Live scorecard: India Women win against England Women in the one-off Test at Wormsley

Catch live scorecard of the only Test between India and England women at Wormsley.

Aug 16, 2014

 

The Indian men’s cricket team has disappointed with their spineless performance in the last three weeks but the women counterparts showed steely temperament as they made a remarkable comeback into Test fold, beating England eves by six wickets at Wormsley on Sunday.

Skipper Mithali Raj led from the front with a gutsy unbeaten 50 as Indian eves surpassed a competitive target of 181 runs with consummate ease. The fifth wicket pair of Mithali and Shikha Pandey (28 not out) added 68 runs to ensure a smooth sailing on the final day. This is the first Test that the eves played after a eight-year hiatus with eight players in the starting XI making their Test debut.

The women’s team also achieved a remarkable feat, which the Indian men have never achieved in England, by winning back-to-back Test series, having won the one-off ‘Test’ at Taunton in 2006, which incidentally was also the last time that the likes of Mithali and Jhulan Goswami were seen in white flannels. Two of the three existing members of that team (third being Karuna Jain), skipper Mithali and pace spearhead Jhulan, have played an important role even this time. While the lanky Bengal medium pacer took six wickets in the game, Mithali, who had scored 65 during the last Test, anchored the chase with a lot of resolve.

Starting the day at 119 for four, Indians required only 62 runs more on the final day after opener Smriti Mandhana’s impressive 51 with an opening partnership of 76 with Thirush Kamini (28), laid the foundation of a memorable victory. In the day, with pitch having eased out, Indian batswomen did not have any problems tackling rival medium pacers — Jenny Gunn and Kate Cross.

Mithali had four boundaries in her innings, while Shikha hit two fours during her knock.

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Latest Update: India Women win the one-off Test by six wickets – Read match report here.

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Toss: India, elect to field Umpires: David Millns, Billy Taylor

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England Women 1st Innings		R	B	4s	6s
Lauren Winfield	c (wk) Jain b Niranjana	8	30	1
Heather Knight	lbw b Niranjana	1	14
Tammy Beaumont	lbw b Pandey	12	37	1
Charlotte Edwards	lbw b Niranjana	4	1	1
Sarah Taylor	lbw b Goswami	30	42	6
Lydia Greenway	lbw b Niranjana	8	17
Natalie Sciver	b Sharma	10	34	2
Jenny Gunn	not out	7	35
Anya Shrubsole	lbw b Sharma	0	1
Sonia Odedra	lbw b Bisht	1	20
Kate Cross	run out (Pandey)	4	12
Extras	4 b, 1 lb, 1 nb, 1 w	7
Total		92
Overs		38

Fall of Wickets: 1-1 (Knight, 3.3 ov), 2-20 (Winfield, 11.5 ov), 3-28 (Edwards, 13.6 ov), 4-30 (Beaumont, 14.4 ov), 5-49 (Greenway, 19.4 ov), 6-78 (Taylor, 29.3 ov), 7-79 (Sciver, 30.4 ov), 8-79 (Shrubsole, 30.5 ov), 9-88 (Odedra, 38.2 ov), 10-92 (Cross, 41.2 ov)

Bowling	Overs	M	R	W	E
Jhulan Goswami	11	3	20	1	1.81
Nagarajan Niranjana	14.2	6	19	4	1.32
Shikha Pandey	5	0	25	1	5
Ekta Bisht	6	3	11	1	1.83
Shubhalakshmi Sharma	5	3	12	2	2.4

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So after a tremendous performance with the ball, it is time for India to try and take the advantage with bat in hand. England cleaned out for just 92. Can India do better in their first Test innings after eight years?

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India Women 1st Innings		R	B	4s	6s
Thirush Kamini	c Taylor b Gunn	17	56	2
Smriti Mandhana	c Taylor b Gunn	22	67	3
Poonam Raut	b Cross	0	8
Mithali Raj	lbw b Gunn	4	18
Harmanpreet Kaur	lbw b Gunn	9	12	2
Karu Jain	lbw b Shrubsole	0	6
Jhulan Goswami	b Gunn	17	83	3
Nagarajan Niranjana	lbw b Cross	27	83	4
Shikha Pandey	lbw b Odedra	3	39
Shubhalakshmi Sharma	lbw b Cross	4	17
Ekta Bisht
Extras	lb 5, nb 4	11
Total		114
Overs		64.2

Fall of Wickets: 1-40 (Kamini, 17.5 ovs), 2-44 (Raut, 20.4 ovs), 3-48 (Mandhana, 23.2 ovs), 4-49 (Raj, 25.2 ovs), 5-50 (Jain, 26.3 ovs), 6-64 (Kaur, 29.3 ovs), 7-95 (Goswami, 53.1 ovs), 8-107 (Niranjana, 58.2 ovs), 9-114 (Pandey, 63.5 ovs), 10-114 (Sharma, 64.2 ovs)

Bowling	Overs	M	R	W
Anya Shrubsole	15	7	31	1
Kate Cross	13.2	4	29	3
Sonia Odedra	15	4	25	1
Jenny Gunn	18	9	19	5
Natalie Sciver	3	0	4	0

 

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England Women 2nd Innings		R	B	4s	6s
Heather Knight	c Jain b Goswami	0	2
Lauren Winfield	lbw b Pandey	35	90	6
Tammy Beaumont	lbw b Bisht	12	24	2
Charlotte Edwards	c Jain b Bisht	20	52	4
Sarah Taylor	b Sharma	40	95	7
Lydia Greenway	lbw b Goswami	1	6
Natalie Sciver	b Sharma	3	23
Jenny Gunn	not out	62	181	9
Anya Shrubsole	lbw b Goswami	14	70	1
Sonia Odedra	c Jain b Goswami	1	14
Kate Cross	c Jain b Pandey	2	23
Extras	lb 6, w 5, b 1	12
Totals		202
Overs		96.3

 

Fall of Wickets: 1-0 (Knight, 0.2 ovs), 2-35 (Beaumont, 10.2 ovs), 3-73 (Winfield, 27.5 ovs), 4-73 (Edwards, 28.1 ovs), 5-74 (Greenway, 29.1 ovs), 6-84 (Sciver, 37.2 ovs), 7-123 (Taylor, 59.5 ovs), 8-181 (Shrubsole, 84.1 ovs), 9-193 (Odedra, 88.6 ovs), 10-202 (Cross, 96.3 ovs)

 

Bowling	O	M	R	W
Jhulan Goswami	22	5	48	4
Nagarajan Niranjana	13	4	47	0
Shubhlakshmi Sharma	13	7	22	2
Ekta Bisht	32	20	33	2
Shikha Pandey	13.3	3	33	2
Harmanpreet Kaur	3	1	12	0

 

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India Women win by six wickets.

 

Player of  the match – Jenny Gunn for her five-wicket haul and an unbeaten 62.

 

India Women 2nd Innings		R	B	4s	6s
Thirush Kamini	lbw b Cross	28	114	2
Smriti Mandhana	lbw b Cross	51	108	9
Poonam Raut	c Gunn b Knight	16	77	2
Mithali Raj	not out	50	157	4
Harmanpreet Kaur	c Taylor b Cross	0	12
Shikha Pandey	not out	28	106	2
Jhulan Goswami
Nagarajan Niranjana
Karu Jain
Shubhalakshmi Sharma
Ekta Bisht
Extras	lb 6, nb 1, b 2, w 1	10
Total		183/4
Overs		95.3

Fall of Wickets: 1-76 (Kamini, 34.2 ovs), 2-82 (Mandhana, 38.6 ovs), 3-112 (Raut, 57.3 ovs), 4-115 (Kaur, 60.6 ovs)

Bowling	Overs	M	R	W
Anya Shrubsole	23	9	34	0
Jenny Gunn	19	6	40	0
Kate Cross	25	6	42	2
Sonia Odedra	12	4	25	0
Natalie Sciver	11.3	3	27	0
Heather Knight	5	2	7	1

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