India Cruise To Victory In Fourth T20 And Seal Historic Series Win Over England

India made history astatine Old Trafford connected Wednesday nighttime by winning nan 4th Twenty20 world by six wickets, sealing their first T20 world bid triumph successful England.

“This time, this team, this atmosphere, it’s magical,” Radha Yadav said. “We want to create thing large going forward. We are going to dominate, nary matter what.”

England beryllium supra India successful nan International Cricket Council’s T20 squad rankings but nan mode of this conclusion suggests nan rankings person not rather caught up pinch reality. The location squad were outplayed successful each department.

With nan bat, England suffered from a operation of mediocre changeable action and wide muddle-headedness to decorativeness connected 126 for seven. India’s fielding was truthful blisteringly bully that England grounded to people a azygous bound betwixt nan 11th and 19th overs.

India’s openers, Shafali Verma and Smriti Mandhana, past raced to 53 not retired successful nan powerplay, displaying nan controlled aggression which England had truthful lacked, and laying a unafraid capable level that a fewer overs of sensible batting and onslaught rotation from Harmanpreet Kaur and Jemimah Rodrigues enabled nan second to deed nan winning runs pinch 3 overs to spare.

“India person adapted to English conditions amended than we expected,” Tammy Beaumont said.

“It’s really difficult to take sides a people for illustration that erstwhile you cognize they’re going to travel retired and play freely and get up of nan game. We stuck astatine it and did prime up a fewer wickets, but we ne'er really had capable runs if we’re honest.”

Jemimah Rodrigues leads nan celebrations arsenic India scope England’s target. Photograph: Nathan Stirk/ECB/Getty Images

Sophie Ecclestone, playing successful her 100th international, took 1 for 20 successful her 4 overs and held connected to a drawback astatine mid-off to spot disconnected nan Indian skipper Kaur. She had earlier surgery England’s bound drought astatine nan death, slogging a six complete midwicket to decorativeness unbeaten connected 16 from 10. But it was excessively little, excessively precocious successful an innings punctuated by regular wickets.

Danni Wyatt-Hodge, Beaumont and Paige Scholfield were caught by Arundhati Reddy trying to heave down nan ground, while Alice Capsey missed her attempted reverse to Shree Charani, was fixed retired leg-before, and was truthful unconvinced by her ain determination to reappraisal that she walked disconnected earlier nan 3rd umpire, Jacqueline Williams, had fixed her verdict.

A panicked Charlie Dean past group disconnected for a azygous aft hitting nan shot consecutive retired to Charani astatine short third, was sent backmost and was truthful acold retired of her crushed that moreover a flailing Richa Ghosh could not neglect to tally her out.

Beaumont admitted England had missed nan level-headedness of Nat Sciver-Brunt, who is missing nan remainder of nan T20 bid because of a groin wounded but is expected to beryllium fresh for nan one-day internationals.

“Her acquisition done that mediate bid and really fierce she is, she astir apt would person batted done that connected that wicket and sewage america to a people that we could person defended,” Beaumont said.

Earlier, Deepti Sharma had go only nan 2nd Indian female to scope 300 world wickets aft Sophia Dunkley sewage a heavy separator retired to backward constituent successful nan sixth complete and fell for 22 – nan apical people of nan England innings, and nan commencement of its unravelling.