England Women need 61 runs in 90 balls to win the match.
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Four runs. Taylor plays it to fine leg boundary.
OUT! Edwards falls to Ekta Bisht for 4. England 10/1 in 2.1 overs.
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End of over 2: England 10/0
Tammy
Beaumont and Charlotte Edwards are opening the batting for England.
Five runs came from the first over bowled by Anuja Patil.
End of over 20: India 90/8 against England.
Anuja Patel departs. Run out for 13.
Gunn to Anuja Patil, four runs to backward square leg. India finally getting some useful runs. IND 77/6 in 17.4 overs.
Four runs. Shrubsole to Harmanpreet Kaur, and she play it to to third man boundary.
OUT! Here goes another one. Goswami c Taylor b Shrubsole 2(5). India 67/6 in 16.4 overs.
OUT! India are now five wickets down. Heather Knight gets her third wicket. India 56/5 in 14.3 overs.
OUT! Here goes another one. Mithali Raj's stay at the crease ends. Natalie Sciver gets a wicket on her first delivery. India 47/4 in 12.1 overs.
OUT! Shikha Pandey falls to Heather Knight for 12. Second wicket for her. India 44/3 in 11.2 overs.
India 43/2 in 11 overs against England.
The
runs have almost stopped coming and we have hardly seen any boundaries
in last few overs. At this rate India women won't be able to put up a
fighting total here and they are in a mist win situation.
Four runs. Mithali Raj hits Rebecca Grundy to fine leg boundary. India 34/2 in 9 overs.
The
run rate is just above 3.5 runs per over. India need to increase their
scoring rate but they can't afford to lose a wicket here. India 24/2 in 7 overs.
OUT! Here goes another one. Smriti Mandhana falls to Anya Shrubsole for 12. India 15/2 in 4.5 overs.
Smriti Mandhana is looking good. She has scored 12 runs off 12 balls. India 15/1 in 4.2 overs.
India 8/1 in 3 overs.
Earlier,
England won the toss opted to field. Ekta Bisht replaced Poonam Yadav
in India's squad while England also made one change to their playing XI.
Four runs. Mandhana hits Brunt straight down the ground. End of over 2: India 7/1.
OUT! India lose Vanitha for a duck in the first over. Heather Knight gets the wicket. India 1/1 after 1 over.
Toss: England won the toss and opted to bowl.
Playing XIs:
England:
Charlotte Edwards (C), Tammy Beaumont, Katherine Brunt, Lydia Greenway,
Rebecca Grundy, Jenny Gunn, Heather Knight, Natalie Sciver, Anya
Shrubsole, Sarah Taylor (WK), Danielle Wyatt
India:
Vellaswamy Vanitha, Smriti Mandhana, Mithali Raj (C), Harmanpreet Kaur,
Veda Krishnamurthy, Anuja Patil, Jhulan Goswami, Shikha Pandey, Sushma
Verma (WK), Ekta Bisht, Rajeshwari Gayakwad
Brief Preview:
Unlucky to have lost the previous tie against Pakistan by just two runs
via D/L method, the Indian women's cricket team will be fighting a
survival battle when it takes on a strong England side at the ICC
Women's World Twenty20 on Tuesday.
A defeat would virtually throw
the home team out of the competition and the Mithali Raj-led side would
hope to put their best foot forward against the English eves.
Unlike
the previous edition, where India women were ousted in the group
stages, they are a strong contender this time around, courtesy their
recent good showing in the T20 format, including a historic 2-1 away
series win over mighty Australia in January followed by the 3-0
whitewash of Sri Lanka in the run up to the ongoing World T20.
In their last match also, India could have won the tie had rains not played spoilsport.
