India v England limited overs, 2025.

[Arthur Crabtree]

England side for tomorrow.

Phil Salt (wk), Ben Duckett, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Jos Buttler (capt), Liam Livingstone, Jacob Bethell, Brydon Carse, Jofra Archer, Adil Rashid, Saqib Mahmood

[andy]

Collapse is on already it was a fantastic start from England but now fallen to 81-3 inside the powerplay

[Arthur Crabtree]

3 wickets for 2 runs triggered by a run out. Root and Buttler the crucial partnership, so they'll probably binary bat for about 10 overs.

[andy]

Big innings needed from captain buttler he needs to bat long and quickly...looking like 300 is par on this pitch looks flat..so work to do

[Arthur Crabtree]

Neither finding the boundary though.

[andy]

Root gone now! Great start well and truly up in smoke!

[Arthur Crabtree]

Disaster. Slow 19 for Honest Joe.

[andy]

I wonder if bethell's IPL team has seen him play spin before? Because on this tour both in t20's and now this game he has looked all at sea against spin...it's quite painful watching him play it...even jadeja who isn't turning it at all..

[andy]

Buttlers gone! 170-5 problems for england

[Arthur Crabtree]

Innings going nowhere. Maybe 280 if not bowled out.

[andy]

I'm surprised harshit has been brought back now Livingstone is in...Livingstone has always excelled against high pace and is known for taking them apart so strange move from Rohit IMO

Kuldeep back at the other end for axar

[backfootpunch]

Different format same old story

70 odd for 0 becomes 180-6

With indias top order 300+ is required but none of the batsmen have made a significant contribution

[andy]

In fairness to buttler he did, but bethells inability to rotate the strike massively contributed to buttler getting out too much pressure on him can't be the only one in a partnership scoring..

[backfootpunch]

In fairness to buttler he did, but bethells inability to rotate the strike massively contributed to buttler getting out too much pressure on him can't be the only one in a partnership scoring..

I'd noticed that in his previous games

Just doesn't look a natural at rotating the strike

Suppose he's played loads of t20 and hardly any 50 over stuff, so he's used to whacking boundaries not knocking it around

[andy]

Well he got to 50 but he's out now....gonna struggle to bat 50 overs here....220-8 with 7.2 remaining