Summary

  • India complete 38-run win - their second biggest T20 win over England (Report)

  • England lose last six wickets for 43 runs

  • Jones hits 32-ball 50 after being promoted up the order

  • India post 188-7 having been 133-2

  • Three wickets for Bell, including two in first over

  • Wong takes brilliant catch & picks up wicket with superb slower ball

  • Rodrigues & Bhatia score 126 off 76 balls for third wicket

  • India go 1-0 up in three-game series, Chelmsford

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by Matthew Henry & Mike Peter

  1. Sophie Ecclestone walks out with 60 needed from 15 balls. Not impossible but...

  2. Ebony Rainford-Brent
    Former England batter on Test Match Special

    What is clear is that Sharma's slower balls are working. She's keeping an off stump line, it's her debut and she's really delivering.

  3. wicket

    WICKET

    Wong b Nandani 4 (Eng 129-7)

    There's no hat-trick but Nandani Sharma has a third wicket on debut. It's that back-of-the-hand slower ball again which completely foxes Issy Wong.

    Nandani looks very good.

  4. How's stat?!

    Kieran Parmley
    CricViz analyst

    VermaPA Media

    Shafali Verma is one of the best fielders in the game at the moment, she has an impressive catch success rate of 91% in T20s since the start of 2023, up from 75% in matches before 2023.

  5. Eng 129-6

    No hat-trick here for the India debutant.

  6. This next delivery is a hat-trick ball for Nandani Sharma...

  7. Eng 128-6

    Issy Wong belts her first ball for four. Remember her over, the second of the innings, which cost 27 really got India going earlier.

  8. Ebony Rainford-Brent
    Former England batter on Test Match Special

    You can see the need for Nat Sciver-Brunt and Danni Wyatt-Hodge in this side.

  9. wicket

    WICKET

    Kemp c Ghosh b Deepti 8 (Eng 124-6)

    After a lot of swinging without success, Freya Kemp nicks one behind.

  10. Eng 124-5

    My esteemed colleagues said on TMS earlier that defeat today wouldn't be a problem for England because it would allow them a proper test.

    The worry is they're looking a long way second best against a supposed rival to win the World Cup.

  11. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on Test Match Special

    It's the slower ball that's done for Dani Gibson. She's looked to go down the ground, but because it's slower she's dragged it.

  12. Ebony Rainford-Brent
    Former England batter on Test Match Special

    Shafali Verma has plucked that, she wasn't quite there.

  13. wicket

    WICKET

    Gibson c Verma b Sharma 0 (Eng 120-5)

    GibsonPA Media

    Dani Gibson follows first ball. She is done by a slower ball from Nandani Sharma. She aims for the hills but only skies it into the dark Essex skies.

    This is going to be a big India win.

  14. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on Test Match Special

    There was a time when you wouldn't have backed Shafali Verma to take that catch, but she's come on leaps and bound.

    You can understand why Amy Jones has hit that shot, every ball has to go for six.

  15. wicket

    WICKET

    Jones c Verma b Sharma 67 (Eng 120-4)

    And that is the game. If you're being harsh, you'd ask why Amy Jones has taken on the longest boundary. She has picked out deep mid-wicket.

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    Dave Hartley: Batting at a run a ball in T20 isn't going to win a World Cup. England have to consider replacing Heather Knight for the next match.

  17. Eng 116-3

    It would be a massive call from leave out Heather Knight for a World Cup. Remember Danni Wyatt-Hodge and Nat Sciver-Brunt need to find a way back into this XI.

  18. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on Test Match Special

    A lack of boundaries mean England have fallen behind in this game.

  19. How's stat?!

    Kieran Parmley
    CricViz analyst

    KnightGetty Images

    Heather Knight's scores this summer:

    • 1st ODI v NZ - 19 (30)
    • 3rd ODI v NZ - 28 (42)
    • 1st T20I vs NZ - 19 (17)
    • 2nd T20I vs NZ - 25 (23)
    • 3rd T20I vs NZ - 18 (22)
    • 1st T20I vs IND - 21 (24)

  20. Eng 115-3

    Need 74 runs from 30 balls

    Amy Jones middles two more but this time she picks out Jemimah Rodrigues in the deep. Rodrigues is having quite the day.