England beat India by 9 wickets in First T20.

England women beat India women by 9 wickets in first T20 of 3 match series. England chased down 133 run target set by India in 13 overs with 9 wickets remaining.

After winning the toss and elected to bowl first. England bowlers bowled well to restrict India to 132/7 in 20 overs. Deepthi Sharma 29*(24) , Smrithi Mandhana 23(20) and Harmanpreet Kaur 20(15) helps India to reach 132.

Sarah Glenn bowled well for England by picking 4 wickets for giving just 23 runs in her quata of 4 overs. B Smith (1/10) and F Davies (1/24) are the other wicket takers for India.

S Dunkley 61*(44) , A Capsey 32*(20) and D Wyatt 24(16) made the England chase easy. S Dunkley was out off a noball in first over when she didn’t opened the account. She made full use of the opportunity and played a match winning innings for England.

Sarah Glenn named Player of the Match for his excellent bowling figures of 4/23.

Second Match of the T20 series will be played on September 23th , 11:00pm , IST.

(Posted on 11-Sep-22)