Luke Wood - a left-armer starts with the ball for the Rockets.

Rattles Vince's pads. Missing down the leg side, though. Leg bye gets the Brave away.

Michael Vaughan
Former England captain on BBC Two

This should be a tremendous game. It a great ground for any format of the game, and we're used to seeing big scores in white-ball games.

Two classy operators will lead off for Brave. Vince comes into this competition off the back of impressing in England's recent one-day series with Pakistan.

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Don't get too close to those fire pumps lads, not unless you fancy a few weeks without eyebrows.

Harry Gurney
Ex-England bowler on BBC Two

There is lots of pace in the Southern Brave attack, and they are complimented by some really talented spinners.

This is your five-minute warning. Just enough time to get a brew in and ready yourself for the fireworks...

Harry Gurney
Ex-England bowler on BBC Two

James Vince is in good form. He'll be licking his lips and looking forward to getting going in this tournament.

I know Brave are the tournament favourites, but I also like the look at that Trent Rockets side. They bat deep with Samit and Rashid down at eight and nine.

Speaking of music...

When you think of music artists from Nottingham, then Jake Bugg is one of the first that come to mind.

The singer-songwriter is supported by BBC Music Introducing in East Midlands and has achieved four Top 10 albums in his career, but one of his first defining moments was performing on an Introducing stage at Glastonbury in 2011. He is here at Trent Bridge in Nottingham to bring it home with some of his biggest anthems.

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If you're playing catch-up and want to see the full squad lists for the teams involved, you can do so here.

Trent Rockets: Hales, Short, Malan, Root, Moores (wk), Gregory, Mullaney, Patel, Rashid, Wood, De Lange.

Southern Brave: Vince, Conway, Davies (wk), Rawlins, De Grandhomme, Whiteley, Dawson, Garton, Jordan, Briggs, Mills.

Brave captain James Vince: "I haven't played here much but the stats suggest it will be high scoring. We have plenty of firepower in the attack and also with the bat. Jofra is not here. I don't know where he is! Hopefully he is not far away from playing soon."

James Vince calls heads and calls it right. His Brave side will have the first swing of the bat.

Folks, say hello to your tournament favourites.

Even without their original overseas star trio of David Warner, Marcus Stoinis and Andre Russell - all of whom withdrew before the event - the Braves retain plenty of punch.

Quinton de Kock was drafted in (although he is unavailable today as he's still in Ireland for South Africa's T20I series) along with Colin de Grandhomme (useful) to join the likes of Devon Conway, James Vince and Alex Davies.

It is in the bowling department where things get really exciting, though. If you want lightning pace then this Braves side are for you, with Jofra Archer, Chris Jordan, Tymal Mills all bringing the heat.

Any side with a top four of Alex Hales, D'Arcy Short, Dawid Malan, Joe Root should be expected to post a score or two, with all four having done the business and more in T20 in the past.

The real superstar, though, is Rashid Khan, who was the top draft pick two years ago. Rashid is the best leg-spinner on the planet and he will be well-supported by the two opposing types of finger-spinners: Samit Patel (left-arm spin) and Matthew Carter (off-spin).

In contrast to their opponents today, they lack quality pace - something they were robbed of when Wahab Riaz withdrew from the competition.

So what can we expect from these two sides?

Well, it sees a side with one of the most explosive opening pairs and best spin attacks in the competition take on arguably the classiest top duo and the quickest attack going.

There is an air of irresistible force against immovable object. But this is all just on paper of course. We've yet to see either side hit the Hundred in anger yet.

Still finding your feet with this Hundred lark? You're not alone.

Thankfully, we've got your back to explain the basics of what is admittedly a new format of cricket but also pretty easy to understand.

There are eight city-based teams - London Spirit, Oval Invincibles, Southern Brave, Welsh Fire, Birmingham Phoenix, Trent Rockets, Manchester Originals and Northern Superchargers - with each having picked two squads of 15 domestic and international players - one men's and one women's.

Each team will bat for 100 balls and attempt to score as many runs as possible.

The biggest change to current forms of cricket is each 100-ball innings is essentially split into 20 five-ball overs.

So far, we've had the most watched game of women's cricket ever televised on the BBC and the largest crowd ever for a domestic women's match.

A day later, the first men's game attracted a peak BBC TV audience of 2m last night. The match was also streamed live over 260,000 times across BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport online.

I reckon that'll do for starters.

BBC Two

We have live TV coverage on BBC Two for this game, which has just started. You can also view that by clicking the play button at the top of this live. There's also radio commentary, live text and in-play clips.

So all your bases are covered.

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