Published: Aug 21, 2014, 02:47 PM (IST)
Edited: Aug 21, 2014, 10:30 PM (IST)
Aug 21, 2014
England Women and India Women will meet in Scarborough in the first ODI on Thursday. They will then play in Scarborough on August 23 before facing each other in the third ODI at Lord’s on August 26. Catch the live blog of the India Women vs England Women 1st ODI here.
England captain Charlotte Edwards is excited to be leading her team in one of the first fixtures of the new tournament. ”As players, the new ICC Women’s Championship is a fantastic concept,” she said, adding, “It gives us real structure leading into the ICC Women’s World Cup in England in 2017, and makes every ODI series that we play between now and then significant. Whenever I step out to play for England I want to win, but now more than ever before, every result really does matter. I cannot wait to lead the England women’s team against India in our first round of matches in the ICC Women’s Championship this summer.” Catch the live streaming of the India Women vs England Women 1st ODI here.
Looking forward to the ICC Women’s Championship, India captain Mithali Raj, who leads the women’s ODI batting rankings, said, “The India team and management is really excited to be playing in this inaugural competition and we are extremely focused and determined to kick off the series well in Scarborough. It is a new and exciting development for women’s cricket and it is great that the ICC is supporting a stronger structure for the game leading into the ICC Women’s World Cup England 2017.”
Toss: England, elect to field Umpires: Jeff Evans and Steve O’Shaughnessy
Player of the Match: Heather Knight
| India Women | R | B | 4s | 6s | |
| Thirush Kamini | c Taylor b Shrubsole | 2 | 13 | ||
| Smriti Mandhana | run out Jenny Gunn | 74 | 99 | 8 | |
| Karuna Jain | c Knight b Shrubsole | 1 | 7 | ||
| Mithali Raj | c Taylor b Gunn | 34 | 59 | 6 | |
| Harmanpreet Kaur | c Edwards b Knight | 8 | 31 | ||
| Jhulan Goswami | run out Jenny Gunn | 2 | 7 | ||
| Vellaswamy Vanitha | c Taylor b Knight | 27 | 37 | 4 | |
| Nagarajan Niranjana | b Knight | 4 | 8 | ||
| Shikha Pandey | not out | 21 | 14 | 3 | |
| Ekta Bisht | not out | 8 | 7 | 1 | |
| Extras | b 2, lb 6, w 4 | 12 | |||
| Total | 193/8 | ||||
| Overs | 47 |
Fall of wickets: 1-7 (Thirush Kamini, 3.4 overs), 2-13 (Karuna Jain, 5.1 overs), 3-77 (Mithali Raj, 21.1 overs), 4-108 (Harmanpreet Kaur, 31.6 overs), 5-154 (Smriti Mandhana, 39.6 overs), 6-158 (Jhulan Goswami, 41.5 overs), 7-159 (Vellaswamy Vanitha, 42.1 overs), 8-174 (Nagarajan Niranjana, 44.5 overs)
| Bowling | Overs | M | R | W |
| Katherine Brunt | 7 | 1 | 25 | 0 |
| Anya Shrubsole | 8 | 1 | 47 | 2 |
| Danielle Hazell | 10 | 1 | 32 | 0 |
| Jenny Gunn | 10 | 1 | 36 | 1 |
| Natalie Sciver | 5 | 1 | 17 | 0 |
| Heather Knight | 7 | 0 | 28 | 3 |
| England Women | R | B | 4s | 6s | |
| Charlotte Edwards | b Bisht | 57 | 64 | 9 | |
| Heather Knight | c Vanitha b Rajeshwari | 53 | 71 | 6 | |
| Sarah Taylor | not out | 20 | 24 | 1 | |
| Lauren Winfield | c Mandhana b Goswami | 15 | 19 | 2 | |
| Lydia Greenway | not out | 1 | 4 | ||
| Extras | lb 5, w 1, nb 1 | 7 | |||
| Total | 153/3 | ||||
| Overs | 30.1 |
Fall of wickets: 1-110 (Charlotte Edwards, 20.1 overs), 2-127 (Heather Knight, 24.2 overs), 3-148 (Lauren Winfield, 28.5 overs)
| Bowling | Overs | M | R | W |
| Jhulan Goswami | 6.1 | 1 | 21 | 1 |
| Nagarajan Niranjana | 6 | 0 | 42 | 0 |
| Shikha Pandey | 6 | 0 | 37 | 0 |
| Ekta Bisht | 5 | 1 | 20 | 1 |
| Shivanand Rajeshwari | 5 | 0 | 17 | 1 |
| Harmanpreet Kaur | 2 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
