England v West Indies: first men's T20 cricket international
Date: 2025-06-06T16:30:31.000Z
Title: Preamble
Content: BANG! KAPOW! MADON! THWACK! SOCK! OOOFF!
Those of a certain [proximity to the Grim Reaper age will know these words were all used during fights in the Batman series of the 1960s. (Except MADON!, but that's another story.) A few of them will be needed tonight as well, and not only to describe the post-pub dialectics up and down the land.
There should be plenty of THWACK!ing at Chester-le-Street, where England play West Indies – the six-hitting kings of Twenty20 – in the first of a three-match series.
England won the ODI series fairly comfortably, but the addition of Rovman Powell, Johnson Charles, Romario Shepherd, Andre Russell and others makes this a much stronger West Indies team.
It should be competitive. It'll definitely require capital letters and exclamation marks.
The match starts at 6.30pm.
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