Cricket England v India: third men’s T20 cricket international – live 🏏 Live T20 updates, 5.30pm BST start at Trent Bridge 🏏 Gary Naylor’s county cricket review | Email James LIVE Updated 1m ago James Wallace Tue 7 Jul 2026 17.39 BSTFirst published on Tue 7 Jul 2026 16.54 BST Share Key events 33m ago India win the toss and choose to field 46m ago Preamble India's Arshdeep Singh appeals for LBW against England's Phil Salt.
Arshdeep starts accurately, pinning Salt on the crease for three dots in a row and then zeroing one onto his shin.
It looked leg-sidey in realtime but India like it enough to send it upstairs… NOT OUT – it pitched outside leg.
Close again!
Nearly a carbon copy with the fifth ball, Salt beaten for pace again, luckily for him it was swinging down past leg stump.
BEATEN!
What a first over from Arshdeep Singh and India, Salt nearly cleaned up with the final ball, it swings back and misses off stump by a gnat’s eyelash.
A lesser spotted T20I maiden to begin proceedings.
Righto, here come the players.
Jos Buttler and Phil Salt to open up for England with the bat.
Arshdeep Singh for India with the ball.
Let’s play!
Jos Buttler makes his way out to bat.
England are unchanged from Manchester.
England: Phil Salt, Jos Buttler (wk), Harry Brook (c), Jacob Bethell, Tom Banton, Sam Curran, Will Jacks, Liam Dawson, Adil Rashid, Jofra Archer, Josh Tongue India: Abhishek Sharma, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Ishan Kishan (wk), Shreyas Iyer (c), Tilak Varma, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Harshit Rana, Prince Yadav, Arshdeep Singh Varun Chakravarthy Ravi Shastri’s voice sonic booms around the entire midlands region as Shreyas Iyer and Harry Brook carry out the toss.
Iyer calls the coin correctly and inserts England.
Curious and Curioser.
The pitch looks like a road and there are short boundaries either side, maybe India just fancy themselves to be able to chase whatever England set them?
Hello and welcome to the third T20I between England and India from Trent Bridge.
A win today will see England take an unassailable lead in the series and confine India to a second T20I series defeat in a row after they were rolled by Ireland immediately before this one.
Jacob Bethell took the plaudits in the last game at Old Trafford with a mightily impressive and Swiss Clock timed 76 off 46 balls to ice the run chase for England with an over and six wickets to spare.
India need a win to keep the series alive, all eyes on their starting XI to see if The Six hittin’ Kid – Vaibhav Sooryavanshi gets his second run out.
Play starts at 5.30pm, I’ll be back with the toss and teams very shortly.
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