England are hurtling in direction of a seemingly inevitable defeat to India within the historic Girls’s Take a look at at Lord’s after closing on 130-6 in a report chase of 457, with Heather Knight and Tammy Beaumont out cheaply of their closing knocks earlier than worldwide retirement.
After being set a world-record goal – far past the best profitable chase in a Girls’s Take a look at, the 198 Australia knocked off towards England at Sydney in 2011 – the hosts plummeted to 59-5 inside 20 overs on a sun-kissed Sunday in London.
Opener Beaumont was bowled for a golden duck by the relentless Kranti Gaud, who went on to have Knight caught behind off an inside edge for 13 as two of England’s greats – each of whom got guards of honour by India after being dismissed – bowed out.
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Watch the second Tammy Beaumont was given a guard of honour after being cleaned up by Gaud
Captain Nat Sciver-Brunt (11) was cleaned up on the sweep by Sneh Rana, one ball after overturning an lbw, whereas Maia Bouchier (2) unwisely performed again to Sayali Sathgare to be pinned in entrance earlier than the identical seamer castled Alice Capsey (21) with a jaffa.
Amy Jones (52no) – who efficiently reviewed an lbw dismissal on 34 en path to her second fifty of the sport – and Mady Villiers (26) delayed the guests’ march to victory with a cussed sixth-wicket stand of 67 from 105 balls previous to Villiers being fantastically caught by Richa Ghosh at mid-off within the dying embers of the day.
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Watch Richa Ghosh’s astonishing catch late within the day that eliminated England all-rounder Mady Villiers
England had been set a world-record 457 to win the Girls’s Take a look at
India ought to wrap issues up promptly on day 4, when entry is free for spectators, and safe back-to-back Take a look at wins over England after a 347-run victory in Navi Mumbai in 2023.
Since a gap day that was arguably honours even, India have totally bossed this recreation and moved from their in a single day 154-1 to 341-7 earlier than visiting skipper Harmanpreet Kaur finally put England out of their distress by declaring round 3.10pm native time.
Harmanpreet known as time as quickly as Ghosh (50no off 52) clinched a half-century – the batter the third participant within the innings to move fifty after Smriti Mandhana (70) and Yastika Bhatia (113), with the latter the primary girl to notch a Take a look at ton at Lord’s.
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India’s Yastika Bhatia is the primary girl to attain a Take a look at century at Lord’s
England toil at Lord’s as India shut in
Bhatia’s innings might have been reduce off from the primary ball of the morning, at which level she was on 39, however the bail remarkably stayed on when England seamer Lauren Bell struck the off stump.
Bell – who later hung out off the sphere whereas belly muscle soreness was assessed – denied Mandhana a century when she had the elegant left-hander extraordinarily nicely caught down the leg-side by wicketkeeper Jones as she leapt one-handed to her proper.
Nonetheless, the skyscraping seamer additionally shipped any array of byes as she misplaced her radar and England’s finest bowler, as so usually up to now, was left-arm spinner Sophie Ecclestone, who claimed a fourth five-for in 10 Checks and took her variety of scalps on this Take a look at to eight.
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England spinner Sophie Ecclestone etched her title onto the Lord’s honours board with a five-wicket haul
Ecclestone had develop into England’s main wicket-taker throughout all codecs throughout a first-innings three-for – eclipsing Katherine Sciver-Brunt’s complete of 335 – and prolonged her tally to 343 as she dismissed, amongst others, Bhatia and Harmanpreet on Sunday.
Harmanpreet’s delayed declaration could have been as a lot about wearying England because it was guaranteeing Ghosh was in a position so as to add a Lord’s fifty to her CV – and there was an actual lethargy in regards to the hosts as wickets tumbled initially of their second dig.
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Nat Sciver-Brunt was bowled on the sweep, one supply after overturning an lbw dismissal
Beaumont, who introduced earlier than this Take a look at that she was finished as an England cricketer, and former captain Knight, who went all Ben Stokes and revealed her retirement mid-match, couldn’t take pleasure in fairytale farewells as they perished to champion fast Gaud.
Gaud had develop into the primary girl on the Lord’s Take a look at honours board by dint of her first-innings five-for and now has firm after Bhatia’s ton, a knock that featured 14 fours, most of them fashionable.
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