New Zealand V England: First Men’s T20 Cricket International – Live

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Winter is coming here.

Hello and invited to nan commencement of England’s epic wintertime of cricket. To commencement things off, a 3 lucifer T20I bid followed by 3 ODIs against New Zealand. Today’s lucifer will statesman successful astir half an hr successful Christchurch.

Don’t telephone it an Ashes lukewarm up game. No honestly. Don’t mention nan A connection astatine all. Jacob Bethell gets a sparkling ton against nan Black Caps today? Pay it ne'er mind, there’s a T20 World Cup connected nan horizon, each roads do not lead to Perth connected nan 21st November. Ahem.

The coin will beryllium tossed soon but we already cognize nan sides pinch some teams confirming their XI’s successful advance.

New Zealand: 1 Tim Seifert (wk), 2 Rachin Ravindra, 3 Tim Robinson, 4 Mark Chapman, 5 Daryl Mitchell, 6 Michael Bracewell, 7 James Neesham, 8 Mitchell Santner (c), 9 Kyle Jamieson, 10 Matt Henry, 11 Jacob Duffy.

England: 1 Phil Salt, 2 Jos Buttler (wk), 3 Jacob Bethell, 4 Harry Brook (c), 5 Tom Banton, 6 Sam Curran, 7 Jordan Cox, 8 Brydon Carse, 9 Liam Dawson, 10 Adil Rashid, 11 Luke Wood.

It’s early for a Saturday greeting present successful Blighty but if you are tuning successful past give america a outcry in nan accustomed way.