Stats: Wyatt scored two sixes and eight fours in her 75 from 47 balls while playing in her 150th T20I
England took a 1-0 lead in the T20I series against India when Nat Sciver-Brunt and Danni Wyatt saved their team from a 2 for 2 situation; Renuka Singh had reduced the visitors to 2 for 2 in the opening over of the match at Wankhede Stadium.
England took a 1-0 lead in the T20I series against India when Nat Sciver-Brunt and Danni Wyatt saved their team from a 2 for 2 situations.
Renuka Singh had reduced the visitors to 2 for 2 in the opening over of the match at Wankhede Stadium.
Both players scored quick half-centuries in a stand of 138 runs from just 87 balls, ultimately leading England to their second-highest T20I score against India, which proved too high a target even for Shafali Verma’s 42-ball 52.
Wyatt scored two sixes and eight fours in her 75 from 47 balls while playing in her 150th T20 International.
When Sciver-Brunt missed England’s unexpected 2-1 T20I series loss to Sri Lanka in September, she provided the missing piece that the visitors desperately needed with a 53-ball 77.
Playing for the first time after having surgery on a dislocated right shoulder in August, left-arm spinner Sophie Ecclestone took 3 wickets for 15 from four overs against India, which was her best T20I spell.
With their third-wicket partnership, Sciver-Brunt and Wyatt dragged the home team back to earth and helped England rally to 140 for 3, where Wyatt was stumped by Richa Ghosh off the bowl of debutant left-arm spinner Saika Ishaque.
With a full, straight delivery that smashed into the off stump, Shreyanka got her first wicket, tricking England captain Heather Knight.
Sciver-Brunt hammered home the advantage as she blasted four fours off one Vastrakar over, going for a total of 19 runs.
Harmanpreet Kaur stuck with Shreyanka to deliver the final over, giving up 16 runs from it before Jemimah Rodrigues grabbed a catch well inside the deep midwicket boundary to remove Amy Jones after she made a tidy nine-ball cameo for 23 on the final ball with England finished just short of 200 runs.
Shafali was quite assertive, especially in the first part of her innings, hitting three of her nine boundaries in one Sciver-Brunt over. However, her teammates didn’t stand by her.
BEST PERFORMANCES – BATTERS
Sciver-Brunt ENG-W
77 runs (53) 13 fours 0 six
DN Wyatt ENG-W
75 runs (47) 8 fours 2 sixes
BEST PERFORMANCES – BOWLERS
S Ecclestone ENG-W
O 4
M 0
R 15
W 3
ECO 3.75
Renuka Singh IND-W
O 4
M 0
R 27
W 3
ECO 6.75
PARTNERSHIPS
England Women
DN Wyatt Nat Sciver-Brunt
75 (45) 138 (87) 55 (42)
HC Knight Nat Sciver-Brunt
6 (7) 25 (13) 18 (6)
India Women
H Kaur Shafali Verma
26 (21) 41 (31) 8 (10)
Shafali Verma RM Ghosh
17 (10) 40 (26) 21 (16)