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5th over: England 24-1 (Beaumont 4, Knight 0) England’s skipper to the crease, and Goswami nearly snakes a fuller ball onto her pad but there’s an edge.
Goswami again, those long loping strides to the wicket, and as she has done for 20 years she uses her height to get an awkward amount of bounce from a length. Winfield-Hill reaches for it but given the bounce can only spar at it, a thick edge to the keeper, and for the 331st time Goswami takes a wicket for India.
4th over: England 22-0 (Winfield-Hill 15, Beaumont 3) Pandey starting to do the business, including a peach of an inswinger that also cuts away after pitching, taking the outside edge down to deep third for one. That gives Beaumont the strike, and she triples her score with a clip for two off the legs.
3rd over: England 18-0 (Winfield-Hill 14, Beaumont 1) LWH wants to do some clobbering, and gets her chance with an overpitch from Goswami. Banged through cover. Less convincing is the pull shot to a mid-length ball, which is heaved over mid on perilously in a way that must have strained a few abdominal muscles. Gets just enough of it though, and it kicks on for four.
2nd over: England 9-0 (Winfield-Hill 6, Beaumont 0) Shikha Pandey has the ball swinging into Tammy Beaumont, a right-hander. One slips down leg for a wide, and puzzlingly the Indian players choose to take a review for a similar ball that hits pad. It did hit the pad, but was always going to be swinging way down leg side. The better chance for a wicket was via a throw to the non-striker’s end as Beaumont took a leg bye. Would have been out had it hit. Another wide, then a couple of runs off the inside edge. Pandey needs her starting line to be a bit wider.
1st over: England 2-0 (Winfield-Hill 2, Beaumont 0) So we’re back to the future with this opening pair, plus the addition of a post-nuptial hyphen to Lauren Winfield’s former name. They opened together in the 2017 World Cup final and on into the Ashes later that year, then Winfield-Hill was tried in a few other spots in the order before being dropped in 2019. She’s made her way back after a couple of years on the outer, and she has a tough task first up today, India’s tall opening bowler Jhulan Goswami hitting a hard length and moving the ball both ways, in off the seam and away past the edge. LWH survives, with a couple of moments when her eyes opened very wide. Gets two runs fomr the final delivery, off the pads.
Hmmmmm, yes. Thanks Tanya. The Mithali question has been the Mithali question for at least the last few years. Before that, through the bulk of her career, Mithali Raj was so clearly on her own as the best player within her teams that she had to play cautiously. She had to rein herself in, rarely able to do reach her heights with the bat, because if she got out there wasn’t enough left.
More recently, with better players around her, it has felt at times like she hasn’t changed her approach. And in terms of being able to take on bowling, express herself fully, and all of that, she’s no longer in her prime as a player. She’s somewhat circumscribed.
That’s it from me, Geoff Lemon will guide you through England’s innings. Your host, with the most. Enjoy!
The players take lunch, with England dining more happily. I’m torn on Mithali Raj’s 72 - it took India to 200 but sucked the energy out of the innings. Difficult to go full-steam ahead without confidence in her middle order. But should she have had more confidence?
Mithali has had a wonderful career and achieved a lot. That doesn't make her immune from criticism. Arguably the issue comes when people feel afraid to criticise her. #ENGvINDhttps://t.co/buqouaJ8f9
50th over: India 201-8 (Goswami 1, Pandey 3) Ecclestone twirls through the final over. Pandey is dropped by Kate Cross running in at long-on and mistiming her dive. The last ball, aptly, is a dot. India creep over 200 - which is a recovery from where they were sitting at 30 overs. It should be a fairly easy total for England on a nicely-paced pitch. I’d expect a less pedestrian approach from England’s batters, but let’s see.
49th over: India 197-8 (Goswami 0, Pandey 0) Brunt with the penultimate over of the innings , a couple of runs from a Bhatia pull and then the stumping. Bhatia didn’t look entirely convinced by her dismissal - from the sofa the case wasn’t proven, but I hope the third umpire has a larger screen to examine. India go into the last over with two batters on nought.
Brilliant bit of work by Jones behind the stumps . Bhatia advances clumsily to take on Brunt’s slower ball, Jones collects and whips off the bails. India review, and they look and look again. It is too close to call, isn’t it? No, the finger is raised.
48th over: India 195-7 (Bhatia 5, Pandey 0) Nice and tight by Eccestone, who still has an over in her back pocket. Vastrakar’s wicket should prevent India getting much over 200.
A comedy dismissal as Vastrakar tumbles over trying to reverse-sweep and is hit in front of the stumps. A review more in hope than expectation.
REVIEW! Vastrakar lbw....
47th over: India 181-6 (Bhatia 3, Vastrakar 15) A wide and four fat leg byes, Vastrakar toes ends a couple, the ball deceiving Knight with its bounce, and a sprinking of singles. Ten off the over, with plenty of elbow grease.
46th over: India 181-6 (Bhatia 1, Vastrakar 12) Beautiful bowling from Ecclestone which will have put the breaks on India’s attempts to hit 200.
The big one! After 108 balls, mostly of graft but also with the odd sprinkle of pizazz. A lovely ball that hits the summit of off stump.
45th over: India 178-5 (Raj 71, Vastrakar 11) Apologies, the television switched to the motor-racing and I couldn’t find the remote in time, but seven from Sciver’s over.
44th over: India 171-5 (Raj 60, Vastrakar 10) Bang-wham! Vastrakar throws everything at Shrubsole and the ball flies back over the bowler’s head. Raj, inspired, gets a thick outside edge for four, then sends a wide one over fine leg for another. Shrubsole looks pained - the most expensive over of the day.
43rd over: India 156-5 (Raj 55, Vastrakar 5) With a hint of contempt, Vastrakar slams Sciver to the mid-wicket boundary. Raj cuts down to third-man, looks pretty but brings only a single.
42nd over: India 149-5 (Raj 53, Vastrakar 0) We pause while Sue Redfern is re-wired up and the end of an eventful over. Raj reaches fifty with a windscreen swipe over mid-on to the rope; Sharma falls trying to whisk Shrubsole and Vastrakar has to find her feet quickly. She pats back her first three balls.
Sharma reviews, but it looks good, and it is! Hit on the front pad by a big fat full one. Just as she was starting to get going.
41st over: India 144-4 (Raj 48, Sharma 30) Ten off the over as India get funky. Sharma sweeps low for a boundary, then finds another through extra cover. About time! Even if the run rate reaches 6, India will still end up with less than 200.
40th over: India 134-4 (Raj 47, Sharma 21) Three more singles to start the forties, before Raj just avoids having her head removed by a Brunt bouncer - even Brunt is having to manufactures some pizazz.
“Suddenly momentum arrives is an intriguing phrase. Can momentum arrive suddenly?” asks Andrew Benton. “Quite the question for a lazy (but still dry, please note!) summer Sunday in Bristol.” I think so! If you’re pushed off a diving board is that not the sudden arrival of momentum (speaking from personal experience.)
39th over: India 131-4 (Raj 46, Sharma 19) There’s a oddly sleepy air to this game, but perhaps India have great plans for the final ten. There is fire power up the order: Taniya Bhatia for one. Just 18 runs off the last five overs.
A very fair point from Abhijato Sensarma: “In all fairness, funny things happen to a team’s ability when their board doesn’t let them play cricket for more than a year, and takes almost double that time to pay them their reward for being T20 WC finalists ...”
38th over: India 128-4 (Raj 45, Sharma 15) Brunt it is, determination easing out of every pore. Raj and Sharma rotate the strike, a pull for a single, a dab for another, a drive with a flourish - but all singles.
37th over: India 124-4 (Raj 43, Sharma 15) Glenn tosses the ball from hand to hand, and tosses the ball up, Sharma gets down on one knee to sweep, the ball hits her on the back pad. Glenn appeals with great enthusiasm, but it is not shared by anyone else on the team.
36th over: India 119-4 (Raj 41, Sharma 12) We switch away from spin and back to pace and Brunt. It doesn’t bring a change to India’s tempo.
35th over: India 117-4 (Raj 40, Sharma 12) Glenn tosses it up, generously, confidently, and India tick four singles from the over.
34th over: India 113-4 (Raj 36, Sharma 10) And as I say that Raj, with great delicacy, opens the face of the bat and glides the ball down to the boundary. Four more singles add up to a fruitful over as Ecclestone drops a little short. The camera pans to a woman with some impressive looking knitting.
33rd over: India 105-4 (Raj 32, Sharma 8) Sarah Glenn again. On the radio Snehal Pradhan thinks India will be looking for 220, by the innings close. Much depends on whether those around Raj can find the accelerator, as she holding things together in second.
32nd over: India 102-4 (Raj 30, Sharma 7) A slightly, and uncharacteristically, sloppy over from Ecclestone, a couple of balls fired wide enough to be called wide. Four relatively easy singles too, as the loyal Indian supporters in the crowd celebrate the tardy arrival of three figures.
31st over: India 96-4 (Raj 28, Sharma 5) Raj joins in! Four, up and over, thanks very much! With a couple of singles picked up here and there, suddenly momentum arrives.
30th over: India 90-4 (Raj 23, Sharma 4) It feels like Sharma wants a boundary, she is thwarted as she tries to sweep, uses her feet and here it comes ... off the last ball, a four soaring over mid-off!
29th over: India 85-4 (Raj 22, Sharma 0) Glenn, with matching blond ponytail, is on the money. Chucks in a googly, which beats Sharma. Nice. Perhaps Raj was right to take no risks, she knew what was coming.
28th over: India 84-4 (Raj 21, Sharma 0) A wicket maiden for Ecclestone and India are in rather a deep hole now. Kaur’s grotty run of form continues. Lovely bowling.
Tries to cut a ball too close to her, aiming to send the ball to backward point, but succeeds only in delivering a gift to Jones behind the stumps.
27th over: India 84-3 (Raj 21, Kaur 0) Nice captaincy, Knight whisks on Sarah Glenn at the fall of the wicket. Just one from the over.
26th over: India 83-3 (Raj 21, Kaur 0) Smart bowling by Cross, and we should see a bit more fire to the ice with the arrival of Kaur. Nice innings by Raut, she’d just started seeing the ball a little more sizeably. Shrubsole dives to prevent a Raj on drive creeping past the infield. A wicket maiden!
The pressure told in the end. Raut tries to repeat her blow against Cross in the previous over and manages only to plonk the ball to mid-off.
25th over: India 83-2 (Raj 21, Raut 32) Raj sweeps and misses at Ecclestone, then pushes through. Raut is surprised by the the last ball, and an inside edge flies wildly and they pick up the single. The trudge continues.
24th over: India 79-2 (Raj 20, Raut 30) And from a silent pool, a huge stone lands, a cross-batted pick up and launch from Raut lands a whisker short of the boundary rope. Great shot for four. And that’s the fifty partnership.
23rd over: India 73-2 (Raj 19, Raut 25) We see Ecclestone again, blue slip of jumper over her shirt. Raut and Raj pluck and push her for four singles.
22nd over: India 69-2 (Raj 17, Raut 23) At last, the rope is breached! A velveteen cover drive by Raj off Cross - that’s what we’re all here for.
21st over: India 65-2 (Raj 13, Raut 23) Spin for the first times today! Ecclestone, pony tail half way down her back, alternates between pushing it through and throwing it up. India thread a few more singles.
20th over: India 62-2 (Raj 12, Raut 22) Cross’s run up is pretty substantial, imagine a sprint half way up the road to the bus top. A fluff in the field by Beaumont brings a second to Raj. India keeping the scoreboard ticking, but refusing to throw the bat. Time will tell whether this is wise, it leaves the latter batters with much to do.
At the current run rate (3.1), India are projected to get 153, but you’d expect that to significantly improve if Harmanpreet gets her eye in.
19th over: India 59-2 (Raj 10, Raut 21) Raj ramps Nat Sciver and picks two off the last ball, otherwise just a wide to add to the pint pot.
18th over: India 56-2 (Raj 8, Raut 21) Cross, as energetic as ever, scampers in. Raj edges her just short and wide of slip and the ball slides down to third man where they pick up a single. Bit more dibbing, bit more dabbing, they pick up a couple more singles. This isn’t a thrill a minute for those who have braved Bristol’s best impression of summer.
17th over: India 53-2 (Raj 6, Raut 20) India trawling through mud here.
If India are to put up totals of 250+ consistently, they cannot afford SRs of 25 in the Powerplay. From anyone. No matter what catching up happens later.
And come the 2022 World Cup, teams around the world WILL need totals of 250+ to win ODIs.
16th over: India 51-2 (Raj 6, Raut 19) Teeth picking by India, then, at last, glorious from Raut who leans into Cross and sends her spilling through the covers for four. The vocal India supporters in the crowd cheer happily as fifty ticks onto the scoreboard.
Thunderous skies
A Sunday well spent at @Gloscricket. Hoping the rain holds off! #ENGvIND#GoGlospic.twitter.com/1x1TsQSOK9
15th over: India 45-2 (Raj 5, Raut 14) Raj picks up a couple by leaning onto the backfoot and eases the ball through point. Sciver then hits her on the left arm - ooof, that must have hurt - as she awkwardly negotiates a bouncer and then ducks out of the way of another. At the first drinks break, the honours are England’s.
14th over: India 42-2 (Raj 2, Raut 14) Aha - it’s Kate Cross for the first time today, silver necklace bumping against her collar-bone as she runs in. Raj plays out five dots and picks up a single off the sixth. Some interesting chat before the game about whether Raj can continue to keep her place into the World Cup. She’s a slow compiler rather than a blaster - not necessarily what is needed anymore in 2021.
13th over: India 41-2 (Raj 1, Raut 14) Acceleration for India at last, as Sciver strays a little, just overpitching, and Raut top and tails the over with boundaries through the covers.
12th over: India 33-2 (Raj 1, Raut 6) Is Shrubsole going to bowl out? Currently in her sixth disciplined over. Raut picks up a couple with a drive through cover, and another with a square cut, but can’t pierce the field.
11th over: India 30-2 (Raj 1, Raut 3) A change of bowling for the first time this morning as Sciver takes the ball. But more of the same, with India unable to get things really moving. They pick up three singles and someone is going to have to find some omph - they can’t leave it all to Harmanpreet Kaur.
10th over: India 27-2 (Raj 0, Raut 1) A wicket maiden captain? Yes please, Anya. A real chance for England here, with Raj new to the crease and Raut, with one off 19 balls.
Tries to cut, but with leaden feet, and succeeds only in having her middle stump knocked back.
9th over: India 27-1 (Mandhana 10, Raut 1) Brunt’s over starts with a wide, free honey for India, but then stays tight. Great stuff from England’s opening pair this morning. Mandhana picks up one with a neat pull and then the wicket/review/not out. Hits Raut just above the knee but the review shows air between the ball and stump.
Missing leg stump
after a few moments hesitation, Sue Redfern raises the finger...
8th over: India 25-1 (Mandhana 9, Raut 1) The dots starting to add up for India, in a scratch that itch kind of way. A handsome drive from Raut, but straight to mid off. Great bowling by Shrubsole and another maiden.
7th over: India 25-1 (Mandhana 9, Raut 1) India look a touch shaken after losing Verma, a maiden followed by a tight over that they can squeeze just two from. Two lbw shouts from Brunt, the second slightly more convincing, but neither gets the nod from Knight.
6th over: India 23-1 (Mandhana 8, Raut 0) A maiden from Shrubsole.
5th over: India 23-1 (Mandhana 8, Raut 0) Verma gets itchy feet and slams Brunt for two consecutive heaves past point and mid-off for four. Seems like the beginning of something but Brunt gets the upper hand, deceiving Verma with a short one, she backs away but can’t get the full bat on ball and miscues.
Has a huge slog and manages only to send the ball zipping into the stratosphere and into the safe hands of Shrubsole at mid-on. Brunt, not happy about being pinged about at the beginning her over, clenches both fists and roars.
4th over: India 15-0 (Mandhana 8, Verma 7) Beautiful from Mandhana, as she leans onto her back foot and sends Shrubsole speeding past cover. Shrubsole looks unamused after a tight five balls.
Don’t think this is at Bristol, but deserved a mention:
#dogsatcricketgrounds@dogsatcricketpic.twitter.com/RJjB4k3Qky
3rd over: India 10-0 (Mandhana 4, Verma 6) Ooooh, Brunt tries a short ball and Verma plays an ugly, cramped shot, taking her eyes off the ball and ends up top-edging wildly. Might be worth trying one of those again.
2nd over: India 8-0 (Mandhana 3, Verma 5) Shrubsole charges in, in baby light blue, imagine a matinee jacket knitted by a doting granny. I like it. And the first boundary of the day whizzes past a diving Brunt, clipped off her front leg by Verma.
1st over: India 3-0 (Mandhana 2, Verma 1) The first ball of the day is a big fat juicy full toss which gets patted back.
Smriti Mandhana has made six half-centuries in ten innings, and averages 58.88 against England in ODIs.
Among women to have batted 10+ times against England in the format, this is the second highest average, beaten only by current England coach Lisa Keightely (66.64).#ENGvINDhttps://t.co/FiYyP5I0j5
Katherine Brunt hooves out her bowling mark on the grass and will take the first over on what is, thank goodness, a fresh pitch.
The teams line up for the moment of unity and then Verma and Mandhana pull on their gloves and helmets. As one of the commentators touched on earlier, they are one of the most exciting opening partnerships in cricket: right-hand, left-hand, front-foot, back-foot and both insanely talented.
England: Tammy Beaumont, Lauren Winfield-Hill, Heather Knight (c), Nat Sciver, Amy Jones (wicket-keeper), Sophia Dunkley, Katherine Brunt, Sarah Glenn, Sophie Ecclestone, Anya Shrubsole, Kate Cross.
India: Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Punam Raut, Mithali Raj (c), Harmanpreet Kaur, Deepti Sharma, Shikha Pandey, Jhulan Goswami, Taniya Bhatia (wicket-keeper), Pooja Vastrakar, Ekta Bisht.
A very good question from Tim Harvey.
@tjaldred another England women’s match played in the South of England. Are the team not allowed to travel north of Birmingham, cos there sure ain’t no matches played up there?
“The most complete bowler of anyone in the women’s game in all three formats.” Charles Dagnall on Sophia Ecclestone. Well said!
Surely TMS have had enough of cakes...
Someone just came into the press box with a huge plate of cakes and said “Are you @bbctms?” And… we were tempted… we really were…
The covers are on but, fingers crossed, whatever rain there is will pass quickly as it is so windy.
Heather Knight says: “the overhead conditions suits our seamers and with a bit of rain around its nice to know what you’re chasing.”
Confirmation that Sophia Dunkley will play, and the weather conditions: blustery!
Nat Sciver presents Sophia Dunkley with her ODI cap here at a blustery Bristol #ENGvINDpic.twitter.com/x8gaUDgWin
Some cracking stats by hypocaust, showing England’s historic dominance in this country. Intrigued to see how this India do - they did make it to the World Cup final in 2017 - they’re hardly dunces in English conditions.
England v India multi-format series
Test - drawn
Points 2-2
ODI series
27 Jun, Bristol
30 Jun, Taunton
3 Jul, Worcester
Head to head
ENG 37-30 IND
in England
ENG 22-5 IND
ENG/IND series have been won by the home side on all but one occasion (IND 2-1 in England 1999)#ENGvIND
Good morning! To Bristol again, but this time, after the excitement of the Test, in coloured clothing and clutching a white ball. Today is the first of three ODI games, to be followed by three T20s. Each match is worth two points to the winner; the teams currently stand on two points each after the shared, dramatic, Test.
Related: Sneh Rana’s superb rearguard effort denies England as India dig in for draw
Men's @BCCI handle sharing a really well-made video of the @BCCIWomen at training, promoting their game today.
FINALLY, social media game is improving. @BCCIWomen handle has 4 lakh followers@BCCI mens handle has 14 million
A no brainer that I'm glad is finally happening https://t.co/BDkqAEb8Da