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Probably not going to attract much interest, but tomorrow the five T20s begin.

January

22 1st T20, Kolkata (d/n) (13:30 GMT)

25 2nd T20 Chennai (d/n) (13:30 GMT)

28 3rd T20, Rajkot (d/n) (13:30 GMT)

31 4th T20, Pune (d/n) (13:30 GMT)

February

2 5th T20, Mumbai (d/n) (13:30 GMT)

Followed by

ODI series

Thursday, 6 February, VCA Stadium, Nagpur

Sunday, 9 February, Barabati Stadium, Cuttack

Wednesday, 12 February, Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad

England squad for T20 series in India: Jos Buttler (captain), Rehan Ahmed, Jofra Archer, Gus Atkinson, Jacob Bethell, Harry Brook, Brydon Carse, Ben Duckett, Liam Livingstone, Saqib Mahmood, Jamie Overton, Adil Rashid, Phil Salt, Jamie Smith (wk), Mark Wood.

England squad for ODI series in India and Champions Trophy: Jos Buttler (captain), Jofra Archer, Gus Atkinson, Jacob Bethell, Harry Brook, Brydon Carse, Ben Duckett, Liam Livingstone, Saqib Mahmood, Jamie Overton, Adil Rashid, Joe Root, Phil Salt, Jamie Smith (wk), Mark Wood.

India T20 squad: Suryakumar Yadav (capt), Ravi Bishnoi, Varun Chakravarthy, Dhruv Jurel (wk), Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Harshit Rana, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Sanju Samson (wk), Mohammed Shami, Abhishek Sharma, Arshdeep Singh, Rinku Singh, Washington Sundar, Tilak Varma.

India's ODI squad not announced.

England XI for the first T20.

Salt (wk), Duckett, Buttler (c), Brook, Livingstone, Bethell, J Overton, Atkinson, Archer, Rashid, Wood.

With the champions trophy around the corner it's a tad baffling they are playing 5 t20s and 3 ODIs not 5 ODIS and 3 T20s

I'm a fan of bowling options. But not as much as the England selectors.

Very much looking forward to this starting this afternoon, be interesting to see if mccullum can have the same effect on the white ball side and with India short on confidence at the moment good time to get stuck into them

England batting first...not unhappy with that to be fair

Bethell has a rebuilding job to do with England struggling at 65-4

England 132 all out...competitive score though....plenty of carry and bounce for the quicks and the balls stopping for the spinners so 1 or 2 quick wickets and it's still definitely game on here

Atkinson going out of the park I wonder if it'd worth giving bethell a bowl in the power play has taken the new ball for the renegades in big bash

Or even Rashid maybe before the game has completely gone away from england

India scoring at tens in the power play...Rashid really needs to be on otherwise he will have nothing to bowl at.....

Salt took a terrific catch to remove SKY

Atkinson has had a bad night....2 off 12 balls....1 over for 22 runs but took a good catch to remove samson

andy wrote:England 132 all out...competitive score though....

Hmm, not currently going that way. Looks like batters gave the bowlers too much to do.

Good captaincy from buttler to bowl archer through...has looked threatening game isn't gonna go 20 overs...nearly got a 3rd wicket....good performance from Jof