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11th over: England 91-0 (Dunkley 58, Wyatt-Hodge 31) Amanjot returns and Dunkley dispatches her over mid-off for four! That was more bottom handed than most of her shots this evening but she muscled it away and beat the infield. Nine off the over with ease.
10th over: England 82-0 (Dunkley 50, Wyatt-Hodge 30) Sneh Rana into the attack, Wyatt-Hodge rocks back and cuts for four. She’s finding her form now and it just might be her night after those two simple drops. Dunkley goes to a classy half century with a drive down the ground. Thats her sixth T20I half-century and she’s looked incredibly fluent throughout. Halfway stage reached, England will look to capitalise on this strong start in the back ten.
9th over: England 71-0 (Dunkley 44, Wyatt-Hodge 25) DROP! Jemimah Rodrigues puts down Wyatt-Hodge at cow corner, that should’ve been swallowed. Salt meet wound. Wyatt-Hodge clobbers Charani over Rodrigues’ head for SIX off the next ball. DROPPED AGAIN! Harmanpreet Kaur shells a sharp chance in the cover to give Wyatt-Hodge her second life.
8th over: England 61-0 (Dunkley 42, Wyatt-Hodge 17) Shadows cast half the pitch into darkness as the sun begins to go down behind the stands creating quite tricky seeing conditions for the batters for the next couple of overs. Dunkley reverse-sweeps Radha Yadav for four and Wyatt-Hodge finds her second boundary of the evening out to midwicket. Eleven off the over.
7th over: England 50-0 (Dunkley 37, Wyatt-Hodge 11) Wyatt-Hodge is struggling for fluency, she tried to hit a square cut too hard and loses her shape. Six runs ticked off the over, the wicket looks a belter though so England might need to step on it a little.
6th over: England 44-0 (Dunkley 32, Wyatt-Hodge 10) Dunkley is ticking now, she trots down the wicket and bunts Sharma over mid-off for four after swatting a full toss away for another boundary through midwicket. End of the Powerplay, England haven’t pulled away but they haven’t lost a wicket yet either.
5th over: England 34-0 (Dunkley 23, Wyatt-Hodge 9) Shree Charani into the attack with her left-arm spin. Dunkley picks up four over midwicket and then plays an absolute doozy of a straight drive for SIX! That was a really excellent shot, Dunkley held the pose and rightly so.
4th over: England 22-0 (Dunkley 11, Wyatt-Hodge 9) Deepti Sharma into the attack, she whirls through an over in double quick time for the cost of just two singles. Quiet start for England, they might chance their arm a bit now.
3rd over: England 20-0 (Dunkley 10, Wyatt-Hodge 8) Dunkley scampers two runs to leg and then advances to Amanjot Kaur but the bowler sees her coming and sprays it onto the far tramline and out of reach. Bosh! Dunkley stays stock still and smears the next ball back over the bowler for four. A single is tucked off the hip to bring DWH on strike. Another short ball from the bowler, which seems to be a tactic, Wyatt-Hodge mistimes a pull to midwicket and takes a single.
2nd over: England 12-0 (Dunkley 3, Wyatt-Hodge 7) Arundhati Reddy’s medium pace from the other end. A couple of scrappy wides down the leg side are followed by a half-volley that is deposited over mid-off for four by Wyatt-Hodge!
1st over: England 4-0 (Dunkley 2, Wyatt-Hodge 2) Dunkley cuts to backward point where a fantastic diving stops saves the boundary. India have out-batted, out-bowled and out-fielded England so far in this series. That was a nifty start in the inner ring.
Cripes! Kaur slams in a sharp bouncer and Wyatt-Hodge gets in a real tangle, she ends up playing a forehand smash at it above her eye-line and is lucky that it didn’t ploop to a fielder. Wyatt-Hodge scampers a run and breathes a sigh of relief, she’s due a score.
Amanjot Kaur to open the bowling for India, she was very impressive with bat and ball in Bristol. She’ll start with the new white nut to Sophia Dunkley and Danni Wyatt-Hodge. Decent crowd in at the Oval, apparently 14,000 ticket sales in the bag and more people streaming in for some Friday night entertainment. Let’s play!
The players take the field in lovely evening sunshine, we’ll be underway very shortly. Can England put up an imposing total and give themselves a chance to get back into the series? Let’s find out!
A truly crackers third day is coming to an end over in Edgbaston. I’ll forgive you for having one eye on that one until we get going here. Taha is on the tools:
England win the toss and choose to bat first
The coin falls England’s way and Tammy Beaumont doesn’t hesitate to have first use of the biscuit coloured wicket. The sun is beating down in South London but there is a nice breeze too, I’d expect it to be a very nice batting wicket and a quick scoring outfield.
India namer an unchanged side, and why wouldn’t they, they’ve been magnificent so far in this series.
Three ch ch changes for England – Paige Schofield, Charlie Dean and Issy Wong replace Nat Sciver-Brunt, Linsey Smith and Em Arlott.
Teams:
England: Dunkley, Wyatt-Hodge, Beaumont, Jones, Capsey, Schofield, Dean, Ecclestone, Wong, Filer, Bell
India: Mandhana, Shafali, Harmanpreet, Jemimah, Amanjot, Richa, Deepti, Radha, Reddy, Rana, Charani
Preamble
James Wallace
Hello and welcome to sunny South London and the third T20I between England and India at the Oval. The series is on the line already for Charlotte Edwards’ England side after two heavy defeats at Trent Bridge and Bristol see India 2-0 up and needing just one more victory to claim the five match series at the first opportunity.
England will be without their captain this evening and potentially for the rest of the series. Nat Sciver-Brunt suffered a groin strain during her side’s 24-run defeat in the West Country on Tuesday and remains a doubt for the remainder of the series.
Tammy Beaumont steps up to captain the side for the first time in her 247 match international career, the pint sized opener struck a pugilistic tone in her pre match media duties:
“The worst thing we could do right now is panic… obviously, it’s not the circumstances we wanted to be in. We didn’t want to be 2-0 down, and we didn’t want our captain and best batter to be out of the team. But we’re here where we are, and that’s what we’ve got to do.”
We’re here where we are? I think Oasis might be dusting that off in Cardiff later this evening.
Play gets underway at the slightly curious time of 6.35pm, I’ll be back shortly with news of the teams and toss.
