1st Twenty20: England vs West Indies at The Oval
The first of two games between these sides takes place at the Oval. West Indies weren't too impressive in the tests bar a couple of superb efforts by Shivnarine Chanderpaul. An off-field spar between new ODI captain Chris Gayle and West Indies board hasn't helped either.
England also have a new captain as well. Paul Collingwood will lead the side after Michael Vaughan decided he no longer wanted the one-day captaincy. Subsequently, he isn't in the side.
Quite a few new faces have been added to both squads which should make the sides differ from their test line-ups.
Should be able to see a good game here. Both teams ready to go the tonk as the chase for quick runs becomes essential. A close contest ensues.
England (from): PD Collingwood*, JM Anderson, IR Bell, SCJ Broad, AN Cook, AD Mascarenhas, MS Panesar, KP Pietersen, LE Plunkett, MJ Prior+, OA Shah, RJ Sidebottom, IJL Trott, MH Yardy (3 to be omitted)
West Indies (from): CH Gayle*, S Chanderpaul, DJ Bravo, FH Edwards, RS Morton, DBL Powell, D Ramdin+, R Rampaul, ACL Richards, DJG Sammy, MN Samuels, LMP Simmons, DR Smith, DS Smith (3 to be omitted)
Umpires: PJ Hartley and NJ Llong
3rd Umpire: IJ Gould
Weather:
(All Temperatures in Degrees Celcius)
Fine, partly cloudy.
Currently: 19.5
Predicted: 17
Game starts at 12:30am Friday 29th June AWST (5:30pm local time, 4:30pm GMT).
The first of two games between these sides takes place at the Oval. West Indies weren't too impressive in the tests bar a couple of superb efforts by Shivnarine Chanderpaul. An off-field spar between new ODI captain Chris Gayle and West Indies board hasn't helped either.
England also have a new captain as well. Paul Collingwood will lead the side after Michael Vaughan decided he no longer wanted the one-day captaincy. Subsequently, he isn't in the side.
Quite a few new faces have been added to both squads which should make the sides differ from their test line-ups.
Should be able to see a good game here. Both teams ready to go the tonk as the chase for quick runs becomes essential. A close contest ensues.
England (from): PD Collingwood*, JM Anderson, IR Bell, SCJ Broad, AN Cook, AD Mascarenhas, MS Panesar, KP Pietersen, LE Plunkett, MJ Prior+, OA Shah, RJ Sidebottom, IJL Trott, MH Yardy (3 to be omitted)
West Indies (from): CH Gayle*, S Chanderpaul, DJ Bravo, FH Edwards, RS Morton, DBL Powell, D Ramdin+, R Rampaul, ACL Richards, DJG Sammy, MN Samuels, LMP Simmons, DR Smith, DS Smith (3 to be omitted)
Umpires: PJ Hartley and NJ Llong
3rd Umpire: IJ Gould
Weather:
(All Temperatures in Degrees Celcius)
Fine, partly cloudy.
Currently: 19.5
Predicted: 17
Game starts at 12:30am Friday 29th June AWST (5:30pm local time, 4:30pm GMT).