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Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (PTI Photo)
NEW DELHI: Indian cricket fans volition not person to enactment up arsenic precocious to ticker the men's team's upcoming T20I bid successful England. In a determination aimed astatine boosting tv viewership successful India, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has revised the commencement times for 3 floodlit T20Is during India's white-ball circuit of England adjacent month.India volition play 5 T20Is and 3 ODIs successful England betwixt July 1 and July 19. According to a study by ESPNcricinfo, the ECB has precocious the commencement times of 3 evening T20Is by 1 hr pursuing discussions with broadcasters.
The matches were primitively scheduled to statesman astatine 6.30 p.m. section clip (11 p.m. IST), arsenic announced past year. However, they volition present commencement astatine 5.30 p.m. section clip (10 p.m. IST), making them much viewer-friendly for Indian audiences.The accommodation means fans successful India tin expect the matches to decorativeness astir 2 americium alternatively of stretching adjacent to 3 am.The determination erstwhile again underlines the commercialized value of India matches for English cricket. Tours involving India proceed to beryllium among the ECB's astir invaluable broadcast properties, with tv audiences playing a large relation successful scheduling decisions.The timing alteration comes days aft the BCCI announced India's squads for the two-match T20I bid against Ireland and the five-match T20I bid against England.
Shreyas Iyer volition pb the side, replacing Suryakumar Yadav arsenic captain, portion the biggest talking constituent was the inclusion of teenage batting sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi successful a elder India squad for the archetypal time.The 15-year-old earned his maiden call-up aft a record-breaking IPL 2026 season.Sooryavanshi finished arsenic the starring run-scorer of IPL 2026, collecting 776 runs portion winning the Orange Cap. He scored 1 period and 5 fifties astatine a singular onslaught complaint of 237.30.His sensational run fetched him 5 idiosyncratic awards — Emerging Player of the Season, Most Valuable Player, Orange Cap, Best Strike Rate of the Season and Most Sixes successful the tournament.The youngster present stands connected the verge of creating history. If selected during the Ireland oregon England series, Sooryavanshi volition go India's youngest planetary cricketer, surpassing the grounds presently held by Sachin Tendulkar.Tendulkar made his India debut astatine the property of 16 years and 205 days during the 1989 circuit of Pakistan. At 15, Sooryavanshi has the accidental to interruption a grounds that has stood for astir 4 decades.India squad for T20I bid against Ireland:
India squad for T20I bid against England:
Shreyas Iyer (C), Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson (WK), Ishan Kishan (WK), Shivam Dube, Tilak Varma (VC), Nitish Kumar Reddy, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Varun Chakaravarthy, Ravi Bishnoi, Mohd. Siraj, Harshit Rana, Arshdeep Singh, Prince Yadav, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi
