Brendon McCullum took over the 50-over team in September 2024, Duckett has played 24 games and made about a thousand runs (993 at an average of 41). His partners in those games have done about half as well (510 at 21). Duckett has passed fifty eight times, the rest only three times. There have been five of them \u2013 Phil Salt, Jamie Smith, Zak Crawley, Rehan Ahmed and now Jacob Bethell \u2013 and only the first two have had a decent run, though Bethell may yet get one<\/p>\n Bethell was all at sea on Tuesday, trudging to 14 off 31 balls, and he does seem a strange choice, given that he\u2019s a left-hander like Duckett. As Mike Atherton has just pointed out on Sky, England players seldom appear in 50-over cricket for their counties, so someone like Bethell is having to learn the ropes on the big stage. It will be impressive if he can make 40 today.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a008.45 EDT<\/p>\n The sponsors\u2019 mat that comes out for the toss was carrying an unexpected logo oday: the tongue that represents the Rolling Stones. \u201cOne of the iconic bands of the world,\u201d said Ravi Shastri, sounding a little out of his comfort zone.<\/p>\n \u201cNo shit, Shastri,\u201d muttered a cricket writer who also does music reviews.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Teams in brief: Dawson ditched, Rahul indisposed<\/p>\n England make two changes and tacitly admit that they got it wrong at Edgbaston by replacing a spinner with a seamer. In come Gus Atkinson and Saqib Mahmood; out go Josh Tongue and Liam Dawson, whose batting may be sorely missed.<\/p>\n For India, there\u2019s just one change and it’s enforced. KL Rahul, who is unwell, hands the wicketkeeping gloves to Ishan Kishan.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Toss: England win and bowl first<\/p>\n Shubman Gill calls wrong and Harry Brook opts to have a bowl on a ground where chasing tends to be the way to go. Gill says he would have bowled first too.<\/p>\n