Bangladesh v England: first T20 cricket international – live

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Why thanks for asking Kevin. I had a huge bowl of rigatoni and fell asleep on the sofa in front of ‘Severance’.

Pre-match reading:

*This message contains an apology for the personal nature of this plug*

Some of the finest players the game has seen were forged by their immediate childhood environment; cricket is embellished by these home-spun techniques and idiosyncrasies.

Jasprit Bumrah honed his lethal bull-whip yorker as a child by repeatedly bowling at the skirting board in the corridor of his apartment block in Ahmedabad. If the ball hit the skirting on the full it would make only one muffled thud, all the better for not waking his mother from her afternoon nap.

Lasith Malinga’s side-armed, slingshot action is a direct response to learning cricket on the beaches of Sri Lanka’s south-west coast. Bowling with a shaved and burnt tennis ball, Malinga soon worked out that the most effective delivery in beach cricket was a yorker that took the sand out of the equation and zeroed in on the driftwood stumps and his opponents’ bare feet.

Please do regale me with tales of your own backyard cricket games. Yes, you can be out first ball!

I’m on email and Twitter. So there you go.

Here are the teams in full:

Bangladesh: Rony Talukdar, Najmul Hossain Shanto, Litton Das, Shakib Al Hasan (c), Towhid Hridoy, Afif Hossain, Shamim Hossain, Taskin Ahmed, Nasum Ahmed, Hasan Mahmud, Mustafizur Rahman

England: Phil Salt, Jos Buttler, Dawid Malan, Ben Duckett, Moeen Ali, Sam Curran, Chris Woakes, Chris Jordan, Adil Rashid, Jofra Archer, Mark Wood

Bangladesh win the toss and will bowl

A load of old toss… Joss Buttler loses seven on the bounce and ‘Our man in Chattogram’ – Simon Burnton – pings me a quick email to say it is 1 out of 15 called correctly by England’s skipper.

Preamble

Hello and welcome to the final furlong, the last dance, the spluttering encore of England’s (men’s) white ball winter schedule. I make this T20 series against Bangladesh their ninth series in seven months, dating back to last October’s historic return to Pakistan.

They’ve taken in five countries on their six tours, Christopher Columbus’ would likely wince at their globe traversing efforts and he didn’t have to worry about his strike rate or securing a spot in upcoming white ball World Cups/ lucrative franchise tournaments.

The first of this three match series gets underway at 9am GMT and I’ll be here to OBO the action. I’ll bring the news of the toss and teams from Chattogram shortly (from my sofa in South London) but in the meantime Simon Burnton is our man on the ground and here’s one he prepared earlier:

Matthew Mott, England’s white-ball coach, said of this series that “you can’t waste these opportunities on the subcontinent and the majority of players are pushing for ODI selection … so it’s probably more geared towards the ODI World Cup.” They go into it with a slightly changed squad, Jason Roy and James Vince having left the group while Ben Duckett and Chris Jordan have joined, the former jetting in from the Test tour of New Zealand to press his case as a white-ball batter in the subcontinent, one he made so impressively in averaging 46.6, with a strike rate of 158.2, during the T20 series in Pakistan last year.

With Will Jacks back home recovering from a thigh injury the squad is light on batters, all of whom can expect to play every game while the bowlers rotate. Jofra Archer was the only player who missed Tuesday’s training session, having been told to rest after his exertions in Monday’s final ODI. This does not rule him out of the opening match, but does illustrate how cautious England are being about his return from multiple injuries.”