Summary

  • England keep T20 series alive with five-run win at The Oval

  • India still lead five-match series 2-1

  • Bell defends 12 in last over as India finish 166-5 chasing England's 171-9

  • Filer (2-30) spell changed game with India cruising in the chase

  • Home side earlier lost 9-31 after 137-run stand between Dunkley & Wyatt-Hodge

  • Fourth T20 is on Wednesday, 9 July at Old Trafford

Live Reporting

Mike Peter & Ffion Wynne

  1. Henry Moeran
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    Great bowling, that is a really top over from Lauren Filer against the world's very best.

  2. Ind 125-2

    47 from 36 balls needed

    Lovely stuff from Lauren Filer, just two runs off her over.

    A bouncer sears past Smriti Mandhana and is just about called a wide, and the follow-up is full and only just misses the off stump on its way through.

  3. Katherine Sciver-Brunt
    Ex-England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    Hopefully that just ups the tension a little bit.

    If Filer can get one more quick wicket, she could really do something for England.

  4. wicket

    WICKET

    Rodrigues c Jones b Filer 20 (Ind 123-2)

    And Lauren Filer has a wicket with her first delivery!

    Rodrigues again goes to guide the ball through third with an open face but only manages to tickle the ball to Amy Jones behind the stumps.

    England collapsed from a similar position to this, you know.

  5. As Lauren Filer returns, CricViz now has India as firm favourites.

    Win Viz - England 18%, India 82%CricViz

  6. Katherine Sciver-Brunt
    Ex-England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    England have got to keep their heads here.

    It's not over until it's over. In T20 cricket, anything can happen.

  7. Henry Moeran
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    Smriti Mandhana's stellar series continues with a fifty.

    What a knock it's been.

  8. 50 runs

    50 for Smriti Mandhana

    Ind 123-1; 49 from 42 balls needed

    Such precision from the India batters!

    Lauren Bell comes back and Rodrigues sends her first delivery through third for four with sumptuous ease.

    Smriti Mandhana then brings up a 38-ball half-century from the fourth delivery of the over, her shot beating diving fielders on the way to the ropes at backward square.

  9. Ind 110-1

    62 from 48 balls needed

    India's hundred comes up from the first ball of Charlie Dean's over, with Rodrigues taking a single behind square.

    The India batter then picks up four through a similar area, before Mandhana crashes the over's final delivery through square for another boundary.

    Dean has gone for 0-28 from her three overs today.

  10. Ind 99-1

    Target 172

    A single apiece for Mandhana and Rodrigues book-end a tight over from Sophie Ecclestone.

    The England spinner has figures of 1-14 from her three overs so far.

  11. Henry Moeran
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    Drinks are being taken - potentially some quite stiff drinks will be taken if England lose this match, given where they were earlier in the match.

    From 137-0, they lost 9-31.

  12. Melissa Story
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    England need a couple more wickets but India certainly bat deep.

  13. Ind 97-1

    Target 172

    And another four for Smriti Mandhana, clipping the returning Issy Wong past the keeper.

    New batter Jemimah Rodrigues has to wait until the final ball over the over to face, but Wong's delivery slips down the leg side so she gets another go - and she makes the most of it, lashing the ball through backward point for four.

    Halfway through the innings and India are well on their way to a series victory.

  14. Ffion Wynne
    BBC Sport cricket writer at The Oval on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    Big reaction from Sophie Ecclestone, a telling reaction. I think she was getting a bit frustrated.

    But Shafali Verma has given her side just the start they'd have wanted in the chase.

  15. Melissa Story
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    Nice bit of turn for Ecclestone. She celebrates with her team-mates, two fists in the air. A fiery response.

  16. wicket

    WICKET

    Verma b Ecclestone 47 (Ind 85-1)

    Ecclestone gets the breakthrough!

    Shafali Verma doesn't get to celebrate a half-century as she's cleaned up by the last delivery of Sophie Ecclestone's over.

    Sharp turn and Verma was falling over as she tried to play it.

    Two balls earlier, Smriti Mandhana got her sixth four of the innings, hitting a loose delivery through mid-wicket.

  17. Melissa Story
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    India's required run-rate is 7.92 but they're going along at 9.63. They're well in front here.

    They're almost at the halfway stage of the chase and don't look threatened at all.

  18. Ind 77-0

    Target 172

    Verma gets four from the next delivery of Dean's over, lifting the ball over mid-off.

    She knocks the next ball for a single into the covers, taking her to 45 from 22 balls.

  19. India's openers are flying, they're ahead of where England were at this stage - and it would almost be impressive if they managed to collapse as spectacularly as the home team did late on so Tammy Beaumont's side need wickets - and quickly...

    WormCricViz

  20. Ffion Wynne
    BBC Sport cricket writer at The Oval on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    That's the problem with the left-hand/ right-hand combination for India.

    Where the off-spin of Charlie Dean might trouble Smriti Mandhana, it really suits Shafali Verma.

    You can see her eyes lighting up now.