7th over: England 68-1 (Salt 30, Brook 19) Axar Patel in his hundredth T20. Lots of folded arms in the Indian dugout, while Gambir strokes his chin. Neat and tidy, but still six from it.

6th over: England 62-1 (Salt 26,Brook 18) Prince, after conceding 15 runs from his first over, goes again. Hits Salt high on the back leg – Prince likes it, and convinces Shreyas Iyer to review. No cigar and India burn. Ying and Yang from Harry Brook who pulls a lesser-spotted forward defensive from the memory banks before he crouch-sweeps a toppling-over four.

5th over: England 57-1 (Salt 26, Brook 9) Salt is in the zone now, four, easy, over backward point. Good come back by Prasidh – until he oversteps and the free hit is top edged by a prowling Salt who almost hits blind. And - that’s more like it – a square drive for four to finish.

4th over: England 37-1 (Salt 13, Brook 8) The magnificently named Prince Yadav –slim and long limbed. Phil Salt, who has been sitting on his heels while all the action happened at the other end, slashes into a wide ball and fires it to the rope. To make things worse, it is a no ball… but he’s bowled by a yorker on the free hit. Salt then gets a toe ended four. Then there’s a wide, and final straight four to finish off an expensive over

3rd over: England 22-1 (Salt 0, Brook 8) Stand and deliver, Buttler pummels Arshdeep straight for six – before perishing next ball. Brook gives himself a ball to get his eye in, then backs away as if he’s unveiling a statue and scoops six for himself.

2nd over: England 7-0 (Salt 0, Buttler 2) Prasidh from the other end. Nippy. Washington fluffs his lines at midwicket, the ball nibbling through his legs. Well bowled – just three from it.

Fabulous innings by Shreyas Iyer but not much else to report from the Indian batting. Archer and Tongue were fantastic again, Jacks and Curran turned the screws, while Rashid’s figures were spoilt by one attacking over from Shreyas. Time for me to grab a drink of water – back shortly.

19th over: India 154 -5 (Shreyas Iyer 79, Washington 3) Clever over from Curran, who collects his sunglasses and cap having conceded just four singles and two dot balls from the penultimate over. An amend to the below stat – the first innings average score in internationals is 181.

18th over: India 150-5 (Shreyas Iyer 77, Washington 1 ) Shreyas Iyer slams boot on accelerator: six, four, six – the last steaming over long on, scorch marks from his dancing soles. And suddenly Rashid’s four overs have gone for 49.

Vic Marks on TMS tells me that the average score in T20 internationals at Bristol is 158.

17th over: India 130-5 (Shreyas Iyer 58, Washington 0) A fourth over of Tongue, giant strides, matching shadow. A monster six flicked like a lazy afternoon, but Tilak falls to another short delivery next ball.

And a big hello to my dad Anthony who is in hospital after a knee replacement – hope you can get the cricket on!

16th over: India 121-4 (Shreyas Iyer 55, Tilak 5) India are frustrated by Will Jacks, whose head is sheared, just a little longer than Auger-Aliassime’s Wimbledon grass court trim. Just five singles from it. Are we going to get any Rehan Ahmed?

14th over: India 10343 (Shreyas Iyer 40, Tilak 2) A ridiculously acrobatic chase and tumble by Jacob Bethell to stop a Shreyas four , is matched by Tom Banton, who sprints, slides and returns to cut off a Shivam Dube boundary. Next ball, Banton goes one better and catches it.

13th over: India 94-3 (Shreyas Iyer 36, Shivam 19) Sam Curran. A wide. Then he outfoxes Shivam who reverses early giving Curran time to tweaks his line. Shivam does eventually get one away to the rope – through midwicket with a frying pan. England then plump for an eye-raising lbw review – and lose it.

12th over: India 87-3 (Shreyas Iyer 35, Shivam 14) A second over for Jacks – starts with a wide, and India add five singles. The crowd are fanning themselves, hope there’s some shade to escape to if it all gets too much.

11th over: India 81-3 ( Shreyas Iyer 33, Shivam 11) Rashid resumes. Shreyas misses a cut. Shivam slog sweeps but just short of Sam Curran. Shreyas goes up and over extra cover with dancing feet but only picks up two. Next ball he dances down, leans back, and flames six.

10th over: India 71-3 (Shreyas Iyer 24, Shivam 10) They take DRINKS at half way through the innings – Shreyas and Shivam have locked down and built a platform – can they blast off? . A boundary in that over from Tongue – four for Shivam through the covers.

9th over: India 64-3 (Shreyas Iyer 22, Shivam 5) Tip and run to Sam Curran as India lick their wounds.

8th over: India 58-3 (Iyer 19, Shivam 2) Brook pulls out his Archer trump card. Just a leg bye and a single until the last ball – when Iyer bends right down as if squatting to do a head over heels, lifts his bat and upper cuts for six.

7th over: India 50-3 (Iyer 13, Shivam 1) Time for the rebuild. Captain’s knock?

6th over: India 43-2 (Abhishek 14, Iyer 9) The final slot of the power play falls to Sam Curraan. He wipes the sweat from his face – it’s still ferociously hot – and scampers (does he do anything else?) in. A tidy over, apart from a back foot dreamy, wristy thing of wonder from Iyer that beats a diving Bethell.

5th over: India 37-2 (Abhishek 13, Iyer 4) Josh Tongue changes ends with immediate results. A wafty gentle flick brings four for Iyer – more of that, less of the heave-ho.

4th over: India 32-1 (Abhishek 12, Ishan 4) Will Jacks shimmies through an over. Abhishek pushes with one finger at the door and eases the most perfect cover drive all the way to the rope.

3rd over: India 24-1 (Abhishek 6, Ishan 1) Not quite working for Sooryavanshi yet here in England, he looks to the skies and pulls off his helmet, shaggy teenage hair hanging in disappointment.

2nd over: India 20-0 (Sooryavanshi 15, Abhishek 6) Josh Tongue’s first over is more costly – both batters slam him back over extra cover for four, Sooryavanshi perching on tip toes as he goes. Then Sooryavanshi fullstops Tongue’s work with a delicate, seemingly effortless, upper cut for six.

1st over: India 5-0 (Sooryavanshi 3, Abhishek 1) Jofra Archer from the pavilion end. Starts with a wide – and Sooryavanshi swings but can only pick up a single from the second. A single to Abhishek follows. Archer is bowling clever here. A reckless pull from Sooryavanshi lumbers towards the rope and is caught up by a chasing Adil Rashid.

The players are out, the sun beats down – let’s play!

If England win today and on Saturday they go top of the world. Amidst the rubble of the red-ball team, the white ball team is quietly on the up. Perhaps a white ball only transition is the next step for Baz McCullum . Meanwhile, if India lose, it will be the first time they have ever lost two back to back T20 series.