The first T20 between India and England at Eden Gardens will be available for live streaming on Disney Plus Hotstar

The white-ball era under Brendon McCullum gets underway on Wednesday when England take on India, in the first T20 match in Kolkata (13:30 live on TNT Sports and Discovery+ app).

The white-ball rubber, comprising five T20Is and three ODIs after that, presents an ideal platform for both teams to experiment with combinations and assess form before next month's Champions Trophy.

Fast bowler Mark Wood will play for the first time since August in England's first T20 against India in Kolkata on Wednesday.

England Cricket Board (ECB) on Tuesday announced their Playing Eleven of the first T20I match against India at the iconic Eden Gardens in Kolkata.The first T20I match between England and India will be played on Wednesday at Eden Gardens at 7 Pm.

Suryakumar Yadav is just one of the three players ever to score a century against England in T20Is. He slammed 117 in Nottingham in 2022. If he scores another century in the 1st T20I in Kolkata, then he will become the first-ever player in history to score more than one century in the shortest format of the game against England.

The past several months have been a forgettable experience for . A Test whitewash at home against New Zealand was something nobody would have predicted, bearing in mind the two sides' respective form coming into the three-match series.