Toss England won the toss and chose to bowl vs India
Jofra Archer, whom the previous management had been treating cautiously in his return from long-term injury, will feature in all five matches of Brendon McCullum’s maiden series as coach, even with the Champions Trophy looming later this month.
“We’ve played some good cricket in patches,” Buttler said at the toss. “There’s a good vibe around the team, and this is one of the great venues.”
Joe Root, who made a memorable 83 from 44 balls on this ground in 2016 during England’s run to the World T20 final, has linked up with the team ahead of next week’s ODIs, but is not in the match-day squad.
India 1 Abhishek Sharma, 2 Sanju Samson (wk), 3 Suryakumar Yadav (capt.), 4 Tilak Varma, 5 Hardik Pandya, 6 Shvam Dube, 7 Rinku Singh, 8 Axar Patel, 9 Mohammad Shami, 10 Ravi Bishnoi, 11 Varun Chakravarthy
England 1 Phil Salt (wk), 2 Ben Duckett, 3 Jos Buttler (capt.), 4 Harry Brook, 5 Liam Livingstone, 6 Jacob Bethell, 7 Jamie Overton, 8 Brydon Carse, 9 Jofra Archer, 10 Mark Wood, 11 Adil Rashid
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