Alice Capsey impressed England to the best profitable run chase in girls’s T20 historical past on these shores to finish a sequence victory over India in Taunton.
Supported by the sensible Heather Knight, Capsey plundered 82 runs off 42 balls in a harmful innings that included 9 fours and three sixes because the hosts clinched the decider by six wickets with 9 balls remaining.
She ultimately fell to Arundhati Reddy with England simply 13 runs in need of the 180 set by India, who’re amongst their title rivals on the forthcoming house World Cup.
Knight was additionally excellent as she amassed 70 runs off 42 balls with their partnership of 137 rescuing England after they misplaced their first three wickets for 38 runs.
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Rallied beautifully
Linsey Smith and Charlie Dean struck early to take away India’s openers, however the center order rallied beautifully to set a difficult whole.
Captain Harmanpreet Kaur led the way in which by compiling 56 runs from 40 balls, together with seven fours.
There have been additionally stable contributions from Yastika Bhatia, Jemimah Rodrigues and Deepti Sharma with Bhatia scoring quickly to ignite the fightback after the losses on the high of the order.
The innings ended with Sophie Ecclestone lacking the simplest of run-outs with Richa Ghosh stranded, however her throw from two metres missed the stumps.
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Excellent confidence booster
Lauren Bell was the decide of England’s bowlers after ending with two for 36 whereas Eccleston had run out Bhatia earlier within the innings.
England confronted the second highest T20 run chase of their historical past and in solely the second over they have been a wicket down after Danni Wyatt-Hodge pressured a shot and was bowled by Kranti Gaud.
Sophia Dunkley and Amy Jones additionally went cheaply quickly after, however Capsey started flaying the Indian assault proper from the beginning and located the right foil in Knight.
They smashed 19 fours between them and 22 boundaries in whole to offer England with the right confidence booster heading into their World Cup opener in opposition to Sri Lanka on June 12.
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