England v India: second women’s T20 cricket international – as it happened | Women’s cricket
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Raf Nicholson has filed her report from Bristol, so it’s time for us to shut up shop. It was more competitive than the first game but ultimately India were emphatic winners. Goodnight.
Nat Sciver-Brunt’s verdict
We started really well by taking three wickets in the Powerplay. There was a big partnership after that and we probably didn’t adapt as quickly as we’d like. Everyone stuck to the task and tried to grind it out, so the effort was certainly there.
[Have you thought about changes for the next match?] Not five minutes after the game, no! We have confidence in our players. We’ll see how it goes.
We needed some partnerships. Tammy and Amy showed the way and we probably need another one on top of that.
The player of the match is Amanjot Kaur
I feel quite overwhelmed. I didn’t expect this but I’m so happy to contribute to the team’s win.
[On her partnership with Rodrigues] The way she paced her innings was so impressive.
The bowlers bowled very well. It was a decent wicket to bat on; we backed our bowlers and they did the job.
India win by 24 runs
That’s a terrific victory for India, who were in serious trouble at 31 for 3 but played with such calmness to take control of the game. Jemimah Rodrigues and Amanjor Kaur batted beautifully to make 63 apiece and help India to a daunting total of 181 for 4.
England were never truly in the runchase despite an excellent 54 from Tammy Beaumont. Her runs and another excellent spell from Lauren Bell are the main positives for England to take, but they have a lot of thinking to do.
WICKET! Ecclestone run out 35
20th over: England 157-7 (Arlott 12) Sophie Ecclestone is run out off the last ball of the match for a breezy 35. England are 2-0 down with three to play.
19th over: England 148-6 (Arlott 6, Ecclestone 33) For the first time in a little while – at least that’s how it feels – Sophie Ecclestone is having fun in an England shirt. She walks across to pull Charani for four, and a single takes her to 33 from 20 balls. Her highest score for England in any format is 35.
18th over: England 139-6 (Arlott 4, Ecclestone 26) Ecclestone’s cameo continues with two more boundaries off Yadav, a reverse sweep followed by a slice through backward point. She has sped to 26 from 16 balls, but don’t get excited: England need 43 from 12 balls to win.
17th over: England 127-6 (Arlott 3, Ecclestone 15) A defiant blow from Ecclestone, who pulls Amanjot over square leg for a big six. A pick up to the same area brings four more. It won’t be enough but it can’t do Ecclestone’s confidence any harm.
16th over: England 114-6 (Arlott 3, Ecclestone 2) Arlott blasts Yadav to cow corner, where Amanjot drops a simple chance. Replays show that she clearly lost sight of the ball; no chance she’s have put it down otherwise.
Fair to say she hasn’t just dropped the T20I series, because India are going to win this game regardless.
15th over: England 110-6 (Arlott 1, Ecclestone 0) You can go and water the plans if you like, this game is done.
WICKET! England 110-6 (Jones ct and b Charani 32)
Shree Charani can do no wrong! She tosses one up to Jones, who scuffs a drive back down the ground and is caught at the second attempt. Charani, who made her T20I debut on Saturday, currently has series figures of 6.4-0-31-6!
WICKET! England 109-5 (Capsey c Reddy b Charani 5)
A tame end for Alice Capsey, who opens the face and slices the left-arm spinner Charani straight to cover.
Capsey is having a really bad run in T20Is. Her last five scores have been 1, 6, 4, 5 and 5.
14th over: England 109-4 (Jones 32, Capsey 5) Jones is moving through the gears. She punishes two low full tosses from Deepti, carting both between deep square and deep midwicket for four.
Thirteen runs from the over, which is pretty much what Ehgland need from hereon in.
13th over: England 96-4 (Jones 21, Capsey 4) Jones turns a poor over for England into an okay one, swiping Reedy’s final ball over wide mid-on for four. That’s a really classy shot. But England still need 86 from 42 balls to win.
12th over: England 89-4 (Jones 16, Capsey 1) It was an outstanding piece of fielding from Sneh Rana to get rid of Beaumont. First she made an excellent sprawling stop at backward point; then she had the awareness and strength to fire the throw into Yadav despite being off balance. Great frielding.
WICKET! England 87-4 (Beaumont run out 54)
Gone! Beaumont hesitates for a split-second over a single to point, and that proves fatal when Rana’s throw is well taken on the bounce by the bowler Yadav. She breaks the stumps with Beaumont short of her ground despite a desperate dive.
Fifty from Tammy Beaumont
11th over: England 82-3 (Beaumont 50, Jones 14) Urgh, apologies, we are having more technical problems. Beaumont has just worked Charani for a single to bring up a highly skilful half-century, her first in a T2o international for four years, from 33 balls.
Drinks: England need 106 from 60 balls
10th over: England 76-3 (Beaumont 45, Jones 13) Tammy Beaumont is dragging England back into this game. She lashes three successive boundaries off Rana, the best a beautiful ping over cover point. Rana’s first over cost 1; the second has gone for 16. Time for drinks.
9th over: England 60-3 (Beaumont 30, Jones 13) Beaumont is dropped, a very tough return chance to the bowler Amanjot. That looked extremely painful, and Amanjot needs to take a moment before finishing her over.
Beaumont skips down to chip stylishly down the ground for four. She looks in excellent touch. Jones, who has taken a bit longer to get going, pulls firmly for her first boundary with the aid of a misfield on the boundary sponge.
8th over: England 48-3 (Beaumont 24, Jones 8) The offspinner Sneh Rana becomes the sixth bowler of the innings in just the eighth over. We’re having a few technical problems but the bald numbers suggest a superb start – only one run from the over. England need 134 from 72 balls.
7th over: England 47-3 (Beaumont 23, Jones 8) On comes Radha Yadav, another left-arm spinner, and Beaumont drags a sweep round the corner for four. It’s a no-ball, too, which means a free hit. Beaumont takes advantage, wiping the first six of the innings into the crowd at long-on.
It’s rare for a bowler to end an over strongly and concede 15, but that’s what happens here: 12 from the first two (legal) deliveries, three from the last four.
6th over: England 32-3 (Beaumont 11, Jones 6) Deepti Sharma completes a triumphant Powerplay – for her and India – with an over that yields six singles.
At the same stage India were 35 for 3 so it’s pretty much neck and neck. Right?
5th over: England 26-3 (Beaumont 8, Jones 3) Heather Knight, who has been as good as you’d expect in the Sky commentary box, says England will be encouraged by the pattern of India’s innings and that a required rate of 10 per over won’t concern them, even with so many overs left.
Tammy Beaumont wipes four off the requirement with her first boundary, panned through the covers off the new bowler Arundhati Reddy.
4th over: England 19-3 (Beaumont 2, Jones 2) England need – gulp – 163 from 16 overs.
WICKET! England 17-3 (Sciver-Brunt c Harmanpreet b Amanjot 13)
And it’s goodnight from England. Amanjot Kaur, who is having a wonderful night, gets some extra bounce to Sciver-Brunt, who flat-bats the ball to Harmanpreet at mid-on. That feels like the killer blow, even with more than 16 overs remaining.
3rd over: England 16-2 (Sciver-Brunt 13, Beaumont 1) Shree Charani, the left-arm spinner who took four for 12 on debut at Trent Bridge, comes into the attack. Sciver-Brunt, who is so good at staying in her bubble regardless of the match situation, gets England up and running with three boundaries in the over: a lofted drive, a flick-pull and a dragged sweep through mid-on. She’s a genius, the end.
2nd over: England 4-2 (Sciver-Brunt 1, Beaumont 1) A very full ball from Deepti leads to an LBW appeal against Sciver-Brunt, but it was going down and Deepti was signalling as much almost before the umpire said not out.
WICKET! England 2-2 (Wyatt-Hodge c Harmanpreet b Deepti 1)
It is happening again. Wyatt-Hodge whirls Deepti Sharma’s first ball straight to mid-off, and England are two for two after losing two wickets in two balls. I doubt even Richie Benaud could make a virtue of that position.
1st over: England 2-1 (Wyatt-Hodge 1, Sciver-Brunt 0) That was the last ball of the over.
WICKET! England 2-1 (Dunkley run out 1)
A nightmare start for England. Dunkley sets off for a tight single to mid-off and is rightly sent back. But by then it’s already too late: Ghosh collects Deepti’s fast throw and breaks the stumps to give India a perfect start.