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More than nineteen hours of daylight? Take that London.

It is a proper summer's evening in Manchester. One to pack out the beer tents and send sunscreen sales soaring.

Good news for the organisers after they hosted a soggy and short Test against India last summer.

Michael Dickie:, external Says everything about England's new approach to ODI cricket that same side can play ODI & T20. Unthinkable in Cook, Trott era.

lewis squires:, external I can see England either breaking the world record score, or getting bowled out for less than 100!

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England's interim coach Paul Farbrace has the happy-go-lucky attitude of a supply teacher who knows he doesn't have to hang around for the fall-out of letting his pupils let their hair down

New headmaster Trevor Bayliss arrives later this week apparently.

"Trevor gets in on Thursday and will meet Cookie for a bit of dinner on Friday before we head off to Spain," he tells Sky Sports.

"It is about trying to integrate the lads into Trevor so that it feels as normal as possible when we get to Cardiff for the first Ashes test.

"Every team has different people but the same characters, Trevor is a shrewd bloke."

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BBC Sport at Old Trafford

"New-boy Jonathan Trott is fitting in nicely to the Test Match Special team and has got a big welcome from his former England colleagues too. As Trott stood on the outfield as part of the intro to the TMS show, he got a hadnshake from Steven Finn and a running bearhug from Mark Wood."

I'm not sure if it is on the Test Match Special agenda for this evening but it would be interesting to get Graeme Swann and Jonathan Trott's thoughts on the comments made by former England wicketkeeper-batsman Craig Kieswetter yesterday., external

"Success changed people," he told CricInfo of his time in the England team.

"Cliques developed. There were jokes made in the dressing room if you had South African background. When we warmed up in training, we were split into sides: South Africans v English. It created an unnecessary divide. A sense of them and us.

"When the limited-overs players turned up, it felt like you were on the outside. The Test guys hung out with each other, the limited-overs guys hung out."

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Graeme Swann, Jonathan Trott and Ebony Rainford-Brent will provide an all-star supporting cast of pundits.

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"In recent years Twenty20 international cricket in England has had the air of something rather grudgingly undertaken, the sporting equivalent of a lukewarm limoncello liqueur handed out with the bill at the end of a five-course Italian meal.. a game to be forgotten before it has even begun."

As the Guardian's Barney Ronay , externalso brilliantly describes, T20 has felt a bit like that poncho you bought back from holiday.

Something that you might just style out when in sunnier climes among like-minded folk, but just felt a little silly when your brought back to overcast Blighty.

But that was before four successive 300+ ODI totals and a series victory over the World Cup runners-up New Zealand.

Time to dig out that poncho and down a shot of limoncello...

Reece Topley and James Vince are the two men on water-carrying duties in the England squad after missing the cut.

New Zealand have shuffled the pack with Colin Munro, Mitchell McClenaghan and Nathan McCullum, replacing Grant Elliott, Ben Wheeler and Andrew Mathieson.

Big brother McCullum will add a spinning option for the Blackcaps.

Stephan Shemilt
BBC Sport at Old Trafford

"Wonderful, party-like atmosphere at a sun-soaked Old Trafford, where fans were milling around soaking it all in more than two hours before the first ball was due to be bowled. Leaving the nets, Joe Root was inundated with so many requests for photos and autographs that he didn't have time to remove his helmet."

England have won the toss and chosen to bat.

It looks like a decent batting deck. Should be some runs around tonight.

Eoin Morgan has just confirmed that his side is unchanged from the one that did the business in the fifth one-dayer at Chester-Le-Street at the weekend.

Between the big-hitting brave new world of England's one-day rebirth...

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And the return of the oldest enemy....

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We have this little bit of fun from Old Trafford.

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