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Key events
1st over: India 5-0 (Sooryavanshi 3, Abhishek 1) Jofra Archer from the pavilion end. Starts with a wide – and Sooryavanshi swings but can only pick up a single from the second. A single to Abhishek follows. Archer is bowling clever here. A reckless pull from Sooryavanshi lumbers towards the rope and is caught up by a chasing Adil Rashid.
The players are out, the sun beats down – let’s play!
If England win today and on Saturday they go top of the world. Amidst the rubble of the red-ball team, the white ball team is quietly on the up. Perhaps a white ball only transition is the next step for Baz McCullum . Meanwhile, if India lose, it will be the first time they have ever lost two back to back T20 series.
India XI
India: Abhishek Sharma, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Ishan Kishan (wk), Shreyas Iyer (c), Tilak Varma, Shivam Dube, Washington Sundar, Axar Patel, Prince Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna
England XI
England: Phil Salt, Jos Buttler (wk), Harry Brook (c), Jacob Bethell, Tom Banton, Sam Curran, Will Jacks, Rehan Ahmed, Jofra Archer, Adil Rashid, Josh Tongue.
India win the toss and will bat!
Shreyas Iyer says he is going to have a bat, tactially India need to be up to the mark. Surface looks good. Two changes – Washington Sundar and Prasidh Krisha replace Harshit Rana and Varun Chakravarthy, who are both injured.
Harry Brook would have batted too. He says England “played awesome” at Trent Bridge. More of the same, he urges. One change: Rehan Ahmed replaces Liam Dawson.
Preamble
Hello! Come swelter with me as we watch England and India roll into match four of this under-the radar T20 series.
Today, it’s Bristol: England with a spring in their step and an unassailable two-nil lead, India with some red faces after a record international T20 defeat - bowled out for 76 in 11.4 overs at Trent Bridge. So far the Vaibhav Sooryavanshi fireworks have failed to spark – bounced out for 13 by Jofra Archer at Trent Bridge and stumped for 14 at Old Trafford. Will he light the touch paper today? Join me to find out. Toss soon, start of play 5.30BST.
