India women down England by 66 runs
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MUMBAI: Defending World Champions England made heavy weather of a fairly straightforward chase of 202 and slipped to a 66-run defeat to India in the opening ODI at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.In the first fixture of this ICC Women’s Championship rubber, Ekta Bisht proved to be a major hurdle for the visitors who gave the left-arm spinner figures of 4 for 25 as they lost their final seven wickets for 25 runs to be bowled out for 136.Bisht’s bowling, however, was only the final act of an absorbing second half of this game, which swung one way, then another before the pressure of a run chase proved too much for England’s lower-order to handle.They had recovered admirably, moving even to the position of favourites by the 30th over thanks to a 73-run stand between Natalie Sciver and captain Heather Knight. This was before tragedy struck in the most unlikeliest of ways.Danielle Wyatt fell to Deepti Sharma in the next over and Bisht then ensured that the rest of England’s lower middle-order made a beeline back to the dressing room. In a little under an hour, the visitors were bowled out with their captain watching powerlessly from one end, unbeaten on 39.Earlier in the day, India put into bat, carried forward their recent T20I travails to the 50-over format, wasting a strong start from Jemimah Rodrigues (48 off 58) and Smriti Mandhana (24 off 42) with another inexplicable collapse.Brief scores: India 202 in 49.4 overs (Jemimah Rodrigues 48, Mithali Raj 44; Sophie Ecclestone 2-27, Natalie Sciver 2-29) beat England 136 in 41 overs (Natalie Sciver 44, Heather Knight 39*; Ekta Bisht 4-25) by 66 runs.
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MUMBAI: Defending World Champions England made heavy weather of a fairly straightforward chase of 202 and slipped to a 66-run defeat to India in the opening ODI at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.In the first fixture of this ICC Women’s Championship rubber, Ekta Bisht proved to be a major hurdle for the visitors who gave the left-arm spinner figures of 4 for 25 as they lost their final seven wickets for 25 runs to be bowled out for 136.Bisht’s bowling, however, was only the final act of an absorbing second half of this game, which swung one way, then another before the pressure of a run chase proved too much for England’s lower-order to handle.They had recovered admirably, moving even to the position of favourites by the 30th over thanks to a 73-run stand between Natalie Sciver and captain Heather Knight. This was before tragedy struck in the most unlikeliest of ways.Danielle Wyatt fell to Deepti Sharma in the next over and Bisht then ensured that the rest of England’s lower middle-order made a beeline back to the dressing room. In a little under an hour, the visitors were bowled out with their captain watching powerlessly from one end, unbeaten on 39.Earlier in the day, India put into bat, carried forward their recent T20I travails to the 50-over format, wasting a strong start from Jemimah Rodrigues (48 off 58) and Smriti Mandhana (24 off 42) with another inexplicable collapse.Brief scores: India 202 in 49.4 overs (Jemimah Rodrigues 48, Mithali Raj 44; Sophie Ecclestone 2-27, Natalie Sciver 2-29) beat England 136 in 41 overs (Natalie Sciver 44, Heather Knight 39*; Ekta Bisht 4-25) by 66 runs.
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