English women's cricket team in India in 2018–19

The England women's cricket team played the India women's cricket team in February and March 2019.[1][2] The tour consisted of three Women's One Day Internationals (WODIs), which formed part of the 2017–20 ICC Women's Championship, and three Women's Twenty20 International (WT20) matches.[3][4] India Women won the WODI series 2–1.[5]

	India women	England women
Dates	18 February – 9 March 2019
Captains	Mithali Raj (WODIs) Smriti Mandhana (WT20Is)	Heather Knight
One Day International series
Results	India women won the 3-match series 2–1
Most runs	Smriti Mandhana (153)	Nat Sciver (130)
Most wickets	Shikha Pandey (8) Jhulan Goswami (8)	Katherine Brunt (5)
Player of the series	Smriti Mandhana (Ind)
Twenty20 International series
Results	England women won the 3-match series 3–0
Most runs	Smriti Mandhana (72)	Danni Wyatt (123)
Most wickets	Ekta Bisht (3) Radha Yadav (3)	Katherine Brunt (5) Linsey Smith (5)
Player of the series	Danni Wyatt (Eng)

The second WT20I match of the series was the 600th Women's Twenty20 International match to be played.[6] England Women won the WT20I series 3–0.[7]

Squads

WODIs		WT20Is
India[8]	England[9]	India[10]	England[9]
Mithali Raj (c) Taniya Bhatia (wk) Ekta Bisht Harleen Deol Rajeshwari Gayakwad Jhulan Goswami Mansi Joshi Ravi Kalpana (wk) Harmanpreet Kaur Smriti Mandhana Mona Meshram Shikha Pandey Punam Raut Jemimah Rodrigues Deepti Sharma Poonam Yadav	Heather Knight (c) Tammy Beaumont Katherine Brunt Kate Cross Sophia Dunkley Sophie Ecclestone Georgia Elwiss Alex Hartley Amy Jones Laura Marsh Nat Sciver Anya Shrubsole Sarah Taylor (wk) Lauren Winfield Danni Wyatt	Smriti Mandhana (c) Taniya Bhatia (wk) Ekta Bisht Harleen Deol Bharti Fulmali Veda Krishnamurthy Shikha Pandey Anuja Patil Mithali Raj Arundhati Reddy Jemimah Rodrigues Deepti Sharma Poonam Yadav Radha Yadav Komal Zanzad	Heather Knight (c) Tammy Beaumont Katherine Brunt Kate Cross Freya Davies Sophia Dunkley Sophie Ecclestone Georgia Elwiss Alex Hartley Amy Jones (wk) Laura Marsh Nat Sciver Anya Shrubsole Linsey Smith Lauren Winfield Danni Wyatt

Harmanpreet Kaur was ruled out of India's WODI squad due to injury and was replaced by Harleen Deol.[11] Sophie Ecclestone was ruled out of England's WT20I squad, after suffering a broken hand during the WODI series.[12] Alex Hartley was named as Ecclestone's replacement in England's WT20I squad.[13]

Tour match

50-over match: Indian Board President's Women XI v England Women

18 February 2019 09:00 Scorecard

Indian Board President's Women XI  154 (49 overs)	v	England 157/8 (37.3 overs)
Minnu Mani 28 (57) Anya Shrubsole 4/30 (8 overs)		Heather Knight 64* (86) Komal Zanzad 3/14 (7 overs)

England Women won by 2 wickets Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Umpires: Akshay Marathe (Ind) and Milind Pathak (Ind)

• Indian Board President's Women XI won the toss and elected to bat.

WODI series

1st WODI

ICC Women's Championship 22 February 2019 09:00 Scorecard

India  202 (49.4 overs)	v	England 136 (41 overs)
Jemimah Rodrigues 48 (58) Sophie Ecclestone 2/27 (10 overs)		Nat Sciver 44 (66) Ekta Bisht 4/25 (8 overs)

India Women won by 66 runs Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Umpires: K. N. Ananthapadmanabhan (Ind) and Puttarangaiah Jayapal Player of the match: Ekta Bisht (Ind)

• England Women won the toss and elected to field.
• Harleen Deol (Ind) made her WODI debut.
• Points: India Women 2, England Women 0.

2nd WODI

ICC Women's Championship 25 February 2019 09:00 Scorecard

England  161 (43.3 overs)	v	India 162/3 (41.1 overs)
Nat Sciver 85 (109) Shikha Pandey 4/18 (10 overs)		Smriti Mandhana 63 (74) Anya Shrubsole 2/23 (8 overs)

India Women won by 7 wickets Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Umpires: K. N. Ananthapadmanabhan (Ind) and Puttarangaiah Jayapal Player of the match: Jhulan Goswami (Ind)

• England Women won the toss and elected to bat.
• Points: India Women 2, England Women 0.

3rd WODI

ICC Women's Championship 28 February 2019 09:00 Scorecard

India  205/8 (50 overs)	v	England 208/8 (48.5 overs)
Smriti Mandhana 66 (74) Katherine Brunt 5/28 (10 overs)		Danni Wyatt 56 (82) Jhulan Goswami 3/41 (9 overs)

England Women won by 2 wickets Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Umpires: K. N. Ananthapadmanabhan (Ind) and Puttarangaiah Jayapal (Ind) Player of the match: Katherine Brunt (Eng)

• India Women won the toss and elected to bat.
• Points: England Women 2, India Women 0.

WT20I series

1st WT20I

4 March 2019 10:00 Scorecard

England  160/4 (20 overs)	v	India 119/6 (20 overs)
Tammy Beaumont 62 (57) Radha Yadav 2/33 (4 overs)		Shikha Pandey 23* (21) Katherine Brunt 2/21 (4 overs)

England Women won by 41 runs Barsapara Stadium, Guwahati Umpires: Abhijit Deshmukh (Ind) and Nitin Pandit (Ind) Player of the match: Tammy Beaumont (Eng)

• India Women won the toss and elected to field.
• Harleen Deol (Ind) made her WT20I debut.

2nd WT20I

7 March 2019 10:00 Scorecard

India  111/8 (20 overs)	v	England 114/5 (19.1 overs)
Mithali Raj 20 (27) Katherine Brunt 3/17 (4 overs)		Danni Wyatt 64* (55) Ekta Bisht 2/23 (4 overs)

England Women won by 5 wickets Barsapara Stadium, Guwahati Umpires: Abhijit Deshmukh (Ind) and Nitin Pandit (Ind) Player of the match: Danni Wyatt (Eng)

• England Women won the toss and elected to field.
• Bharti Fulmali (Ind) made her WT20I debut.

3rd WT20I

9 March 2019 10:00 Scorecard

England  119/6 (20 overs)	v	India 118/6 (20 overs)
Tammy Beaumont 29 (27) Harleen Deol 2/13 (2 overs)		Smriti Mandhana 58 (39) Kate Cross 2/18 (4 overs)

England Women won by 1 run Barsapara Stadium, Guwahati Umpires: Abhijit Deshmukh (Ind) and Nitin Pandit (Ind) Player of the match: Kate Cross (Eng)

• England Women won the toss and elected to bat.

References

1. "England women's schedule for tour of India confirmed". England and Wales Cricket Board. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
2. "India-England Women's series starts on February 22". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
3. "Kirstie Gordon sustains stress fracture". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
4. "England women to tour India for six limited-overs matches". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
5. "England women in India: Tourists win consolation ODI". BBC Sport. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
6. "INDW vs ENGW, 2nd T20: England wins toss, elect to field first". The Statesman. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
7. "India v England: Kate Cross stars as England claim thrilling win". BBC Sport. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
8. "Kalpana picked for India squad after nearly three years for England ODIs". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
9. "England Women name squad for India and Sri Lanka". England and Wales Cricket Board. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
10. "Mandhana new T20I captain, Veda Krishnamurthy returns". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
11. "Harmanpreet Kaur ruled out of England ODI series with ankle injury". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 20 February 2019.
12. "Sophie Ecclestone: England spinner out of India and Sri Lanka tour with broken hand". BBC Sport. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
13. "England bring in spinner Alex Hartley for India T20s". BBC Sport. Retrieved 3 March 2019.

External links

• Series home at ESPN Cricinfo