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Ind 99-3published at 12 overs

12 overs

New batter Richa Ghosh needs no time to get her eye in.

She plays a beautifully delicate late cut for four before a booming drive over deep mid-wicket for six.

India are halfway there - 99 needed from 48 balls.

Sarah Glenn bowls five brilliant deliveries to put her on the brink of a very useful maiden, but her sixth ball is way down leg and flies away for five wides.

More head in hands time for England.

More frustration for Freya Kemp, who has her head in her hands.

She lures Harmanpreet Kaur into a false shot that flies off a leading edge, but it sails over two fielders and runs away for four.

Ind 70-2published at 8.4 overs

8.4 overs

Brilliant from Harmanpreet Kaur.

Freya Kemp comes back into the attack but is smacked over deep mid-wicket by the India skipper for the first six of the innings.

That has got the crowd going again.

It's twin spin for England as Sarah Glenn comes in for her leg breaks.

Glenn's slower deliveries leads to Shafali Verma getting in a bit of tangle as she struggles to time the ball.

Just two singles and a leg bye off the over.

Henry Moeran
´óÏó´«Ã½ Test Match Special commentator

Sophie Ecclestone is the ultimate trump card for England. Even if an opposition gets a quick start, she offers such control in the middle overs that things can quickly be brought back under control.

A bit of a let off for Shafali Verma there.

She sets off for a quick run after a push to the covers and would have been out by distance with a better throw.

Sophie Ecclestone ends the over with a beauty that grips and turns sharply away from Verma but flashes just past her off stump.

Brilliant bowling.

Time for the world's number one bowler Sophie Ecclestone to enter the fray.

Ecclestone has not bowled competitively since August after shoulder surgery.

Shafali Verma is not bothered by those wickets tumbling at the other end as she plays a brilliant lofted straight drive that flies over mid-off's head and to the rope.

The skipper is not too concerned either. New batter Harmanpreet Kaur seizes on a wide ball from Freya Kemp and cuts away to the rope to bring up the India 50.

Twelve runs and one wicket from Kemp's first over.

That is brilliant from Shafali Verma as she helps herself to three boundaries.

The first a delicate late cut past short third, the second hammered over mid-on and the third slashed through backward point.

Drops just short!

Jemimah Rodrigues smacks a half-volley towards Sarah Glenn at mid-off but the ball lands just inches short.

Rodrigues is understandably looking to be aggressive, but it very nearly cost her wicket.

No stopping that, though. Shafali Verma plays a booming straight drive over mid-on and away for four. Great shot.

Mahika Gaur responds well, with three dots to end the over.

Brilliant fielding from Freya Kemp.

It looks four all the way from Shafali Verma as she plays an excellent cover drive, but Kemp dives full stretch low to her left to stop the ball before having a shy at the stumps.

She gets a round of applause from her skipper and rightly so.

Jemimah Rodrigues is the new batter and gets off the mark with a well-run two after a push into the off side.

Change of bowling as Nat Sciver-Brunt, fresh from smashing 77 runs with the bat, enters the attack.

Frustration for Amy Jones and England.

The tall figure of Lauren Bell just strays down leg and Jones cannot take, with the ball racing away for four byes.

The sizeable crowd in the Wankhede Stadium have been energised by this India start.

India's highest T20 score chasing is 187-5 against Australia at the Dr DY Patil Sports Academy in Mumbai in December 2022.