England v India: third women’s ODI – live!

47th over: England 219-10 (Cross 16) Final over of the rain-reduced innings, to be bowled by Deepti Sharma. Kate Cross gives it a wholehearted charge, but doesn’t get the whole bat. In fact, very little of the bat. The shot just dribbles to short midwicket. Tries again Cross, and clatters it into the non-striker’s stumps! This time there’s no touch from Deepti on the way, so it’s just a dot ball. Third time? Successful. Cross gets all of it, dead straight for four.

Fourth time? Hits it for six! Shafali Verma is back in the deep down the ground. And lurking in from the rope in case the ball drops short. It would have been a catch had she been standing on the rope. Instead it carries for Cross.

Fifth ball of the over, Cross goes more leg side and gets two runs from deep midwicket, Glenn putting in the effort to reach the non-striker’s end at full stretch as the bails come off. And from the final ball Cross goes straight again, long on is wise to it, and Glenn is run out trying for a second run.

England are bowled out from the final ball of the innings. That’s also a high score in ODIs for Kate Cross.

46th over: England 206-9 (Glenn 6, Cross 3) Runs for Cross before runs for Glenn, reaching wide to Goswami and slicing over backward point. A leg bye raises England’s 200. Glenn faces a fourth fallow delivery, whipping nicely but straight to Poonam Yadav in the ring at midwicket. Goswami bowls a yorker, and Glenn gets away! Digging at it, skewing it over the bowler and just over mid off. Back for two. Tries again from the final ball, and gets enough of it! Not a true shot out of the middle, but slices four over cover.

45th over: England 197-9 (Glenn 0, Cross 0) One ball to come. Glenn cuts and is nearly caught behind. Still hasn’t scored, three balls faced, and has effectively run out her partner without even calling for a run. It’s tough coming in so late in the piece.

Refer to Sophia Dunkley’s comment immediately before this. Glenn is on strike, and forces the ball straight back at the bowler. Shrubsole is several paces down the pitch, ready to run. Deepti collects cleanly and backhands onto the non-striker’s stumps.

Another for Deepti! Dunkley precedes the wicket with a very smart reverse sweep, getting lots of power on the ball as she comes down hard on it. But the next one fools her. It starts outside off, and she’s moving across looking to play to the leg side. But it turns sharply, and stays low. Suddenly she’s trying to catch up with the ball, which is never a good place to be. And having moved so far across, when she fails to catch up, bar perhaps a tiny sliver of bat, it takes her leg stump. “Fuck!” she yells very audibly through the stump mics. Fair enough, really.

44th over: England 192-7 (Dunkley 23, Glenn 0) Sarah Glenn can’t score from Goswami’s final ball, a slower ball that reaches her as a low full toss. Three overs to go for England.

Goswami returns with overs to spare. Two players can bowl 10, three can bowl 9. She has up to three left but won’t be able to bowl more than two given our position in the innings. Ecclestone is desperate to go, but can’t. A fresh air shot, a hit straight to the infield, then a dashed single. Dunkley can only do the same, belting through to the far end, narrowly beating the direct hit from India’s captain Mithali Raj.

Then from the fifth ball of the over, Ecclestone goes across the line and misses, hit on the ankle in front of middle stump. Goswami has a fair bit of angle, which means it could be going down. But the umpire gives it, and the replay shows that was a correct call with the ball clipping leg stump.

43rd over: England 190-6 (Dunkley 23, Ecclestone 8) Now there’s a swing from Ecclestone, down to long on where Verma backs away rather than running in to try to catch. Mithali Raj changes the field immediately, Mandhana sent back to fill that spot after her fine catch earlier. Now the ball follows Verma at mid off, who fields well on the bounce as Ecclestone flat-bats it. No run. But four runs from the next ball as Ecclestone gets low to an overpitched ball from Poonam Yadav and smears it through midwicket. Plays the same shot to the boundary rider for one run to keep strike. Four overs to go.

42nd over: England 182-6 (Dunkley 21, Ecclestone 2) Dunkley is the senior player, but Ecclestone likes to swing. So does Sarah Glenn, in next. So perhaps the play is for those two to swing hard, and Dunkley to be the relative anchor. Ecclestone doesn’t though, first up. Goes back on her stumps to Sneh Rana’s off-break and prods. Gets a bottom-handed drive to long off, and that’s only a single. India keep winding ropes around the legs of their opponents. Five singles from the over, three to Dunkley, who is going at less than a run a ball with five overs to go.

41st over: England 177-6 (Dunkley 18) Poonam Yadav is coming around the wicket to Dunkley now, over the wicket to Brunt. Denying Dunkley the chance to lap, perhaps? Tries the googly back onto Brunt’s stumps and the bat just keeps it away. But from the final ball of the over, the googly does the job. Slipped very wide of the off stump, Brunt gives it the charge and then notices it start to turn. Tries to change her shot, to get something on the ball, but to no avail. Between bat and pad, and Bhatia cleans up the bails.

40th over: England 172-5 (Dunkley 15, Brunt 4) Four singles from Sneh Rana’s over, and still no sign of Happy Hour. Only seven overs to go, given the time lost to rain earlier. A run a ball from here doesn’t see England much past 200.

39th over: England 168-5 (Dunkley 13, Brunt 2) Now then. Poonam Yadav on. Brunt does like to hit the ball hard, but a lot of time left in this innings. She can also play sensibly, she’s not helpless in the face of the temptation to thwack the ball over the fence like some players are. I’d still say she’s batting one spot too high in 50-over cricket, England picking five specialists even with Heather Knight and Nat Sciver as bowling options in the top six.

Brunt does the sensible thing in this over and collects a couple of singles.

38th over: England 164-5 (Dunkley 11, Brunt 0) Deepti finishes her over with 2 for 29 from eight, with the first of England’s bowlers in Katherine Brunt at the crease.

What a catch from India’s star opener! Sciver wants a big piece of Deepti Sharma, wants to get going, but again the bat twists in her hand and she doesn’t get the full purchase she wants on the ball. Trying to thunder it over midwicket, instead it’s heading for the gap between the two boundary riders. Still a chance to go for four. But closing the distance, Smriti Mandhana comes flying across and dives full length lateral to the pitch, getting both hands to the ball and holding it even as she comes to rest face-down in the grass.

37th over: England 162-4 (Sciver 49, Dunkley 9) Three singles from Pandey’s over, the innings run rate still floating around the low 4s.

36th over: England 159-4 (Sciver 48, Dunkley 7) You can see why Dunkley is so likeable. Sprightly. Facing her first over of spin, just zips across her crease and plays the lap shot against Deepti for two.

35th over: England 154-4 (Sciver 47, Dunkley 3) Pandey continues, and Sophia Dunkley is there for her second ODI innings. Played well in the Test, played well in her first ODI. Has played well domestically to get those chances. She’s a curious player, awkward to the eye with the way her elbows crook and her feet splay at unusual angles. But she nonetheless gets herself into really good positions from which to address the ball. Shifts her stance constantly. Has two looks at Pandey before flicking two runs through midwicket, adds a single to follow, and she’s away.

Gives the bowling to Sciver with one ball remaining, and Sciver is dropped! Very tough return chance. Sciver goes leg side, gets a leading edge back past Pandey to the bowler’s left. Pandey has to lunge across full stretch and get very low, fingertips to it a few inches above the turf. It doesn’t stick.

34th over: England 151-4 (Sciver 47) Deepti revs the ball from hand to hand before releasing, her flight teasing Sciver down the wicket again, mistiming an attempted straight loft that skews squarer to deep midwicket. Bounces in front of the fielder. Jones is still finding her way. Tries to be aggressive by charging but also mis-hits, a flat shot dragged to long on for one. Sciver takes a sensible single, then from the last ball of the over Jones tries to go big again. Flight, angled in, the angle leaving Jones a bit cramped as she tries to swing leg side, and she clunks the shot down to long on for a comfortable catch as the substitute fielder trots in.

33rd over: England 146-3 (Sciver 43, Jones 16) Pandey replaces Poonam, seam replacing swing. The bowler has a habit of releasing a sort of martial-arts yelp of effort with each delivery. Sciver tries to put some muscle on one ball, but aside from that they quietly collect four runs in increments of one.

32nd over: England 142-3 (Sciver 41, Jones 14) Deepti Sharma takes the ball after the scheduled hydration interval, and keeps the screws tight. Dives across to save from her own bowling, flights the ball, varies her length, keeps the batters to two singles.

31st over: England 140-3 (Sciver 40, Jones 13) More productive off Poonam Yadav’s over for England, with six singles, each to the leg side. The first for Jones was a pretty ungainly swipe across the line that had the bowler interested. Second drinks break, meaning we’re three overs behind the intended rate, in a women’s international in which 19 of the overs have been spin.

30th over: England 134-3 (Sciver 37, Jones 10) Goswami continues, and Sciver can’t get anything away. Tries three times, finds the field three times, including a hard hit drive that Goswami fields herself with skill. In the end Sciver can only drive a single to long on.

29th over: England 131-3 (Sciver 36, Jones 8) Poonam Yadav will float up some more. Sciver charges, but overcharges, turning the ball into a low full toss which can sometimes be hard to hit, especially on the move. Only drives a single. Gets the strike back, then charges to defend. Stays home to the fourth ball to cut a single. The endless wrestle in the mind of any player facing Poonam Yadav. Jones sees a short length and shapes to cut, then realises very late that it’s the googly, turning in, and has to produce a very ungainly pull to save her stumps. Good bowling. Four singles from the over.

28th over: England 127-3 (Sciver 34, Jones 6) Goswami has five overs left in her allotment, and she’s back to use one of them now. Back of a length on the off stump, Jones defending off the back foot. Bhatia is up to the stumps, she knows that Jones likes to use aggressive footwork. The combination keeps Jones quiet, a couple of dots before she’s able to glance a single. Sciver hands back the strike immediately, and Jones defends a couple more. She’s 6 from 11.

27th over: England 125-3 (Sciver 33, Jones 5) Harmanpreet is bowling a tightrope between wanting to bowl outside off stump, but not too wide. Errs on the side of the latter and Jones can get off the mark with a square drive for four. Sciver ends the over with a boundary of her own, backing away and dragging with power behind square. Utilitarian batting, that.

26th over: England 115-3 (Sciver 28, Jones 0) Sciver doesn’t slow down. This isn’t even a short ball from Rana, but Sciver backs away and carves a cut shot through extra cover for four. Gets off strike thereafter. Jones blocks a couple and then finds the field.

25th over: England 110-3 (Sciver 23, Jones 0) The partnership was worth 42, but Knight generally goes on to bigger scores once set. England’s keeper Amy Jones comes to the middle, another with plenty of hitting power. She blocks out the last ball of the over to bring the innings to the halfway mark.

The plan works again! Harmanpreet wouldn’t have been happy earlier in the over when Shafali Verma misfielded at long on to let a ball through for four. But she’s happy now, as she bowls very wide of off stump, and Knight still tries to drag the slog-sweep to the leg side. As for the previous wicket, Pandey is out there, and hangs on to the catch in the end despite nearly fumbling it while down on one knee.

24th over: England 105-2 (Knight 46, Sciver 18) Rana with a quiet one, a couple of singles. Sciver trying nothing expansive against the off-spinner, but you sense that it’s only a matter of time.

23rd over: England 103-2 (Knight 45, Sciver 17) A new spinner now, with Harmanpreet on, and while the plan has been for the off-spinners to bowl wide, I’m not sure that she means to bowl this wide. Almost on the return crease. Knight swishes and misses the first errant ball, but cuts the next one late and profitably behind point for four.

22nd over: England 94-2 (Knight 37, Sciver 16) Rana has the ball for her third over, bowling from the New Road End in Worcester. Staying very wide of the off stump, to which Knight scythes a drive to the cover sweeper for a single. Sciver hangs back and prods to leg. After which Knight is almost out twice. Rana slips in a straighter ball and Knight comes across her stumps to sweep but misses the ball going past her legs. Or almost misses it. It’s on track to take her leg stump, but she gets a touch of glove on it. Then that gloved delivery hits Bhatia behind the stumps and bounces off. Talk about luck.

21st over: England 89-2 (Knight 34, Sciver 14) Pandey returns, and so do her bad habits. Overpitched and Sciver drives hard straight past mid off for four. Then she and Knight milk the rest of the over, eight from it in all. The partnership is already worth 21.

20th over: England 81-2 (Knight 31, Sciver 9) Smashed! Sciver just plays a cross-bat bludgeon back into the surface, and Poonam does well to stop it. She exclaims in pain and wrings her hand, then smiles wryly. Them’s the breaks in cricket, a ridiculous game played with a really hard projectile. It’s another tight over from the leg-spinner, just two runs from it as the batters keep finding the field.

20 overs bowled, England going at just over 4 per over. Wickets in hand. India need to get Sciver, she’s the one who can hurt you most.

19th over: England 79-2 (Knight 30, Sciver 8) There goes Sciver, down the track to Rana in an early statement of intent. Clubbed over mid off for four, one bounce. Loves to hit straight, has such a simple game sometime even though she can hit just about any shot. Also uses her feet well in the other direction in this over, going back on her stumps to work a single and a deuce.