As the over concludes, the camera pans to Danni Wyatt-Hodge on the England bench. She is still sitting out this game after the birth of her first child but is available for the second and third matches.

A subplot throughout this series will be who out of Dunkley, Wyatt-Hodge and Alice Capsey manages to secure their place as openers for the World Cup.

Dunkley looks better as she cuts the final ball of the over for four.

Now a big swing and a miss.

This hasn't been the most composed of starts from Sophia Dunkley.

Inside edge!

This could so easily have bowled Sophia Dunkley. She's lurching forward and poking.

As it is, the ball runs away for four.

Seamer Arundhati Reddy opens up with a loopy inswinger to Sophia Dunkley. England get going with a wide next ball.

If England are to win this they will have to pull off their second highest T20 chase.

Sophia Dunkley and Alice Capsey are already in the middle.

Kieran Parmley
CricViz analyst

Sophie Ecclestone has now failed to bowl out in three of her last eight T20I appearances (today, vs NZ in Derby, 2026 & vs India in Nottingham, 2025).

India's score is a big one but it could have been worse for England when Bhatia and Rodrigues were going.

Jemimah Rodrigues is a player, isn't she?

Well, an innings-defining 126-run third wicket partnership between Yastika Bhatia and Jeminah Rodrigues may well be enough for India to take this match.

England did reasonably well after breaking the pairing, but would have expected to be in a better position having had India 7-2 in the first over.

Here's Matthew Henry to see if England can chase down a pretty formidable India total.

Alex Hartley
Former England bowler on Test Match Special

We talked about how today felt different to New Zealand. It did feel different. Bhatia and Rodrigues have helped India get to a very good score.

The difference to playing a team like India or New Zealand is Deepti Sharma coming in at eight and getting 22 off 15. It makes a huge difference.

Kranti Gaud takes a single to end the innings, pushing a slower ball into the covers.

Lauren Bell finishes with figures of 3-34 having taken two wickets in the first over of the innings and another in its last.

England will chase 189 at Chelmsford.

Alex Hartley
Former England bowler on Test Match Special

Deepti crunched it but it was a pretty simple catch for Charlie Dean. Lauren Bell is a wicket-taking machine.

Deepti Sharma pulls square, takes a single and decides against a second - Arundhati Reddy has to make it back, the umpire review confirms she's home safely.

Reddy then wallops the ball into the covers and the India batters take advantage of a fumble in the deep to run three.

Slog-swept for four!

Deepti Sharma is on 21 from 11 balls, lifting Lauren Bell square.

Kieran Parmley
CricViz analyst

England have failed in their last seven chases of 170 or higher in T20Is, last chasing a 170+ score against India in Mumbai in 2018 (199 chased in 18.4, Wyatt-Hodge 124 off 64).

Four singles off the rest of the over.

Dani Gibson finishes with figures of 0-34, now, unsurprisingly, here's Lauren Bell to finish the innings.

Not a great start to this over for England.

Deepti Sharma hits Dani Gibson for consecutive fours - sweeping hard through backward square and then lifting the ball over mid-off - before a low delivery down the leg side beats everyone and heads away for five wides.

Charlie Dean is the first of England's bowlers to complete her overs - she goes for 1-26.

Deepti Sharma sweeps the England captain for four, with a couple of singles and a two coming off the rest of the over.

England have used six bowlers tonight, so only two more will bowl four - Dani Gibson will be the first of them.

Henry Moeran
Commentator on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

Issy Wong is certainly a more effective bowler at the back end of an innings than the start of it.