Key events
Pitch report
They’ve had lots of rain in Barbados and the outfield is soggy. A different pitch today – but it looks just as perky and grass-bare, not many cracks. In the words of Brathwaite: bowlers beware!
Saqib Mahmood is in a bucket hat channelling his inner Burnage after yesterday’s four wickets. “We don’t make it too complicated, keep it as simple as possible, their batting order is pretty stacked.”
Carlos Brathwaite on what the West Indies unit could do to improve on Saturday’s somewhat wayward performance: “Yesterday as a bowling unit, especially from the Malcolm Marshall End, the seamers gave too much width. Can you be a bit tighter, limit the damage early in the power play, put a bit more pressure on them in overs five and six, and pick up the wickets at the back end?
West Indies XI
Three changes: Matthew Forde replaces Shamar Joseph, Roston Chase swaps in for Shimron Hetmyer, while Terrance Hinds must pull on the injured Andre Russell’s big boots.
West Indies: 1 Brandon King, 2 Evin Lewis, 3 Nicholas Pooran (wk), 4 Sherfane Rutherford, 5 Rovman Powell (c), 6 Romario Shepherd, 7 Roston Chase, 8 Terrance Hinds, 9 Gudakesh Motie,10 Akeal Hosein, 11 Matthew Forde
England XI
One change: Jofra Archer replaces Reece Topley.
England: 1 Phil Salt (wk), 2 Will Jacks, 3 Jos Buttler (c), 4 Liam Livingstone, 5 Jacob Bethell, 6 Sam Curran, 7 Dan Mousley, 8 Jamie Overton, 9 Saqib Mahmood, 10 Adil Rashid, 11 Jofra Archer
England win the toss and will bowl!
Buttler calls correctly, again. “We are going to bowl first again because we put in a good performance and want to repeat it.”
News on Reece Topley? “He’s doing ok, he’s going to miss today with Jofra Archer coming in but it doesn’t look like anything serious.”
Why is he batting at No.3? “An opportunity to do something different and gives Jacks an opportunity to try it in the international game. We’re having a look at the balance and see how it goes.”
win the toss and will
The TNT studio is open. Someone give Steven Finn and Sam Billings a chair.
Preamble
Good evening/afternoon/morning, wherever you are. We roll into this second T20, of a five-match series, with the scorch marks from England’s smokin victory last night still on the grass. Phil Salt (103) and Jacob Bethell (58), two of England’s bombastic Barbados boys, ensured that England cruised past West Indies with 3.1 overs left. Can they do it again? Play starts at 8pm GMT, do join us to find out.
