Captain Nat Sciver-Brunt struck 122 as England beat India by 152 runs in the first of their two warm-up matches before their World Cup opener next week.<\/p>\n
In a pre-tournament boost to her side, Sciver-Brunt hit 13 fours and two sixes in Bengaluru before retiring out after 105 balls to give others a chance to bat.<\/p>\n
Emma Lamb made a 59-ball 81 at number five in England’s impressive 339-9 while opener Amy Jones hit 39 and Heather Knight 37.<\/p>\n
Jones’ opener partner Tammy Beaumont was bowled by Renuka Singh in the first over for a three-ball duck, however, and Danni Wyatt-Hodge caught for one from three balls in the 46th.<\/p>\n
England then dismissed World Cup co-hosts India for 187 in 34 overs, though the World Cup hosts rested key batters Smriti Mandhana, Harmanpreet Kaur and Pratika Rawal.<\/p>\n
Spinners Linsey Smith and Sophie Ecclestone took 2-35 and 2-38 respectively, while Lauren Bell, Lauren Filer and Charlie Dean claimed a wicket each.<\/p>\n
Jemimah Rodrigues scored 66 on her return from illness for India but they lost their last eight wickets for 56 runs after Richa Ghosh was run out for 21.<\/p>\n
Most concerning for India was their seamer Arundhati Reddy having to leave the field in a wheelchair after taking a blow in the 13th over of England’s innings.<\/p>\n
Reddy, who played in two of three matches in India’s pre-tournament series against Australia, appeared to be hit in the leg in her follow-through by a drive from Knight.<\/p>\n
She required lengthy treatment and did not add to her 4.4 overs after leaving the field or bat.<\/p>\n
England have not played a full 50-over series since their 2-1 defeat by India in July with two unofficial matches against New Zealand in the United Arab Emirates their preparation prior to this low-key encounter.<\/p>\n
England play Australia in their final warm-up on Sunday before beginning their World Cup campaign against South Africa on 3 October.<\/p>\n
The tournament, co-hosted by India and Sri Lanka, runs from 30 September to 2 November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Captain Nat Sciver-Brunt struck 122 as England beat India by 152 runs in the first of their two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-160362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}