West Indies to bat first in delayed third ODI
Update:
Date: 13:23 BST
Title: Post
Content: Ebony Rainford-BrentFormer England batter on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra
Saqib Mahmood did really well last game. Harry Brook will be looking to use him early here today.
Update:
Date: 13:22 BST
Title: Post
Content: Phil TufnellFormer England spinner on Test Match Special
There's a bit of gale going across the ground so there's going to be a bit of a swing. England need to go out there and assert their authority. Hopefully they can take a few wickets early on and set the tone.
Update:
Date: 13:21 BST
Title: Teams
Content: England: Ben Duckett, Jamie Smith, Joe Root, Harry Brook (c), Jos Buttler (wk), Jacob Bethell, Will Jacks, Brydon Carse, Adil Rashid, Matthew Potts, Saqib Mahmood
West Indies: Brandon King, Evin Lewis, Keacy Carty, Shai Hope (c & wk), Sherfane Rutherford, Justin Greaves, Roston Chase, Gudakesh Motie, Alzarri Joseph, Shamar Joseph, Jayden Seales
England are unchanged while the West Indies have made three changes with Evin Lewis, Sherfane Rutherford and Shamar Joseph replacing Jewel Andrew, Shimron Hetmyer and Matthew Forde.
All three play for the first time in this series, with Lewis recovering from a niggle and Rutherford returning from the Indian Premier League.
Update:
Date: 13:20 BST
Title: Post
Content: West Indies captain Shai Hope: "It was a lot more competitive [in the last ODI at Cardiff], we definitely executed a lot better with bat and ball. I want to see the same today."
On how his side can improve: "Just a bit more clinical with our tactics, take each moment as they come and executing our plans, be consistent."
Update:
Date: 13:14 BST
Title: Post
Content: England captain Harry Brook: "We're going to try and be as dominant as possible. We've got an opportunity to win the series 3-0.
"[One positive from Cardiff] was Rooty' big score. It's something we didn't have in the first game, which was really nice to see. Hopefully a few of the lads can have that today."
On England's unchanged XI: "I like the balance we've got at the minute. We've got a lot of depth with the bat which gives us opportunities to chase scores like the other day when we had a tough start. We've got a good bowling unit too. I'm looking forward to what the future brings."
Update:
Date: 13:11 BST
Title: England win the toss and bowl
Content: West Indies captain Shai Hope has called incorrectly and so England have won the toss.
Harry Brook has said England will bowl first at The Oval, which makes sense given we can expect rain disruption.
Update:
Date: 13:05 BST
Title: Post
Content: Harry Brook just sent down a delivery in the warm-up, then followed up with a cartwheel.
Add that to the vast list of the man's talents.
Update:
Date: 13:03 BST
Title: Post
Content: Well, that's the idea in theory, Matt.
Traffic sorted, onto the next issue... we've got a decent chance of rain disruption.
It's not raining at the moment - the England players are still engaged in a pretty lengthy game of group head tennis on the outfield - but the forecast has a high chance of rain through the next three hours.
The possibility of precipitation reduces after that, but we're not entirely clear until pretty late in the evening.
Update:
Date: 13:00 BST
Title: Post
Content: Matthew HenryBBC Sport journalist at The Oval
If you need to work your afternoon around the cricket, here are the revised timings:
First innings 13:30 - 17:00
Interval 17:00 - 17:30
Second innings 17:30 - 21:00
All times are BST
Update:
Date: 12:58 BST
Title: Post
Content: England's players found their way to beat the traffic...
Update:
Date: 12:56 BST
Title: Get Involved
Content: #bbccricket, via WhatsApp on 03301231826 or text 81111 (standard network charges apply)
Will the time for the commute be considered in WI's over rate? Should have taken the Northern Line!
Nick, London
Update:
Date: 12:55 BST
Title: Post
Content: Matthew HenryBBC Sport journalist at The Oval
For those of you Londoners that care about such things - I'm looking at your TMS' Daniel Norcross - severe traffic "north of the river" is being blamed for this delay.
South London can breathe easily.
Update:
Date: 12:54 BST
Title: Post
Content: I just searched our photo provider for "West Indies coach" and have been offered snaps of Steve McClaren and Dwight Yorke, who were managing Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago respectively in a football tournament at Brentford at the weekend.
Wrong type of coach...
Update:
Date: 12:50 BST
Title: Post
Content: Matthew HenryBBC Sport journalist at The Oval
You'd be forgiven for calling this a shambles.
The match has been delayed because West Indies were stuck in heavy traffic en route to the ground from their hotel 3.5 miles away.
England have been here a while but the visitors did not appear at The Oval until around 12:40 - 10 minutes after the toss should have taken place.
They have still not emerged to do some proper warm-ups.
We're told the toss will be at 13:10 BST with the match beginning at 13:30. It could be raining by then.
Update:
Date: 12:48 BST
Title: Post
Content: Ah, so as I finished writing that, the West Indies team started filtering onto the changing room balcony, and we've been told the toss will take place at 13:10 BST.
The match was due to start at 13:00 BST but that has been pushed back half an hour.
Update:
Date: 12:45 BST
Title: Post
Content: Look, we've all been there.
You've hauled yourself out of bed, hopped in and out of the shower so fast the water's barely touched you, hurried out the door with your shoes untied and your shirt on backwards... but you're on time, you'll make it...
Until you hit traffic.
And that's what's happened to the West Indies today - their coach has been somewhere on a clogged road in South London.
So we've got a delayed toss for the third and final ODI at The Oval.
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