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16th over: India 140-4 (Harmanpreet 40, Sharma 14) Chase that! Harmanpreet takes a balletic step and flames Dean through the offside for four. But Deepti Sharma hasn\u2019t got in the zone yet and is unable to reach the boundary with the same regularity.<\/p>\n
Share<\/a><\/p>\n 15th over: India 132-4 (Harmanpreet 32, Sharma 12 The wind is really billowing the flags now. Deepti goes down the ground, but doesn\u2019t get enough omphph on Smith to reach the rope. But Harmanpreet does \u2013 a mightly slap four four.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 14th over: India 122-4 (Harmanpreet 29, Sharma 8) Gibson starts with a wide, but follows up with a couple of dots. She\u2019s an energetic fielder off her own bowling, bounding left and right. India remain boundary-less untill Harmanpreet pulls Gibson\u2019s last ball with some welly past the chasing fielder.<\/p>\n Stephen Nicols gets in touch to reply to Kevin Wilson (over five).<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m hoping there are a few more runs left in our batting line-up before we pension them all off. A chase of 200-ish tonight will be hard work, and more good prep for the batters before the World Cup. And I reckon we\u2019ll need all the batting experience we can get for the Test Match at Lord\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a014.36 EDT<\/p>\n 13th over: India 113-4 (Harmanpreet 22, Sharma 7) India are in danger of running into a boundary-less patch \u2013 as they did at Bristol. The sun is out now, but India can only milk five from Ecclestone.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 12th over: India 108-4 (Harmanpreet 18, Sharma 5) Seven from Dean\u2019s over, including a wide and a run-out chance \u2013 if Gibson had hit, Deepti could have been in trouble, diving and travelling like a truck through treacle. She is patched up.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 11th over: India 101-4 (Harmanpreet 17, Sharma 1) Bell with the rebuild over and rebuild she does. Rodrigues had just pulled her for four before losing her timbers. Deepti Sharma leapfrogs the order to come in next.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>WICKET! Rodrigues b Bell 29 (India 100-4)<\/p>\n Flummoxed by the slower ball, an advancing Rodrigues can only turn around to confirm her miserable fate. A delighted Bell punches the air.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a014.21 EDT<\/p>\n 10th over: India 94-3 (Rodrigues 24, Harmanpreet 16) Harmanpreet chomps into a short ball from Smith, thrashing it square past two diving England fielders, then dispatches the last offering before drinks for another four through point.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a014.17 EDT<\/p>\n 9th over: India 82-3 (Rodrigues 23, Harmanpreet 5) England can\u2019t keep Rodrigues still in the crease, and her ceaseless movements gives her options. She ramps Gibson for four, then swots a short ball past a diving Smith for another.<\/p>\n Harmanpreet today overtakes Susie Bates as the most capped player in women\u2019s cricket \u2013 with 368 games for India under her belt.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 8th over: India 71-3 (Rodrigues 14, Harmanpreet 3) Harmanpreet and Rodrigues make for a stylish duo at the crease. A fistful of singles from Eclestone\u2019s second over, then Rodrigues shimmies a wider final ball with dancing wrists to the backward point boundary.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 7th over: India 63-3 (Rodrigues 8, Harmanpreet 1) Dani Gibson stops the flow of boundaries, and the run out of Bhatia could be crucial.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>WICKET! Bhatia run out (Ecclestone) 32 (India 60-3)<\/p>\n Ecclestone with her left hand, a fishtail plait running down her back, runs out the lumbering Bhatia with a throw to the non-striker\u2019s end . A vital wicket for England, Bhatia was in the zone<\/p>\n Sophie Ecclestone of England celebrates running out Yastikaa Bhatia of India. Photograph: Graham Hunt\/ProSports\/ShutterstockShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a014.17 EDT<\/p>\n 6th over: India 57-2 (Bhatia 32, Rodrigues 3) Bhatia signs off from the power play with three more boundaries, this time off Dean. An off-balanced sweep, a here-we-go up and over, and finally hammering her down the ground like a rogue nail<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 5th over: India 45-2 (Bhatia 20, Rodrigues 3) Bhatia, dealing mostly in boundaries this evening, slog-sweeps Ecclestone to pick up four. Four singles on top keeps the scoring rate perky.<\/p>\n Hello Kevin Wilson! \u201cEngland probably decided a while back not to roll the dice before a home World Cup but they should probably move on from DWH, Knight, NSB and Jones after this tournament. The side has suffered from moving too many batters around in the past. Time to bring new players in, in fixed positions. I\u2019m not sure I see a role for Gibson. England have plenty of batters who can bowl. Wong has been out of sorts for a while. Invest in Gaur instead.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 4th over: India 37-2 (Bhatia 9, Rodrigues 1) Dean makes the breakthrough in her first over \u2013 India are scoring quickly, but losing wickets.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>WICKET! Mandhana lbw Dean 8 (India 36-2)<\/p>\n The dog changes the channel by leaping off the sofa with one paw on the controller, when I put it back on, India have appealed an lbw decision. Madhana had gone to sweep, it looks pretty out \u2013 even Mandhana looks like she thinks it is out \u2013 and out it is.<\/p>\n England’s Charlie Dean celebrates taking the wicket of India’s Smriti Mandhana. Photograph: Steven Paston\/PAShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a014.09 EDT<\/p>\n 3rd over: India 31-1 (Mandhana 8, Bhatia 9) Two wides and two fours from Bell\u2019s second over as she gets some punishment from Bhatia, through point and deep third.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>WICKET! Verma c Dean b Smith 11 (India 19-1)<\/p>\n Verma is eager for more runs but cramped for room, gets an outside edge ball which holds up in the wind and Charlie Dean collects at point. Clever bowling<\/p>\n 2nd over: India 19-1 (Mandhana 7, Bhatia 0) Linsey Smith in sunglasses from the other end. Mandhana clips her off her toes, over the leaping Bell at midwicket for four. Then Verma joins in hawking her through backward square for four more. But then the wicket!<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 1st over: India 10-0 (Mandhana 2, Verma 7) Lauren Bell directs the field at the top of her mark. The wind ruffles her shirt, the sun suddenly out and glinting on her bun as the church of St James looks on. Mandhana hoiks Bell up and just over mid on, but Verma earns the style points, delicately angling the ball down to the rope. A handful of singles and a wide.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s a good crowd building,\u201d says Raf. \u201cI\u2019m told they\u2019re expecting at least 5,000 people which will be near capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Selection talk<\/p>\n Sky\u2019s crew talk England selection for the World Cup \u2013 they put Capsey\/Dunkley\/Knight\/\/Gibson\/Wong\/Corteen-Coleman and Filer up for discussion.<\/p>\n Charlie Dagnall. \u201cI think Capsey accesses more areas of the field, can manipulate the surface a bit more, better against pace and spin, Dunkley is a little bit more one dimensional. Kate Cross agrees, \u201cCapsey can hit areas of the ground where it needs to go, Dunkley doesn\u2019t have that many more options than hitting over the top.\u201d<\/p>\n Tash Farrant \u201cDunkley and Wyatt Hodge run really well together,I\u2019d back her, tell her she needs to get off to a fast start. She does look quite tentative at the moment though.\u201d She would pick Capsey and Dunkley and leave Knight out, also Capsey and Dunkley are better in the field and running quick singles.<\/p>\n Cross goes for Knight because you need experienced players, despite her lack of strike rate. \u201cThere is no space for anchors any more in the women\u2019s game.\u201d<\/p>\n Dagnall says he\u2019d go for Knight as she\u2019s a better player with NSB in the side.<\/p>\n Farrant says Edwards needs to be more flexible with the batting order.<\/p>\n Dunkley goes for Wong \u201ca difference maker, a big game player.\u201d<\/p>\n Farrant would pick Dani Gibson as England need to stack the batting. As would Cross who says Gibson is more of the future of England cricket than Wong.<\/p>\n And here comes Sue Redfern and the teams.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n I\u2019ve just disturbed Raf mid-forkful of white chocolate cheesecake in the Taunton media centre.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve watched two brilliant warm-up acts – we had drummers earlier and now we\u2019ve got a group of dancers with Indian flags. Overcast and windy at the moment, but it\u2019s been dry all afternoon.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a>India XI<\/p>\n India make one change, seamer Kranti Gaud comes in for spinner Shreyanka Patil.<\/p>\n India: Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Yastika Bhatia, Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Jemimah Rodrigues (wk), Richa Ghosh, Deepti Sharma, Arundhati Reddy, Kranti Gaud, Sree Charani, Nandni Sharma.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>England XI<\/p>\n No changes from Bristol.<\/p>\n England: Sophia Dunkley, Danni Wyatt-Hodge, Amy Jones (wk), Alice Capsey, Heather Knight, Freya Kemp, Danielle Gibson, Charlie Dean (c), Sophie Ecclestone, Linsey Smith, Lauren Bell.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>England win the toss and bowl!<\/p>\n It\u2019s blowy out there. Charlie Dean looks pleased. \u201cThe win at Bristol was brilliant for us, a confidence builder, hopefully we can do more of the same today.\u201d England play the same team.<\/p>\n