The ICC Men’s T20 World Cup is the international championship of Twenty20 International cricket. Organised by cricket’s governing body, the International Cricket Council, the tournament currently consists of 16 teams, comprising the top ten teams from the rankings at the given deadline and six other teams chosen through the T20 World Cup Qualifier. All matches are played as Twenty20 Internationals.
The event has generally been held every two years. However, the next edition of the tournament was scheduled to take place in 2020 but was moved to 2021, the host country was Australia but due to the Covid-19 outbreak was moved to India.
England vs West Indies, 3pm GMT
England’s team balance is an ongoing concern, with West Indies’ prowess against spin potentially encouraging England to field a seam-heavy line-up that, in the absence of Stokes and Curran, may force sacrifices to be made to their batting. And for all that Morgan has volunteered to drop himself if his form doesn’t pick up, the shorter-term victim is more likely to be England’s No. 1-ranked T20I batter, Dawid Malan, whose form in the warm-ups (a run-a-ball 18 and 11 from 15) seemed to confirm that his game isn’t best suited to the UAE’s pitches. The alternative would be to play one of Chris Jordan and Tymal Mills, with the spin of Moeen Ali, Adil Rashid and Liam Livingstone to fiddle through two bowling allocations between them.
Coming into the tournament, Roston Chase was intended to be the glue in West Indies’ middle-order, linking together the power-hitters in a role somewhat similar to that of Marlon Samuels, the main man in each of their two victorious finals. His form, however, hasn’t quite stacked up as intended – an unbeaten 54 from 58 on Wednesday left their chase against Afghanistan flat-footed, and there’s a chance that he may be side-lined for one or both of Simmons and Gayle.
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Predicted Team Line-Ups
England: 1 Jason Roy, 2 Jos Buttler (wk), 3 Jonny Bairstow, 4 Moeen Ali, 5 Liam Livingstone, 6 Eoin Morgan (capt), 7 David Willey/Chris Woakes, 8 Chris Jordan, 9 Adil Rashid, 10 Mark Wood, 11 Tymal Mills.
West Indies: 1 Evin Lewis, 2 Lendl Simmons, 3 Chris Gayle, 4 Nicholas Pooran (wk), 5 Shimron Hetmyer, 6 Kieron Pollard, 7 Andre Russell, 8 Dwayne Bravo, 9 Akeal Hosein/Hayden Walsh Jr, 10 Obed McCoy, 11 Oshane Thomas/Ravi Rampaul
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