India clinched an historic T20 series victory over England with a game to spare courtesy of a comfortable six-wicket win at Old Trafford.<\/b><\/p>\n
After restricting the home side to 126-7 in the fourth T20, the tourists had taken a sizeable chunk out of their target by the end of the powerplay.<\/p>\n
Openers Smriti Mandhana and Shafali Verma relentlessly took the attack to the England bowlers in a stand of 56 and while the run-rate slowed after they departed, India remained in control.<\/p>\n
Captain Harmanpreet Kaur and Jemimah Rodrigues soaked up the pressure for a brief spell but, once settled, they kicked for home.<\/p>\n
After Harmanpreet was dismissed, it was left to Rodrigues to hit the winning runs in the 17th over and secure India’s first women’s T20 series win in England.<\/p>\n
Earlier, England had stuttered throughout their innings, going nine overs without a boundary from the end of the 10th over, and with a top score of 22 from Sophia Dunkley they were never likely to post a competitive total.<\/p>\n
Spin again proved their downfall with two wickets apiece for left-armers Radha Yadav and Shree Charani.<\/p>\n
With India holding an unassailable 3-1 lead going into the fifth T20 at Edgbaston on Saturday, Charlotte Edwards’ side will already be looking at ways to better combat the spinners in the one-day international series that follows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India clinched an historic T20 series victory over England with a game to spare courtesy of a comfortable…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-252234","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114826382914514016","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}