England vs West Indies, first ODI: New one-day era begins under Harry Brook
29 May 2025 1:12pm
1:10PM
OVER 2: ENG 17/0 (Smith 13 Duckett 4)
Jayden Seales will open from the Birmingham End and he strikes Smith on the pads with his first ball. It struck Smith on the full but was going down leg.
Two balls later Smith is dropped. He flashes at a wider delivery from Seales and the ball flies to Greaves' right at second slip. Greaves sticks out his right hand but cannot keep hold of it. It runs away for four down to third man.
Seales then strikes Smith on the pads and there is a huge appeal, which umpire Kumar Dharmasena turns down. The West Indies think long and hard before reviewing. It appeared that they had run out of time but they are allowed to review. It is not a good review to say the least from Shai Hope as the ball was going way down leg. Everyone knew it a long time before the decision came having seen just one replay and were quickly back into position.
Smith then responds by drilling Seales through cover for four. He then finishes the over by flicking it through wide mid-on for another four and that brings to an end an eventful over. Smith has played a couple of delightful shots in that over but also looked troubled.
1:04PM
OVER 1: ENG 5/0 (Smith 1 Duckett 4)
Smith goes for a drive through the offside first ball and gets an inside edge through square leg to get the first run of the innings. A little bit of movement from Forde into Smith and the wind has got up at Edgbaston.
Duckett faces three dot balls before finally getting off the mark with an emphatic cover drive for four. Too full from Forde and Duckett punishes him.
Five from the opening over.
The Harry Brook era has its first boundary courtesy of Ben Duckett 💥 pic.twitter.com/obZx7OVyIw
— Sky Sports Cricket (@SkyCricket) May 29, 2025
12:59PM
Ready to go
Jamie Smith and Ben Duckett head out to the middle. Matthew Forde will send down the opening over. We are ready for action at Edgbaston.
12:56PM
Nearly time for action
Both sides make their way out onto the outfield, led by Bob Willis' daughter Katie. Tomorrow would have been Bob's 76th birthday and we have 45 seconds of roaring applause for the England great.
12:53PM
Blue for Bob Day
Today is #BlueForBob, where Edgbaston will turn blue to raise awareness and funds for Prostate Cancer 💙 pic.twitter.com/y2n2n1ODnC
— Sky Sports Cricket (@SkyCricket) May 29, 2025
12:51PM
Revealed: English women's cricket becomes match-fixing target
There are growing fears that English women's cricket is becoming a soft target for corruption, with hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of bets placed on matches.
Corruption in men's cricket has been a longstanding issue for the sport, with numerous high-profile examples coming to light.
A Telegraph Sport investigation can reveal a crackdown taking place in the women's game after uncovering:
A total of £300,000 bet on one domestic match
Players approached for team information via social media
Anti-corruption officials sent to matches as part of crackdown
Players forced to hand in mobile phones to officials during games
Minimal security at venues during matches
For more from Sonia Twigg, click here.
12:50PM
Milestone for Rashid
Adil Rashid is magic 🪄
Congratulations, Rash! 👏 #ENGvWI | #EnglandCricket pic.twitter.com/91eH6mNhAH
— England Cricket (@englandcricket) May 29, 2025
12:49PM
Smith given platform to be England's Adam Gilchrist with opener promotion
Jamie Smith will open against West Indies as England begin their ODI rebuild under new captain Harry Brook by looking to the Test team for inspiration.
Smith will be aiming to emulate Adam Gilchrist as a keeper turned ODI opener after replacing Phil Salt at the top of the order. Salt was part of the team that bombed at the Champions Trophy earlier this year, losing three matches out of three.
Gilchrist, who like Smith batted at No 7 in Tests, scored 9,200 ODI runs with 16 centuries in 260 games as an opener, winning three World Cups with Australia. Of players who started their ODI careers before 2000, only five batsmen have a better strike rate.
12:47PM
The thoughts of Harry Brook at the toss
'There are a couple of new faces who have played before but have not been in recently. We are looking forward to what the future holds. We will try to get back to winning ways, and try to have as strong a team as possible.
'As a batting unit, we need to try and get bigger scores individually - try to get those match-winning knocks; as a bowling unit, to take wickets throughout, and have the skills to bowl to certain dimensions.'
12:43PM
Eye on the former captain
Welcome to Edgbaston. A decent crowd in today. Jos Buttler bats at five and will keep in his first match as the former England captain. Harry Brook described him as still being the no 1 white ball batsman in the world yesterday but in reality he has not operated at that level for a while now. At 34 Buttler could still make the 2027 ODI World Cup but you feel they missed a trick here by not giving Tom Banton his chance and really building a fresh, young new team for Brook to work with. Cue a Buttler hundred today.
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