Cricket:England vs New Zealand: What time is the ICC World Twenty20 semi-final today, what TV channel and what is the predicted cricket score?
What time does the match start?
The first men's semi-final starts at 2.30pm BST at Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium, Delhi.
And it's not the only semi-final match involving England today. England Women are also in World T20 action against old rivals Australia. That match starts at 10am BST.
What TV channel is it on?
You can watch all the action live on Sky Sports 2. The build-up for the men's match begins on SS2 at 1.30pm BST.
Before that you can follow all the action from the women's match, also on SS2, from 9.30am BST.
Or, alternatively, you can follow all the live action right here with us as this very page becomes a live over-by-over match commentary.
What are the teams?
England men (probable): A Hales, J Roy, J Root, E Morgan (capt), J Buttler (wkt), B Stokes, M Ali, C Jordan, D Willey, A Rashid, L Plunkett.
New Zealand men (possible): M Guptill, K Williamson (capt), C Munro, R Taylor, C Anderson, G Elliott, L Ronchi (wkt), T Southee, M Santner, M McClenaghan, I Sodhi.
Umpires: R Tucker (Aus), K Dharmasena (SL).
Third umpire: B Oxenford (Aus)
Match referee: D Boon (Aus)
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England women (possible): C Edwards (capt), T Beaumont, S Taylor (wkt), N Sciver, D Wyatt, H Knight, L Marsh, L Greenway, A Shrubsole, K Brunt, J Gunn.
Australia Women (from): A Healy (wkt), E Villani, M Lanning (capt), E Perry, A Blackwell, J Jonassen, B Mooney, M Schutt, R Farrell, L Cheatle, K Beams, E Osborne, H Ferling.
Umpires: C Gaffaney (NZ), S Ravi (Ind),
Third umpire: J Wilson (WI)
Match referee: J Crowe (NZ)
Cricket score at your fingertips with today's Google Doodle
Google will be doing its bit to help you keep up with the cricket score on Wednesday, with a special 'Google Doodle' for the New Zealand vs England semi-final match in the ICC World Twenty20.
When faced with the front search page of Google, one click on the specially-designed logo (two cricket bats crossed in front of a ball) will take a user to the search results for 'cricket score'.
The innovation will help fans track England's quest to become the first two-time winners of the World T20 tournament - though anyone trying to emulate the Likely Lads and avoid the score until they can watch the highlights later will have one more perilous news source to avoid.
England have recovered well from an opening defeat to the West Indies, who contest the other semi-final with India tomorrow. New Zealand, by contrast, won their group in a clean sweep and will leave England little room for the mistakes that have crept into their previous matches.
England will be wary of Mitchell Santner, whose 10 wickets in this year's Super 10s stage better than any other bowler's record. The likes of Alex Hales and Joe Root will need to step up their performancesaccordingly if they are to defeat the Black Caps.
New Zealand are the slight favourites with bookmakers at 4/5; England are priced at evens.
England beat New Zealand by six wickets in a tournament warm-up match only 18 days ago, with Jos Buttler making an unbeaten 24 off just nine balls.
Prior to that, the last time the two sides faced each other in the 20-over format was in June last year, in Manchester, where England triumphed by 56 runs.
What are the main talking points?
Will New Zealand call on Boult or Southee?
Prior to the tournament seamers Trent Boult and Tim Southee were among the first names on the New Zealand team sheet. That all changed when they played India on a turning track in Nagpur, gambling on a spin-dominated line-up that saw Ish Sodhi, Mitchell Santner and Nathan McCullum play star roles. But on a Delhi pitch where England have favoured pace, will New Zealand shuffle the deck again and be tempted to hand one or both of their senior bowlers a first game of the competition?
Time for Rashid to step up
Much was expected of Yorkshire leg-spinner Adil Rashid in India following his eye-catching efforts in the Big Bash League earlier this year. But it has not quite happened for him so far. He has completed his four-over allocation just once in four matches and been hit for a total of 10 sixes - joint most in the tournament alongside team-mate Moeen Ali. He has to find a way to assert himself on proceedings if England are to peak.
Root v Williamson
By common consensus Joe Root, Kane Williamson, Virat Kohli and Steve Smith represent the vanguard of modern three-format batsmanship. The first two will face off in Delhi and, while it would be reductivist to reduce the match to a simple head-to-head, the pair do shoulder big burdens. Whichever players best marshall their side's innings could well go a long way to determining the destination of the match.
Winning toss and dreaded dew factor
England have chased just once in the tournament so far, fearlessly knocking off a tournament record 230 against South Africa. Their record of defending is less impressive, battered into submission by Chris Gayle in their opener and taken to the brink by Sri Lanka's Angelo Mathews. Surely Eoin Morgan will feel most comfortable pursuing, making the toss vital. The possibility of dew must also be considered. England struggled to keep the ball dry on a slick outfield against the West Indies and forecasts suggest it may be warm enough for those conditions to be replicated.
Hales due a hit?
Alex Hales is a former world number one in T20 cricket and remains the country's only centurion in the format. But he has yet to catch fire in the competition so far, making 28, 17 and 0 as well as missing the Afghanistan game with a bad back. But he is a player who can be lethal once the ball begins to find the middle of the bat and will feel he owes the side one of his special nights. If he manages one, England's prospects will soar with his strike-rate.
How did we get here?
England
West Indies (Mumbai) - lost by six wickets
South Africa (Mumbai) - won by two wickets
Afghanistan (Delhi) - won by 15 runs
Sri Lanka (Delhi) - won by 10 runs
South Africa (Mumbai) - won by two wickets
Afghanistan (Delhi) - won by 15 runs
Sri Lanka (Delhi) - won by 10 runs
New Zealand
India (Nagpur) - won by 47 runs
Australia (Dharamsala) - won by eight runs
Pakistan (Mohali) - won by 22 runs
Bangladesh (Kolkata) - won by 75 runs
Australia (Dharamsala) - won by eight runs
Pakistan (Mohali) - won by 22 runs
Bangladesh (Kolkata) - won by 75 runs
Key stats
- Both of these sides had only managed to progress beyond the Super 8/10s once before in five attempts prior to this year's World Twenty20.
- England have posted 172+ in all five of their completed T20 international innings when batting first against the Black Caps.
- New Zealand have won nine of their last 10 T20 internationals heading into this fixture, including all four of their matches played during the 2016 WT20 Super 10s.
- David Willey's career-best T20 international bowling figures came against New Zealand (3-22, June 2015).
- No bowler took more wickets during the 2016 WT20 Super 10s stage than New Zealand's Mitchell Santner (9), recording an economy rate of just 5.7 in the process.
- Mitchell McClenaghan has taken more T20 international wickets versus England than against any other side he's faced - 27 per cent of his total scalps have come against them (8/30).
What are they saying?
"I've been asked the question after every series that we've played, and I can't quite believe how far we've come overall in our white-ball cricket. I think the New Zealand series was very important. We'd talked about emulating what Australia and New Zealand did at that World Cup. From where we were to where they were... we were miles away. In order to bridge the gap we had to try and emulate the fashion in which they played and the aggressive nature in which they went about their game. So they did play a key part, absolutely." - Eoin Morgan
"I suppose England have been fortunate to play in these conditions a couple of times but I think in Twenty20 cricket anything can happen. I think it's almost impossible to give someone the favourites tag in T20 cricket. Having played a bit of county cricket I've seen all their guys quite a lot and how good players they are.We know they are a big threat and when I saw the team on paper I knew it would be a tough challenge. They're guys that play aggressive cricket and fearless cricket and it is no surprise to me that they are at the semi-finals of the World Cup" - Kane Williamson
Who are the favourites?
England - Evens
New Zealand - 4/5
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