England v Ireland: second men’s one-day international – live | Cricket

twenty first over: England 146-2 (Jacks 69, Duckett 43) Mark Adair comes again into the assault, and Duckett welcomes him by hitting the opening supply for 4.

Meanwhile in Bangladesh, the inevitable post-mankad-related-incident debate is in full move:

twentieth over: England 141-2 (Jacks 69, Duckett 38) Ooof! A extremely tasty opening supply from Little nips again off the seam, fully beats Jacks and goes only a smidge over off stump. And double oof! He leathers the following one over midwicket for six! We don’t see the place the ball lands, however we do see somebody rubbing his head whereas the lady subsequent to him gives assist, and shortly they’re led away by St John Ambulance workers. He’s carrying what appears like a thick material baseball cap, which could have offered some crucial safety.

Meanwhile in Bangladesh, New Zealand are 224 for eight and there’s simply been some mankad-based drama:

nineteenth over: England 133-2 (Jacks 62, Duckett 37) Duckett has been enjoying a little bit inside himself, however he doesn’t maintain again when McBrine sends down a free, full supply, and down the bottom it goes for six.

18th over: England 124-2 (Jacks 60, Duckett 31) Better, tighter over from Little. Dot, dot, dot, single, single, single.

seventeenth over: England 121-2 (Jacks 58, Duckett 30) Duckett pushes the ball straight to Tector at additional cowl, however he fully misjudges it, it bounces over his leg and runs away for 4. A few singles observe. There might in all probability have been no less than yet another however the batters don’t fancy it.

sixteenth over: England 115-2 (Jacks 57, Duckett 25) The problem for Jacks is extra instant than most: with Jason Roy nonetheless coming to phrases with being dumped from the World Cup squad it’s unclear at present who England would usher in ought to both of their openers maintain an damage in India, nevertheless it might effectively be that Roy chooses to not become involved and whoever of Jacks and Salt emerges from these two video games in higher form would get the decision. No doubt who’s in pole place now, and with Little again after just a few costly early overs Jacks locations the ball previous level to earn his eighth boundary of the day.

fifteenth over: England 110-2 (Jacks 53, Duckett 24) 100 up for England, one ball into the fifteenth over, and a fifty up for Will Jacks three balls later, as he dumps a McBrine supply over long-off and into the stands.

Here’s a little bit clip of the pre-match cap presentation. Apparently Andrew Flintoff’s speech to Tom Hartley – “This will change your life forever” – was actually highly effective stuff, however I can’t discover it on the interweb at current.

14th over: England 99-2 (Jacks 45, Duckett 21) A (type of) drop! Harry Tector at backward level dives however doesn’t maintain as Jacks spears the ball in his path. The ball carried, nevertheless it was a really laborious likelihood.

thirteenth over: England 96-2 (Jacks 44, Duckett 20) Andy McBrine brings some spin, and England rating 5 in ones and a two. “Tom is probably being mischievous,” huffs John Starbuck. “All the players know what the situation is: it exists among cricketers at all levels, but to propose that they would undermine/cheat each other for personal advantage goes quite against the Spirit of the Game. Anyone who really did do that would soon get found out and totally ruin their own chances, so it would be pretty self-defeating to do so.” Crawley was anybody fully and irredeemably out and Jacks’ recommendation was totally wise.

twelfth over: England 91-2 (Jacks 40, Duckett 19) An excellent ball from McCarthy takes the sting, however there’s no slip in so, 4 runs. “Oh no!,” shouts Lorcan Tucker behind the stumps … after which Duckett does it once more!

eleventh over: England 80-2 (Jacks 38, Duckett 10) A pair of pretty Duckett drives as England work their means by the gears once more. “With so many second strong players all keen to stake their claim in this ODI team, you’d imagine there would be a Big Brother vibe,” suggests Tom. “Everyone wanting to seem like they’re egging each other on so they come across as the good guys, but secretly hoping they fail as they want the competition out of the way. I wonder if that’s why Jacks advised Crawley not to review the LBW whilst rubbing his hands with glee.”

Interesting thought. A couple of of those gamers shall be within the senior choice in a 12 months or so, which implies they have to all be determined to succeed right here, and likewise fairly eager for others to not succeed a lot.

tenth over: England 72-2 (Jacks 38, Duckett 2) McCarthy provides Jacks a little bit of width, and he unfurls one other pretty sq. drive for 4. That ought to assist him out of his mini-rut … and it actually appears that means as he heaves the ultimate ball over midwicket for six!

ninth over: England 59-2 (Jacks 25, Duckett 2) The ball finds Jacks’ edge a few instances, however with out both wickets or boundaries being critically threatened. Seven runs now off the final three overs, and it’s all acquired a bit stodgy.

eighth over: England 59-2 (Jacks 25, Duckett 2) Barry McCarthy has a bowl and Ireland, emboldened, deliver a slip in. Again, the size is healthier, and there aren’t any simple drives on provide. Also not on provide: DRS, in keeping with umpire David Millns.

seventh over: England 57-2 (Jacks 24, Duckett 1) Well that’s put the proverbial cat amongst the figurative pigeons, has it not?

WICKET! Crawley lbw b Young 0 (England 56-2)

WICKET! Salt c Stirling b Young 28 (England 55-1)

sixth over: England 55-0 (Salt 25, Jacks 24) Little continues, and Salt lifts one off his hip, over quick leg and to the boundary on the bounce.

fifth over: England 48-0 (Salt 21, Jacks 24) Craig Young has a go on the bowling, and produces a fantastic outswinging, vast yorker that Jacks has no reply to, and a bit extra number of line and size basically. The batter does work one to deep midwicket for 3, however that’s a greater over. Four off it.

4th over: England 44-0 (Salt 20, Jacks 21) Jacks cracks Little’s first supply previous level for 4. This has the potential to get a bit messy: Trent Bridge is a famously high-scoring floor, England’s openers look in respectable nick and the bowling thus far has been fairly sub-average. Salt has a little bit of a wild biff at one, however with the fielders up and the ball extra up there’s by no means any hazard, and it runs to the long-on boundary.

third over: England 35-0 (Salt 16, Jacks 16) Adair finds a line that Jacks can’t hit for 4, however sadly it’s down leg and he retains having to rebowl them. Finally Jacks hits his second/fourth ball previous additional cowl for 3, and Salt his third/fifth ball down the bottom for 4, and his fifth/eighth ball equally for comparable.

“I write to you confused,” opines Ian Copestake. “The World Cup has started no? India just played Australia. But here England are playing Ireland who did not qualify and we seem to be in the wrong country/continent. Are we participating via Zoom?”

2nd over: England 21-0 (Salt 8, Jacks 13) There was, Mark Butcher says, “a heavy dew” this morning, however Will Jacks’ cowl drives, appear to skim properly throughout the outfield and he clearly enjoys watching them go – he hits three in a row off Josh Little.

1st over: England 8-0 (Salt 8, Jacks 0) Salt shovels one off his pads and simply previous fantastic leg for 4, and pings the following in an identical path for 4 extra. The over ends with a loud lbw attraction, however the ball swung from exterior off into Salt’s again pad and was certainly heading previous leg, and the umpire shook his head (really ball monitoring reveals it could have clipped leg stump, however had Ireland reviewed it could have been umpire’s name).

The gamers are out and motion is about to start. Mark Adair has ball in hand. Let’s do that.

Apparently Luke Wood is unwell, which is why Tom Hartley performs. Wood has been named instead fielder, so clearly isn’t fully incapacitated.

The groups in full, simply earlier than play begins:

England
Phil Salt
Will Jacks
Zak Crawley (capt)
Ben Duckett
Sam Hain
Jamie Smith (wk)
Brydon Carse
Rehan Ahmed
Tom Hartley
Matt Potts
George Scrimshaw

Ireland
Paul Stirling (capt)
Andy Balbirnie
Curtis Campher
Harry Tector
Lorcan Tucker (wk)
George Dockrell
Andy McBrine
Mark Adair
Barry McCarthy
Craig Young
Josh Little

“Morning Simon, morning everyone,” writes Sam in Cornwall. Morning Sam! “A chance for some young (and not so young) guns to make their mark today. As a Warwickshire fan, great to see Sam Hain finally getting recognition. He’s not a slogger, but a very clever consistent player and has been a rock for the Bears over the past few years. Not many Sams have achieved full international honours for England. Here’s hoping he can make us proud.”

Um … Billings? Curran? Robson?

Pre-match studying: Ali Martin had a chat with Sam Hain about his first senior international name:

People generally ask whether or not I’m irritated at not getting the decision sooner nevertheless it’s laborious to be bitter once you go searching. The expertise is sort of unfathomable

Ireland win the toss and bowl

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