England vs. India - First T20 prediction, squads, start time

Just 2 days aft losing a Test bid 2-1 to New Zealand and seeing skipper Ben Stokes retire, England crook their attraction to a five-match T20I bid against India.

It volition beryllium England's archetypal crippled successful the format since India bushed them successful a T20 World Cup semi-final successful March, portion the visitors suffered a daze 2-0 T20I bid decision to Ireland past week.

Match preview

This bid marks the opening of England's mentation for the adjacent T20 World Cup, which is being staged successful Australia and New Zealand successful 2028.

England person kept religion with the bulk of the squad that featured astatine the 2026 tournament, with opener Ben Duckett dropped and all-rounder Jamie Overton presently sidelined with an wounded helium picked up astatine the IPL.

Harry Brook is present conscionable implicit a twelvemonth into his tenure arsenic white-ball skipper and helium has an fantabulous record, with 14 wins, 3 defeats and 2 nary results.

Brook is the front-runner to go Test skipper present that Stokes has retired and volition beryllium looking to impressment tactically during this series.

Seamer Josh Tongue, who did not play astatine the World Cup, and all-rounder James Coles are looking to marque their T20I debuts for England.

For Coles, it would beryllium his planetary debut and the 22-year-old is simply a hugely talented cricketer who went for a grounds £390,000 astatine the Hundred auction earlier this year.

India, meanwhile, volition beryllium led by caller T20I skipper Shreyas Iyer aft erstwhile skipper Suryakumar Yadav was dropped.

However, Iyer got disconnected to a mediocre commencement successful the relation arsenic India were beaten doubly successful the abstraction of 2 days by Ireland past week.

India mislaid the archetypal crippled by 34 runs and the 2nd crippled by conscionable 1 run, with Ireland producing 2 fantabulous performances.

As a result, they volition beryllium keen to bounce backmost with a triumph implicit England and 15-year-old sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi could beryllium handed a debut arsenic a result.

The teen was named successful the squad aft an outstanding IPL, which saw him named subordinate of the tourney aft smashing 776 runs successful 16 games for Rajasthan Royals astatine an mean of 48.50 and a onslaught complaint of 237.70.

Sooryavanshi was not picked against Ireland, though, with India sticking with the opening concern of Abhishek Sharma and Sanju Samson that won them the World Cup,

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England volition beryllium hoping Jos Buttler tin instrumentality to signifier aft a mediocre World Cup, wherever helium scored 87 runs successful 8 games astatine an mean of 10.87 and a onslaught complaint of 116.

Buttler did bask a bully IPL, scoring 536 runs successful 17 matches astatine an mean of 37.57 and a onslaught complaint of 152.46 arsenic Gujarat Titans reached the final.

It volition beryllium absorbing to spot however Coles goes if helium is handed an planetary debut and precisely what relation they spot him playing successful this team.

Will Jacks is expected to proceed arsenic a finisher, having struck 226 runs astatine an mean of 65.50 and a onslaught complaint of 176.56 astatine the World Cup, though helium has starred arsenic an opener for Surrey astatine the T20 Blast.

It remains to beryllium seen whether Tongue and Jofra Archer volition beryllium considered for enactment for this archetypal game, having bowled 35 and 39.5 overs respectively successful the last Test against New Zealand that finished connected Monday.

India's biggest enactment telephone volition beryllium whether to manus Sooryavanshi his debut, with the 15-year-old successful enactment to interruption Sachin Tendulkar's grounds arsenic the youngest cricketer to play for India's men's team.

Seamers Arshdeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Prasidh Krishna and Prince Yadav each person opportunities to impress, with prima bowler Jasprit Bumrah rested for the T20Is.

All-rounder Suryansh Shedge made his debut successful the 2nd Ireland game, having been a precocious call-up aft Nitish Kumar Reddy suffered an injury, and helium volition beryllium keen to marque an impact.

England squad: Harry Brook (c), Jofra Archer, Sonny Baker, Tom Banton (wk), Jacob Bethell, Jos Buttler (wk), James Coles, Jordan Cox (wk), Sam Curran, Liam Dawson, Will Jacks, Saqib Mahmood, Adil Rashid, Rehan Ahmed, Phil Salt (wk), Josh Tongue, Luke Wood

India squad: Shreyas Iyer (c), Tilak Varma, Abhishek Sharma, Arshdeep Singh, Shivam Dube, Harshit Rana, Ishan Kishan (wk), Axar Patel, Prasidh Krishna, Prince Yadav, Ravi Bishnoi, Sanju Samson, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Suryansh Shedge, Varun Chakravarthy, Washington Sundar

Where volition England vs. India beryllium held?

The archetypal T20I volition instrumentality spot astatine Durham's Riverside Ground successful Chester-le-Street.

England person played a full of 5 T20Is astatine the Riverside, winning 3 of them and suffering 2 defeats. They person won their past 2 games astatine the venue, beating the West Indies by 21 runs past twelvemonth and New Zealand by 7 wickets successful 2023.

India person ne'er played a T20I astatine the ground, but they person played 2 ODIs successful 2011 and 2002. However, some of those games ended without a effect owed to rain.

When volition England vs. India start?

The crippled volition commencement astatine 5:30pm UK clip connected Wednesday.

We say: England to win

Jasprit Bumrah's lack is simply a large 1 for India, who volition beryllium reeling aft their daze bid decision to Ireland. England, meanwhile, person a mostly settled squad with a large equilibrium of younker and experience.