Scorecard<\/a><\/p>\nEngland face an uphill battle to avoid defeat in the one-off Test at Lord’s as India took control on day two. <\/p>\n
Resuming on 21-1 in reply to India’s first-innings 285, England were skittled for 170 to give the tourists a lead of 115. <\/p>\n
On another hot day and in improved batting conditions, India finished 154-1 – an ominous lead of 269 – as England’s bowlers toiled and lacked wicket-taking threat on a flat surface. <\/p>\n
Smriti Mandhana reached another classy half-century and remains unbeaten on 69 after adding 88 for the first wicket with Shafali Verma, who fell to Sophie Ecclestone for 33.<\/p>\n
Earlier, Kranti Gaud made history as the first woman to earn her place on the Lord’s Test honours board with a fine spell of 5-37 as England struggled against her disciplined accuracy. <\/p>\n
Having removed Tammy Beaumont the previous evening, Gaud continued to work through the top order. Maia Bouchier was caught behind for 23 and Alice Capsey was bowled with a nip-backer for nine before she claimed the key wicket of captain Nat Sciver-Brunt lbw for 44. <\/p>\n
Sciver-Brunt and Amy Jones provided England’s only real resistance with a fifth-wicket stand of 84, but Jones’ departure for 52 sparked a dismal collapse of the last six wickets for just 39 runs. <\/p>\n
Despite a tough day, the biggest positive for England was the world record attendance for a single day at a women’s Test match – the crowd figure of 15,243 beating the previous best of 11,918 at Melbourne for the Women’s Ashes in 2025.<\/p>\n
With two more days of good weather expected, India have the chance to keep a tired England toiling and bat them out of the game on day three. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England v India, one-off Test, Lord’s India 285 (Mandhana 83; Ecclestone 3-68) & 154-1 (Mandhana 69*; Ecclestone 1-46)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-686504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686504","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=686504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}