Spinners Deepti Sharma and Sneh Rana eliminated two batters every within the last session as India Women diminished England Women to 269 for six on the opening day of the one-off Test in England on Wednesday.
After dropping Lauren Winfield-Hill (35) within the opening session, the hosts misplaced Tammy Beaumont (66) within the second session however stayed in management.
However, the guests despatched again Natalie Sciver (42), Amy Jones (1) , England skipper Heather Knight (95) and Georgia Elwiss (5) within the post-tea session to make a comeback within the match.
Sophiya Dunkley (12) and Katherine Brunt (7) will resume England’s innings on Thursday.
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England end at 2⃣6⃣9⃣/6⃣
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Indian Women picked up the essential wicket Tammy Beaumont (66) within the second session however England Women consolidated their place by reaching 162 for 2 at tea.
After eliminating Lauren Winfield-Hill (35) within the first session of the day, India Women toiled arduous for many a part of the post-lunch interval earlier than debutant off-spinner Sneh Rana picked up her maiden Test wicket.
She removed in-form of Beaumont, who was brilliantly caught by Shafali Verma at quick leg.
Beaumont confronted 166 balls and adorned her innings with six fours en path to her second Test fifty.
Skipper Heather Knight (47 not out) batted cautiously and remained unbeaten within the firm of Natalie Sciver (11 not out) as England made 76 runs off 28 overs within the second session.
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Earlier, the hosts made a stable 86 for one within the opening session.
The Indian tempo duo of veteran Jhulan Goswami and Shikha Pandey made a promising begin, doing simply sufficient to hassle the English batswoman on multiple event.
In the seventh over, Goswami induced an edge from Winfield-Hill because the batter went for an extravagant drive however Smriti Mandhana dropped the possibility within the slip cordon regardless of getting each arms on the ball.
In the subsequent over, Winfield bought fortunate once more. Debutant Pooja Vastrakar induced a thick edge from the batter however the ball flew between second slip and gully to the boundary.
After a gradual and cautious begin, England picked up the tempo. Winfield was the extra constructive of the 2 batters as she lofted Pandey over the mid-wicket to hit the primary six of the innings and within the course of introduced up England’s fifty within the seventeenth over.
An over later, Winfield hit one other most, this time over backward sq. leg off Vastrakar.
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Vastrakar finally had the final giggle as she had Winfield caught by wicketkeeper Taniya Bhatia, giving India the breakthrough.
As many as 5 gamers made Test debut for India, together with Verma, Deepti Sharma, Vastrakar, Rana and Bhatia, whereas for England Sophia Dunkley was the lone participant to earn a Test cap.
India are taking part in their first Test in almost seven years.
Scoreboard
England Women 1st innings:
Lauren Winfield Hill c T Bhatia b P Vastrakar 35Tammy Beaumont c S Verma b S Rana 66Heather Knight lbw b D Sharma 95Natalie Sciver lbw b D Sharma 42Amy Jones lbw b S Rana 1Sophia Dunkley batting 12Georgia Elwiss c D Sharma b S Rana 5Katherine Brunt batting 7
Extras: (B-2, NB-2, WD-1) 5
Total (For 6 wickets in 92 overs) 269
Fall of wickets: 1-69, 2-140, 3-230, 4-236, 5-244, 6-251.
Bowling: Jhulan Goswami 18-2-44-0, Shikha Pandey 11-3-36-0, Pooja Vastrakar 12-3-43-1, Sneh Rana 29-3-77-3, D Sharma 18-3-50-2, Harmanpreet Kaur 4-0-16-0.
