Live England vs West Indies, first T20: latest score and updates

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Luke Slater
06 June 2025 6:46pm
6:45PM
OVER 2: ENG 21/1 (Smith 13 Buttler 4)
Buttler gets off the mark with a lofted drive straight down the ground. A stand-and-deliver type shot. A bit full from Shepherd. Another single to Buttler to finish the over. Fair to say the atmosphere in the ground is a little... dead at the moment. Plenty of people there, though.
6:41PM
WICKET! Duckett c Hope b Shepherd 1
Duckett tries to pull a slower ball back of a length and he is caught out... figuratively and literally. West Indies have an early wicket. Got a bit high and him and it went straight up in the air. Shai Hope gets under it and it is a very simple catch.
6:38PM
OVER 1: ENG 16/0 (Duckett 1 Smith 13)
Jason Holder to open the bowling. Four runs off the second ball of the over with Smith driving well down the ground. A bit of a delay as sawdust is applied to the footmarks on the pitch. Smith then goes over the top to a short one which is hoiked over to the deep square leg boundary. Guided it rather than killing it.
Shai Hope thinks he might have caught Duckett with a snick down the leg side but he is the only one on the field. The umpire signals a wide and Duckett is off the mark next ball with a single. A very good first over for England so far without too much drama.
It gets better as Smith then picks up his third four of the over by charging down the wicket and thumping the ball down the ground. He didn't get all of it and it sounded a bit... clothy... but it beat Andre Russell to the boundary.
6:09PM
Team news
6:04PM
England have won the toss
They are going to have a bat.
Harry Brook, England captain: 'It looks like a good pitch and hopefully we can get a decent score on the board.'
Jos Buttler is batting at three. Hopefully he can do what he usually does, score big runs and win us matches,' Brook says.
5:58PM
Mark Wood returns to bowling... at a very gentle intensity
Good evening from Chester-le-Street, which is looking delightful in the sun. So we are expecting a full game. Local hero Mark Wood isn't playing, of course, but he made his first – very gentle – return to bowling today which should give England some cheer for the challenges that lie ahead.
5:54PM
England's most recent results in T20 cricket
Lost to India by 150 runs
Lost to India by 15 runs
Beat India by 26 runs
Lost to India by two wickets
Lost to India by seven wickets
England did beat West Indies 3-1 in their most recent T20 series before this one, but India gave England a pasting.