England vs India, Lord’s Check participant rankings: Sophie Ecclestone makes historical past as Tammy Beaumont and Heather Knight retire from worldwide cricket

England suffered a 270-run defeat to India within the first girls’s Check match to be performed at Lord’s – here is how the gamers rated…

Maia Bouchier – 5

Batting: 23 and a couple of

Bouchier batted fairly properly on the primary night to securely negotiate a difficult hour via to stumps, solely to then fall within the third over of the second morning to spark England’s top-order collapse to 47-4 from which they failed to actually get better.

She, like one or two others on this staff, ought to be afforded a number of extra alternatives given a few notable retirements – she wants to know them.

Tammy Beaumont – 4

Batting: 2 and 0

A sorry means for such a beautiful servant to English cricket to bow out as she scored simply two runs in her farewell Check, along with her second-innings golden duck significantly merciless.

In the end she fell foul to 2 cracking deliveries from Kranti Gaud that jagged again in sharply, trapping her lbw first time round and knocking again her off stump within the second occasion.

Her fielding, as has been the case all through her profession, was exemplary.

Heather Knight – 5

Batting: 6 and 13

Knight did not handle rather more as she too closed the ebook on her worldwide profession, England’s most-capped girls’s participant asserting her determination halfway via the Check.

She was pinned in entrance on the second morning by Sayali Satghare, whereas her ultimate Check innings was ended with a bat-pad providing to short-leg.

Nat Sciver-Brunt – 6

Batting: 44 and 11

The skipper, very similar to the remainder of her facet, seemed a contact jaded after solely a four-day hole in between England’s T20 World Cup ultimate defeat to Australia and this historic first girls’s Check at Lord’s.

Her second-innings dismissal – bowled on the sweep to Sneh Rana the ball after having been saved by DRS – seemed a very drained one.

Within the first innings, she, together with Amy Jones, tried her finest to rally the staff as they placed on an 84-run partnership for the fifth wicket that adopted the top-order collapse on the second morning – however in the end she’d find yourself one in all Gaud’s 5 victims that earned the Indian seamer a spot on the Lord’s Honours Board.

Alice Capsey – 5

Batting: 9 and 21

A reasonably forgettable Check debut for Capsey, with modest contributions in each innings earlier than being bowled.

It is simple to neglect that she continues to be solely 21, having burst onto the scene a very good 5 years in the past as a 16-year-old within the inaugural season of The Hundred.

With the quite sizeable holes left behind by Beaumont and Knight – throughout all codecs – it is an essential interval developing for Capsey, you are feeling, to now place herself as a extra constant contributor for the staff.

Amy Jones – 7

Batting: 52 and 54

A welcome return to type with the bat for Jones after struggling in the course of the T20 World Cup, the place she returned 5 single-figure scores in her six innings following a fifty within the event opener.

She was again hitting half-centuries right here, notching two of them as she supplied larger resistance than her top-order team-mates – albeit her dismissals to Rana, in each innings, had been in the end fairly comfortable.

Jones additionally took a few wonderful catches, stood as much as Smriti Mandhana within the first innings, and once more down the legside off Mandhana within the second innings.

Mady Villiers – 7

Batting: 10 and 26; Bowling: 2-79 and 0-42

A formidable return to the fold for England after having made simply 5 appearances – three ODIs and two T20s in opposition to Eire on the again finish of the 2024 summer time – previously 5 years.

Making her Check debut, Villiers was a standout on day one, taking 2-79 as she and Issy Wong had been rewarded for probing spells after lunch that helped drag England again into proceedings after a poor morning – the off-spinner’s dismissal of Harmanpreet Kaur, bowled via the gate, a specific spotlight.

There have been glimpses too of the batting depth she will be able to present, significantly within the second innings, earlier than her enjoyable was ended by a very sensational reflex seize by Richa Ghosh at foolish mid-off.

Sophie Ecclestone – 8

Bowling: 3-68 and 5-118; Batting: 11 and 50

As she is so usually for England, Ecclestone was their prime performer – and, arguably, not simply with the ball as she notched her career-best and a maiden half-century on the ultimate morning that hinted at untapped potential with the bat.

She mopped up the Indian decrease order within the first innings to grow to be England’s all-time main wicket-taker throughout codecs, earlier than she claimed a fourth Check five-for second time spherical to earn a deserved and much-coveted spot on the Lord’s Honours Board.

Issy Wong – 6

Bowling: 2-41 and 0-68; Batting: 7no and 1

Wong claimed the important thing wicket of Mandhana for 83 within the first innings, sparking an Indian collapse from 190-3 to 285 all out after she and Villiers labored properly in tandem to wrestle issues again England’s means.

Much less of an element second time spherical, nevertheless, proving costly at 4.85 an over. Consistency at this stage continues to be the difficulty for the younger quick bowler.

Lauren Bell – 5

Bowling: 1-50 and 2-27; Batting: 3 and 0

Not her finest outing, with England struggling to get any type of grip on the Check match following a poor first hour or so by which India introduced up their 100 in little greater than 18 overs.

She bowled Yastika Bhatia with a magnificence throughout that interval, however bowled simply the 9 overs at the price of 50 runs in that first innings, earlier than placing in an improved displaying within the second innings, by which period it was a bit too late within the context of the match.

Lauren Filer – 4

Bowling: 2-40 and 0-61; Batting: 0 and 4no

Filer fell foul of being a bit undercooked for this match, having performed no cricket during the last month whereas warming the bench in the course of the T20 World Cup.

Her second ball of your complete Check – a snorter to search out Shafali Verma’s edge via to Jones – can be nearly as good as it might get for the quick bowler who pale thereafter with out the miles in her legs.

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