2ND T20I, ENGLAND W Vs INDIA W, BRISTOL, 2025 HIGHLIGHTS : Rodrigues and Amanjot’s Solid Performance Helped India To Take Lead 2-0 in T20I Series Against England .
Opting to bowl first, England began well by picking up three wickets inside the powerplay, as India slid to 31-3, but Jemimah Rodrigues and Amanjot Kaur stitched together a fourth-wicket stand of 93, filled with creativity and bravery, and bolstered their side to a commanding 181-4. Lauren Bell was again excellent throughout for the hosts but, although Lauren Filer excelled with bat via her rapid pace up top and Sophie Ecclestone fared better than on her Channel Five-covered return at Trent Bridge, England’s bowlers struggled to contain India. In response England lost early wickets and although a brave hand from Tammy Beaumont (54) kept them in it, they were always behind the rate and in trouble with their wickets. Enter some late hitting from Sophie Ecclestone however, the loss of India sealing their fate with a 24-run defeat to give Harmanpreet Kaur’s side a 2-0 unassailable lead going into the third Vitality IT20 at the Kia Oval on Friday – where England will have to win every game to secure a series comeback. Rodrigues and Amanjot’s Solid Performance Helped India To Take Lead 2-0 in T20I Series Against England .
TOSS-
England Women win the toss and opt to bowl.
PLAYING XI-
India Women (Playing XI):
Shafali Verma, Smriti Mandhana, Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Jemimah Rodrigues, Amanjot Kaur, Richa Ghosh(w), Deepti Sharma, Radha Yadav, Arundhati Reddy, Sneh Rana, Shree Charani.
England Women (Playing XI):
Sophia Dunkley, Danielle Wyatt-Hodge, Nat Sciver-Brunt(c), Tammy Beaumont, Amy Jones(w), Alice Capsey, Em Arlott, Sophie Ecclestone, Lauren Filer, Linsey Smith, Lauren Bell
INDIA WOMEN-
England opted to field this time and there were early signs it was going to be ominous when Smriti Mandhana opened the innings with two cuts to the boundary in the first over. However, it was all England the rest of the powerplay as Shafali Verma failed once more in her return to national duty. Rodrigues began in a positive manner, hitting two boundaries, but India lost the big wicket of Mandhana for 13.
The powerplay only got worse when Harmanpreet Kaur, back in the XI, couldn’t make the most of a long hop to fall for 1. At the end of the powerplay, scorecard made for a sorry reading – 35/3 – and Amanjot and Rodrigues had the rebuilding job in their hands. A 14-run over from Linsay Smith turned the tide for India, the run rate crossing six at last. Rodrigues subsequently lit up the next step when she hammered 6,4,4 off Em Arlott, and followed it up with three more fours the very next over to produce a splendid half-century. Amanjot then took the hosts to the cleaners as she also smashed the boundary ropes thrice in the subsequent over as India smashed 49 runs in three overs.
Rodrigues’s innings was ended by a great catch from Sophia Dunkley but Amanjot went past fifty in the slog overs. And she and Richa Ghosh continued to find the boundary as they added 55 in the final five overs with Ghosh unbeaten on 32 off 20.
ENGLAND WOMEN-
With the momentum firmly on their side, India started with the ball with a bang, rocking England with the top-order back to the hut at 17. Dunkley had run herself out needlessly in the first over and Dani Wyatt-Hodge handed Deepti Sharma a first-ball wicket by striking one straight to mid-off.
And while Nat-Sciver Brunt provided a little momentum with three fours in four balls, she then missed a swat at Amanjot and England were staring down the barrel. Tammy Beaumont and Amy Jones did do a job to put England back on course after an opening stand pretty much dominated by the former. Along the way, Beaumont brought up her first fifty in almost four years. But just when she kept England in the chase, a brilliant piece of fielding from Sneh Rana had Beaumont run out. India exploited that opening with a couple of further wickets and a couple of tight overs to see them home even as there were a few late blows from Sophie Ecclestone.
Brief scores:
India 181/4 in 20 overs (Amanjot Kaur 63\*, Jemimah Rodrigues 63; Lauren Bell 2/17) beat England 157/7 in 20 overs (Tammy Beaumont 54, Sophie Ecclestone 35\*; Shree Charani 2/28) by 24 runs.