Match Details
Wyatt followed her opening partner in the next over, Alice Capsey walked out into the middle and looked quite solid, disaster struck England in the 3rd over when Capsey was dismissed after getting run out in trying to run three runs, unaware of the fact that Radha Yadav had made a brilliant save in the deep. England W at this point was 16-3, looking down the barrel.
Smith and Jones steadied the ship and just went, things started to look good from England W, they lost Smith, who was dismissed by Rana for 16!! Amy Jones too fell for 17, and England was in all sorts of bother with the score reading 54-5.
However, they recovered from this precarious situation, thanks to a wonderful partnership between Kemp and Bouchier. England made their way to 142, which was probably slightly under par, but England W would have taken it after the early collapse.
India had their work cut off after the Indian opening pair of Smriti Mandhana, and Shafali Verma took them off to a flyer, Lauren Bell and Freya Davies opened the bowling for the host and were slightly wayward today, the pair of Verma and Mandhana took full toll of this and made use of the power play extremely well!! Verma was dismissed on the last ball of the powerplay by Sophie Ecclestone on 20 of 17!
Hemalatha joined Mandhana in the middle, and she got off to a decent start, but her innings was cut short by Davies. India at this point, was in a dominant position with 77-2 on the board in 8.4 overs. Skipper Harmanpreet joined a well-settled Mandhana who was batting like a dream, Smriti got past her 50 and changed gears, Harman too joined the party and took India over the line with 4.4 overs still remaining in the game!!
The England W bowlers got their plans wrong today, their exclusion was not up to the mark and dew didn't help them either!! The bowlers found it hard to grip the ball towards the latter half of the second innings. Sophie Ecclestone was the pick of the bowlers with figures of 3-22-1, Freya Davies picked up a wicket too, but the rest of the bowlers went wicketless and very expensive!!
India W win the match by 8 wickets, and the series is levelled up nicely!! All the focus moves to the 3rd T20I now..