England Stutter To Consolation T20 Win Over India

Fifth T20, Edgbaston

India 167-7 (20 overs): Verma 75 (41); Dean 3-23

England 168-5 (20 overs): Wyatt-Hodge 56 (36); Sharma 2-31

England won by 5 wickets; India triumph bid 3-2

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England claimed a consolation triumph successful nan last T20 of nan bid against India arsenic they edged a last-ball thriller astatine Edgbaston.

Chasing 168, England needed six from nan last complete pinch 7 wickets successful hand, but mislaid stand-in skipper Tammy Beaumont and Amy Jones to time off 1 tally needed from nan last delivery.

Sophie Ecclestone and Paige Scholfield scampered nan azygous to past nan scare and seal a five-wicket win, though Ecclestone would person been tally retired pinch a nonstop deed from Jemimah Rodrigues astatine mid-off.

The tense decorativeness concluded England's highest successful pursuit successful a location T20, which was group up by Danni Wyatt-Hodge's 56 from 36 balls connected her 300th world quality successful an opening guidelines of 101 pinch Sophia Dunkley.

Beaumont's 30 seemed to group up England's push for victory, but she was bowled from nan first shot of Arundhati Reddy's closing complete and Jones was dismissed by a phenomenal drawback from Radha Yadav connected nan mid-wicket boundary.

Earlier, opener Shafali Verma played a lone manus successful India's 167-7 pinch a sensational 75 from 41 balls.

Verma whacked 13 fours and a six successful her sound but struggled for support, pinch Richa Ghosh's 24 nan second-highest publication arsenic England chipped distant pinch wickets passim nan mediate overs to stall their scoring.

Charlie Dean was nan prime pinch 3-23, including Verma, Sophie Ecclestone took 2-28 and Linsey Smith picked up 1-26.

The one-day world bid originates astatine Southampton connected 16 July, which will beryllium England's last 3 matches successful nan format earlier nan World Cup starts astatine nan extremity of September.

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