Summary

  • First T20, Kolkata

  • India chase down 133 with 43 balls to spare to win by seven wickets

  • Abhishek smashes 79 off 34 balls

  • England 132 (20 overs): Buttler 68 (44); Chakravarthy 3-23

  • India take 1-0 lead in five-match series

  • Second T20 in Chennai on Saturday (13:30 GMT)

Live Reporting

by Timothy Abraham & Matthew Henry

  1. Eng 43-2

    Harry Brook is swinging at a lot and middling little.

    His first boundary comes via an inside edge that flashes past his stumps.

  2. Eng 39-2

    You're a cheerful bunch today...

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    Arjun Singh: Welcome to the New England white ball setup. Same as the old setup: Jos Buttler or bust.

  4. Spinner Varun Chakaravarthy, who plays for KKR on this ground in the IPL, is on for an early bowl.

  5. Not out

    Brook has missed this by a good few inches.

    Not out.

  6. It can't have hit anything but bat.

    Brook doesn't look worried.

  7. India review

    Harry Brook has a wild swing and appears to miss the ball entirely.

    India think they've heard something, however.

  8. How's stat?!

    Kieran Parmley
    Cricviz analyst

    With the wicket of Ben Duckett, Arshdeep Singh passes Yuzvendra Chahal to become India's outright leading wicket-taker in T20Is with 97 wickets.

    Arshdeep only made his debut for India back in July 2022 and has taken just 2 years and 199 days to go to the top of the chart.

  9. Eng 35-2

    Buttler 29, Brook 0

    The one thing about this India line-up is there's not a lot of seam bowling depth. Hardik is an all-rounder not a frontline quick.

    He drifts onto the pads and Buttler flicks him fine for the fourth four in the over.

    18 runs from that one.

  10. Eng 30-2

    Oh Jos.

    This has been smashed with distain on the pull.

    Don't bowl there, Hardik.

  11. Nick Knight
    Former England batter on TNT Sports

    Ben Duckett is a terrific cricketer and the left-right-hand combination at the top is crucial. My gut feeling is Duckett may settle into the middle order and Harry Brook might go to the top, somewhere down the line. Joy for India, though, as they have done exactly what they hoped to do at the toss and trouble for England here.

  12. Eng 26-2

    Jos Buttler is batting well amid the drama.

    He flicks Hardik Pandya off his pads for four with ease.

  13. Eleanor Oldroyd
    BBC 5 Live cricket presenter

    We know England bat deep but they're in danger of being undone by Arshdeep.

  14. Eng 17-2

    Harry Brook's first delivery zips past the edge.

    Brendon McCullum looks as he always does on the sidelines. Unfussed.

  15. wicket

    WICKET

    Duckett c Rinku b Arshdeep 4 (Eng 17-2)

    This one is out, however. Ben Duckett tries to whack Arshdeep over the off side and doesn't get all of it.

    He'll have thought he may have got away with it but Rinku Singh takes a very good catch running back from extra cover.

  16. Eng 17-1

    Outrageous.

    Ben Duckett shapes to scoop Arshdeep over fine leg but then has to change the shot to ramp it over the slips.

    He gets four.

  17. Eng 13-1

    Arshdeep Singh is getting this new ball to talk.

    Ben Duckett has got himself onto strike but will be wishing he hadn't right now.

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    Same old Phil Salt, all or nothing.

    Pete in Keighley

  19. Eng 12-1

    Buttler 11, Duckett 0

    Two dots and then another boundary as Jos Buttler skews one off the outside edge to wide third man.

    Still Ben Duckett waits to face a delivery.

  20. How's stat?!

    Kieran Parmley
    Cricviz analyst

    Arshdeep Singh now has seven wickets in the first over in T20Is. He still has someway to go to catch Bhuvneshwar Kumar, who leads the way for India with 18 wickets in over one.