The Indian girls’s cricket staff would purpose to place up an entire efficiency as an alternative of counting on particular person brilliance to topple a hurting England for its first T20 sequence victory since 2019 right here on Wednesday.
Another spectacular outing within the discipline and tight dying over bowling from the spin duo of Poonam Yadav and Deepti Sharma introduced India again from the lifeless within the second T20 on Sunday.
And now Harmanpreet Kaur and her gamers have an opportunity of having fun with their first T20 sequence success after the 2019 away triumph towards the West Indies.
England self-destructing from a commanding place additionally helped the guests degree the sequence in Hove.
The hosts are unlikely to reward one other match to India, who might want to excel in all departments to win the sequence.
While Shafali Verma was spectacular on the high and spinners got here to India’s rescue later within the recreation, the middle-order and the tempo division must step up.
Harmanpreet, who promoted herself to quantity three and acquired a lot wanted runs, could be effectively served by doing the identical.
Shafali had acquired the staff off to a cracking begin however the incoming batters weren’t in a position to preserve the momentum regardless of wickets in hand.
On the opposite, England batters stored going for his or her strokes regardless of lack of wickets at common intervals.
There is little level in saving wickets within the shortest format and India have to be extra aggressive of their method to attain a 160-plus complete.
Pacers Shikha Pandey and Arundhati Reddy, who had been all over on Sunday, must be far more correct.
England lead the multi-format sequence 8-6 and due to this fact can’t lose it. Skipper Heather Knight was expectedly gutted after shedding the sport from a reasonably commanding place.
Expect England to be extra ruthless on Wednesday.
“We were in a great position and asked the batting group to be ruthless, we got to be better in the next game. We got a strong batting line up and shouldn’t be losing that,” mentioned Knight.
There had been as many as 4 run-outs in England’s innings, reflecting a panic scenario after they may have sailed to a sequence win. Opener Danielle Wyatt, who made a comeback with this rubber, is due for an enormous rating.
The battle between pacer Katherine Brunt and Shafali on the high has turn into extra fascinating with the Indian hammering her for 5 successive boundaries after being bowled by the English lady within the series-opener.
Teams (from):
India: Harmanpreet Kaur (captain) Smriti Mandhana, Deepti Sharma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Shafali Verma, Richa Ghosh, Harleen Deol, Sneh Rana, Taniya Bhatia, Indrani Roy, Shikha Pandey, Pooja Vastrakar, Arundhati Reddy, Poonam Yadav, Ekta Bisht, Radha Yadav, Simaran Dil Bahadur.
England: Heather Knight (captain), Tammy Beaumont, Katherine Brunt, Freya Davies, Sophia Dunkley, Sophie Ecclestone, Tash Farrant, Sarah Glenn, Amy Jones, Nat Sciver, Anya Shrubsole, Mady Villiers, Fran Wilson, Danni Wyatt.
Match begins 11 PM IST.