England v India: fourth men’s T20 cricket international - live
Key events6th over: India 43-2 (Abhishek 14, Iyer 9) The final slot of the power play falls to Sam Curraan. He wipes the sweat from his face – it’s still ferociously hot – and scampers (does he do anything else?) in. A tidy over, apart from a back foot dreamy, wristy thing of wonder from Iyer that beats a diving Bethell.Share5th over: India 37-2 (Abhishek 13, Iyer 4) Josh Tongue changes ends with immediate results. A wafty gentle flick brings four for Iyer – more of that, less of the heave-ho.ShareWICKET! Ishan Curran c b Tongue (India 33-2)This time it’s Ishan done to the short ball, flinging the bat wildly and squirting to short third. This is all a bit haphazard. Gambir chews a white ball in the dugout.Share4th over: India 32-1 (Abhishek 12, Ishan 4) Will Jacks shimmies through an over. Abhishek pushes with one finger at the door and eases the most perfect cover drive all the way to the rope.Share3rd over: India 24-1 (Abhishek 6, Ishan 1) Not quite working for Sooryavanshi yet here in England, he looks to the skies and pulls off his helmet, shaggy teenage hair hanging in disappointment.ShareUpdated at 12.49 EDTWICKET! Sooryavanshi c Curran b Archer 15 (India 23-1)A big hit too many, squares up his body and throws the bat at a ball creeping up on him– the ball shimmies at the moon before falling into the hands of Curran at mid on.ShareUpdated at 12.56 EDT2nd over: India 20-0 (Sooryavanshi 15, Abhishek 6) Josh Tongue’s first over is more costly – both batters slam him back over extra cover for four, Sooryavanshi perching on tip toes as he goes. Then Sooryavanshi fullstops Tongue’s work with a delicate, seemingly effortless, upper cut for six.Share1st 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.ShareUpdated at 12.37 EDTThe players are out, the sun beats down – let’s play!ShareUpdated at 12.49 EDTIf 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.ShareIndia XIIndia: Abhishek Sharma, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Ishan Kishan (wk), Shreyas Iyer (c), Tilak Varma, Shivam Dube, Washington Sundar, Axar Patel, Prince Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh KrishnaShareEngland XIEngland: Phil Salt, Jos Buttler (wk), Harry Brook (c), Jacob Bethell, Tom Banton, Sam Curran, Will Jacks, Rehan Ahmed, Jofra Archer, Adil Rashid, Josh Tongue.ShareIndia 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.ShareUpdated at 12.09 EDTPreambleHello! 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.ShareUpdated at 12.01 EDT
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