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England v Sri Lanka - live!

You tend not to get them in Tests, as there is no end to the cycle (although Trent Bridge 93, aka McCague's Match, is a rare exception), but England always start afresh in limited-overs cricket after the 50-over World Cup. These days that also takes in the T20 today, so today we have a new captain in Stuart Broad – England's youngest full-time captain since Ian Botham in 1980, and the second youngest since the 19th century. There are two new captains, in fact, because Thilan Kandamby is standing in for the injured Tillakaratne Dilshan.

England's team contains seven of the XI that won the World Twenty20 final in 2010, with Michael Lumb and Craig Kieswetter returning to the side. So England are embracing a new era and going back to the future at the same time. I'm confused, although it doesn't take much on a Saturday.

Sri Lanka have won the toss and will bowl first. England have left out Ian Bell, who is in the form of his life. Slightly odd, but in Flower we trust. Jade Dernbach makes his debut, Samit Patel is back, as is the excellent Angelo Mathews and, most excitingly of all, the remarkable Lasith Malinga.

Sanath Jayasuriya also plays. I don't know the subject well enough to judge, but it does sound like it's at best a farce and at worse a disgrace. Either way, Andy Bull's piece is essential reading . Please don't email me about it, though: I am not qualified to comment either way. (Insert your own joke here.)

England Lumb, Kieswetter (wk), Pietersen, Morgan, Bopara, Patel, Wright, Broad (c), Woakes, Swann, Dernbach.

Sri Lanka Jayasuriya, M Jayawardene, Sangakkara (wk), Mathews, Kandamby (c), J Mendis, Kulasekera, Perera, Malinga, Randiv, Lakmal.

So, Broad as captain, eh? He has the talent, the bottle and certainly the brain: after only a couple of Tests, Michael Vaughan described him as the most intelligent bowler he had worked with. The two main concerns are a) his Test form and b) his occasional brattishness. "He has to realise he can't go round shouting at fielders all the time," said Nasser Hussain on Sky a moment ago. Then he realised what he had just called the kettle and burst out laughing. That was a nice bit of TV.

It'll be interesting to see if Broad changes his role in this team. He is an exceptional first-change enforcer in Twenty20 cricket, but will he want to take the new ball now?