England organized their nerve to keep the T20 series alive with a thrilling final ball win against India at the T20 series.
Chasing 172 to win, India needed 12 to 12 from the final over and six to 12 from the last ball, but Seemar Lauren Bell opposed Captain Harmanpreet Kaur, who was caught in the mid-off for 23-and the hosts now played 2–1 in the series with only two matches.
Tourists, an eye on the victory of a series at the earliest, was under complete control, 49 balls from 42 balls required 49 from 49 balls, with a loud -filer to change the game course with nine wickets in hand before holding an eye of bowling fast.
The filer caught Jemimah Rodrigues behind for 20 and the star batter Smriti Madhana, who made 56, was also beaten for speed and was caught in mid-on because quickly reached 79mph speed regularly.
Harmanpreet’s knock put India in hunting, but England limited him to 166–5, despite a chaotic ended opportunities, set up a tentalizing encounter in the fourth of the five T20s in Old Trafford on Wednesday.
England’s first innings also provided a lot of plays, as he proceeded 137–0 after a half-century from Sophia Dunkley and Danny Wet-Hodes, before losing nine wickets for 31 runs in 4.4 overs, and finishing with 171–9.
Dunkley scored 75 out of 53 balls and Wil-Hodes scored 42 to 66 runs, but Sophie Eclestone’s 10 was the only other score in a dual figure in a collapse that included three batsmen that fell on the first ball.
So far it is to be confirmed whether Captain Nut Skivor-Bunt, who was dropped from the match with hip injury, would fit for the rest of the series.
