England win the toss and bowl.
“I think with the early morning start maybe it [the pitch] will be a little bit tacky to start with so that’s the reason to bowl first. Everyone is good. We are at the business end of the competition now. It’s been a quick turnaround but everyone is excited and we need to bring our full intensity today,” says Buttler.
“We have a really tough game [ahead of us] and I think the US have played some fantastic cricket throughout the whole tournament.
“We know what we have to do and we have to match that with our intensity. The boys have bowled pretty well and just haven’t had the rewards. Hopefully today is the day.”
And here’s USA captain Aaron Jones: “We wanted to bowl first as well, it’s going to be a good wicket and we will go hard. We will play fearless cricket and let’s see what happens. We need to be more disciplined in our bowling, that’s where we went wrong in the last game.”
As Nick predicted, it’s Jordan for Wood.
USA: 1 Steven Taylor, 2 Andries Gous (wk), 3 Nitish Kumar, 4 Aaron Jones (capt), 5 Corey Anderson, 6 Shayan Jahangir, 7 Harmeet Singh, 8 Nosthush Kenjinge, 9 Shadley van Schalkwyk, 10 Ali Khan, 11 Saurabh Netravalkar
England: 1 Phil Salt, 2 Jos Buttler (capt, wk), 3 Jonny Bairstow, 4 Harry Brook, 5 Moeen Ali, 6 Liam Livingstone, 7 Sam Curran, 8 Chris Jordan, 9 Jofra Archer, 10 Adil Rashid, 11 Reece Topley