- BATSMENRB4s6sSR5.1 Chopped back on! Loose shot from Mandhana and her sprightly knock ends on 17. Bell gets that on a good length angling back in. Mandhana thinks she can cut it away, but there isn't enough room. Gets a thick inside-edge that rattles her middle and leg pole. 25/18.4 Cross has sent Shafali's off stump for a cartwheel! She has been threatening to do that all morning and finally gets that W. Wobble seam around off stump, the ball moves away ever so late beating Shafali defences to thump into off stump. That was a ripper of a delivery from Cross 47/232.6 outside off, swung away towards midwicket who takes the catch! It came from high on the bat. A low-key celebration but a big grin from Ecclestone as Nat Sciver-Brunt dives forward to take it low to the ground. So ends a wonderful knock from the debutante. 162/337.6 length ball outside off, angling back in and Rodrigues is gone! Finds the gap between bat and pad as Rodrigues is indecisive between playing forward or back, does neither, can't lay bat on it and it crashes into the stumps. Handy wicket for England, she was playing so well on Test debut 190/462.1 on off stump, worked away to the off side Harmanpreet is run out on 49! Backing up, looks like her bat got stuck on the pitch as she tried to slide it back in and she's not got anything behind the line as the ball is fired back into Amy Jones by Danni Wyatt at mid-off 306/566.2 oh my! Charlie Dean with a big breakthrough! Yastika strides forward, skies the ball towards Lauren Bell, near where she dropped her on 15 but she holds on at mid-on this time! So ends another great knock by an India batter in this game 313/699.4 gets the breakthrough, Bell's persistence pays off! She pitches it up again, this one is on the off stump so Deepti has to play at it. Deepti blocks, and the ball swings away to take the outside edge and go straight to first slip. Excellent work from Bell to work her way into this wicket this over 421/890.5 Cleans her up. Elation for Sciver-Brunt late in the day. That was pushed fuller on middle, Rana looks to flick it across the line. She misses and the ball ricochets off her pad onto leg stump. End of a superb 92-run stand. 405/7102.4 yorks her with change of pace and drift! Ecclestone doesn't need a fielder this time. She drifts this one in beautifully right at the base of leg stump and Renuka has no answer for that one to lose her stumps 424/9104.3 taken at silly point, England have finally held on to one! Dunkley is the fielder who takes off in celebration as soon as she uses both hands to pouch that around waist height after Gayakwad defended it towards her in the air 428/10Extras32 (b 23, lb 7, nb 2)TOTAL428 all out (104.3 Overs, RR: 4.09)Fall of wickets: 1-25 (Smriti Mandhana, 5.1 ov), 2-47 (Shafali Verma, 8.4 ov), 3-162 (Shubha Satheesh, 32.6 ov), 4-190 (Jemimah Rodrigues, 37.6 ov), 5-306 (Harmanpreet Kaur, 62.1 ov), 6-313 (Yastika Bhatia, 66.2 ov), 7-405 (Sneh Rana, 90.5 ov), 8-421 (Deepti Sharma, 99.4 ov), 9-424 (Renuka Singh, 102.4 ov), 10-428 (Rajeshwari Gayakwad, 104.3 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB KL Cross 14 0 64 1 4.57 0 2 LK Bell 19 3 67 3 3.52 0 0 Nat Sciver-Brunt 11 4 25 1 2.27 0 0 L Filer 15 1 84 0 5.60 0 0 CE Dean 19 1 67 1 3.52 0 0 S Ecclestone 26.3 5 91 3 3.43 0 0
Player of the Match
Player of the Match
- BATSMENRB4s6sSR18.5 clipped off the toes towards midwicket, they set off for a run, the ball is fired in, great throw in from Pooja Vastrakar, one fluid motion as she runs in and throws it's a direct hit and Beaumont is run out as she slides in vain! Fantastic fielding! 79/32.5 Renuka gets the first breakthrough, and it's her first Test wicket! The keeper coming up may have pushed Dunkley back in her crease, and her front foot barely moved for the length ball that pitched outside off and came in off the pitch to knock over her middle stump after sneaking through the big gap between bat and pad. Great comeback from Renuka after getting hit for two boundaries in the over 13/17.3 struck right on the back foot in front of the stumps for a loud lbw appeal and she's been given. That looked plumb to me in real time, but Knight, the captain, consults Beaumont and decides to review just in time. There's no edge, the ball hits her in front of off after jagging in from outside, and Knight has to walk back! What a breakthrough from Vastrakar in her first over 28/230.3 the big wicket of Nat Sciver-Brunt, there it comes! Sharp turn for Rana; she pitches it wide outside off, NSB goes back seeing that but the vicious turn beats her cut and knocks the off stump back. This one also kept a little low 130/725.2 tossed up, it turns, catches an inside edge, onto the pad and Deepti strikes second ball as a simple catch is taken at short leg! Wyatt started walking with a split second of that going to hand, she knew Rodrigues was lurking there and heard India's jubilation 108/429.4 Deepti has struck again, and this is a bizarre dismissal! Jones pulls the short ball to leg and the ball deflects off Smriti Mandhana's head at short leg to balloon in the air towards leg slip where Shafali settles under it very easily. Very unfortunate for Amy Jones and what a stroke of luck for India 126/529.6 stays low and goes right through her! Deepti has two wickets in three balls. Tossed up nicely well outside off, Ecclestone goes back to play for the turn, and the ball does turn in but keeps quite low and beats the bat easily to knock over off stump 126/632.4 another loud appeal for lbw and given almost straightaway! Dean goes down the pitch to chat with Cross, she doesn't look too confident but reviews it anyway. This one turned in sharply too from well outside off, the line was so wide that Dean left it alone, but it curved in and hit her on the back foot, on the thigh pad, and even though the impact is outside, she's not offering a shot so they'll check ball-tracking for whether it's hitting or not, and it is hitting! Dean gone for a duck 131/833.4 No. 4 for Deepti because she's taken a sharp return catch! Pitched up, sending the invitation for the drive, invitation accepted with a big drive but it's taken the ball straight towards Deepti who completes the catch with a tumble to her left before she's mobbed by her team-mates 135/935.3 Deepti has her five-for and England are all out! Stunning figures of 5 for 7 as Deepti turns one in from outside off, beats Filer's outside edge and knocks her off stump back 136/10Extras8 (b 8)TOTAL136 all out (35.3 Overs, RR: 3.83)Fall of wickets: 1-13 (Sophia Dunkley, 2.5 ov), 2-28 (Heather Knight, 7.3 ov), 3-79 (Tammy Beaumont, 18.5 ov), 4-108 (Danni Wyatt-Hodge, 25.2 ov), 5-126 (Amy Jones, 29.4 ov), 6-126 (Sophie Ecclestone, 29.6 ov), 7-130 (Nat Sciver-Brunt, 30.3 ov), 8-131 (Charlie Dean, 32.4 ov), 9-135 (Kate Cross, 33.4 ov), 10-136 (Lauren Filer, 35.3 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB Renuka Singh 9 1 32 1 3.55 0 0 S Rana 6 0 25 2 4.16 0 0 P Vastrakar 9 1 39 1 4.33 0 0 RS Gayakwad 6 0 25 0 4.16 0 0 DB Sharma 5.3 4 7 5 1.27 0 0
- BATSMENRB4s6sSR15.1 on middle stump, she advances and tries to go over long on and ends up slamming it into the hands of Sophie Ecclestone who is stationed there! 71/212.5 taken at short leg, sharp catch by Tammy Beaumont! Such is England's situation and Ecclestone's figures right now that she doesn't even celebrate. Shorter ball turning in, Mandhana wants to work it to leg but it's slower than expected and the ball goes off the sticker at the top of the bat to go towards Beaumont's right where she hangs on to it in desperation 61/116.3 turn from outside off, jumps off the pitch and Bhatia chips to Beaumont at short leg! Ecclestone got a good amount of turn from that length ball and Bhatia had no answer 77/323.6 oooh, great delivery! A bit of drift, it turns and bounces into the shoulder of the bat and sails to Beaumont again at short leg! 109/427.4 flighted on middle, she tries to sweep, plays over the top of it and the ball strikes her low on the belly just above her back leg as she kneels down, England ask for a review for lbw and yes, it's hitting the stumps! 133/527.5 oh wow! Charlie Dean! Pitching just outside off it turns substantially, keeps low, and bowls her through the gate Sneh Rana was slow to get the bat down on it, she goes for a first-ball duck and Dean is on a hat-trick! 133/6Extras10 (b 10)TOTAL186/6d (42 Overs, RR: 4.42)Fall of wickets: 1-61 (Smriti Mandhana, 12.5 ov), 2-71 (Shafali Verma, 15.1 ov), 3-77 (Yastika Bhatia, 16.3 ov), 4-109 (Jemimah Rodrigues, 23.6 ov), 5-133 (Deepti Sharma, 27.4 ov), 6-133 (Sneh Rana, 27.5 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB LK Bell 3 1 6 0 2.00 0 0 S Ecclestone 15 2 76 2 5.06 0 0 CE Dean 19 3 68 4 3.57 0 0 KL Cross 3 0 13 0 4.33 0 0 L Filer 2 0 13 0 6.50 0 0
- BATSMENRB4s6sSR9.3 sliced straight to gully! Dunkley will be so disappointed with that; it wasn't a threatening delivery at all and she handed a catch straight to the fielder. Width outside off, Dunkley is tempted and she cuts it hard, but in the air and into the hands of Harleen Deol, fielding in place of Shubha 37/26.6 no need for the lbw, she's knocked over the off stump! She kept bringing it in, expectedly, towards middle and leg stumps. This one though pitches around off and holds its line to beat the outside edge and knock the off stump back 27/113.3 edged behind and the captain is gone! Third wicket for Vastrakar. Pitched outside off, Knight is probably expecting it to come in, but the ball holds its line, Knight plays inside the line, and tickles it behind for an easy catch 68/49.4 it's the massive wicket of Nat Sciver-Brunt and she's bowled first ball! Perfect length ball outside off, NSB moves her front foot a few inches forward to defend but leaves a gap between bat and pad, and Vastrakar nips the ball in through that gap to knock the stumps back. Vastrakar is getting mobbed by her team-mates 37/314.1 edged to slip and Deepti gets her first! Lovely offbreak with flight from outside off, Wyatt doesn't move her feet at all to either go forward or rock back and ends up poking when the ball reaches her, edging it behind for a sharp catch at slip 68/516.1 taken at midwicket! Soft dismissal for Jones. She opens up and rocks back for the shorter ball, goes for the pull but without any power and ends up handing a simple catch to Shafali Verma 83/617.4 rattles the stumps! That was hardly a convincing shot from Ecclestone. Flighted generously on the stumps, a little bit of turn, and Ecclestone's sweep again misses the ball completely 83/724.1 vicious turn from outside off and it's knocked over the leg stump! Flighted well outside off, Cross backs away to make more room for the cut but it's spun in so much that she's nowhere close to it and is more disappointed than surprised to see her stumps disturbed 108/824.4 charges down and one more loses her stumps! Filer charges down after seeing the flight on offer from Deepti, goes for a big swing but the ball turns in, keeps low and beats everything Filer threw at it to hit middle 108/927.3 taken at silly point, India complete the massive victory by 347 runs! Bell waited for the length ball and defended but couldn't keep it down and handed a simple catch to silly point 131/10Extras7 (b 5, lb 2)TOTAL131 all out (27.3 Overs, RR: 4.76)Fall of wickets: 1-27 (Tammy Beaumont, 6.6 ov), 2-37 (Sophia Dunkley, 9.3 ov), 3-37 (Nat Sciver-Brunt, 9.4 ov), 4-68 (Heather Knight, 13.3 ov), 5-68 (Danni Wyatt-Hodge, 14.1 ov), 6-83 (Amy Jones, 16.1 ov), 7-83 (Sophie Ecclestone, 17.4 ov), 8-108 (Kate Cross, 24.1 ov), 9-108 (Lauren Filer, 24.4 ov), 10-131 (Lauren Bell, 27.3 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB Renuka Singh 6 1 30 1 5.00 0 0 S Rana 4 0 19 0 4.75 0 0 P Vastrakar 4 1 23 3 5.75 0 0 DB Sharma 8 2 32 4 4.00 0 0 RS Gayakwad 5.3 1 20 2 3.63 0 0
Match Details
Toss
India Women , elected to bat first
Player Of The Match
Series result
India Women won the one-off match
Match number
Season
Hours of play (local time)
9.30 start, Lunch 11.30-12.10, Tea 14.10-14.30, Close 16.30
Match days
14,15,16 December 2023 (4-day match)
Women's Test debut
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Close of Play
- Thu, 14 Dec - day 1 - India Women 1st innings 410/7 (DB Sharma 60*, P Vastrakar 4*, 94 ov)
- Fri, 15 Dec - day 2 - India Women 2nd innings 186/6 (H Kaur 44*, P Vastrakar 17*, 42 ov)
- Sat, 16 Dec - day 3 - England Women 2nd innings 131 (27.3 ov) - end of match
Match Notes
- England Women 2nd innings
- Over 8.4: Review by India Women (Bowling), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - KN Ananthapadmanabhan, Batter - HC Knight (Struck down)
- England Women: 50 runs in 10.2 overs (62 balls), Extras 0
- Over 11.5: Review by England Women (Batting), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - VG Rathi, Batter - DN Wyatt (Upheld)
- Drinks: England Women - 62/3 in 12.0 overs (HC Knight 19, DN Wyatt 11)
- Over 12.2: Review by India Women (Bowling), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - KN Ananthapadmanabhan, Batter - HC Knight (Struck down)
- England Women: 100 runs in 21.6 overs (132 balls), Extras 3
- Innings Break: India Women - 428/10 in 104.3 overs (P Vastrakar 10)
- England Women 1st innings
- Over 6.5: Review by India Women (Bowling), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - KN Ananthapadmanabhan, Batter - TT Beaumont (Struck down)
- Over 7.3: Review by England Women (Batting), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - VG Rathi, Batter - HC Knight (Struck down - Umpires Call)
- Over 11.6: Review by India Women (Bowling), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - VG Rathi, Batter - TT Beaumont (Struck down - Umpires Call)
- England Women: 50 runs in 12.2 overs (74 balls), Extras 4
- Lunch: England Women - 67/2 in 16.0 overs (TT Beaumont 6, Nat Sciver-Brunt 35)
- 3rd Wicket: 50 runs in 65 balls (TT Beaumont 8, Nat Sciver-Brunt 43, Ex 0)
- Over 22.6: Review by England Women (Batting), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - KN Ananthapadmanabhan, Batter - DN Wyatt (Upheld)
- England Women: 100 runs in 24.1 overs (145 balls), Extras 8
- Nat Sciver-Brunt: 50 off 63 balls (8 x 4)
- Drinks: England Women - 117/4 in 28.0 overs (Nat Sciver-Brunt 55, AE Jones 3)
- Over 32.4: Review by England Women (Batting), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - KN Ananthapadmanabhan, Batter - CE Dean (Struck down)
- Innings Break: England Women - 136/10 in 35.3 overs (LK Bell 0)
- Tea: England Women - 136/10 in 35.3 overs (LK Bell 0)
- India Women 2nd innings
- Over 6.5: Review by India Women (Batting), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - KN Ananthapadmanabhan, Batter - Shafali Verma (Upheld)
- India Women: 50 runs in 10.6 overs (66 balls), Extras 4
- 1st Wicket: 50 runs in 66 balls (Shafali Verma 21, S Mandhana 25, Ex 4)
- Drinks: India Women - 61/1 in 12.5 overs (Shafali Verma 31)
- India Women: 100 runs in 22.1 overs (133 balls), Extras 8
- Drinks: India Women - 133/5 in 27.4 overs (H Kaur 8)
- Over 27.4: Review by England Women (Bowling), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - VG Rathi, Batter - DB Sharma (Upheld)
- India Women: 150 runs in 34.1 overs (205 balls), Extras 10
- Over 38.1: Review by England Women (Bowling), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - KN Ananthapadmanabhan, Batter - P Vastrakar (Struck down)
- Over 39.1: Review by England Women (Bowling), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - VG Rathi, Batter - H Kaur (Struck down)
- 7th Wicket: 50 runs in 84 balls (H Kaur 36, P Vastrakar 16, Ex 0)
- End Of Day: India Women - 186/6 in 42.0 overs (H Kaur 44, P Vastrakar 17)
- India Women 1st innings
- India Women: 50 runs in 10.2 overs (62 balls), Extras 1
- Drinks: India Women - 69/2 in 14.0 overs (S Shubha 19, JI Rodrigues 13)
- 3rd Wicket: 50 runs in 66 balls (S Shubha 18, JI Rodrigues 25, Ex 7)
- India Women: 100 runs in 19.6 overs (120 balls), Extras 8
- S Shubha: 50 off 49 balls (9 x 4)
- Lunch: India Women - 136/2 in 27.0 overs (S Shubha 55, JI Rodrigues 37)
- 3rd Wicket: 100 runs in 126 balls (S Shubha 50, JI Rodrigues 43, Ex 7)
- India Women: 150 runs in 29.6 overs (180 balls), Extras 8
- JI Rodrigues: 50 off 82 balls (8 x 4)
- Over 35.1: Review by England Women (Bowling), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - VG Rathi, Batter - JI Rodrigues (Struck down)
- India Women: 200 runs in 41.4 overs (250 balls), Extras 13
- Drinks: India Women - 205/4 in 42.0 overs (H Kaur 13, YH Bhatia 6)
- 5th Wicket: 50 runs in 77 balls (H Kaur 28, YH Bhatia 23, Ex 1)
- India Women: 250 runs in 52.6 overs (320 balls), Extras 16
- Tea: India Women - 261/4 in 56.0 overs (H Kaur 34, YH Bhatia 38)
- YH Bhatia: 50 off 66 balls (8 x 4, 1 x 6)
- 5th Wicket: 100 runs in 131 balls (H Kaur 44, YH Bhatia 53, Ex 7)
- India Women: 300 runs in 60.4 overs (366 balls), Extras 20
- H Kaur: 50 off 81 balls (6 x 4)
- Over 71.6: Review by England Women (Bowling), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - VG Rathi, Batter - DB Sharma (Struck down)
- Drinks: India Women - 346/6 in 75.0 overs (DB Sharma 23, S Rana 11)
- India Women: 350 runs in 75.6 overs (458 balls), Extras 24
- 7th Wicket: 50 runs in 71 balls (DB Sharma 30, S Rana 15, Ex 8)
- Second new ball taken at 80.1 overs
- DB Sharma: 50 off 78 balls (8 x 4, 1 x 6)
- India Women: 400 runs in 89.1 overs (537 balls), Extras 28
- End Of Day: India Women - 410/7 in 94.0 overs (DB Sharma 60, P Vastrakar 4)
Match Coverage
All Match NewsHas any batter bettered Saud Shakeel's run of 20-plus scores in successive Tests since debut?
And who has played the most Tests without bettering the score he made on debut?
Stats - Deepti's magnificent double, and a record win for India
England wouldn't want to look back at their stats - like the number of overs they batted or their bowlers' economy rates - with any happiness
The Deepti Sharma show wipes England out in seven sessions
Pooja Vastrakar was the other Indian star on the third morning, as she ripped through the England top order with three big wickets
Knight calls conditions at DY Patil 'extreme': 'We've never seen that sort of spin before'
The pitch deteriorated a bit faster than expected, the England captain said
How Vastrakar killed the game on a turning track
Despite coming first change, the seamer effectively ended the match with her three quick wickets