3RD ODI, ENGLAND W Vs INDIA W , CHESTER-LE-STREET , 2025 HIGHLIGHTS : Harmanpreet’s Hundred and Goud’s Super Bowling Marked India to Win ODI Series Against England .
Team India beat England by 13 runs in the 3rd and deciding Women ODI to take the 3-match series 2-1. A delightful 102 off 84 balls by skipper Harmanpreet Kaur and a quick half-century by Jemimah Rodrigues propelled India Women to 318 for five in the third and final ODI on Tuesday. Harmanpreet was in her elements, forming good partnerships on way to her overall seventh ODI century and third against England as she hit 14 boundaries during her stay in the middle. Pursuing the stiff target, England were dismissed for 305 despite Nat Sciver-Brunt’s magnificent 98. Harmanpreet’s Hundred and Goud’s Super Bowling Marked India to Win ODI Series Against England .
TOSS-
India Women won the toss and decided to bat.
PLAYING XI-
England Women Squad:
Tammy Beaumont, Amy Jones (wk), Emma Lamb, Nat Sciver-Brunt (c), Sophia Dunkley, Alice Davidson Richards, Charlotte Dean, Sophie Ecclestone, Linsey Smith, Lauren Filer, Lauren Bell
India Women Squad:
Smriti Mandhana, Pratika Rawal, Harleen Deol, Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh (wk), Deepti Sharma, Radha Yadav, Sneh Rana, Shree Charani, Kranti Goud.
INDIA WOMEN-
After India decided to bat, Smriti Mandhana deposited three boundaries on the cover region off Lauren Bell, and then pulled Lauren Filer for a couple more fours. At the other end, Pratika Rawal found her feet with a glance off Bell for her first boundary, and followed up with an uppish drive past point in the same over. Spin offered some control, but before the 10th over ended, Mandhana and Rawal had put on a fifty-run stand – their 10th in 14 ODIs together. But the stand was broken in the 13th over when Rawal, looking to cut Charlie Dean, nicked behind to Amy Jones, with England having to go upstairs to have the onfield tentative not-out decision overturned.
England though missed a chance to send Harleen back as they did not review when the batter was hit on the pad before the bat in Sophie Ecclestone’s over. A watchful 17-run second wicket stand came to an end when Mandhana, who got to her 45, pulled Ecclestone straight into mid-wicket and the left-arm spinner completed the over with a wicket-maiden. Harleen cracked her first four, going through covers off Dean, and another maiden from Ecclestone. Harleen Harmanpreet then hit a boundary each off Linsey Smith, and the Indian captain finally got a run off her 11th ball. India brought up three figures in the 23rd over, with the England spinners doing a pretty good job of slowing the game down.
Indian batters began to show some urgency with the ball, accruing regular boundaries as the innings progressed. The half-century stand was raised in 58 balls and India got to the 150-mark in the 31st over. In the middle of it, England missed a big opportunity when they refused to review after Filer hit Harmanpreet on the pad only for replays to show three reds. Bell and Harleen fell when the latter top-edged a pull off Bell. Rodrigues got her innings underway with a confident cover-drive for four off Ecclestone, who finished with 1 for 28 after bowling her out by the 34th over. Harmanpreet reached her first fifty of 2025, off 54 balls, before Rodrigues slapped three consecutive fours off Dean in the 41st over as India went past 200.
The boundary barrage stretched into overs 42-44 too as Harmanpreet and Rodrigues scored seven fours between them, on Filer and Dean. Harmanpreet, latching on to SmitIh, however got three fours in the 45th over as a 100-run stand came off 69 balls. Rodrigues raced to a 44-ball half-century but then perished as she gloved a short ball from Filer behind for 49. Harmanpreet then brought up her seventh ODI century in 82 balls, before Richa Ghosh cut four off Smith and then hit Bell for a four as well as the first six of the innings. Harmanpreet was dismissed by Smith soon after Ghosh was reprieved in the same over, and the wicketkeeper-batter brought the match to a close with a six off Bell in the last over as India accumulated 120 runs off the last 10.
ENGLAND WOMEN-
England’s chase began on a wrong note when in the very first over, Kranti Goud picked up Tammy Beaumont, thanks to an excellent delivery. Goud then struck later in the over as Jones edged one to short thirdman where Deepti Sharma dived expertly to her right and grasped a one-handed catch for her second wicket. Lamb struck the first four of the innings when she lofted a Deepti delivery over mid-on in the fourth over. But two consecutive maidens from Sneh Rana and some accurate overs from Goud ratcheted up the pressure on England as Lamb and Sciver-Brunt were held in check, the hosts scoring just 22 in the opening 10. But there was a let-off for Lamb as the ‘keeper put him down in Rana’s first over.
Sciver-Brunt, who had been on 3 off 26, got going with boundaries off Rana, and Lamb edged one off Shree Charani for a four. Radha Yadav, who came in for Arundhati Reddy in this match, hit Sciver-Brunt on the pad after the batter had a sweep at her, but India lost a review as it was going down. Meanwhile, England’s third wicket partnership required 84 balls to reach the half-century stands, then moved into overdrive with 66 runs scored in the overs between 11 and 20. Lamb, who had gone into a lull, found his rhythm with a four over Deepti’s head in the 21st over, soon after Deepti warned the batsman for backing up too far outside the crease.
Sciver-Brunt reached her fifty off 67 balls, the century stand took 122 balls, and Lamb got to a fifty off 63 balls. Contracting in straight boundaries, they surpassed the record highest partnership for England against India for any wicket – Caroline Atkins and Arran Brindle’s 134-run stand in 2002. Lamb escaped a couple of close calls – a catch off a return-catch opportunity slipped by Charani and a near chop-on which rolled onto the stumps but failed to dislodge the bails. Her luck ran out eventually, too, as she was bowled by Charani attempting to sweep her. Sciver-Brunt made it 98 when she swept Deepti for four but gloved a sweep down the leg side to the ‘keeper soon afterwards, and she too fell short of a century as the pair fell in quick succession.
India had also plugged the boundary flow to leave England requiring 91 off the last 10 overs. To compound their problems, Sophia Dunkley, who had progressed to a useful 34, was run out by a sharp single. Alice Davidson-Richards and Dean battled to keep the fight alive with a couple of welcomed boundaries from the latter. But with 55 coming off the last five, England faced an uphill task – one which rose even steeper as Goud dismissed Dean and Charani removed Ecclestone with Rodrigues taking both catches. England required 44 from 18 balls by the time Davidson-Richards hit a four and a six off Goud only to pick out a catch in the deep. Goud then cleaned up Filer to claim her fifth wicket of the match. A target of 23 in the final over and Bell looted a six off Goud before getting himself bowled off the bowler’s sixth wicket as India closed the game with one delivery to spare.
Brief scores:
India 318-5 in 50 overs (Harmanpreet Kaur 102, Jemimah Rodrigues 50; Sophie Ecclestone 1-28) beat England 305 in 49.5 overs (Nat Sciver-Brunt 98, Emma Lamb 68; Kranti Goud 6-52) by 13 runs.