Summary

Have your say on England men this summer

Live Reporting

By Tim Oscroft

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    I’m just glad for Vaibhav Sooryavanshi's sake, he’s not English, the press would ruin him as a player by the time he was 18. On the flip side, I wish he was, as he looks a real talent.

    Jamie, Southampton

  2. Deep Dasgupta
    Former India wicketkeeper on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    That's a very good delivery from Liam Dawson - that in-between length and Shreyas Iyer was through the shot.

    A good catch from Tom Banton as well. The stage is set for Shivam Dube who can hit a few long balls.

  3. wicket

    WICKET

    Shreyas Iyer c Banton b Dawson 37 (Ind 130-2)

    That is a really, really good catch from Tom Banton!

    Shreyas Iyer goes aerial, being dragged down the track by Liam Dawson. The India skipper sliced his shot, and Banton ran in, steadied himself and judged the catch perfectly in the swirling wind.

  4. 6 runs

    Ind 128-2

    It felt like Shreyas Iyer was ready to explode, and explode he does - in a cricketing sense - pulling a short one form Liam Dawson a long way back over the mid-wicket boundary.

  5. Ashwanth R Kavuluri
    CricViz analyst

    Since 2025, Shreyas Iyer averages 96 against spin while batting at number four. Among 69 batters batting at four or lower with over 250 runs in this period, only one other batter averages more than him (New Zealand's Tom Bruce averages 135).

    Shreyas is also yet to be dismissed by spin in 2026.

  6. ouch!

    Ind 116-2

    Iyer has had his fingers taped off, and looks happy to be off strike having run when he took that blow to the glove.

  7. ouch!

    Ind 116-2

    Shreyas Iyer is in some pain, he is being seen to by a physio.

    He might need more than the old magic sponge, here.

  8. Ind 116-2

    Boooof! Ishan Kishan hits one straight past Josh Tongue at light speed - but it smacks into the stumps, saving a certain four.

    Shreyas Iyer makes up for it, though, deftly guiding the next past Jos Buttler for four, but Tongue has a measure of revenge off the next delivery - he gets one to climb and painfully strike Iyer on the fingers.

  9. Deep Dasgupta
    Former India wicketkeeper on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    The best part for Vaibhav Sooryavanshi is his debut is over and done with. The whole hype and whatever - the whole 'is he going to play, is he not going to play' - at least that is over.

    That should ease things on him, and the dressing room, because there's been a lot of chat in the cricket world about it.

  10. dropped catch

    Dropped catch

    Ind 108-2

    Adil Rashid returns to the attack, and after keeping it relatively tight he should have had a wicket.

    Ishan Kishan pulled him high to leg, but Phil Salt, coming in from the rope, misjudged it and instead of catching it, he tipped over the bar, as it were, for another four.

    And to rub it in, Kishan smashed a four from the next.

    Adil Rashid also let Phil Salt know exactly how he felt about that.

  11. Ashwanth R Kavuluri
    CricViz analyst

    Ishan Kishan in T20s 2022-2024: 80 innings | average 28.4 | 133 strike rate

    Since 2025: 55 innings | average 40.5 | 183 strike rate

    Ishan Kishan struggled between 2022 and 2024 period. However, since he started batting at number three in majority of the games since, he has been one of India's best T20 batters over the last one and a half years.

  12. Deep Dasgupta
    Former India wicketkeeper on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    This is at least a 200 pitch. Anything around 190 or 200 will be par.

    This partnership is pretty good for India, they are going at the rate or thereabouts, but one of them will have to bat through to the 18th or 19th over.

  13. Sooryavanshi falls to Jacks

    Nice work from Will Jacks and Jos Buttler ended Sooryavanshi's maiden international knock.

    Jacks takes wicket as Sooryavanshi bows out

  14. Ind 96-2

    Sam Curran recovers well after that boundary, ending the over with tow dot balls.

    At halfway, India 96-2 - England posted 304-2 here last year against South Africa, so what's a good total this time around?

  15. Ind 94-2

    Sam Curran is back, and Ishan Kishan breaks the shackles with a gorgeous shot, a cut that scoots past Liam Dawson and the boundary in front of one of the hotels.

  16. Deep Dasgupta
    Former India wicketkeeper on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    I think you'll see Ishan Kishan and Shreyas Iyer content to just work singles around against Liam Dawson and Adil Rashid, especially with the dimensions of the ground.

  17. Ind 89-2

    Liam Dawson keeps it tight, the wily and experienced spinner restricting Ishan Kishan and Shreyas Iyer to a single a ball from the ninth.

  18. Sooryavanshi settles in with sixes

    Vaibhav Sooryavanshi looked at home in international cricket straight away.

    15-year-old Sooryavanshi hits sixes off Archer and Tongue

  19. Ind 83-2

    Shreyas Iyer is already motoring nicely, pulling Adil Rashid to the boundary when the leggie drops short.

    Ishan Kishan tries to do the same off the last, but merely cloths it to long on.

    Nevertheless, India eke nine from that over.

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    Josh Tongue not a T20 bowler but the comment ays he shouldn’t be in the Test side? 57 wickets in 12 Tests at under 30 and our best bowler in the Ashes? Really?!!

    Ian, Cardiff

    Re Eli from Lowestoft 14:58. One over that went for 20 from Josh Tongue, against the two best batters in T20 currently, and you're moaning.

    Eli in Lowestoft is actually suggesting the best bowler we had in the Ashes is not good enough for Test cricket based off 12 balls bowling at a 15-year-old. Are we being serious?

    Charlie, Southampton