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Ben Dwarshuis of Australia celebrates bowling Phil Salt (Getty Images)
England take on Australia in the first ODI of the five-match series at Trent Bridge on Thursday, with Harry Brook set to lead the side in the absence of Jos Buttler.
Buttler was ruled out of the entire series with injury, and Brook has been selected to step up. With Brendon McCullum due to take over the white ball side in January, and Brook one of the players who have taken ‘Bazball’ and its attacking brand of cricket to heart, there will be eyes on his decisions.
Jofra Archer will play his first ODI for 18 months as England are still carefully managing his return after an injury-plagued last few years, and are easing him towards a Test return with half an eye on next winter’s trip to Australia.
Jamie Smith and Jacob Bethell are also poised for ODI debuts, while on the fast bowling front, Brydon Carse and John Turner have been afforded chances to lead the line.
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Harry Brook will captain the side in absence of Jos Buttler
Jofra Archer to play first ODI for 18 months
England won the toss and chose to bat
Wicket! Salt 17 (24), b Dwarshuis 1-15; England 48-1
England XI: Phil Salt, Ben Duckett, Will Jacks, Harry Brook, Jamie Smith, Liam Livingstone, Jacob Bethell, Brydon Carse, Jofra Archer, Matthew Potts, Adil Rashid
Australia XI: Travis Head, Mitch Marsh, Steve Smith, Cameron Green, Marnus Labuschagne, Alex Carey, Matt Short, Aaron Hardie, Sean Abbott, Ben Dwarshuis, Adam Zampa
England 110-1 (18) Jacks 37, Duckett 51, Zampa 0-18 (3)14:00 , Lawrence Ostlere
Jack and Duckett rotate the strike well without any boundaries, adding 10 more. They look very settled, these two.
England 100-1 (17) Jacks 32, Duckett 46, Zampa 0-18 (2)13:58 , Lawrence Ostlere
England and Duckett in particular go on the attack against Zampa once more, and add one four and a flurry of singles to the score.
England 91-1 (16) Jacks 29, Duckett 40, Hardie 0-12 (4)13:52 , Lawrence Ostlere
Aaron Hardie resumes and it’s a tight over, going for just two runs.
13:44 , Lawrence Ostlere
Adam Zampa comes into the attack, and on his second ball Will Jacks steps down the pitch and smashes back over his head for six! That’s a statement of intent against one of the game’s great white-ball spinners.
England 80-1 (14) Jacks 21, Duckett 37, Green 0-7 (2)13:35 , Lawrence Ostlere
A couple of wides thrown in by Green, whose radar appears to have gone haywire. England will take those extras.
England 72-1 (12) Jacks 19, Duckett 33, Short 0-12 (2)13:24 , Lawrence Ostlere
Six! Jacks cuts loose, smashing over cover all the way over the rope for six. England add 10 more to their tally.
England 62-1 (11) Jacks 10, Duckett 32, Green 0-3 (1)13:21 , Lawrence Ostlere
Cam Green backs up Short with an economical over of his own, going for three. Australia have stalled the momentum a little.
England 59-1 (10) Jacks 8, Duckett 31, Short 0-2 (1)13:16 , Lawrence Ostlere
A nice, tight start from Matthew Short in his first over, giving up only a couple of singles, and that concludes the powerplay. England going along nicely so far.
England 57-1 (8) Jacks 7, Duckett 30, Abbott 0-32 (3)13:12 , Lawrence Ostlere
Abbott is back into the attack, facing England’s new batter, Will Jacks. He’s told off for going wide on his crease and then bowls a no ball that bounces way over Jacks’ head. With the next ball, Jacks stands and delivers with a smack down the ground for four.
Wicket! Salt 17 (24), b Dwarshuis 1-1513:06 , Lawrence Ostlere
Phil Salt tries to give himself room to slap through the off side but gets himself in a tangle and the ball skids through to hit the stumps. Finally, Australia have a breakthrough.
England 46-0 (6) Salt 16, Duckett 29, Abbott 0-24 (2)13:02 , Lawrence Ostlere
Excellent from Duckett, who begins Abbott’s latest over with back-to-back boundaries. He sees off a couple of dot ball and then there’s more, as he steps down the wicket and slashes across the line to mid-wicket for a four, and hits a near carbon-copy boundary from the back foot a moment later.
Four fours in the over. Ruthless.
England 30-0 (6) Salt 16, Duckett 13, Dwarshuis 0-15 (3)12:55 , Sonia Twigg
England start the next Dwarshuis over in watchful fashion, Duckett just defending the ball to the field, and waiting for a bit of width which comes in the next delivery which he plays comfortably for a single.
Salt takes over where Duckett left off and just defends the ball.
The next one is too straight and Salt tucks it away for a single towards backwards square. Salt goes after one, it’s a big inside edge and skews awkwardly behind him, but England have the boundary.
England 23-0 (5) Salt 10, Duckett 12, Abbott 0-8 (1)12:50 , Sonia Twigg
Time for a bowling change and Sean Abbott comes into the attack after just the two overs from Hardie.
His first delivery is played back to him by Duckett, but the next one is a wide and England won’t mind where the runs come from.
A short wide one is punched away by Duckett to bring up his first boundary of the innings. It was a well-timed shot just waiting for it and pushed through the gap.
And the final ball of the over is skewed away towards the boundary, he only had one hand on it and it saves the four.
England 15-0 (4) Salt 10, Duckett 5, Dwarshuis 0-8 (2)12:46 , Sonia Twigg
The ball skews off the inside edge of Salt’s bat and almost goes to the boundary, that is Trent Bridge and could be a sign that this will be a high-scoring game.
The next ball however he finds Labuschagne. There has just been the first sign of Archer, under a big duvet-like coat on the balcony, as he prepares for his first ODI for a year and a half.
England are taking their time so far, dealing in singles rather than boundaries, but there is a very long way to go in this match.
Another one off the outside edge, this time Duckett picks up a single to end the over.
England 11-0 (3) Salt 7, Duckett 4, Hardie 0-7 (2)12:42 , Sonia Twigg
Hardie is keeping things tight and halfway through the over Duckett still has just one run to his name.
But he manages to add a couple with a push into the gap on the off side between point and cover.
Duckett just knocking the ball around.
England 7-0 (2) Salt 6, Duckett 1, Dwarshuis 0-4 (1)12:38 , Sonia Twigg
Now up is debutant Dwarshuis. Salt gets a big inside edge the first ball up, and finds the middle on the second but picks out extra cover.
Another edge of Salt’s bat, but straight into the ground and fell well short of slip, but the following ball is a fraction wide and creamed through the covers for the first boundary of the afternoon.
England 2-0 (1) Salt 1, Duckett 1, Hardies 0-3 (1)12:34 , Sonia Twigg
Phil Salt chases one outside the off stump first up and the ball just goes past the outside edge, but the next ball brings the first runs as the England opener picks up a single.
Salt flashes at one he gets a leading edge but it goes wide of Steve Smith and he gets away with it, Smith dived down but couldn’t quite get there.
England vs Australia12:29 , Sonia Twigg
Ben Duckett and Phil Salt are out in the middle and the match is about to get underway.
England prepare to bat first against Australia12:18 , Sonia Twigg
England captain Harry Brook, said to Sky Sports: “We want to try and put a bit of pressure in the first innings and put on a big score.
“We have got some nice players in there, Jofra Archer, Ben Duckett back in the white-ball set up and Liam Livingstone who wasn’t in the squad before.
“I am looking forward to it [captaining]. A few [of his family] are here. Hopefully we will start off well.”
Australia team news12:15 , Sonia Twigg
Ben Dwarshuis makes his ODI debut as Australian captain number 248.
Mitchell Starc, Glenn Maxwell and Josh Hazlewood are unwell.
Josh Inglis is recovering from a quadricep soreness sustained in the last T20 match so has not been included in the squad list.
Australia XI: Travis Head, Mitch Marsh (c), Steve Smith, Cameron Green, Marnus Labuschagne, Alex Carey (wk), Matt Short, Aaron Hardie, Sean Abbott, Ben Dwarshuis, Adam Zampa
England team news12:07 , Sonia Twigg
Jofra Archer has been named in his first ODI squad for 18 months as expected, and Jamie Smith and Jacob Bethell have also been handed debuts in the format.
Left-armer Reece Topley is not feeling well so has not been included in England’s squad list.
TOSS12:04 , Sonia Twigg
England have won the toss and will bat first against Australia.
The XI has also been announced (in batting order): Phil Salt, Ben Duckett, Will Jacks, Harry Brook, Jamie Smith, Liam Livingstone, Jacob Bethell, Brydon Carse, Jofra Archer, Matthew Potts, Adil Rashid
Adam Zampa will be playing his 100th ODI for Australia, while the last five-match ODI series between the two sides was back in 2019, this feels like the start of a build up to the Champions Trophy, which England were lucky to qualify for after their dismal 2023 World Cup in India.
England and Australia warm up ahead of ODI11:45 , Sonia Twigg
Here are some photos of the players warming up for the game:
Jofra Archer is poised to play first ODI for 18 months (Action Images via Reuters)
Conditions might be a bit colder than the Australians are used to (Action Images via Reuters)
11:30 , Sonia Twigg
“To be told I’m keeping wicket for England in a couple of formats now is nice. I found out just after the last Test finished at the Oval…Baz told me I was going to be keeping,” Smith said.
“Him taking charge of the white-ball side was a bit of a surprise, I wasn’t expecting it at all, but in the short period of time I have spent with him, he’s been fantastic.
“He’s sort of what I look to be as a cricketer, I guess: that nice attacking wicketkeeper-batsman.It gives you confidence to have someone there that’s had that sort of experience.
“You don’t tend to get too many wicketkeepers that are coaches and have an important role in the side, to help you along the way, so it’s great to have him.”
Jamie Smith inspired by ‘fantastic’ England head coach Brendon McCullum11:15 , Sonia Twigg
Jamie Smith is looking to Brendon McCullum for inspiration after being handpicked by England’s head coach as the team’s new one-day wicketkeeper.
McCullum fast-tracked Smith into the Test side at the start of the summer, skipping a generation as Jonny Bairstow and Ben Foakes were moved aside, and the results were striking enough for him to make the same decision again when it came to this month’s ODI series against Australia.
McCullum does not officially take charge of the white-ball setup until January, but there is no question that the charismatic Kiwi is already pulling the strings ahead of Thursday’s opener at Trent Bridge.
It was McCullum who pulled Smith to one side at the end of the recent Test series against Sri Lanka and informed him that he had been chosen ahead of T20 keeper Phil Salt to take over from Jos Buttler, who is currently injured but ready to step away from the stumps more permanently to refresh his captaincy.
McCullum made his name as a free-spirited, stroke-making keeper-batter in his own playing days and, if he sees a kindred spirit in Smith, then the feeling is mutual.
Early team news from England11:00 , Sonia Twigg
“We’re going to have the same principles or however we want to go about playing the game, trying to put that forward to the team already before Baz [Brendon McCullum] takes over.
“I haven’t spoken to him much, he’s kind of left it up to me and Tres, but me and Tres are both on the same page and a pretty similar page to Baz. Whatever you feel like doing, just do it.
“We want to go out there, be entertaining, entertain the crowd, take the game on, try to take wickets and put the pressure on their bowlers. In the field, try to influence the game as much as you can.”
Brook did not reveal England’s XI, confirming only he will bat at four and Jofra Archer will be unleashed in his first ODI since March 6 last year as part of his carefully managed comeback.
Harry Brook reveals Brendon McCullum’s likely impact on England white-ball sides10:45 , Sonia Twigg
Harry Brook suspects England’s approach will “merge into one” when Brendon McCullum unifies the head coach roles.
With McCullum not combining Test and white-ball duties until January and Jos Buttler injured, Brook and Marcus Trescothick form a caretaker captain-head coach alliance for an ODI reboot against Australia.
Trescothick, though, is one of McCullum’s assistants with the Test team, with Brook an instrumental batter in a ‘Bazball’ revolution that has seen England win 19 from 29 matches under the New Zealander.
While Brook has been left to his own devices as he prepares to skipper England for the first time in Thursday’s first ODI at Trent Bridge, the Yorkshireman knows what is expected of him by McCullum.
“I think it’s all going to merge into one at some point,” Brook said. “It’s all going to be played fairly similar.
England vs Australia10:30 , Sonia Twigg
And now time for a look at the Australians:
Mitchell Marsh will captain Australia in the series (Getty Images)
Australia play England in the first ODI of five at Trent Bridge (Getty Images)
England vs Australia09:56 , Sonia Twigg
Here are some photos of the players training yesterday ahead of the match:
Jamie Smith is poised to make his ODI debut (Getty Images)
Ben Duckett is preparing to face Australia (Getty Images)
England vs Australia09:48 , Sonia Twigg
Good morning and welcome to The Independent’s live coverage from the first ODI between England and Australia at Trent Bridge.
Harry Brook will lead the side in the absence of Jos Buttler, while Jofra Archer is expected to play his first ODI for 18 months.
We will be bringing you all the updates and over-by-over coverage of the game.
