England v India, one-off Test, Lord’s <\/p>\n
India 285 (Mandhana 83; Ecclestone 3-68) & 341-7 dec (Bhatia 113; Ecclestone 5-118)<\/p>\n
England 170 (Jones 52; Gaud 5-37) & 186 (Jones 54; Rana 4-42)<\/p>\n
India won by 270 runs<\/p>\n
Scorecard<\/a><\/p>\n England suffered a 270-run thrashing in the one-off women’s Test at Lord’s as India sealed the emphatic victory before lunch on the final day.<\/p>\n Though defeat was inevitable as England started the day 130-6 and needing another 328 for victory, any hopes of prolonged resistance were ended when overnight batter Amy Jones was caught at mid-wicket for 54. <\/p>\n With the pitch turning, India had fielders crowded around the bat as their spinners then mopped up the tail with England skittled for 186. <\/p>\n It is England’s second-heaviest defeat in terms of runs in Test cricket after their 347-run loss against the same opposition away from home in 2023. <\/p>\n Both Issy Wong and Lauren Bell were bowled by Deepti Sharma to leave England on the brink at nine down, but Sophie Ecclestone held firm for her first international half-century.<\/p>\n Ecclestone reached the milestone from 61 balls to follow her five-wicket haul on day three, before she was bowled by a beauty from Sneh Rana for 50 to spark jubilant India celebrations. <\/p>\n Off-spinner Rana was the pick of India’s bowlers with 4-42.<\/p>\n England were outclassed, offering little conviction or discipline with the bat – across both innings they averaged just four when the ball was bowled on the stumps – and with the ball failed to adapt to the conditions and the Lord’s slope. <\/p>\n It was a disappointing ending to the fine careers of former captain Heather Knight<\/a> and batter Tammy Beaumont<\/a>, having fallen cheaply in England’s innings the previous day.<\/p>\n England’s attention now turns to The Hundred, which starts on 21 July, before they play Ireland in a white-ball series in September where their transition begins without Knight and Beaumont.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England v India, one-off Test, Lord’s India 285 (Mandhana 83; Ecclestone 3-68) & 341-7 dec (Bhatia 113; Ecclestone…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-689365","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\/689365","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=689365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}