The first West Indies come from an off side wide from Mahmood, before King gets off the mark by hurrying through a single.

There might have been a chance of a run-out has Brook collected that cleanly from mid-off, but King is safe.

Soham Sarkhel
CricViz analyst

Among grounds where England have played ODI cricket at home since the start of 2021, The Oval has seen the most amount of swing in the first 10 overs with an average swing of 1.01 degrees.

Indeed, a batting average of 18.8 against pacers in the first powerplay in three ODIs here since the start of 2021 shows that batting has been tough. Teams batting first, in particular, have struggled. Sri Lanka scored 42-4 in the first powerplay in 2021, England managed 22-5 against India in 2022 while against New Zealand in 2023, they were 51-2.

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And we're off.

Wide-ish from Saqib Mahmood, who has three slips in, swinging away.

Brandon King leaves the delivery well alone.

Ebony Rainford-Brent
Former England batter on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

Harry Brook is so early in his career but you get the feeling that he knows what he wants to do, he's hungry for it.

We're just a few minutes away from getting under way with the players making their way out at a gloomy Oval.

You rather suspect the ball is going to hoop about a bit - it could be a difficult start for West Indies openers Evin Lewis and Brandon King.

Ebony Rainford-Brent
Former 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.

Phil Tufnell
Former 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.

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.

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."

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."

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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.

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.

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.

Matthew Henry
BBC 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

England's players found their way to beat the traffic...

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Matthew Henry
BBC Sport journalist at The Oval

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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.

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...

Matthew Henry
BBC 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.

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.