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Harry Brook is in at No 4 for England.

Buttler is enjoying himself, meanwhile, steering back-to-back fours down to deep square leg, before finishing the over with another boundary crashed through the leg side off the back foot, and another tickled fine off the pads.

A rough over for Hardik Pandya, who goes for 18.

Ben Duckett plays an outrageous reverse scoop for four, but the very next ball he falls cheaply swiping across the line, and Singh takes a good catch running towards the boundary.

Buttler slaps England’s first boundary back down the ground off Hardik’s bowling, before a couple of dots. Buttler adds another four with more of a thick edge down to deep back point, and he scambles a single to finish a productive over by the captain.

Jos Buttler gets England on the board with a couple of runs before fishing at a wide one which only narrowly misses his bat. A leg bye adds a third run.

A fabulous start by Arshdeep Singh, who finds some early swing with his opening two deliveries to perplex Salt, and the third ball brings the first wicket as Salt spoons it high over his own head for an easy catch by keeper Samson.

Here we go then, the players are out on the field for the anthems, and it’s almost time. India will bowl and England’s Phil Salt will face the first ball.

India: 1 Abhishek, 2 Samson (wk), 3 Tilak, 4 Surya (capt), 5 Hardik, 6 Nitish, 7 Rinku, 8 Axar, 9 Bishnoi, 10 Varun, Arshdeep.

England: 1 Duckett, 2 Salt (wk), 3 Buttler (capt), 4 Brook, 5 Livingstone, 6 Bethell, 7 Overton, 8 Atkinson, 9 Archer, 10 Rashid, 11 Wood.

“We’d have down the same [bowl], looks a good wicket with a little bit of dew around.”

On Eden Gardens: ‘It’s one of the great grounds in world cricket, it’s always an honour to come over and play against India. A lot of our guys have been playing some franchise cricket around the world so it’s nice to come together. Both teams will be aggressive and hopefully play some entertaining cricket.”

Suryakumar Yadav wins the toss in the middle, and elects to bowl.

“The wicket looks a little sticky. We’ve practiced two times in the night and there’ll be some heavy dew later on in the night.”

With Moeen Ali retiring from international duty after last year’s T20 World Cup, England have belatedly alighted on Harry Brook as Buttler’s vice-captain. The Yorkshireman stood in for Buttler during a 3-2 ODI series defeat to Australia at the back end of last summer. And, according to Buttler, Brook “was as positive a captain as I’ve ever seen”. With Buttler and McCullum signalling their intentions to be as aggressive as possible, Brook seems the ideal choice as lieutenant.