England v Scotland: T20 Cricket World Cup – live

England Salt, Buttler (c/wk), Jacks, Bairstow, Brook, Ali, Livingstone, Jordan, Archer, Rashid, Wood.

Scotland Munsey, M Jones, McMullen, Berrington (c), Cross (wk), Leask, Greaves, Watt, Sole, Wheal, Currie.

The Scotland captain Richie Berrington says the wicket looks a bit dry and that they’ll need to assess conditions and adapt.

England would have bowled so everyone’s happy. Jos Buttler says it was a tough call to leave out Reece Topley but that they wanted the extra pace of Mark Wood.

This is the second game in Group B, following Namibia’s Super Over victory against Oman on Sunday night. The other team, Australia, begin against Oman tomorrow.

Barbados is bubbling hot like soup in a pot but the breeze is helping. Nice atmosphere building up in Kensington Oval, where the punters are already maintaining hydration levels and the fruit sellers are already doing good business in the concessions outside the Hall & Griffith Stand. Just been chatting to David Harris, local cricket and calypso doyen, who tells me kids from Jofra Archer’s old school, Foundation, will be in the stands today. Lovely stuff.

THIS CHAP WILL BE INVOLVED TONIGHT AS WELL

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The highest-ranked associate – they sit 12th – Scotland went unbeaten in the European qualifier last summer, pipping Ireland to top spot by virtue of a high-scoring eight-run victory over them in the final match. A tight-knit unit who took down West Indies two years ago, they have since been augmented by Brandon McMullen’s arrival at opener. Knock over England first up and it will blow Group B wide open.

Mark Wood has been chosen ahead of Reece Topley. That’s the word on the Bridgetown street, and an interesting statement of aggressive intent from England. I might have gone with Topley, but that’s easy to see from 4098 miles away.

One of the advantages of picking your own groups, as the ICC have for this T20 World Cup, is you can have as many big rivalries as you want: USA v Canada, England v Australia, India v Pakistan, Sri Lanka v Bangladesh. And, today, England v Scotland in Barbados. It’s a special day for three of England’s probable XI: Jofra Archer, Chris Jordan and Phil Salt spent some of all or their formative years on the island, and all have done the hard yards – gazillions of them in Jofra’s case – to earn their place today.

All things being equal England will win, but this sentence is a load of nonsense really. Scotland are a deccent side and things are really equal in T20 cricket. Nor were they when Scotland beat England at Edinburgh in an ODI six years ago. Don’t assume a shock but don’t dismiss it as a possibility either.

The match starts at 3.30pm BST, 10.30am in Barbados.