Unchanged England bowl; Ireland bring in Fionn Hand
Given the conditions at the MCG, Ireland replace spin-bowling allrounder Simi Singh in the XI with another pace option
Ireland bring in the pace of Fionn Hand for the spin of Simi Singh
Throw Britain decided to bowl versus Ireland
Britain skipper Jos Buttler won the throw and selected to pursue on a new MCG pitch under cloudy skies. Buttler said the weather conditions impacted his choice; there's a 70% opportunity of downpour in Melbourne on Wednesday, as per the Australian Government department of meteorology, with the second round of the day between New Zealand and Afghanistan likewise in danger.
While Britain were unaltered, Ireland traded out offspinning allrounder Simi Singh for seamer Fionn Hand in a bid to take advantage of the swing and bob presented by the early-season conditions at the MCG. Hand has played just two T20Is and 22 T20s by and large.
This is just the second time that Ireland are confronting Britain in T20Is. At the point when Ireland initially met Britain in the 2010 T20 World Cup in the Caribbean, they gave them a panic before the game was cleaned out.
Britain: 1 Jos Buttler (capt and wk), 2 Alex Hales, 3 Dawid Malan, 4 Ben Stirs up, 5 Liam Livingstone, 6 Harry Creek, 7 Moeen Ali, 8 Sam Curran, 9 Chris Woakes, 10 Adil Rashid, 11 Imprint Wood
Ireland: 1 Paul Stirling, 2 Andy Balbirnie (capt), 3 Lorcan Exhaust (wk), 4 Harry Tector, 5 Curtis Campher, 6 George Dockrell, 7 Gareth Delany, 8 Imprint Adair, 9 Fionn Hand 10 Barry McCarthy, 11 Josh Nearly nothing
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