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Liam Dawson returns to the England facet for the primary time since 2022. That’s a significant victory for the Wisden podcast, to not point out Liam Dawson. Jamie Smith will open within the absence of Phil Salt, who’s on paternity go away, and Will Jacks continues his ODL function at No7.
West Indies have a miles more potent facet than within the ODI sequence, with horrifying intensity of their batting – Andre Russell is at No9.
England Smith, Duckett, Buttler (wk), Brook (c), Banton, Bethell, Jacks, Dawson, Carse, Rashid, Potts.
West Indies Charles, Lewis, Hope (c/wk) Chase, Rutherford, Powell, Holder, Shepherd, Motie, A Joseph.
England win the toss and bat
“Looks like a good pitch and hopefully we can put a good score on the board,” says Harry Brook. The native lad Matthew Potts, who was once unnoticed from the Test squad previous within the week, will make his IT20 debut.
Big interview: Andre Russell
The guy with the largest muscle groups in cricket talks to Andre Russell.
“The one off Hardik Pandya at the Wankhede in the 2016 World Cup,” he says when requested to call his favorite six. “That one was just massive. Perfect swing. Right out of the middle.” There’s a second of silence earlier than Russell blows out his cheeks on the reminiscence. “That one was crazy.” You can glance it up and make a decision for your self, watch the umpire Richard Kettleborough’s snort of astonishment because the ball soars into the highest tier of Mumbai’s well-known stadium and he indicators the most obvious. Yeah, that’s a six all proper.
Preamble
BANG! KAPOW! MADON! THWACK! SOCK! OOOFF!
Those of a undeniable [proximity to the Grim Reaper age will know these words were all used during fights in the Batman series of the 1960s. (Except MADON!, but that’s another story.) A few of them will be needed tonight as well, and not only to describe the post-pub dialectics up and down the land.
There should be plenty of THWACK!ing at Chester-le-Street, where England play West Indies – the six-hitting kings of Twenty20 – in the first of a three-match series.
England won the ODI series fairly comfortably, but the addition of Rovman Powell, Johnson Charles, Romario Shepherd, Andre Russell and others makes this a much stronger West Indies team.
It should be competitive. It’ll definitely require capital letters and exclamation marks.
The match starts at 6.30pm.
